Israeli air strikes on Gaza killed at least 60 more Palestinians, bringing the death toll in its genocidal war since October 2023 to 50,669, the Health Ministry has said.

A ministry statement said another 162 wounded were transferred to hospitals in the last 24 hours, taking the number of wounded to 115,225.

Many victims are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them, the statement added.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun met US Deputy Middle East Envoy Morgan Ortagus to discuss the ongoing situation in southern Lebanon, Israeli withdrawal from the area, and developments along the border with Syria, state news agency NNA has reported.

The two officials focused on the situation in southern Lebanon, the work of the international monitoring committee, and Israel’s withdrawal from areas under its control in the region.

They also addressed the security situation along the Lebanese-Syrian border and the coordination efforts between the two countries.

On Friday, during the final day of the United Nations Human Rights Council's 58th session, a vote was held to approve a second three-year term for Albanese, extending her mandate until 2028.

Children are among the most targeted victims of Israeli aggression, with over 17,000 children killed in Gaza since October 2023, the Palestinian Education Ministry has said.

The ministry, in a press release marking Palestinian Children's Day, which is observed annually on April 5, said, "education in Palestine, particularly in Gaza, is under direct attack by the Israeli occupation, which continues to destroy schools and prevent children from accessing safe educational environments."

It said students in Gaza, Jerusalem, and areas classified as “Area C” in the occupied West Bank face daily challenges due to the ongoing war.

"More than 17,000 children have been martyred in Gaza, a figure that reflects the depth of the tragedy children are enduring, with each number representing a life, memories, and experiences lost," the ministry said.

"Since the war in Gaza started, around 1.9 million people - including thousands of children have gone through repeated forced displacement amid bombardment, fear, and loss,” UNRWA says.

Eight Palestinians have been killed in multiple Israeli strikes across Gaza, medical sources said, as the Israeli army continued demolishing residential buildings in western Rafah.

In Rafah, the Israeli army also continued demolishing residential buildings in the western part of the city, particularly in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood, where it has been carrying out a military offensive since March 23.

The area has been under siege as the army attempts to expand its control and establish what it calls a “buffer security zone.”

A video released by The New York Times has exposed a deliberate lie by the Israeli army regarding the killing of 15 Palestinian paramedics in southern Gaza on March 23.

In its initial statement and after international outrage, the Israeli army claimed that the vehicles were advancing “suspiciously” from its forces "without headlights, or emergency signals, (and) their movement was not coordinated in advance."

The army claimed that nine members from Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups were killed in the attack.

However, the footage contradicted Israeli claims and presented new evidence that the vehicles involved in the attack were clearly marked and had their emergency lights on.

The video was captured by one of the medics who was killed in the attack and was found among the 15 medics buried, including eight Red Crescent workers and five Civil Defense personnel, in a mass grave in Gaza.

At least five more Palestinians have been killed in multiple Israeli strikes across Gaza, sources have said, as the Israeli army continued demolishing residential buildings in western Rafah.

A medical source said that three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike targeting a community kitchen distributing food in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

In a separate attack, a Palestinian was killed, and his wife and child were injured after their apartment was bombed in central Khan Younis.

In Gaza City, a Palestinian woman was killed in an Israeli strike on the Zeitoun neighborhood, located in the southeast of the city.

Witnesses said Israel resumed heavy shelling on the al-Shujaiya neighborhood in eastern Gaza at dawn, firing extensively into the area.

The Israeli government is sponsoring violence by illegal settlers to displace Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, two rights groups have said.

A report by Yesh Din and Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI), two Israeli groups, said the Israeli government "is responsible for the commission of the war crime of forcible transfer of Palestinians in the West Bank."

"This crime is committed with the state’s support, by its agents or citizens," it said.

Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas, has warned that the lives of Israeli captives are at risk as Israel orders all Palestinians to flee from the areas.

"Half of the living Israeli prisoners are located in areas in which the Israeli occupation army has requested to be evacuated in recent days," spokesman Abu Obaida said in a statement.

He noted that his group decided "not to transfer these prisoners from these areas, and to keep them under strict security measures, which are extremely dangerous to their lives," without disclosing further information.

"If the enemy is concerned about the lives of these prisoners, they must immediately negotiate their evacuation or release," he said.

Abu Obaida held Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s extremist government responsible "for the lives of the prisoners," adding if Israel committed to a January ceasefire "most of them would probably be in their homes today."