News Center- At least 27,019 Palestinians have been killed and 66,139 injured in Israel’s attacks on Gaza since October 7, 2023, the Gaza’s health ministry said in a statement on Thursday. In the past 24 hours, 119 Palestinians were killed and 190 injured by the Israeli army, according to the statement.

 “More than 30,000 displaced people in schools near Nasir Medical Complex do not have enough water, food, baby formula and medicine needed for thousands of sick and chronic cases,” said Ashraf Al-Qudra, Spokesman of the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

‘Everyone in Gaza is hungry’

Everyone in Gaza is hungry. 1.7 million people have been displaced. The humanitarian system is collapsing. I call for rapid, safe, unhindered, expanded & sustained humanitarian access throughout Gaza,” Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres wrote on X.

‘A first reconnaissance mission is in process to the north’

 “A first reconnaissance mission is in process, both yesterday and today, to the north.  The mission aims to ascertain the current security and logistical conditions in the north to better understand the actual environment in which future aid deliveries to the north might take place,” Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, said in a briefing on Thursday.

Answering a question about the protection of journalists covering this and other conflicts, he said, “On the ground, I don’t think there is any action we can take.  Our humanitarian workers are like journalists and are in the front lines and have paid for with their lives.  We know more than 150 of our colleagues have perished in this conflict. We have raised repeatedly, publicly, privately, our concern about journalists, their ability to do their work free from fear and free from the threat to their own personal lives.  As in any conflict, the role of journalists is critical to public opinion, to the world getting a view of what is going on, on the ground.”

Truce proposal

On Thursday, Majed al-Ansari, Spokesperson of Qatar's Foreign Ministry said that recent talks in Paris between Qatari, US, Israeli and Egyptian officials had yielded a consolidated truce proposal. “That proposal has been approved by the Israeli side and now we have an initial positive confirmation from the Hamas side,” he said.