CT Online Desk:

A total of 23,968 Palestinians have been killed and 60,582 injured by Israeli strikes on Gaza since October 7, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Sunday as the war reached its 100th day.

In the past 24 hours 125 Palestinians were killed and 265 were injured, the ministry added.

The conflict, sparked by unprecedented attacks on Israel, has created a humanitarian catastrophe for the 2.4 million people in Hamas-ruled Gaza, the United Nations (UN) and aid groups warn, and reduced much of the coastal strip to rubble.

The UN says roughly 85% of the territory's population has been displaced, crowded into shelters and struggling to get food, water, fuel and medical care. "It's been 100 days and our situation is very bad. There's no food, no water, no heating. We are dying from the cold," said Mohammad Kahil, displaced to Rafah, in southern Gaza near Egypt, from the territory's north.

Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), said diseases are spreading with "the clock ticking fast towards famine." Violence involving Iran-aligned groups in Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria has surged since the war in Gaza began in October.

A wider conflagration has so far been averted but fears increased following US and British strikes on scores of Yemeni rebel targets on Friday.

The Houthis say they will not be deterred and have vowed more attacks, in solidarity with Gaza, against what they deem Israeli-linked Red Sea shipping.

The Hamas government media office said Sunday that "more than 100 people were martyred in the attacks last night until 6:00am in all areas of the Gaza Strip."

Among the latest to die was Yazan al-Zwaidi, a video-journalist for Cairo-based Al Ghad television who was "murdered by Israeli fire," the station said on X.

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