At least 31,819 Palestinians have been killed and 73,934 injured since Oct. 7 in Israel's military offensive on the Gaza Strip, the enclave's health ministry said on Tuesday.
Some 93 Palestinians were killed and 142 injured in the past 24 hours, the ministry added.
Meanwhile, a report on Monday said that famine is imminent in northern Gaza, where 70% of people are experiencing catastrophic hunger.
The report, by the international community’s authority on determining the severity of hunger crises, warned escalation of the war could push half of Gaza's total population to the brink of starvation.
It came as Israel faces mounting pressure from even its closest allies to streamline the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip and to open more land crossings. Aid groups complain that deliveries by air and sea by the United States and other countries are too slow and too small.
The latest findings on hunger in Gaza came from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, an initiative first set up in 2004 during the famine in Somalia that now includes more than a dozen UN agencies, aid groups, governments and other bodies to determine the severity of food insecurity.
