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The Israeli army announced Monday morning that it was carrying out an operation on al-Chifa hospital in Gaza City.
She said Monday afternoon that she had "eliminated" 20 Palestinian fighters in the hospital complex.
The number three of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas was killed last week during an Israeli army operation in Gaza, the White House announced Monday evening.
Joe Biden warned Benjamin Netanyahu that a major Israeli offensive in Rafah would be "a mistake", according to comments reported Monday by the White House.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres declared Monday that the looming famine in the northern Gaza Strip is an "entirely man-made disaster and the report (on this subject, Editor's note) clearly indicates that it It is possible to put an end to it.
In a report published Monday, the NGO Oxfam accuses Israel of "deliberately" preventing the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, whether food but also medical equipment, in violation of international humanitarian law.
The Hamas Ministry of Health announced on Monday a new toll of 31,726 people killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war.
Among them, 81 were killed in the last 24 hours, the ministry said in a statement, reporting a total of 73,792 wounded since the start of the war on October 7.
Two hundred and fifty Israeli soldiers have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the ground military operation launched in Gaza on October 27, according to the latest report communicated by the Israeli army.
Please note: the number of victims is provided by the Hamas-led Gaza Ministry of Health.
The ministry collects information provided by hospitals in the enclave and by the Palestinian Red Crescent.
The Gaza Health Ministry does not indicate how the Palestinians were killed, whether by Israeli airstrikes and/or barrages or failed Palestinian rocket attacks.
It describes all victims as victims of "Israeli aggression" and also does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.
During the four wars and numerous skirmishes between Israel and Hamas, United Nations agencies regularly cited Health Ministry figures in their reports.
The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Palestinian Red Crescent 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 largely agree with those of the Gaza Ministry of Health, with a few differences.
To learn more about the reports from the Gaza Ministry of Health, click here or here.
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