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A Palestinian health minister says 12 people have died at al Shifa hospital in Gaza due to a lack of electricity and medical supplies. Meanwhile, a UN peacekeeper has been shot in Lebanon near the Israeli border.

The number of people to have been killed in Gaza over the last month now stands at more than 11,000, according to officials in Gaza.

Israel lowered its official estimated death toll of the October 7 Hamas attacks to about 1200 people, down from the more than 1400 initially cited – but that figure could swell again.

Israel lowered its official estimated death toll of the October 7 Hamas attacks to about 1200 people, down from the more than 1400 initially cited – but that figure could swell again.

The Biden administration, which has pressed Israel to do more to safeguard civilian lives, said Israel had agreed to steps to help people flee the northern Gaza Strip and receive aid.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that “far too many Palestinians have been killed” in the Gaza Strip, in the latest indication that the Biden administration is growing increasingly concerned about the civilian death toll under Israel’s bombardment and ground invasion.

The Foreign Ministry did not provide details on the revision to 1,200 after saying for weeks that more than 1,400 people had been killed in the Hamas-led attacks.

Barbara Leaf By Dave DeCamp / Antiwar.com A senior US official said that the death toll caused by Israel’s assault on Gaza is likely far higher than the over 10,000 number being reported by Gaza’s Health Ministry, The Hill reported on Thursday. The comments were made by Barbara Leaf, assistant secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, and

The White House said on Thursday Israel agreed to pause military operations in parts of north Gaza for four hours a day, but there was no sign of a let-up in the fighting that has killed thousands and laid waste to the seaside enclave.

Israel’s defence chiefs said the Shifa Hospital complex in Gaza City is being used by Hamas as a command centre.