
More than 60,000 people killed in Gaza during Israel offensive, Hamas-run health ministry says
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Over 60,000 Palestinians killed in the 21-month Israel-Hamas war, Gaza’s Health Ministry says
Israeli strikes overnight killed more than two dozen people, mostly women and children. The death toll has climbed to 60,034, with 145,870 others wounded since the war started. The deaths include 18,592 children and 9,782 women. Israel has disputed its figures but has not provided its own account of casualties. The war has destroyed vast areas of Gaza, displaced around 90% of the population and fueled a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, experts say.. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, said Gaza has teetered on the brink of famine for two years. The U.N. and Israel have both recalled their negotiating teams over the past week as long-running negotiations over a ceasefire and hostage release seem to have stalled. The Israeli military did not respond to requests for comment on either shooting or the death toll.. Israel announced a series of measures over the weekend to increase the flow of aid, including expanded humanitarian corridors and international aid drops, but U.S. officials say there has so far been little change on the ground.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Over 60,000 Palestinians have been killed in the 21-month Israel-Hamas war, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Tuesday. Israeli strikes overnight killed more than two dozen people, mostly women and children, according to health officials.
Israel’s offensive, launched in response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, has destroyed vast areas of Gaza, displaced around 90% of the population and fueled a catastrophic humanitarian crisis.
Experts warned Tuesday that the territory of some 2 million Palestinians is on the brink of famine, as Israeli restrictions and a breakdown of security have made it nearly impossible to safely deliver aid.
The ministry, part of the Hamas-run government, said the death toll has climbed to 60,034, with 145,870 others wounded since the war started. The deaths include 18,592 children and 9,782 women. Together, they make up nearly half the dead.
The ministry is staffed by medical professionals. The United Nations and other independent experts view its figures as the most reliable count of casualties. Israel has disputed its figures but has not provided its own account of casualties.
Dozens killed, most while seeking aid
Airstrikes on tents housing displaced people in the built-up Nuseirat refugee camp late Monday killed 30 people, including 12 children and 14 women, according to Al-Awda Hspital. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.
Israel says it only targets militants and blames civilian deaths on Hamas, saying the militants operate in populated areas. The military said it targeted Hamas military infrastructure over the past day, including rocket launchers, weapons storage facilities and tunnels.
Hospital officials meanwhile said they received the bodies of an additional 33 people who were killed by gunfire around an aid convoy in southern Gaza on Monday, bringing the toll to 58. Witnesses said Israeli forces fired toward the crowd.
Another 14 Palestinians were killed on Tuesday near a site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an Israeli-backed American contractor, in central Gaza, according to local hospitals. GHF said there were no violent incidents near its sites on Tuesday.
The Israeli military did not respond to requests for comment on either shooting.
Over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire while seeking aid since May, according to witnesses, health officials and the U.N. human rights office. Israel, which controls large areas of Gaza where aid is distributed, says it has only fired warning shots at those who approach its forces.
Hunger crisis has ‘dramatically’ worsened
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, the foremost international authority on food crises, said Gaza has teetered on the brink of famine for two years. But it said recent developments, including strict Israeli restrictions, have “dramatically worsened” the situation.
Under mounting international pressure, Israel announced a series of measures over the weekend to increase the flow of aid, including expanded humanitarian corridors and international aid drops. U.N. officials say there has so far been little change on the ground and far more is needed.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar on Tuesday denied Israel was deliberately starving Gaza and said the focus on hunger was part of a “distorted campaign of international pressure.”
“This pressure is directly sabotaging the chances for a ceasefire and hostage deal. It is only pushing towards military escalation by hardening Hamas’s stance,” he said.
The U.S. and Israel have both recalled their negotiating teams over the past week as long-running negotiations over a ceasefire and hostage release seem to have stalled.
Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in the attack that sparked the war, and abducted another 251. They are still holding 50 captives, around 20 believed to be alive, after most of the rest were released in ceasefires or other deals.
The war took a major turn in early March when Israel imposed a complete 2 1/2 month blockade, barring the entry of all food, medicine, fuel and other goods. Weeks later, Israel ended a ceasefire with a surprise bombardment and began seizing large areas of Gaza, measures it said were aimed at pressuring Hamas to release more hostages.
At least 8,867 Palestinians have been killed since then.
Israel eased the blockade in May, but U.N. agencies say it hasn’t allowed nearly enough aid to enter and that they have struggled to deliver it because of Israeli restrictions and the breakdown of law and order. An alternative Israeli-backed system run by GHF has been marred by violence and controversy.
The World Health Organization says more than 60 people have died this month from malnutrition-related causes, including 24 children under five. Overall, 88 children died of causes related to malnutrition since the start of the war, while 58 adults died this month from malnutrition-related causes, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
During hunger crises, people can die from malnutrition or from common illnesses or injuries that the body is not strong enough to fight. The ministry doesn’t include hunger-related deaths in its overall toll.
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Magdy reported from Cairo.
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Bowen: UK move to recognise Palestinian state is a diplomatic crowbar to revive peace process
David Lammy, the UK foreign secretary, was given a big round of applause when he announced Britain’s decision at the UN’s conference on a two-state solution. Lammy went on to delve into Britain’s imperial past in Palestine which is deeply intertwined with the roots of the conflict between Jews and Arabs for control of the land Britain once ruled. His dismissed the accusation that Palestinian independence could be lethal for Israel. He said: “There is no contradiction between support for Israel’s security and support for Palestinian statehood. Indeed, the opposite is true” Britain captured Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire in 1917 and controlled Palestine until in 1948.
His dismissed the accusation that Palestinian independence could be lethal for Israel.
“There is no contradiction between support for Israel’s security and support for Palestinian statehood. Indeed, the opposite is true.”
“Let me be clear: the Netanyahu government’s rejection of a two-state solution is wrong – it’s wrong morally and it’s wrong strategically.”
A British official said the atmosphere was electric as Lammy told the delegates that the UK’s announcement was being made “with the hand of history on our shoulders.” Lammy went on to delve into Britain’s imperial past in Palestine which is deeply intertwined with the roots of the conflict between Jews and Arabs for control of the land Britain once ruled.
Britain captured Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire in 1917 and controlled Palestine until in 1948, exhausted and out of ideas to deal with what was then a full-scale war between Arabs and Jews, it handed over responsibility to the UN and left Palestine. Immediately, Israel’s first prime minister David Ben Gurion declared independence, and Israel defeated an invasion by Arab armies.
At the UN David Lammy recalled how Arthur Balfour, his predecessor as foreign secretary had in 1917 signed a typewritten letter promising to ‘view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.’
But the document, known as the Balfour Declaration, also stated “that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of non-Jewish communities in Palestine.” It did not use the word Arab, but that is what was meant.
Lammy said Britain can be proud of the way it helped lay Israel’s foundations, But the promise to Palestinians, Lammy said, was not kept, and that “is a historical injustice which continues to unfold.”
Britain’s conflicting promises fuelled and shaped the conflict. A time traveller going back a century to Palestine in the 1920s would find the tension and violence depressingly familiar.
The way the UK hopes to end the misery in Gaza, create peace in the Middle East and remedy the historical injustice Lammy described is to revive the two-state solution.
The conference in New York at which he was speaking was chaired by France and Saudi Arabia. It has produced a seven-page document aimed at creating a way ahead to revive the two-state solution, which includes condemnation by Arab states of Hamas and its 7 October attacks on Israel.
The window for peace through the two-state solution appeared to be locked shut after the collapse of the peace process that started with real hope in the 1990s.
Britain’s decision to recognise Palestine is a diplomatic crowbar to try to reopen it.
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Jeremy Bowen says it is highly unlikely Israel will agree to the conditions Britain has put forward. The current Israeli government is absolutely against progress toward a two-state solution, he says. The Americans have been absolutely condemnatory of the United Nations conference that UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has been speaking at, he adds. From a British point of view, this is a real change in British foreign policy, says Mr Bowen.
Jeremy Bowen
International editor, in Jerusalem
This is a big change in British foreign policy.
The government will know it is highly unlikely Israel will agree to the conditions Britain has put forward.
The current Israeli government is absolutely against progress toward a two-state solution.
It is more than simply against it as an idea – there are people in government upon whose political support Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu depends – people who have been speaking in the last 24 hours about their hopes of annexation of land that Palestinians want for a two-state solution.
These are not just reports in the Israeli press about an Israeli plan to annex parts of Gaza – but statements from the country’s finance minister who is driven by a combination of nationalism and religion.
He says, “people are asking me why I’m staying in the government, I’m going to stay in the government because good things are going to happen.” By good things he means taking land that Palestinians want for a state and incorporating it in the Jewish state.
I think it’s highly unlikely that as currently constituted the Israeli government will accept the UK’s conditions.
It is possible Netanyahu might decide he can reconstitute his government in such a way to accept all of that, but it seems unlikely.
Plus, the Americans have been absolutely condemnatory of the United Nations conference that UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has been speaking at around a two-state solution.
The US state department put out a strong statement yesterday using a harsh tone condemning it as a reward for terrorism – saying it was interfering with America’s own plans to bring a wider peace in the Middle East.
But from the British point of view, this is a real change.
It was only a month or so ago that I was hearing from diplomatic sources that they wanted to progress towards recognition in concert with the French, but what they wanted to do was to impose benchmarks on the Palestinian side – now they’re imposing benchmarks on the Israeli side.
Palestinian death toll in Gaza war tops 60,000, according to Hamas-run health ministry
The Palestinian death toll from Israel’s war against the Hamas terror group in Gaza has passed 60,000. The announcement came as Israel struck dozens of targets in the Gaza Strip. Israel also maintained its new system of 10-hour-long “humanitarian pauses” in large swaths of the territory. Israel said it had killed some 20,000 gunmen in Gaza as of January, its latest official estimate, and another 1,600 terrorists inside Israel during the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023. The Israel Defense Forces also published a video of people it said were Hamas operatives hijacking an aid truck last week. The figures cannot be independently verified and do not distinguish between civilians and combatants, Hamas has claimed women and children make up about half the dead. The toll includes two police officers and three Defense Ministry civilian contractors. Local hospitals reported Tuesday that 77 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli fire over the previous 24 hours, a majority of whom were killed while trying to access aid in central Gaza.
The announcement came as Israel struck dozens of targets in the Gaza Strip, but also maintained its new system of 10-hour-long “humanitarian pauses” in large swaths of the territory, instituted after global outcry amid reports there of famine-level hunger.
The Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper reported that a majority of the aid that entered Gaza on Sunday was looted, though it did not say by whom. The Israel Defense Forces also published a video of people it said were Hamas operatives hijacking an aid truck last week.
According to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, 60,034 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli offensive against Hamas, which began when the terrorist organization attacked Israel, killing 1,200 people and abducting 251, on October 7, 2023.
The ministry also reported at least 145,870 people injured in the war, and said thousands of people remain missing under the rubble of destroyed buildings and areas.
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The Hamas figures cannot be independently verified and do not distinguish between civilians and combatants. Hamas has claimed women and children make up about half the dead.
Israel said it had killed some 20,000 gunmen in Gaza as of January, its latest official estimate, and another 1,600 terrorists inside Israel during the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023.
Israel also says it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.
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The war in Gaza began on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists invaded southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages, amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.
Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 459. The toll includes two police officers and three Defense Ministry civilian contractors.
Local hospitals reported Tuesday that 77 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli fire over the previous 24 hours, a majority of whom were killed while trying to access aid.
Incidents with multiple fatalities have reportedly become a daily occurrence in the Strip as huge crowds of Palestinians have rushed to aid sites, with some deviating from IDF-approved routes and accidentally coming into the proximity of IDF forces.
Thirty-three people were reportedly killed on Monday while attempting to access an aid convoy in southern Gaza. Local hospitals reported that a further 14 were killed while attempting to access aid in central Gaza, at a site run by the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
Neither GHF nor the IDF commented on either of the incidents.
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IDF strikes dozens of targets, including weapons depot
Israeli troops continued to operate against Hamas in Gaza, with the IDF saying Tuesday it had struck dozens of “terror targets” over the past 24 hours.
According to the IDF, the targets included operatives, buildings used by terror groups, tunnels, and caches of weapons.
The military released footage showing a strike on a Hamas weapons depot in the Khan Younis area. The strike was directed by troops of the 36th Division during operations in the area.
Soldiers in Khan Younis also located a kilometer-long Hamas tunnel, according to the military, which said the tunnel was partially razed.
The tunnel, which the IDF said was 15 meters deep underground, was found by troops of the Golani Brigade and elite Yahalom combat engineering unit.
Inside the tunnel, the forces found weapons belonging to Hamas, including explosive devices, assault rifles, and RPGs, according to the IDF.
In Gaza City, the IDF said the 98th Division was expanding its operations in the Shejaiya and Zeitoun neighborhoods, in an effort to destroy Hamas infrastructure and prevent rocket fire on Israel.
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Further airstrikes were reported in the central city of Nuseirat and were said to hit an area of tents hosting displaced people.
The local Al-Awda hospital said it had received “the bodies of 30 martyrs, including 14 women and 12 children” after the strike.
An Israeli military spokesman told AFP that he would need more information to enable him to look into the strikes.
Most Egyptian aid trucks said looted
Meanwhile, the UK-based, Qatari-owned newspaper Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported that more than half the Egyptian aid trucks that entered the Gaza Strip on Sunday were looted by unknown actors and their contents later sold in local markets.
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Out of 130 trucks, 73 of them were looted near the Morag Corridor, which separates Rafah from Khan Younis and is controlled by the IDF, the report said.
Just 37 trucks arrived at the warehouses of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society and the Egyptian Committee aid group, according to the report.
Another 20 trucks were said to have been returned by Israel to the Rafah border crossing for reasons that were not clear.
There was no immediate comment from the IDF about the report.
Sunday marked the first time Egypt sent aid into Gaza via the Rafah crossing since Israel took control of it in May 2024.
It was the first day of Israel’s new aid policy, under which 10-hour “humanitarian pauses” are held in the fighting to let in more aid. The policy was adopted amid mounting international pressure over the hunger crisis in Gaza.
In an interview with The Times of Israel earlier this week, former US humanitarian envoy David Satterfield said that unlike UN aid which is largely accounted for, assistance from the Red Crescent societies is more susceptible to theft by Hamas and criminal gangs.
On Tuesday, the IDF published footage that it said showed armed Hamas operatives looting a truck of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip last week.
The clip, which the IDF said was recorded on Friday, shows gunmen on top of a truck carrying aid, while a crowd of Palestinians surround it.
The military claimed the video shows “armed Hamas terrorists… violently looting humanitarian aid that had been transferred into the Gaza Strip, preventing it from reaching the civilian population of Gaza.”
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“Contrary to Hamas’s false claims that the individuals in the video are security personnel, they are in fact Hamas terrorists who arrived to seize the aid from Gaza’s residents,” it said, without clarifying how it determined the gunmen were terror operatives.
“Even when aid is delivered into Gaza, Hamas loots it for its own use, blatantly disregarding the needs of the population,” the IDF said, adding that “this footage is further evidence that Hamas is the primary obstacle to the delivery of humanitarian aid to the residents of the Gaza Strip.”
The military said it was publishing the video after Hamas in recent weeks “spread false claims about a deliberate starvation campaign in Gaza.”
Last week, a senior Israeli defense official said that nearly all of the trucks heading to the warehouses of aid organizations and the UN were looted by Gazan mobs, not Hamas.
UAE, Jordan, Egypt airdrop aid; France says it will too
Also Tuesday, aircraft from the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, and, for the first time, Egypt, airdropped 52 pallets of humanitarian aid in the northern and southern Gaza Strip.
The IDF said the airdrops were carried out “in accordance with the directives from the political leadership and as part of the cooperation between Israel, the UAE, Jordan, and Egypt.”
The airdrops were part of a “series of actions aimed at improving the humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip,” the military said.
Each pallet carried about a ton of aid, according to the military.
“The IDF will continue to work in order to improve the humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip, along with the international community, while refuting the false claims of deliberate starvation in Gaza,” it added.
AFP reported Tuesday, citing a diplomatic source, that France, too, will airdrop aid into Gaza “in coming days.”
“France will carry out airdrops in the coming days to meet the most essential and urgent needs of the civilian population in Gaza,” the source said, also urging “an immediate opening by Israel of the land crossing points.”
Spain and the UK have also announced plans to airdrop aid into Gaza.
The leading international authority on food crises said Tuesday that the “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip,” saying immediate action is needed to avert “widespread death.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the IDF have strenuously rejected allegations of intentional starvation in the Strip, as well as the claim of widespread, famine-level hunger, as it has instituted new measures — including 10-hour pauses in fighting throughout large swaths of the Strip — to boost aid into the territory.
The Prime Minister’s Office said late Monday that while the “situation in Gaza is difficult,” Israel is working to ensure that large quantities of aid enter the Strip.
Israel blocked the entry of all aid into the Strip between March and May of this year. At the time, the government estimated that enough aid had already accumulated to meet the population’s needs for months, and asserted that allowing more in would strengthen the hand of Hamas, which still holds 50 hostages, 20 of whom are believed to be alive.
Jacob Magid contributed to this report.
Over 60,000 Palestinians have died in the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza’s Health Ministry says
At least 77 Palestinians killed in past day, according to local hospitals. More than half were killed while attempting to access aid, hospitals say. Israel says it only targets militants and takes extraordinary measures to avoid harming civilians. Israel rejects claims of ‘starvation policies’ in Gaza and says the focus on starvation is a “distorted campaign of international pressure” and is sabotaging chances for a ceasefire and hostage deal, says Israeli foreign minister. The war took a major turn in early March when Israel imposed a complete food blockade, barring the entry of all medicine, fuel and other goods, for 2 ½ months. The U.S. and Israel have both recalled their negotiating teams over the past week as negotiations seem to have stalled and violence and violence has intensified in the Gaza Strip, Israel and the U.N. say. The Israeli military has said in the past it only fires warning shots if troops feel threatened and has said their contractors haven’t fired at civilians. The strikes come as international organizations continue to warn about the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, which has teetered on the brink of famine.
The ministry, part of the Hamas-run government, said the death toll has climbed to to 60,034, with another 145,870 people wounded since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack.
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It did not say how many were civilians or militants, but has said women and children make up around half the dead.
The ministry is staffed by medical professionals. The United Nations and other independent experts view its figures as the most reliable count of casualties.
Israel’s offensive has destroyed vast areas of Gaza, displaced around 90% of the population and caused to a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, with experts warning of famine.
At least 77 Palestinians killed in past day
As international organizations warn of a “worst-case scenario of famine,” Israel continued to strike the Gaza Strip, killing at least 77 Palestinians in the past day, according to local hospitals. More than half were killed while attempting to access aid, hospitals said, and includes a rising toll from a deadly incident on Monday as people attempted to access aid from a truck convoy passing through the southern Gaza Strip.
Local hospitals said they received the bodies of an additional 33 people who were killed by gunfire around an aid convoy in southern Gaza on Monday, bringing the total from the single incident to 58. The Israeli military did not comment on the shooting.
Israel says it only targets militants and takes extraordinary measures to avoid harming civilians. It blames civilian deaths on Hamas because the militants operate in populated areas. The military said it targeted Hamas military infrastructure over the past day including rocket launchers, weapons storage facilities and tunnels.
An additional 14 Palestinians were killed while attempting to access aid near the American and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Fund site in central Gaza, according to local hospitals.
Neither GHF nor the Israeli military commented on the shooting. Israel’s military has said in the past it only fires warning shots if troops feel threatened and GHF has said their contractors haven’t fired at civilians.
Air strikes also targeted tents hosting displaced people in the central city of Nuseirat, killing 30 people, including 12 children and 14 women, according to Al-Awda hospital.
The strikes come as international organizations continue to warn about the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, which has teetered on the brink of famine for two years. Recent developments have “dramatically worsened” the situation, according to a report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC.
Israel rejects claims of ‘starvation policies’
Israeli foreign minister Gideon Saar on Tuesday rejected claims of “starvation policies” in Gaza and said the focus on starvation is a “distorted campaign of international pressure.”
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“This pressure is directly sabotaging the chances for a ceasefire and hostage deal, it is only pushing towards military escalation by hardening Hamas’s stance,” he said.
The U.S. and Israel have both recalled their negotiating teams over the past week as negotiations seem to have stalled.
Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in the attack that sparked the war, and abducted another 251. They are still holding 50 captives, around 20 believed to be alive, after most of the rest were released in ceasefires or other deals.
The war took a major turn in early March when Israel imposed a complete 2 ½ month blockade, barring the entry of all food, medicine, fuel and other goods. Weeks later, Israel ended a ceasefire with a surprise bombardment and began seizing large areas of Gaza, measures it said were aimed at pressuring Hamas to release more hostages.
At least 8,867 Palestinians have been killed since then.
Israel eased the blockade in May, but U.N. agencies say it hasn’t allowed nearly enough aid to enter and that they have struggled to deliver it because of Israeli restrictions and the breakdown of law and order. An alternative Israeli-backed system run by an American contractor has been marred by violence and controversy.
Gutted health system, daily strikes and a hunger crisis
Near-daily Israeli strikes have hit schools, shelters, hospitals and other civilian buildings, killing men, women and children. The military usually says it was targeting militants hiding out among civilians, while occasionally acknowledging mistakes.
Israel’s offensive and its blockade have also gutted Gaza’s health system, with several hospitals having shut down and others only partially functioning as they receive waves of war-wounded.
The hunger crisis has also taken its toll. The World Health Organization says more than 60 people have died this month from malnutrition-related causes, including 24 children under five. Overall, 88 children died of causes related to malnutrition since the start of the war, and 58 adults died this month also malnutrition-related causes, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
During hunger crises, people can die from malnutrition or from common illnesses or injuries that the body is not strong enough to fight. The ministry doesn’t include hunger-related deaths in its overall toll.