Israel must be pressured to stop the targeted kidnapping, torture and killing of all health care professionals. Congress must conduct public hearings and allow the doctors to give their eyewitness testimonies about war crimes in Gaza.

The number of "traumatic injury deaths" in Gaza since October 2023, which does not include deaths caused by disruption to health care, insufficient food, clean water and sanitation, and disease outbreaks,

Gaza’s Health Ministry has said women and children make up more than half the fatalities, but does not say how many of the dead were fighters or civilians.

The war began when Hamas-led militants stormed into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting around 250. Some 100 hostages are still inside Gaza. Israeli authorities believe at least a third of them were killed in the initial attack or have died in captivity.

Several people were killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Friday, according to Palestinian reports. At least seven people were killed when the Israeli military hit a group of people in Al-Bureij in the centre of the coastal strip,

Palestinian medics say Israeli airstrikes have killed at least five people in the Gaza Strip, including two infants and a woman. One strike hit a home in the central city of Deir al-Balah, killing two men and a woman,