Israel has killed at least 20,000 people in Gaza and pushed at least a quarter of the besieged strip’s population into starvation, with no end in sight in its war with Hamas.
The official death toll, released by the Palestinian health ministry, is likely an undercount of the true figure, aid workers say, with many bodies buried in the rubble, but it already exceeds that of any of Israel’s subsequent conflicts with the Palestinians since the Jewish state was formed in 1948.
The UN Security Council will later on Friday vote on a stripped-down resolution that dropped a call for a cessation of hostilities in order to get the US, Israel’s military and political patron, to support a measure that will allow more humanitarian aid.
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