28 more killed in Israeli strikes

A Palestinian man pulls a cart on a road lined with destroyed buildings in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip. Pic/AFP

The Gaza Health Ministry said on Thursday that bodies of 28 people killed by Israeli strikes were brought to local hospitals over the past 24 hours. Hospitals also received 51 wounded, it said in its daily report. That brings the overall Palestinian death toll from the Israel-Hamas war to at least 34,596, the ministry said, and 77,816 wounded. The Health Ministry does not distinguish between fighters and civilians in its tallies, but says that women and children make up around two-thirds of those killed. The Israeli military says it has killed some 13,000 militants, without providing evidence to back up the claim.

3,70,000 homes destroyed

If the war in Gaza stopped today, it would still take until 2040 to rebuild all the homes that have been destroyed in nearly seven months of Israel's bombardment and ground offensives in the territory, according to United Nations estimates released Thursday. "Every additional day that this war continues is exacting huge and compounding costs to Gazans and all Palestinians," said United Nations Development Programme Administrator Achim Steiner.

At least 3,70,000 housing units in Gaza have been damaged, including 79,000 destroyed completely, according to the new report by the UNDP and the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, which details how Israel's assault after Hamas' October 7 attack devastated the economy of the Palestinian territories, and how the impact will increase the longer the conflict goes on.

Biden mum as cops, protesters clash

Police and students clash at the University of California

President Joe Biden is staying mum about student protests and police crackdowns as Republicans try to turn campus unrest over the war in Gaza into a campaign cudgel against Democrats. Tension at colleges and universities has been building for days as some demonstrators refuse to leave and administrators turn to law enforcement to clear them.

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