There will be less news coming out of Gaza moving forward. This comes the day after the Palestinian Ministry of Health released a list of almost 7000 confirmed casualties.
IDF strikes on South Gaza have continued despite the IDF-imposed evacuation of North Gaza.
Even with ID, it’s important to remember the real number is almost definitely somewhere between the downplayed numbers from IDF and the inflated numbers from Hamas.
The next stage is a ground offensive that “will take a long time,” Israel Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told a small group of foreign reporters on Friday.
Gallant said the ground invasion would include large forces, backed by airstrikes, and that it would be followed by a third phase of lower-intensity fighting, as Israel destroys “pockets of resistance.”
The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, which tracks the toll, released a detailed list of names and ID numbers on Thursday, to counter suggestions by U.S. President Joe Biden and others that it was inflating casualty figures.
At a UN meeting on Gaza on Thursday, Israel’s Ambassador Gilad Erdan told the 193-member world body, “A cease-fire means giving Hamas time to rearm itself, so they can massacre us again.”
“The siege means that food, water and fuel — basic commodities — are being used to collectively punish more than two million people, among them, a majority of children and women,” Philippe Lazzarini, the head of UNRWA, told reporters.
A medical team and 10 aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Friday via the Rafah crossing with Egypt, carrying water, food and medicine, a Palestinian border official told Reuters.
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