The essentials of the day before

  • Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Israeli explanations for the deaths of seven aid workers in the Gaza Strip were "insufficient" and "unacceptable."

  • Ambulances carrying the remains of humanitarian workers from the American NGO World Central Kitchen, killed Monday in Gaza in an Israeli strike, have arrived at the border post with Egypt.

  • This strikes a “serious error” which “should not have happened”, declared the chief of the Israeli general staff Herzi Halevi in ​​a video message, referring to a “bad identification” in “very complex conditions”.

  • The UN Human Rights Council will consider a draft resolution on Friday calling for an arms embargo on Israel, citing "the plausible risk of genocide in Gaza."

  • At least 32,975 people, most of them civilians, were killed in Israeli operations, the Hamas health ministry said Wednesday. In 24 hours, 59 additional deaths were recorded, according to a press release from the ministry, which also reported 75,577 injured.

  • Four Israeli police officers were injured in a vehicular attack at a checkpoint in central Israel, police said, citing the death of the assailant.

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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