“We cannot independently verify information from Hamas, so some caution is needed,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Christian Wagner said at a regular government press conference in Berlin.
The Ministry of Health in the Hamas-run Israel hits Hamas targets in Gaza after shells fired from the strip”>Gaza Strip publishes daily updates on the number of people killed since the start of the conflict with Israel.
On Friday, it reported that 7,326 people had died, including more than 3,000. of children.
“Hamas is not our source of information,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s deputy spokesman Wolfgang Buechner said at the same press conference, calling Hamas a terrorist organization.
The war began after Hamas militants stormed the Gaza border on October 7, killing 1,400 people. people, mostly civilians, and took 229 hostages in the bloodbath in Israel’s history.
“No one denies (…) that the people of the Gaza Strip are experiencing terrible suffering,” said W. Buechner. “We see the difficult situation of the people of the Gaza Strip, so the German government is making every effort to provide humanitarian aid there.”
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, said on Wednesday that he does not trust the data provided by the Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip.
A day later, the ministry announced almost 7 thousand. Names, surnames, ID card numbers, gender and age of those killed in the Gaza Strip.
On Friday, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees said the numbers were reliable in previous conflicts.
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