The main thing to remember

  • International efforts are accelerating to transport humanitarian aid by sea to the Gaza Strip, which is threatened with famine and bombarded by Israel, which only allows aid trucks to enter in dribs and drabs.

  • US President Joe Biden said on Friday that the situation "looks difficult" in order to obtain a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip before Ramadan at the start of next week.

  • Paris and Madrid condemned on Friday evening Israeli plans to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank, which include the construction of new housing, demanding that Israel reverse its decision.

The essentials of the day before

  • US President Joe Biden urged Israel not to use humanitarian aid as a “bargaining chip” in the Gaza Strip, starving after five months of fighting, while saying he was working towards “an immediate ceasefire” .

    He later said Benjamin Netanyahu must allow more humanitarian aid to flow.

  • The establishment and expansion of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories constitutes "a war crime" and "risks eliminating any practical possibility of establishing a viable Palestinian state", the UN warned.

  •  In Cyprus, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said she hoped for the opening on Sunday of a corridor allowing humanitarian aid to be transported from the Mediterranean island to the Gaza Strip.

  • The Hamas Health Ministry announced a new toll of 30,878 people killed in Israeli military operations and fighting in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war.

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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