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The UN was alarmed Tuesday by an "almost inevitable widespread famine" in the Gaza Strip, particularly in the north of the Palestinian territory besieged by Israel, where, without humanitarian access and with a devastated agricultural system, it is "imminent ".
The armed wing of Palestinian Hamas announced Wednesday that it had launched dozens of rockets into northern Israel from Lebanon, as violence intensified between Lebanese Hezbollah and the Israeli army.
The Hamas Ministry of Health published on Wednesday a new toll of 29,954 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 Gaza Health Ministry 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.
France 24 with AP
With AFP
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