Palestinian death toll from Israeli onslaught reaches 31,726 since Oct. 7

GAZA CITY, Palestine

At least 81 Palestinians were killed and 116 others injured in the last 24 hours as Israel continues its onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip since Oct 7, the territory's Health Ministry said on Monday.

"The Israeli occupation committed eight massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, leaving 81 martyrs and 116 injured during the past 24 hours," the ministry said in a statement.

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

Flouting the provisional ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel continues its onslaught on the Gaza Strip where at least 31,726 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and 73,792 injured since Oct. 7, according to Palestinian health authorities.

Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by Hamas, which Tel Aviv says killed nearly 1,200 people.

The Israeli war on Gaza has pushed 85% of the territory's population into internal displacement amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, while 60% of the enclave's infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.

Israel is accused of genocide at the ICJ. An interim ruling in January ordered Tel Aviv to stop genocidal acts and take measures to guarantee that humanitarian assistance is provided to civilians in Gaza.

Hostilities have continued unabated, however, and aid deliveries remain woefully insufficient to address the humanitarian catastrophe.

* Writing by Mohammad Sio in Istanbul.