The essentials of the day before

  • US President Joe Biden announced to Congress that he had ordered the US military to establish a port in Gaza to deliver more humanitarian aid to the besieged Palestinian territory by sea.

  • A Hamas delegation left Cairo to hold consultations with the movement's leadership in Doha.

    But negotiations that began on Sunday between Egypt, Qatar and the United States – which are acting as mediators – and Hamas will resume next week until an agreement is reached with Israel, the Palestinian group said in a statement. communicated.

    These discussions for a ceasefire in Gaza are at an impasse, according to Egyptian officials. 

  • According to testimonies collected by AFP, fighting continued in the north of Gaza, in Zeitoun, a district of Gaza City, and in the south in Al-Shouka, a village near Rafah, as well as in the part west of Khan Younes.

  • The latest report communicated by the Hamas Ministry of Health shows 30,800 people killed in Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip, the majority civilians, since the start of the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement.

With AFP

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.

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