The essentials of the day

  • Washington threatened on Saturday to once again block a draft UN Security Council resolution calling for an "immediate humanitarian ceasefire" in Gaza, a text on which Algeria requested a vote for Tuesday.

The essentials of the day before

  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday he was determined to carry out a ground offensive in Rafah, where 1.4 million people are crowded, after the Qatari mediator admitted that negotiations on a truce between Israel and Hamas would not succeed. were "not very promising".

  • At the same time, concern increased for the patients stuck in the Nasser hospital in Khan Younes, in Gaza, stormed by the Israeli army. While the latter claims to have found weapons and “terrorists” there, Hamas denounces the deaths of several patients.

  • The Hamas Ministry of Health announced a new toll of 28,858 people killed, mostly women, children and adolescents, 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 Health Ministry in Gaza 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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