The main thing to remember

  • Khan Younes was the scene of fierce fighting on Wednesday. During the night, witnesses reported heavy strikes. 

  • The UN calls for continued aid to Gaza from its agency for Palestinian refugees. The suspension of funding to UNRWA will have “catastrophic consequences”, warned the heads of several UN organizations.

The essentials of the day before

  • Qatar-based Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said his movement had received a proposed truce with Israel, the result of a meeting in Paris between CIA Director William Burns and Egyptian, Israeli and Israeli officials. Qataris.

  • The Israeli army admitted to flooding the tunnels dug by Hamas in the subsoil of Gaza in order to "neutralize" them, one of the tactical objectives of the war, ensuring that it would not compromise access to water. drinking water of the civilian population.

  • Antonio Guterres gathered in New York on Tuesday the "main donors" of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) to try to maintain its funding while 12 employees of the agency are accused of having participated in the attacks on October 7 in Israel.

  • Around ten countries have announced the suspension of their aid to UNRWA.

  • The Israeli government accused the UN agency of being "fundamentally compromised", in particular by letting Hamas "use its infrastructure" to carry out its military activities and "hide terrorists".

  • On the sidelines of the fighting in Gaza and the controversy over UNRWA, negotiations are continuing behind the scenes under the aegis of Qatar, Egypt and the United States with a view to a new truce, after that of November.

  • Faced with the risks of extension of the conflict, the American president assured that he was not "looking" for a "more extensive war in the Middle East", after a drone strike, attributed to pro-Iran fighters, which killed three American soldiers on Sunday in Jordan.

  • In the West Bank, a commando of Israeli forces, disguised as medical personnel and in civilian clothes, executed three men presented as “terrorists” in a hospital in Jenin.

  • The Hamas Ministry of Health announced a death toll of 26,751 people in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement.

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 missed 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.

(France 24 with AP)

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