The essentials of the day before

  • The US military announced it had destroyed a Houthi surface-to-air missile on Wednesday

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    ready to be fired from Yemen, with the Iranian-backed rebels claiming responsibility for the attack on an American ship in the Gulf of Aden. .

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

  • The population in Gaza is "starving to death", they are "pushed to the brink", denounced a senior WHO official.

  • Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, based in Qatar, is expected Thursday at the Egyptian mediator to discuss an initiative formulated during a meeting last weekend in Paris between CIA Director William Burns and Egyptian officials , Israelis and Qataris.

  • The Hamas Ministry of Health announces a new death toll of 26,900 in Gaza since the start of the war.

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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