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Why the shift, all of a sudden, from many news outlets to "Hamas-run health ministry"?
News outlets don't like it when you make them look stupid by telling obvious lies that their institutions should have been able to see right through, and then they run with it as fact.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
US President Joe Biden has previously questioned the accuracy of the health ministry's figures, while the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) say that "any information provided by a terrorist organisation should be viewed with caution".
On Sunday night, the Israeli military carried out one of its heaviest bombardments of the besieged Gaza Strip, saying on Monday that it had hit 450 targets over the past 24 hours.
The director of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City told the BBC that people were using donkeys and their own cars to carry dead bodies, because communications had been cut and they could not reach ambulance services.
"For almost a month, the world has been watching the unfolding situation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory in shock and horror at the spiralling numbers of lives lost and torn apart," the UN chiefs wrote.
The statement added that 88 people working for UNRWA, the agency focused on Palestinian refugees, had been killed since 7 October - representing the highest number of UN fatalities ever recorded in a single conflict.
At the weekend, Mr Netanyahu said Israel rejected "a temporary ceasefire that does not include the release of our hostages" in a TV statement, minutes after a call with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
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