The Gaza/Hamas Health Ministry reported that, as of this morning, the death toll in Gaza stood at 5,791. The last 24-hour period saw more than 700 more deaths. Israel said that it had hit, overnight last night into this morning, 400 Hamas militants’ targets and killed “dozens” of its fighters, but added that it would “take time” to completely destroy the group.
The daily Asharq Awsat reported that “United Nations agencies called on Tuesday, from `on our knees,’ for emergency aid to be allowed unimpeded into Gaza,” saying more than 20 times current deliveries were needed to support its Palestinian population, after two weeks of Israeli bombardment. The World Health Organization, in the latest of increasingly desperate UN appeals, called for “an immediate humanitarian ceasefire” to allow safe deliveries of aid.
