The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 61,158, with 151,442 others injured, since the conflict between Hamas and Israel erupted on Oct 7, 2023, Gaza's health authorities said in a statement on Wednesday.
The death toll since March 18 this year, following a brief ceasefire, has reached 9,654, while the number of injured stood at 39,401, the statement added.
Nearly two years into the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Gaza is unraveling under the weight of starvation and siege. Aid remains scarce, the death toll keeps rising, and famine is no longer a warning but a reality.
Statistics released by the Gaza-based media office on Wednesday showed that since Israel's announcement of allowing aid supplies into the enclave on July 27, only 853 trucks had been allowed in, a daily average of just 85.
The office pointed out that at least 600 trucks carrying aid and fuel should be allowed into the Gaza Strip every day to meet residents' minimum needs of food, health services and other public services.
It also called on the international community to take emergency action to ensure aid supplies enter the enclave in a timely manner to alleviate an increasingly severe humanitarian crisis in the territory.
Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 61,158
China and Canada should work together to promote the stable, healthy and sustainable development of bilateral economic and trade relations, Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng said in Beijing on Friday.
He, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks while attending the Canada-China Trade and Investment Banquet together with the visiting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Speaking at the event, He said that under the strategic guidance of the important consensus reached by their leaders, China and Canada should adhere to the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, win-win cooperation, and mutual success, and jointly promote the stable, healthy, and sustainable development of bilateral economic and trade relations.
China is steadfastly expanding high-standard opening up, continuously developing new quality productive forces, and is willing to work with countries around the world, including Canada, to create new prospects for cooperation, said He.
Carney noted at the banquet that China is Canada's second-largest trading partner and said Canada looks forward to strengthening high-level exchanges with China, making full use of dialogue mechanisms in areas such as the economy and trade, and deepening cooperation in trade, agriculture, energy and other fields.
Carney arrived in Beijing on Wednesday to begin a four-day official visit to China, marking the first trip to the country by a Canadian prime minister in eight years.
China, Canada should work together for stable, healthy, sustainable economic ties: Vice Premier
