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🔴 Live: Scores killed in overnight Israeli strikes across Gaza as Hamas mulls truce proposal
Scores were reported killed in overnight Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, after the Palestinian militant group Hamas said that it needed more time to consider a proposal that would halt its war with Israel in the besieged Palestinian territory. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments.
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Summary:
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to the Middle East on Sunday for a fifth time since the October 7 Hamas attacks to support talks on a new truce between Israel and the Palestinian militant group. He is due to visit Qatar, Egypt, Israel, the occupied West Bank and Saudi Arabia.
- The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said at least 27,238 people have been killed and 66,452 wounded in Israeli strikes on the enclave since October 7. Israeli officials say about 1,140 people were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks in southern Israel. Militant fighters took some 250 hostages during the attack and 132 are still in Gaza, according to Israeli figures.
Yesterday’s key developments:
- Syria’s foreign ministry on Saturday condemned overnight retaliatory US air strikes against more than 85 targets in Syria and Iraq linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and the militias it backs. “What (the US) committed has served to fuel conflict in the Middle East in a very dangerous way,” Damascus’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
- Hamas has begun to resurface in areas where Israel withdrew the bulk of its forces a month ago, deploying police officers and making partial salary payments to some of its civil servants in Gaza City in recent days, four residents and a senior official in the militant group said Saturday.
- Israel said it attacked “over 3,400 targets of Hezbollah in all of southern Lebanon”, since the war against Hamas in Gaza began in October, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said Saturday, adding that more than 200 “terrorists and commanders” had been killed.
Gaza’s health ministry collects data from the enclave’s hospitals and the Palestinian Red Crescent.
The health ministry does not report how Palestinians were killed, whether from Israeli airstrikes and artillery barrages or errant Palestinian rocket fire. It describes all casualties as victims of “Israeli aggression”.
The ministry also does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.
Throughout four wars and numerous skirmishes between Israel and Hamas, UN agencies have cited the Hamas-run health ministry’s death tolls in regular reports. The International Committee of the Red Cross and Palestinian Red Crescent also use the numbers.
In the aftermath of war, the UN humanitarian office has published final death tolls based on its own research into medical records. The UN’s counts have largely been consistent with the Gaza health ministry’s, with small discrepancies.
For more on the Gaza health ministry’s tolls, click here.
(FRANCE 24 with AP)
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP & Reuters)
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