Palestinian death toll from Israeli attacks in Gaza rises to 42,847

The Palestinian death toll from the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has risen to 42,847 since the conflict broke out last October, the Gaza-based health ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

Over the past 24 hours, Israel's military operations in Gaza had killed 55 people and wounded 132 others, bringing the total injuries to 100,544, said the ministry.

According to the health ministry and local media, the Israeli forces on Thursday carried out multiple attacks on the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza, causing more than 150 casualties.

Local media also reported that the Israeli army launched an airstrike on a school sheltering displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing 17 people.

On the same day, the Israeli army also attacked Sheikh Zayed roundabout in northern Gaza, killing one person and injuring many others, and bombed the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least four people and injuring many others, the Palestinian official news agency WAFA reported.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) stated on Thursday that it has killed dozens of local militants and dismantled related infrastructure in the Jabalia area, and also eliminated many Hamas militants and destroyed related infrastructures in targeted strikes in central Gaza.

The IDF also claimed that it has killed Mohammad Abu Attawi, a Hamas military commander who led the surprise attack on Israel on Oct 7 last year and participated in several attacks on the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas has not yet responded to the death of the commander.

Meanwhile, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that David Barnea, chief of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, will head for Qatar's Doha on Sunday to discuss the release of hostages and ceasefires in Gaza with representatives from Qatar and the United States.

Palestinian death toll from Israeli attacks in Gaza rises to 42,847

China's grain output is projected to hit a record high of 700 billion kilograms this year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said on Friday.

At a press conference in Beijing, Zhang Xingwang, vice minister of agriculture and rural affairs, made the remarks and reported that as of Thursday more than 80 percent of the autumn grain had been reaped across China.

"China will see another year with a bumper grain harvest. The summer grain and early rice had been harvested. The total output of summer grain this year stood at 149.78 billion kilograms, up 3.625 billion kilograms from the previous years, marking the highest increase in the past nine years. And the early rice output amounted to 28.175 billion kilograms, exceeding the threshold of 28 billion kilograms for four consecutive years. The planting area of autumn grain has seen steady growth, with significant improvements in increasing per unit crop yield on a large scale. As of Thursday, the progress of China's autumn grain harvest this year has reached 82.5 percent, marking another season of bountiful harvest. The country's annual grain production is expected to surpass 700 billion kilograms for the first time this year after having remain steady at over 650 billion kilograms for nine consecutive years. Notable progress was made in increasing the cultivation of soybeans and other oil crops. The soybean planting area maintained at over 10 million hectares and its output is expected to remain above 20 million tons. The planting area, per unit area yield and total output of rapeseed have all achieved increases," explained Zhang.

China's 2024 grain output expected to break record 700 billion kg