The Palestinian death toll from the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has risen to 41,788, Gaza-based health authorities said in a statement released on Thursday.
In the past 24 hours, the Israeli military killed 99 people and wounded 169 others in Gaza, bringing the total number of deaths to 41,788 and injuries to 96,794 since the latest round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict broke out on October 7, 2023, according to the statement.
Israel's military announced on Thursday that Rawhi Mushtaha, head of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip, was killed in a bombing in the Palestinian enclave about three months ago.
The military said that Mushtaha was the "right-hand man and one of the closest associates" of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader, and was considered the most senior figure in the Hamas political bureau.
Sameh al-Siraj, who held the security portfolio in Hamas's political bureau and Labor Committee, and Sami Oudeh, commander of Hamas's General Security Mechanism, were also killed, it said.
Israeli warplanes struck and killed the three while they were taking shelter in "a fortified and equipped underground compound in the northern Gaza Strip," it added.
Hamas has not confirmed the deaths of the three officials.
Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 41,788
The second phase of China's first nuclear power project with private capital investment entered full-scale construction in east China's Zhejiang Province on Tuesday.
The start of full-scale construction of Phase II of the project was marked by the beginning of work on the main part of Unit 4 of the project, named Zhejiang San'ao Nuclear Power Project of China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN).
Private capital investment in the second phase of the project, which includes two units, increased to 10 percent as the country encouraged more private investment in the nuclear power sector.
The project, located in Cangnan County in the city of Wenzhou, is designed to have six units of Hualong One, a domestically developed third-generation reactor. One unit has started power generation.
After all six units are operational, the project will be capable of supplying over 54 billion kWh of clean electricity annually to the Yangtze River Delta, which covers Shanghai Municipality and the provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui, all in east China, and is one of China's most economically dynamic, open and innovative areas.
When fully operational, the project will be able to meet the annual electricity demand for production and daily life of about 5.4 million people and help reduce annual coal consumption by more than 16 million tonnes and carbon dioxide emissions by 50 million tonnes, said State Grid Zhejiang Electric Power Co., Ltd.
China's first nuclear power project with private investment progresses in Zhejiang
