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ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR
Hamas said its delegation was heading to Cairo on Saturday to resume Gaza truce talks, as the United Nations warned that Israel’s threatened assault on the city of Rafah could produce a “bloodbath”. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday reiterated Washington’s objections to the long-threatened Rafah offensive. Read our live blog to follow today’s developments in the Israel-Hamas war.
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Summary:
- At least 34,622 Palestinians have been killed and an estimated 77,867 have been wounded in Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory. Some 1,170 people were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks and 250 people were taken hostage, according to Israeli figures, with 132 still missing.
- An Israeli military offensive in Rafah “could be a slaughter of civilians and an incredible blow to the humanitarian operation in the entire (Gaza) strip”, UN spokesperson Jens Laerke said on Friday.
- French police on Friday evacuated students at Paris’s Sciences Po university who were staging a sit-in to protest the war in Gaza.
- Turkey’s trade minister on Friday said the country would halt trade with Israel until a permanent ceasefire in Gaza is secured and aid can flow freely into the region.
- Police in the US have arrested more than 2,300 people during pro-Palestinian protests at college campuses across the country in recent weeks, sometimes using riot gear, tactical vehicles and flash-bang devices.
About casualty figures from Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry:
Gaza’s health ministry collects data from the enclave’s hospitals and the Palestinian Red Crescent. For more on the health ministry’s casualty figures, click here.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, Reuters, AP)
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