By George Wright BBC News
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 10,000 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory since Israel started bombing it last month.
More than 4,000 of those killed were children, the ministry said.
The number surpasses the UN’s figure of about 5,400 killed in Gaza in all of Israel’s previous conflicts with Hamas since it took control of the territory in 2007.
Israel began bombing Gaza after Hamas killed 1,400 people and kidnapped more than 200 others on 7 October.
…
This is the best summary I could come up with:
US President Joe Biden has previously questioned the accuracy of the health ministry’s figures, while the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) say that “any information provided by a terrorist organisation should be viewed with caution”.
On Sunday night, the Israeli military carried out one of its heaviest bombardments of the besieged Gaza Strip, saying on Monday that it had hit 450 targets over the past 24 hours.
The director of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City told the BBC that people were using donkeys and their own cars to carry dead bodies, because communications had been cut and they could not reach ambulance services.
“For almost a month, the world has been watching the unfolding situation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory in shock and horror at the spiralling numbers of lives lost and torn apart,” the UN chiefs wrote.
The statement added that 88 people working for UNRWA, the agency focused on Palestinian refugees, had been killed since 7 October - representing the highest number of UN fatalities ever recorded in a single conflict.
At the weekend, Mr Netanyahu said Israel rejected “a temporary ceasefire that does not include the release of our hostages” in a TV statement, minutes after a call with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
The original article contains 644 words, the summary contains 209 words. Saved 68%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!