MOH

The MoH also reported on Sunday at least 39 deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of people killed to 673 since Israel resumed its military operations in the territory on Tuesday.

In January, The Lancet medical journal published a study which suggested the death toll could in fact be substantially higher than official figures reported by MoH - by up to 41%.

The figures released by the MoH for the number of people killed do not differentiate between civilians and fighters.

Moh El-Naggar, the interim dean of Dornsife, replied via email to a Times request, saying, “We’re navigating our response as an academic unit of USC.”

As described in the U.N. commission report, the dispatchers contacted the MOH and Israeli security forces to coordinate, over hours of negotiation, a designated safe route they might take to rescue the child — which is standard practice in conflict situations — and when finally given the green light, dispatched an ambulance with two paramedics.