The government media office in Gaza released the figure in a statement on Sunday, marking a year since the occupying regime unleashed its brutal Gaza onslaught, which has killed nearly 42,000 innocent people, mostly women and children.
It said that the Israeli aggression has left 25,973 children without one or both parents and disrupted the education of 718,000 students in Gaza.
Meanwhile, it added, 34 hospitals and 80 healthcare centers have been rendered inoperable as a result of the Israeli offensive, which has plunged Gaza into a humanitarian catastrophe and displaced at least 1.9 million Palestinians.
The media office also said that the occupation’s military has targeted 162 health facilities, 131 ambulances, 187 shelters, and 456 schools and universities, in the Gaza Strip over the past year.
It further noted that 87,000 homes have been leveled in the blockaded territory due to Israeli attacks, with damage to critical infrastructure estimated to be approximately $18.5 billion.
So far, 986 medics and 85 members of the Palestinian Civil Defense have been killed by Israel, it said, adding that 902 families have been wiped off the civil registry and 36 people have died of malnutrition in Gaza.
Press TV