Gaza City, May 12 (RHC)-- The death toll from the seventh month of the Israeli military offensive in Gaza has topped 35,000, according to the Health Ministry in the Palestinian enclave.

At least 35,034 people have been killed, including 15,000 children, and up to 78,755 people injured since Israel launched its offensive on October 7, the ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

In related news, Gaza’s civil defense says its teams are unable to access the Jabalia refugee camp and Gaza City in northern Gaza, which Israel has hit with a new round of air attacks.

“The direct and deliberate Israeli targeting of civil defence crews prevents us from reaching some of the targeted places in the Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City,” spokesman Mahmoud Basal told the Anadolu news agency.

He said the teams were unable to reach 16 members of a family still trapped under the rubble of a house in Zeitoun.

“The Israeli army is targeting innocent civilians in the neighbourhoods of Gaza and the northern Gaza Strip, most of whom are women and children,” he said, adding that rescue workers are not spared from the attacks.