The essential

  • The UN Security Council will try again on Monday to adopt a text demanding an "immediate ceasefire" in Gaza.

  • The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has announced, through its head, that it is now formally banned by Israel from any delivery of food aid to the north of the Gaza Strip.

The essentials of the day before

  • The UN Secretary-General called on Israel on Sunday to "remove the last obstacles" to the entry of aid into the besieged Gaza Strip, which is in the grip of "famine", after five and a half months of war. between Israel and Hamas.

  • Israeli bombings and fighting between Israel and Hamas rage in the Palestinian territory.

  • The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that hospitals in Nasser and al-Amal were stormed by the Israeli army. According to the relief organization, military vehicles arrived on Sunday morning near the two establishments, against a backdrop of "intense" shooting and bombardment.

  • A total of 84 people were killed in these bombings in 24 hours, bringing the total Palestinian death toll to 32,226, the Hamas Health Ministry announced on Sunday.

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.

France 24 with AP

With AFP 

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