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Benny Gantz, a member of Benjamin Netanyahu's war cabinet, warned that Israel would launch an offensive against the city of Rafah if the Israeli hostages were not freed by Ramadan.
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The Nasser hospital in Khan Younes, stormed by the Israeli army since Thursday, is "completely out of service", a spokesperson for the Gaza Ministry of Health declared on Sunday.
In the last 24 hours, Rafah and the town of Khan Yunis, located in the south of the Gaza Strip and a few kilometers apart, as well as other areas of Palestinian territory have been the target of Israeli bombardments which left 127 dead, the Hamas Ministry of Health said on Sunday.
In a scathing attack on Israel, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva declared that "what is happening in Gaza is not a war, it is a genocide", comparing the Israeli offensive to the extermination of Jews by the Nazis.
The US military announced that it had carried out new strikes the day before against missiles, a drone and a submarine of Yemen's Houthi rebels.
Three Palestinians were killed in the north of the occupied West Bank, consistent sources report.
The Israeli offensive in Gaza has left at least 28,985 dead in the Palestinian enclave since October 7, the vast majority of them civilians, according to the latest report published Sunday by the Hamas Ministry of Health.
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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