More than 1,500 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s ongoing offensive in northern Gaza since last month, the Health Ministry said, Al Jazeera reports.

“The Israeli army has killed more than 1,500 Palestinians during its military operations in northern Gaza,” Munir al-Bursh, the ministry’s director-general, told Anadolu news agency.

“The army continues to commit massacres and target shelters and civilians in northern Gaza, causing fatalities amid a strained healthcare system.”