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by IMEMC News
April 11, 2026

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip reported on Saturday that eleven Palestinians were killed and twenty-six others injured over the past 48 hours as a result of ongoing Israeli attacks across the devastated enclave.

The Ministry said rescue teams and civil defense crews continue to face severe obstacles in reaching bombed areas due to the destruction of roads, collapsed buildings, and the lack of fuel and equipment.

It warned that many victims remain trapped under the rubble of destroyed homes and in streets that emergency crews are still unable to access.

Seven Palestinians, including a journalist, were killed and others wounded early Saturday at dawn, when Israeli warplanes struck a police checkpoint near a mosque at the entrance of the Al‑Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, in a new violation of the “ceasefire” agreement that Israel has repeatedly breached since October 2025.

Medical sources told Al-Jazeera that the early‑morning strike targeted a group of civilians in the “Block 9” area of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, killing and seriously wounding several people.

They said ambulance crews faced extremely difficult conditions while transporting the bodies and the wounded to nearby hospitals due to the intensity of the bombardment and the destruction in the area.

The Al‑Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza told AFP that it had received six bodies and seven wounded individuals, including four in critical condition. The nearby Al‑Awda Hospital reported receiving one fatality and two wounded people from the same attack.

Separately, in the southern Gaza Strip, the Nasser Medical Complex said it treated three wounded Palestinians after an Israeli drone strike targeted a tent sheltering displaced families in the town of Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis.

Al Jazeera’s correspondent on the ground also reported Israeli artillery shelling and heavy tank fire near Bani Suheila and in areas east of Gaza City

Since the declared ceasefire on October 11, 2025, the Ministry has documented 749 Palestinians killed and 2,082 injured, in addition to 759 bodies recovered from beneath destroyed structures. These figures represent only those who reached hospitals and do not include the many still missing.

The cumulative toll since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza on October 7, 2023, has risen to 72,328 killed and 172,184 injured. Officials noted that the real number of casualties is likely significantly higher, given the large number of people still unaccounted for under the rubble.

Humanitarian agencies continue to warn that Gaza’s health system is on the brink of total collapse. Only a fraction of hospitals remain partially functioning, medical supplies are nearly depleted, and overcrowded facilities are unable to treat the rising number of wounded. The destruction of water, sanitation, and electricity infrastructure has further deepened the humanitarian crisis.

The Ministry of Health reiterated that casualty figures will continue to rise as long as emergency crews are prevented from reaching affected areas and as long as the blockade on medical supplies, fuel, and equipment remains in place.

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