The essential

  • More than 60 Palestinians, including twelve from the same family, died in Israeli nighttime strikes on the Gaza Strip according to Hamas, a few hours before a meeting of Benjamin Netanyahu's security cabinet on negotiations for a possible truce.

  • The Hamas Ministry of Health announced a new toll of 31,645 people killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement.

  • Discussions on a possible ceasefire are to resume in Doha with officials from Qatar and Egypt.

The essentials of the day before

  • The spokesperson for the Hamas health ministry, Ashraf al-Qudra, announced on Saturday the death of 36 people, including women and children, in an attack on a house where displaced people were crowded in Nusseirat (center of the Gaza Strip).

  • The Open Arms aid ship has finished unloading its entire cargo of food, as Hamas proposed a new six-week truce in the war.

  • The Israeli security cabinet will meet on Sunday to determine the position of the Israeli delegation to visit Qatar to negotiate an exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners as part of a truce in Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced . 

  • Israeli NGOs traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, where they denounced "systematic abuses", and sometimes torture, against Palestinians in Israeli detention.

  • The Hamas Ministry of Health announced a new toll of 31,553 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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