The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 66,055, with 168,376 injured since the conflict between Hamas and Israel erupted on October 7, 2023, Gaza's health authorities said in a statement on Monday.
Over the past 24 hours, Israeli attacks killed 50 people and injured 184 others in Gaza, the statement said.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Monday that it had attacked around 140 targets in Gaza in the past 24 hours, including infrastructure it said was being used by Palestinian armed groups.
Three divisions of its ground troops continued to push into Gaza City, the IDF said.
The Al-Qassam Brigades, an armed wing of Hamas, announced last Sunday that it had lost contact with two Israeli hostages in the past 48 hours due to intense Israeli military attacks in the region. The IDF has yet to respond to the report.
Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 66,055
Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 66,055
Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Friday presided over a State Council executive meeting which studied further arrangements on energy conservation and carbon reduction, and heard a report on a special campaign on business-related administrative law enforcement.
The meeting also reviewed and approved a draft regulation on administrative law enforcement oversight, discussed a draft law on firefighters, and arranged work for a crackdown on tobacco-related illegal activities.
The meeting emphasized the need to ensure higher-standard and better-quality work in the fields of energy conservation and carbon reduction -- work which must be advanced with greater overall planning efforts and in light of local conditions.
To that end, the meeting called for efforts to maximize the impact of policies, continuously improve market mechanisms, and accelerate the transition to green production and green lifestyles.
A special campaign on regulating business-related administrative law enforcement this year has achieved positive results, the meeting noted, underlining further efforts to enhance the standardization of administrative law enforcement.
By drafting and implementing the regulation on administrative law enforcement oversight, the boundaries and responsibilities of law enforcement authorities will be clarified further, and administrative power will be upheld consistently within a legal framework, it said.
It discussed and approved in principle a draft law on firefighters, which will be submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for deliberation.
It is imperative that the institutional arrangements for the country's firefighting force are improved, making it more standardized and professional, the meeting said, stressing the need to consolidate fire safety management, and to resolutely prevent and curb serious or major fire accidents.
Work will also be done to crack down strictly on tobacco-related illegal activities, strengthen supervision and law enforcement across all links, and improve the tobacco market environment, according to the meeting.
Chinese premier chairs meeting on carbon reduction, administrative law enforcement
