Tehran, IRNA - The spokesman of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Sunday night that thousands of Palestinians remain unaccounted for following the Zionist regime's war on the besieged strip.

Ashraf al-Qudra said that 11,000 Palestinians are still under the rubble of bombed-out buildings in Gaza, According to IRNA's report citing the Shihab news agency. 

The daily average of martyrs in Gaza reaches 172, including 70 children, he said.

On Sunday, the Ministry of Health announced that the Zionist army killed at least 48 more Palestinian citizens and injured 79 others in the past 24 hours.

With new fatalities, the number of martyrs in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza has reached 34, 097, mostly women and children.

The ministry said that the number of wounded during this period was 76,980 in the regime's indiscriminate airstrikes and shelling since October 7 last year.

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