Balah, Gaza Strip - Recent The Palestinian death toll from the ongoing Israeli attacks in Gaza has risen to 43,736 and the total injuries reached 103,370, Gaza-based health authorities said in a statement released on Thursday.

At least 17 Palestinians, including two children, were killed on Friday in Israeli shelling targeting various areas of the Gaza Strip. Medical sources at the Baptist Hospital told Anadolu that the Israeli attack targeted the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northern Gaza City, killing six and injuring several civilians.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 43,736 Palestinians have, to date, been killed, and 103,370 wounded. Moreover, at least 11,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.

The new bombardment on both fronts comes on the verge of a deadline set by the United States for Israel to dramatically ramp up humanitarian aid allowed in Gaza or risk possible restrictions on US military funding.

Palestinian medical officials say Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 31 people in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, including 11 at a makeshift cafeteria in an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone.

Israel has been carrying out intensified bombardment of Lebanon since late September, and its offensive in Gaza has been ongoing for 13 months.

Palestinian medical officials say two Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 14 people, including two children and a woman, most in an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone.

Airstrikes came hours after Israel expanded the humanitarian zone and asked the displaced to seek refuge in areas it later bombed.