The essentials of the day

  • During the night from Monday to Tuesday, Israeli bombings focused on the east of the Gaza Strip and the town of Khan Younes, according to an AFP journalist on site.

  • The UN Security Council must decide on Tuesday on a new text, prepared for weeks by Algeria, demanding an "immediate" ceasefire. A resolution threatened by a new veto from the United States, Israel's ally, which would be their third since the start of the war.

The essentials of the day before

  • 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.

  • The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the highest court of the United Nations, has begun examining the legal consequences of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories since 1967. The hearings are scheduled to last six days.

  • The European Union announces its own mission to protect maritime traffic in the Red Sea, called “Aspides”. Several countries have expressed their intention to participate, including Belgium, Italy, Germany and France.

  • Two large-scale Israeli strikes simultaneously targeted the town of Ghaziyeh, near Saida, the main city in southern Lebanon, reported the National News Agency (ANI, official) and an AFP photographer.

  • Twenty-six countries out of the 27 in the European Union have called for an "immediate humanitarian pause" in Gaza, at a time when the Israeli army says it is preparing an offensive in the south of the Palestinian territory, said the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell.

  • According to UN agencies, food and drinking water have become "extremely scarce" in the Palestinian territory and 90% of young children there suffer from infectious diseases.

  • The Hamas Ministry of Health announced a new toll of 29,092 people killed 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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