GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories, March 19, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Gaza's civil defence agency said Wednesday that at least 436 people had been killed since Israel resumed intense strikes on the Palestinian territory.

"The Civil Defence has transported at least 436 martyrs since the resumption of the occupation's (Israel's) aggression and war since dawn yesterday," spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP, with the figures confirmed by Zaher Al-Wahidi, director of the information department at the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza.