Israel-Hamas war: “more than 25,000” Palestinian women and children killed since October 7, according to the Pentagon. The Hamas health ministry announced earlier Thursday that "more than 30,000" people have been killed in Israeli military operations in Gaza since the start of the war.

This threshold is reached as the mediating countries, the United States, Egypt and Qatar, strive to obtain a truce in the fighting before Ramadan, which begins on the evening of March 10 or 11.