<article data-history-node-id="427265" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-hospitals-receive-70-bodies-over-24-hours" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-hospitals-receive-70-bodies-over-24-hours" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Gaza hospitals receive 70 bodies over 24 hours</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Saturday that 61,897 people have been killed and 155,660 wounded since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza.</p> <p>The ministry said hospitals received the bodies of 70 Palestinians killed in the past 24 hours, including eight recovered from under rubble and other locations across Gaza. It added that at least 26 people were killed and 175 injured while seeking aid during the same period.</p> <p>A total of 1,924 Palestinians have now been confirmed killed and 14,288 wounded while trying to access aid.</p> <p>Since 18 March, when Israel broke the previous ceasefire and imposed a full blockade alongside heavy air strikes, at least 10,362 people have been killed and 43,619 wounded, according to the ministry.</p> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="A Palestinian woman sits at the site of a Friday Israeli strike on a school that was sheltering displaced people, in Gaza City, August 16, 2025. REUTERS" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="22c3f439-4a7c-4a29-bc52-d654fc096a06" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/2025-08-16T090800Z_210376994_RC228GA5M2OT_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-GAZA-min-min%20%281%29%20%281%29.jpg" width="5000" height="3333" alt="A Palestinian woman sits at the site of a Friday Israeli strike on a school that was sheltering displaced people, in Gaza City, August 16, 2025. REUTERS" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>A Palestinian woman sits at the site of a Friday Israeli strike on a school that was sheltering displaced people, in Gaza City, 16 August 2025. (Reuters)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>