By Bond Robertson 
Nearly 15,000 people are said to have been killed in the war between Hamas and Israel, according to Hamas-controlled authorities. On Friday morning, he was ready for a ceasefire. But on Thursday, tough matches are reported. Many of them are said to have been killed in an attack on a school.
Palestinians flee to the southern areas of the Gaza Strip on November 22.
We caution against strong impressions in this article.
Reuters is the one that reports on the fierce battles.
The ceasefire will begin at 7 Friday, according to the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs. That means at 6 o’clock Norwegian time. Hamas confirms the ceasefire via Telegram.
Qatar played the role of mediator in the conflict between Israel and Palestine. They say that the ceasefire will be temporary at first, but the goal is for the agreement to be a first step towards a permanent solution. Initially, the ceasefire will last for four days.
According to Reuters, the military faction of Hamas says that all hostilities on their part will stop.
Meanwhile, Israel confirms that it has received a list of civilians who will be released Gaza.
An Israeli army spokesman said that taking control of northern Gaza is only “the first step in a long war,” according to Reuters.
It is burning after an explosion in northern Gaza, as seen from southern Israel, Thursday evening. There were reports of fierce fighting hours before the ceasefire, which begins on Friday morning.
Violent fighting hours before the ceasefire – reports of attacks on the United Nations school
Reuters reported on Thursday evening that matches were more intense than usual. According to Reuters, Israeli fighter jets bombed more than 300 targets around the Jabalia refugee camp, north of Gaza City. In addition, soldiers on the ground participate in fierce battles.
A spokesman for the army in Israel, according to Reuters, says that operations will continue until the forces receive orders to stop. From above the border fence in Israel, clouds of smoke can be seen rising over the war zone in northern Gaza, accompanied by the sounds of intense gunfire and explosions.
The will to fight is also great among Hamas. Abu Ubaida, spokesman for the military wing of Hamas, referred to the temporary ceasefire in a video message on Thursday. According to Reuters, Obaida expressed his desire to “escalate the confrontation with (Israel) on all fronts,” including the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where violence has increased since the outbreak of the Gaza war.
An Israeli tank along the bombed corniche in northern Gaza on November 22.
Reports of many deaths after attacks on schools
According to Hamas authorities, one of the Israeli attacks on Thursday was confirmed to have hit a UN school in the Jabalia refugee camp. Hamas says about 30 people were killed.
According to a Palestinian doctor contacted by Agence France-Presse, at least 27 people were killed and 93 others were injured in the attack. Several thousand Palestinians are said to have taken refuge in the UNRWA-run school.
The Israeli army did not comment on the matter.
This way the hostages will be released
Hamas and the Islamic Jihad group captured about 240 soldiers and civilians when they attacked several border towns in Israel on October 7.
The first group of 13 people will be released on Friday afternoon at 16 o’clock Norwegian time. As a result, Qatar expects Israel to also release Palestinian prisoners starting Thursday.
The ceasefire will mark the beginning of the flow of emergency aid to Gaza, according to Qatar. But a State Department spokesman says the aid will only cover a “small portion” of the aid the Gaza Strip needs.
Hamas wrote on Telegram that it expects 200 trucks loaded with emergency aid and four fuel trucks to enter Gaza daily during the ceasefire.
Noa Argamani, 26, is among the hostages kidnapped by Hamas fighters on October 7. The moment was documented on a mobile phone video. Here is father Yakov Argamani with his daughter’s friends in Tel Aviv on November 23.
Health authorities: nearly 15 thousand dead
The Hamas government in the Gaza Strip announced on Thursday evening that nearly 15,000 people have been killed since the outbreak of the war.
The death toll has reached 14,854 since the war began on October 7, according to figures published by the Hamas government on Thursday evening.
According to Hamas, 6,150 of the dead were children.
In addition, about 36,000 people were infected, according to the numbers.
Aftenposten cannot independently verify death tolls, but the United Nations and Human Rights Watch have previously said so. To Reuters They considered these numbers credible.
A dead child is removed from the rubble of an apartment building after an Israeli air strike on Gaza City on November 4. According to Palestinian health authorities, more than 6,100 of those killed in the war are children.
Struggling with the death toll
Earlier Thursday, the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced that more than 13,000 have been martyred since the outbreak of the war. This number was a downward revision from earlier in the week. Authorities in the Hamas-controlled Strip announced on Tuesday that the death toll had risen to 14,000 people.
The Hamas Ministry of Health had previously announced that it was no longer able to provide accurate numbers, claiming that the fighting prevented the work of collecting bodies. The ministry stated that the lack of electricity and broken communication lines made the sorting process difficult.
In recent days, the Hamas government press office sent numbers instead.
In addition, more than 1,200 people were killed in the large-scale terrorist attack carried out by Hamas against Israel on 7 October. Most of the dead were civilians.
This means that the number of deaths in the war may reach about 16 thousand people.