Ammon News - The Israeli occupation army announced that seven Israeli soldiers were killed in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, after an armored vehicle they were in was hit by an explosive device.

In a separate incident in the Khan Younis area, two soldiers of the 605th Battalion were wounded, one seriously and one lightly, by RPG fire.

Medical sources announced on Tuesday that the death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 56,077, the majority of whom are children and women, since the start of the Israeli occupation's aggression on October 7, 2023.

The same sources added that the death toll has risen to 131,848 since the start of the aggression, while a number of victims remain under the rubble, unable to be reached by ambulance and civil defense crews.

They indicated that 79 slain people, including five whose bodies were recovered, and 289 injuries were received at Gaza Strip hospitals in the past 24 hours.