Hamas's armed wing claimed responsibility Thursday for a gun attack near Jerusalem that killed a soldier, saying it was in response to the ongoing bloodshed in Gaza. The news came after Gaza’s main telecommunications companies Paltel and Jawwal said services in the enclave were down due to a lack of fuel. Read our blog to see how the day's events unfolded. All times are Paris time (GMT+1).
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Key developments from Wednesday, November 15:
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The United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution calling for humanitarian pauses in Gaza.
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The Israeli military raided Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital and claimed it found Hamas weapons and equipment. The IDF said this confirms the theory that it there was a Hamas command operations center underneath the hospital.
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Hamas denied the claim, calling it 'nothing but a continuation of the lies and cheap propaganda'.
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At least 1,200 people have died on the Israeli side, mostly civilians killed in the initial Hamas attack. Palestinian militants are holding nearly 240 hostages seized in the raid.
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The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza on Wednesday said the death toll in the Gaza Strip had topped 11,500, including 4,710 children.
Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, the largest in the enclave, receives data from every hospital in the strip. Hospital administrators say they keep records of every wounded person occupying a bed and every body arriving at a morgue. The ministry collects data from other sources also, including the Palestinian Red Crescent.
The health ministry does not report how Palestinians were killed, whether from Israeli airstrikes and artillery barrages or errant Palestinian rocket fire. It describes all casualties as victims of “Israeli aggression”. The ministry also does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.
Throughout four wars and numerous skirmishes between Israel and Hamas, UN agencies have cited the Hamas-run health ministry’s death tolls in regular reports. The International Committee of the Red Cross and Palestinian Red Crescent also use the numbers.
In the aftermath of war, the UN humanitarian office has published final death tolls based on its own research into medical records. The UN's counts have largely been consistent with the Gaza health ministry’s, with small discrepancies.
For more on the Gaza health ministry’s tolls, click here.
(FRANCE 24 with AP)
