At least 21,822 Palestinians have now been confirmed killed in Israeli ongoing war in Gaza, the besieged territory's Health Ministry confirmed Sunday.

The figure includes 150 deaths over the past 24 hours, a ministry statement said. It added that 56,451 people have been wounded in Gaza since the start of the war.

The ministry said in a statement that "the Israeli occupation committed 14 massacres during the past 24 hours, which led to the death of 165 Palestinians and the injury of 250 others."

About 70% of the victims are children and women, the ministry added.

Israel has launched relentless air and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip following a cross-border attack by Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7.

Authorities claim the Hamas attacks have killed around 1,200 Israelis.

The Israeli onslaught has left Gaza in ruins, with 60% of the enclave's infrastructure damaged or destroyed and nearly 2 million residents displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicines.

Elsewhere, the death toll in Israeli airstrikes on pro-Iranian militias in eastern Syria climbed to 25, a war monitor reported Sunday.

The strikes carried out on Saturday targeted posts manned by pro-Iranian militias in the Syrian town of al-Bu Kamal and a convoy arriving from neighboring Iraq, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The fatalities included 20 foreign fighters, four of them from the Lebanese Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, and five Syrians.

On Saturday, the Britain-based monitor said the hits killed at least 19 fighters.

If confirmed, the strikes would be the first by Israeli warplanes in eastern Syria since the ongoing Gaza conflict erupted, the monitor's head, Rami Abdel-Rahman, said.

According to the observatory, which has been recording casualties in the Syrian civil war since 2011, Israel has carried out 45 attacks in Syria since the outbreak of the Gaza conflict.