The essentials of the day before

  • Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas "are not close" to reaching an agreement on a truce in the Gaza Strip and the release of hostages, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar, the mediating country, said on Tuesday. specifying that talks between the parties were continuing.

  • The first boat using a maritime corridor between Cyprus and the Gaza Strip to deliver humanitarian aid to the Palestinian territory on the verge of famine left the Cypriot port of Larnaca on Tuesday morning, one of the two told AFP. NGO responsible for this operation.

  • The Hamas Health Ministry announced Tuesday a new toll of 31,184 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.

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