A US report says 32 captives held by the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip have been killed in Israeli bombings.

The Palestinian Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip says the death toll from Israel’s brutal aggression against the besieged enclave has surpassed 25,000, as the occupying regime’s war rages on into a fourth month.

Israeli regime has since October 7 indiscriminately targeted the densely-populated Gaza Strip, from hospitals to cemeteries, bombing both the living and the dead.

Three-year-old Julia is the only surviving member of her family after her parents and grandparents were killed in an Israeli regime airstrike earlier this week in northern Gaza.

Israel's relentless bombardment, coupled with an acute shortage of supplies, has forced the majority of bakeries in the besieged Gaza Strip to shut down, leaving families struggling for a loaf of bread.

A main hospital in Gaza shuts down key services as it is running out of badly-needed fuel supplies.

Israel is reportedly delaying its invasion of Gaza to give the US time to bolster its defense systems to protect American troops across the region.