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Casualties

• 29,878+ killed* and at least 70,215 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
• 380+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
• Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,147.
• 580 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 3,221 injured.**

*This figure was confirmed by Gaza’s Ministry of Health on Telegram channel. Some rights groups put the death toll number at more than 38,000 when accounting for those presumed dead.

** This figure is released by the Israeli military, showing the soldiers whose names “were allowed to be published.”

Key Developments

• U.S. President Joe Biden says regarding a deal between Israel and Hamas: “Well, I hope by the beginning of the weekend, by the end of the weekend.”
• Biden adds, “Ramadan’s coming up, and there’s been an agreement by the Israelis that they would not engage in activities during Ramadan as well, in order to give us time to get all the hostages out.”
• Latest deal framework consists of temporary truce for 40 days, release of 40 Israeli hostages in return for 400 Palestinian prisoners, and release of five Israeli soldiers in return for 15 Palestinian national figures in Israeli jails.
• Israeli and Hamas officials met Biden’s optimistic language less enthusiastically. Israeli official told Yedioth Ahronoth “we do not understand what the American president’s optimism is based on.”...........more........