The essentials of the watch

  • Relatives and relatives of Israeli hostages held in Gaza began a 24-hour protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday night. They are demanding the release of the hostages, as the war against Hamas, sparked by the October 7 attack, enters its 100th day.

  • Hamas' military wing claimed that "many" hostages "were probably killed recently" and laid "full responsibility" for their fate on Israel.

  • Hamas' military-terrorist wing released a video showing three Israeli hostages alive, two men and a woman.

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  • Two sisters of Hamas' second-in-command, Saleh al-Arouri, who was killed on January 2 in Lebanon in an attack attributed to Israel, were arrested by the Israeli army on Saturday night, a Palestinian prisoners' support group said.

  • The head of Lebanon's pro-Iranian Hezbollah said Israel had "failed" to achieve its goals in Gaza, which he said should force Israel to negotiate.

  • An Israeli footballer who posted a message referring to the conflict during a Turkish top-flight league match on Sunday has been arrested as part of an investigation into "public incitement to hatred" and banned from his team.

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  • According to Hamas, more than 100 people were killed in the overnight Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, including in Khan Younis. The Israeli offensive has left 23,968 dead and 60,582 wounded in Gaza, most of them civilians, according to the latest Hamas toll.

The number of casualties is provided by Gaza's Hamas-run Ministry of Health

The ministry collects information from hospitals in the enclave and the Palestinian Red Crescent.

Gaza's health ministry does not say how Palestinians were killed, either by Israeli airstrikes and/or barrages or failed Palestinian rocket fire. It describes all victims as victims of "Israeli aggression" and also makes no distinction between civilians and combatants.

During the four wars and the numerous clashes between Israel and Hamas, UN agencies have regularly cited Health Ministry figures in their reports. The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Palestine Red Crescent Society also use these figures.

In the aftermath of previous episodes of war, the United Nations Humanitarian Office published casualty figures based on its own research into medical records. The UN figures are largely in agreement with those of Gaza's Ministry of Health, with a few differences.

To read more about Gaza's Ministry of Health's assessments, click here or here.

(France 24 with AP)

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