🔴Live: More than 170 killed in Gaza since end of truce, says Hamas-run health ministry

Palestinians wounded in Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip are brought to a hospital in Khan Younis, Friday, December 1, 2023. © Fatima Shbair, AP

More than 170 Palestinians, many of them women and children, have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Israel's military on Friday resumed its deadly combat against Hamas, according to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry. The rising death toll came after The New York Times reported overnight that Israeli authorities had obtained a blueprint of Hamas’s October 7 attack over a year ago, but dismissed it. Follow our live blog for all the latest developments. All times are Paris time (GMT+1). 

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Summary 

• Israel resumed its deadly combat against Hamas in Gaza on Friday, accusing the group of violating the terms of a truce just before its expiration. The truce lasted for seven days and saw the release of 110 hostages held by Hamas and 240 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention.
• In the hours since the ceasefire ended, more than 170 Palestinians have been killed, according to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry.
• Hamas attacked southern Israeli communities on October 7, killing 1,200 people and taking about 240 hostages, according to the Israeli government. Since then, more than 14,800 people, including about 6,000 children, have been killed in Israel's ensuing assault on the Gaza Strip, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says.

Key developments of Thursday, November 30:

• US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on Thursday and stressed it was "imperative" to protect civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip should fighting resume. Blinken also held talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
• Six Israeli hostages were released late Thursday, the Israeli army announced. Earlier in the day, two Israeli women, including French-Israeli hostage Mia Schem, were freed from Hamas captivity in Gaza.
• A further thirty Palestinian prisoners were released from Israeli jails in exchange for the hostages.
• Two Hamas gunmen killed three people and wounded several others at a Jerusalem bus stop Thursday morning before being killed by Israeli police. 

About casualty figures from Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry:

Gaza’s health ministry collects data from the enclave’s hospitals and 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) 

For more, read yesterday's blog here.

(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)