00:00 It is a milestone, even though it must be said that the 25,000 figure includes civilians
00:06 and combatants because Hamas doesn't distinguish.
00:10 Israel says, it estimates that it's killed around 9,000, which by the way the US says
00:15 is between 20 and 30 percent of the Hamas fighting force.
00:19 So that means there's still two thirds of the fighting force left in the Gaza Strip
00:24 after 106 days now, I think.
00:28 And that means that we're looking at 16,000 civilians, which is a huge number if the Israeli
00:35 estimates are right.
00:37 And I think what the UN Secretary General is referring to is not actually the figure
00:42 itself, because of course, during the years of the civil war in Yemen and the civil war
00:46 in Syria, both the death tolls there were in the hundreds of thousands.
00:50 But that took longer.
00:51 It's the speed of this.
00:54 And it's the fact that here civilians have nowhere to flee to.
00:58 They run within the Gaza Strip, a small area to start with, and the militants have provided
01:05 safety for themselves beneath the ground, but they haven't provided safety for the civilians.
01:11 So it's the civilians who really are the front line in this war, in this tiny crowded place
01:17 where they pick up their belongings and move from one place to another.
01:21 And there still isn't protection, even in the place that is meant to be safe.
01:25 So for all those reasons, this today is a milestone.
01:28 And I have to say, by the way, that we also see Hamas rocket fire continuing now, picking
01:35 up again today after something like since Friday evening, there hasn't been rocket fire.
01:40 It's commenced again.
01:41 So it seems both sides are determined to keep fighting with Israeli troops in Khan Yunis
01:47 today, fierce hand-to-hand fighting, still looking for the Hamas leadership, Yair Sinwar
01:53 and Mohamed Def, and still looking for the hostages and really not finding either on
01:58 that level.
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