ISLAMABAD, May 29 – Five terrorists were killed in two separate intelligence-based operations in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province, the military said on Thursday.
The operations were conducted in Loralai and Kech districts of the province on Wednesday, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan Army, said in a statement.
During the operation in Loralai, four terrorists were killed in an exchange of fire with security forces, the ISPR said. Weapons, ammunition, and explosives were recovered from the scene.
In a separate operation in Kech district, one more terrorist was neutralized, the statement added.
The ISPR said the terrorists were affiliated with a banned outfit and had been involved in several terrorist activities, including deadly ambushes on passenger vehicles along the N-70 highway in the Rarasham area in August 2024 and February 2025, which claimed the lives of at least 30 civilians.
Sanitization operations are being carried out to eliminate the presence of other terrorists in the area.
The military said the security forces of Pakistan are determined to wipe out the menace of terrorism from the country.
Firefighters work on wreckage of South Korean navy’ maritime patrol aircraft that crashed on a mountain in Pohang, South Korea, May 29, 2025. Yonhap via REUTERS
SEOUL, May 29 – A South Korean maritime patrol aircraft crashed soon after takeoff near a military base in the southern city of Pohang on Thursday, killing all four crew members, the navy said.
The P-3 aircraft went down about six minutes after it left the airfield on a training mission at 1:43 p.m. (0443 GMT), the navy said in a statement.
Witness video footages aired on YTN television showed the plane banking at low altitude, then a plume of smoke and fire after it crashed.
A general view shows smoke billowing after a South Korean navy maritime patrol aircraft crashed, in Pohang, South Korea, May 29, 2025, in this picture obtained by Reuters. REUTERS
The remains of the crew members have been recovered and no civilian casualties were reported, the navy said. Operation of the P-3 aircraft has been suspended and an accident investigation has been opened, it said.
BISHKEK, May 29 – National security authorities in Kyrgyzstan have detained eight current and former employees of independent media outlet Kloop, their lawyers said, accusing them of inciting unrest amid a growing crackdown on media in the Central Asian country.
Five journalists from Kloop – known for its anti-corruption reporting – were arrested on Wednesday after authorities raided their homes and seized their electronic devices, lawyers for the people said. A further three people were arrested on Thursday.
They face charges of calling for mass unrest and disobeying government officials, which can incur up to 10 years in prison.
Daiyrbek Orunbekov, the head of the presidential administration, wrote on social media that the media workers had “spread false information” and had published material “directed against the state”.
A spokesman for the national security body declined comment.
Rinat Tukhvatshin, a co-founder of Kloop, said the government’s claims were fabricated.
Syinat Sultanalieva, a Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch, condemned the detentions as “yet another example of the Kyrgyzstani authorities’ continued crackdown on freedom of speech and expression”.
Several of the people were released after hours of interrogation, while some are still in custody with no access to their lawyers.
Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet republic, has historically enjoyed greater media freedom than its Central Asian neighbours.
However, under President Sadyr Japarov, who came to power in 2020, the government enacted a law prohibiting media and individuals from “discrediting” the authorities, providing a tool to suppress dissent.
Kloop, an independent outlet founded in 2007, was forced to shutter last year after state prosecutors filed a lawsuit arguing that its NGO publisher, Kloop Media, was not properly registered as a media organisation.
KAMPALA, May 29 – Six family members, including children, were killed in a fire outbreak in Uganda’s central district of Wakiso on Thursday.
Police said in a statement that the victims killed in the early hours of Thursday included a father, a mother, and their children aged between seven and 16.
According to police, residents heard a loud blast before rushing to offer assistance.
“However, the fire had already engulfed the house, making rescue efforts extremely difficult,” police said.
“Police were alerted, and the Fire Prevention and Rescue Services team responded swiftly, successfully containing the fire and preventing it from spreading to adjacent properties,” the statement added.
The bodies of the deceased have been conveyed to a city mortuary, with an investigation underway into the cause of the fire.
MADRID, May 29 – Three people were killed and three others injured on Thursday when a warehouse collapsed in the northern Spanish region of Asturias.
According to local emergency services, the incident occurred around 1 p.m. local time (1100 GMT) near Coana, a town of approximately 3,000 residents in the western part of the province. The roof of the warehouse, which was under construction on a livestock farm, suddenly gave way.
Police have launched an investigation to determine the cause of the collapse.
A total of nine individuals were present at the site when the accident occurred. Three managed to escape uninjured, while one of the injured is reported to be in serious condition.
TUNIS, May 29 – Two people were killed and 27 others injured on Thursday morning in a traffic collision in Tunisia’s northwestern province of El Kef, the private radio station Jawhara FM reported.
A truck transporting female farmworkers collided with a light vehicle on the national highway between El Kef and Tunis in the Dar Essalem area, killing one female farmworker and the driver of the light vehicle, Jawhara FM quoted Moncef El Houani, regional director of public health in El Kef, as saying.
The injured have all been transported to the Kef Regional Hospital for treatment, four of whom require further medical attention, Jawhara FM reported.
Vehicles, loaded with goods, enter the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza, on the Israeli side, on their way into Gaza May 28, 2025. REUTERS
NEW YORK, May 28, 2025 – The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) described on Wednesday the Gaza Strip as “the hungriest place on earth,” stressing that the UN “can get the aid in immediately.”
“Right now, nearly 180,000 pallets of food and other life-saving aid stand ready to enter Gaza, the hungriest place on earth,” Jens Laerke, OCHA spokesperson, told UN News.
He added that the supplies have already been paid for by the world’s donors, pointing out that “it is cleared for customs, approved and ready to move.”
“We can get the aid in – immediately, at scale and for as long as necessary,” he said, noting that time is running out very quickly, and lives are being lost every hour in the Gaza Strip.
He affirmed that the UN has a successful plan, as was evident during the ceasefire when tens of thousands of trucks entered the Strip and delivered aid to every person.
By deliberately starving the population, paving the way for forced displacement, according to the United Nations, Israel has pushed 2.4 million Palestinians to the brink of famine by closing the Gaza Strip’s crossings to humanitarian aid, particularly food, since March 2.
Palestinians, displaced by the Israeli military offensive, shelter in a UNRWA school, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, May 28, 2025. REUTERS
DUBAI – Members of the literary community including Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Russell T Davies, Hanif Kureishi, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and George Monbiot are among 380 writers and organizations who have signed an open letter condemning Israel’s war on Gaza, describing it as genocidal and calling for an immediate ceasefire.
The letter, also signed by William Dalrymple, Jeanette Winterson, Brian Eno, Kate Mosse, Irvine Welsh and Elif Shafak, states: “The use of the words ‘genocide’ or ‘acts of genocide’ to describe what is happening in Gaza is no longer debated by international legal experts or human rights organizations.”
The writers are urging the UN to ensure the free and immediate delivery of food and medical supplies to Gaza, alongside a ceasefire “which guarantees safety and justice for all Palestinians, the release of all Israeli hostages, and the release of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners arbitrarily held in Israeli jails.”
They add that if the Israeli government fails to comply with the demand for a ceasefire, sanctions should be enforced.
The letter, organized by writers Horatio Clare, Kapka Kassabova and Monique Roffey also says that Palestinians “are not the abstract victims of an abstract war. Too often, words have been used to justify the unjustifiable, deny the undeniable, defend the indefensible. Too often, too, the right words – the ones that mattered – have been eradicated, along with those who might have written them.”
The term “genocide” “is not a slogan,” it adds. “It carries legal, political and moral responsibilities.”
Prison officers escort ex-surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec from a vehicle, during his trial, where he is charged with aggravated rape and sexual assault against hundreds of children over several decades, in Vannes, Brittany, France, February 25, 2025. REUTERS
VANNES, France, May 28 – A retired French surgeon who sexually abused hundreds of young patients, many of them children, over more than two decades received a 20-year jail sentence on Wednesday, in France’s worst ever child abuse case to go to trial.
Joel Le Scouarnec stood accused of aggravated rape or sexual assault of 299 victims, including the rape of some children who were under anaesthetic. He told the court he had committed “despicable acts” over a 25-year period while working as a doctor in western France.
His trial shocked France and raised uncomfortable questions for its publicly run healthcare system about how he was allowed to continue abusing his young patients for so long.
Presiding Judge Aude Buresi, whose voice at times appeared to choke with emotion, said Le Scouarnec had preyed on victims at their most vulnerable, including whilst under anaesthesia.
“Your acts were a blind spot in the medical world, to the extent that your colleagues, the medical authorities, were incapable of stopping your actions,” the judge told him.
Le Scouarnec is already serving jail time for earlier rape convictions. In 2020, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the rape and sexual assault of a child neighbour, as well as his two nieces and a four-year-old patient.
The judge barred Le Scouarnec from practicing medicine or having contact with minors. The court also ordered that he be placed on the sex offenders register.
IRREPARABLE HARM
During the trial, Le Scouarnec told the court that he was aware that the harm he had caused was irreparable.
“I owe it to all these people and their loved ones to admit my actions and their consequences, which they’ve endured and will keep having to endure all their lives,” he added.
Maxime Tessier, Le Scouarnec’s lawyer, said his client did not intend to appeal, and hoped to make amends with the victims.
“Today, justice has been served,” Tessier said. The judge said she understood many victims hoped Le Scouarnec would never leave jail, but that the law did not allow her to impose a life sentence.
Emmanuelle Martin was 10 when she was abused by Le Scouarnec. Now 36, she said France needed to change its laws so that repeat offenders like him would never walk free again.
“He only got 20 years,” she told Reuters after the ruling. “In the United States, he would have got thousands of years. It’s unbearable that someone like that can get out.”
The trial took place at a time of reckoning around sex crimes in France after the conviction of Dominique Pelicot, who was found guilty in December of drugging his wife unconscious and inviting dozens of men to their home to rape her.
DECADES OF ABUSE
Victims and their families have publicly asked why local and national health authorities failed to stop Le Scouarnec. In 2005, he was convicted of downloading images of child sexual abuse and received a suspended jail sentence, but managed to continue working in public hospitals.
Several dozen victims and rights campaigners gathered outside the courthouse ahead of the verdict, holding a banner made of hundreds of pieces of white paper with black silhouettes, one for each victim. Some of the papers bore a first name and age, while others referred to the victim as “Anonymous.”
The extent of Le Scouarnec’s abuse was revealed after his re-arrest in 2017 on suspicion of raping his 6-year-old neighbour.
Police discovered electronic diaries that appeared to detail more than two decades of rapes and sexual assaults on young patients in hospitals across the region, as well as a cache of sex dolls, wigs and child pornography.
The trial took place in Vannes, a small town in Brittany.
The local prosecutor, whose office led the investigation into Le Scouarnec, has opened a separate investigation to ascertain if there was any criminal liability by agencies or individuals who could have prevented the abuse.
LONDON – London police on Wednesday arrested five people for trying to disrupt the filming of a movie starring Israeli actress Gal Gadot, a statement said.
Gadot, star of “Wonder Woman” and in “Fast and Furious” is in London to film a new thriller “The Runner.”
She has been criticized by pro-Palestinian groups for expressing her support of Israel since the Gaza war erupted in 2023.
Police said officers were deployed to a “filming location” in Westminster “to identify suspects wanted in connection with offenses at previous film set protests and to deal with any new offenses.”
The arrests were for blocking an access to a place of work. Police said in a statement posted on social media that two of the arrests were for previous protests and three for action carried out Wednesday.
“While we absolutely acknowledge the importance of peaceful protest, we have a duty to intervene where it crosses the line into serious disruption or criminality,” said Superintendent Neil Holyoak in the statement.
“I hope today’s operation shows we will not tolerate the harassment of or unlawful interference with those trying to go about their legitimate professional work in London,” the officer added.
Pro-Palestinian protesters also disrupted a Hollywood ceremony in March when Gadot’s star on the Walk of Fame was unveiled.
GENEVA, May 28 – A huge chunk of a glacier in the Swiss Alps broke off on Wednesday, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock that buried most of a mountain village that had been evacuated due to the risk of a rockslide, authorities said.
One person is currently missing, officials said.
Drone footage broadcast by Swiss national broadcaster SRF showed a vast plain of mud and soil completely covering part of the southwestern village of Blatten, the river running through it and the wooded sides of the surrounding valley.
“We’ve lost our village,” Matthias Bellwald, the mayor of Blatten told a press conference after the slide. “The village is under rubble. We will rebuild.”
Stephane Ganzer, an official in the canton of Valais where Blatten is located, told Swiss media that about 90% of the village was covered by the landslide.
“An unbelievable amount of material thundered down into the valley,” said Matthias Ebener, a spokesperson for local authorities. One person was missing, Ebener said. Officials gave no further details on the person during the press conference.
Officials said millions of cubic metres of rock and soil have tumbled down since Blatten was first evacuated this month when part of the mountain behind the glacier began to crumble, sparking warnings it could bring the ice mass down with it.
A video shared widely on social media showed the dramatic moment when the glacier partially collapsed, creating a huge cloud that covered part of the mountain as rock and debris came cascading down towards the village.
Experts consulted by Reuters said it was difficult to assess the extent to which rising temperatures spurred by climate change had triggered the collapse because of the role the crumbling mountainside had played.
Christian Huggel, a professor of environment and climate at the University of Zurich, said while various factors were at play in Blatten, it was known that local permafrost had been affected by warmer temperatures in the Alps.
The loss of permafrost can negatively affect the stability of the mountain rock which is why climate change had likely played a part in the deluge, Huggel said.
The extent of the damage to Blatten had no precedent in the Swiss Alps in the current or previous century, he added.
The rubble of shattered wooden buildings could be seen on the flanks of the huge mass of earth in the drone footage.
Buildings and infrastructure in Blatten, whose roughly 300 inhabitants were evacuated on May 19 after geologists identified the risk of an imminent avalanche of rock and ice from above, were battered by the rockslide, officials said.
SRF said houses were destroyed in the village nestled in the Loetschental valley in southern Switzerland.
Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter expressed her solidarity with the local population as emergency services warned people the area was hazardous and urged them to stay away, closing off the main road into the valley.
“It’s terrible to lose your home,” Keller-Sutter said on X.
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel had killed Hamas Gaza chief Mohammad Sinwar, one of its most wanted targets and the younger brother of the deceased group’s leader, Yahya Sinwar.
Mohammad Sinwar had been the target of an Israeli strike on a hospital in southern Gaza earlier this month and Netanyahu said on May 21 that it was was likely he had been killed.
“We eliminated Mohammad Deif, (Ismail) Haniyeh, Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Sinwar,” Netanyahu said, confirming the death to the Israeli parliament, known as the Knesset.
“In the last two days we have been in a dramatic turn toward a complete defeat of Hamas,” he said, adding that Israel was also “taking control of food distribution,” a reference to a new aid distribution system in Gaza managed by a US-backed group.
Hamas has yet to confirm his death Sinwar’s death.
Sinwar was elevated to the top ranks of the Palestinian militant group last year after Israel killed his brother Yahya in combat.
Yahya Sinwar masterminded the October 2023 attack on Israel that triggered the war, now in its 20th month, and was later named the overall leader of the group after Israel killed his predecessor Ismail Haniyeh in Iran.
ADEN, Yemen, May 28 – Israeli fighter jets conducted airstrikes on Sanaa International Airport Wednesday morning, destroying the last operational aircraft belonging to Yemenia Airlines, Yemen’s national airline.
Al-Masirah TV, operated by the Houthi group, reported that Israeli warplanes targeted the Sanaa airport’s runway and a Yemenia Airlines plane in four strikes.
Khaled al-Shaief, Houthi-appointed general director of Sanaa International Airport, confirmed the destruction of Yemen’s last remaining commercial aircraft operated by the national airline.
“The Israeli enemy targeted the last Yemenia Airlines’ plane operating at Sanaa International Airport and destroyed it,” al-Shaief wrote on the social media platform X, posting photographs showing the destroyed aircraft engulfed in flames with smoke rising from the airport grounds.
Social media footage captured smoke billowing across Sanaa’s skyline as the Yemenia Airways aircraft burned on the tarmac, with debris scattered across the runway.
Following the bombardment, Yemenia Airlines issued a statement, denouncing the attack and announcing the immediate suspension of all flights from Sanaa International Airport until further notice.
The attack has drawn strong condemnation from the United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, who expressed concern over the escalating military confrontation’s impact on Yemen’s civilian population.
“The ongoing military confrontation between Houthis and Israel is exacerbating an already very fragile situation for Yemen and the region,” said Grundberg on X.
“Attacks on civilian infrastructure, including Sanaa airport in Yemen and Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, are unacceptable.”
The UN envoy emphasized that attacks on the airport would severely impact Yemeni civilians’ ability to travel for essential purposes. “Today’s strike on Sanaa airport and the destruction of a Yemeni civilian aircraft deprives many Yemenis of a critical means to leave the country for medical, educational, family, or religious purposes, especially at a time when thousands are preparing for Hajj,” he said.
Grundberg called upon all parties to “exercise restraint, and uphold their obligations under international law to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure.”
The Houthi group, which controls northern Yemen, including the capital Sanaa, has been conducting attacks against Israeli targets since November 2023 in what it describes as solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. The group has stated it would only cease its military operations if Israel ends its military campaign and blockade of Gaza.
Israel has responded with several major airstrikes against Yemeni targets. Two weeks ago, Israeli forces struck Sanaa International Airport, rendering it temporarily inoperable.
MANILA, May 28 – Two separate house fires in the Philippines’ capital on Wednesday killed a 15-year-old girl and a 78-year-old man and injured two others, the Philippines’ Bureau of Fire Protection said.
The bureau said a fire gutted a house in Taguig City before 7:30 a.m. local time, leaving a girl dead, displacing 10 residents and injuring another woman. Firefighters put out the fire 30 minutes later.
Another fire broke out in Malabon City before 1 p.m. local time, killing an elderly man and injuring another 38-year-old man.
The second fire was also brought under control within half an hour.
Authorities said investigations are ongoing to determine the causes of both fires.
ISLAMABAD, May 28 – Heavy rains and severe thunderstorms wreaked havoc in parts of Pakistan, claiming the lives of at least nine people while injuring more than 40 others, an official said on Wednesday.
An official from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) told Xinhua that the rainstorms also damaged houses, infrastructure and standing crops as well as perished livestock across the country.
The casualties and damages have been reported from the country’s eastern Punjab province, northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, said the official, adding that women and children are among the victims of the rain-related incidents.
In Punjab, at least two people were killed and 25 others injured, and more than 150 incidents of structural collapse were reported after heavy rainfall accompanied by gusty winds caused widespread destruction in the province, said the official.
Similarly, three people were killed and at least 15 others were injured as heavy downpours lashed Haripur, Swabi and Shangla areas of the KP province. More than 15 houses were also partially damaged in the rain-related incidents in the province.
In Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, a sudden cloudburst has left a trail of destruction, killing four people and leaving several people injured and missing, while damaging several properties, said the official.
Earlier, the NDMA has released an advisory regarding erratic weather systems likely to prevail in parts of the country until May 31, saying heavy rains and windstorms may damage loose structures, including electric poles, solar panels and vehicles, advising citizens to avoid unnecessary travel.
The NDMA also advised farmers to manage their crop activities keeping in view the weather conditions during the period.
French President Emmanuel Macron gestures during an agreement signing at the Merdeka Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, May 28, 2025. REUTERS
JAKARTA, May 28 – French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday reaffirmed his wish to see a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict and said there were no double standards in French policy towards the Middle East.
Macron is leaning towards recognising a Palestinian state, diplomats and experts say, a move that could infuriate Israel and deepen Western splits. The French president was speaking in Indonesia.
“Only a political solution will make it possible to restore peace and build for the long term,” Macron said.
“Together with Saudi Arabia, we will soon be organising a conference on Gaza in New York to give fresh impetus to the recognition of a Palestinian state and the recognition of the State of Israel and its right to live in peace and security in this region.”
MADRID, May 28 – At least six people died when a migrant boat bound for Spain’s Canary Islands capsized off the island of El Hierro as rescuers were escorting it to port, regional emergency services said on Wednesday.
The open-topped boat, which according to state broadcaster TVE was laden with around 180 people, went down as it neared La Restinga harbour on El Hierro, the archipelago’s smallest island.
A spokesperson for the islands’ maritime rescue service said a rescue vessel was escorting the boat to the harbour and as it approached, many of its passengers appeared to rush to one side of the precarious vessel, causing it to capsize.
TVE live footage showed the boat sinking, throwing migrants – including children – into the water, with many trying to clamber onto the nearby maritime rescue vessel as its crew tossed life preservers to them.
A medical helicopter was sent to help emergency personnel pluck migrants from the water, the emergency services said.
The number of migrants reaching the Canary Islands from West Africa hit an all-time high in 2024 but the number of arrivals has fallen this year, Interior Ministry data indicate.
The Atlantic route is especially dangerous as rough weather can easily capsize the fragile rafts, dugout-like boats and dinghies used by most migrants.
In the first five months of 2024, 4,808 people died on the Atlantic voyage to the Canaries after departing from Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia, according to migrant rights group Walking Borders.
Pope Leo XIV blesses to the crowd during the weekly general audience at St Peter’s Square at the Vatican on May 28, 2025. (AFP)
VATICAN CITY – Pope Leo appealed on Wednesday for a ceasefire in Gaza, and called on Israel and Hamas militants to “completely respect” international humanitarian law.
“In the Gaza Strip, the intense cries are reaching Heaven more and more from mothers and fathers who hold tightly to the bodies of their dead children,” the pontiff said during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square.
“To those responsible, I renew my appeal: stop the fighting,” said the pope. “Liberate all the hostages. Completely respect humanitarian law.”
Leo, elected on May 8 to replace the late Pope Francis, also appealed for an end to the war in Ukraine.
ROME – Italy’s foreign minister on Wednesday again urged Israel to stop its strikes on Gaza, while warning that expelling Palestinians from the territory “is not and never will be an acceptable option.”
“The legitimate reaction of the Israeli government to a terrible and senseless terrorist act has unfortunately taken on absolutely tragic and unacceptable forms, that we ask Israel to stop immediately,” Antonion Tajani told parliament, referring also to Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel.
“The bombings must stop, humanitarian assistance must resume as soon as possible, respect for international humanitarian law must be restored,” he said.
“Hamas must immediately free all the hostages which are still today in its in hands, and who have the right to return to their homes.”
Tajani also condemned US President Donald Trump’s plan for US control of Gaza and the forced displacement of the Palestinians living there.
“I want to reiterate today in this chamber with the utmost clarity – the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza is not and will never be an acceptable option,” Tajani said.
“This is why we wholeheartedly support the Arab plan led by Egypt for the recovery and reconstruction of the (Gaza) Strip, which is incompatible with any hypothesis of forced displacement.”
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories – Gaza rescuers said sixteen people were killed Wednesday in Israeli strikes across the besieged Palestinian territory where Israel intensified its operations this month.
“Sixteen people have been killed as a result of Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since dawn,” civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal said.
Among them, nine belonged to the family of photojournalist Osama Al-Arbeed and were killed in a strike on their home in Gaza’s north at 2am, Bassal said.
He added that Arbeed was injured, noting that he is a videographer and editor at a local film production organization.
Another six members of the same family were killed in central Gaza in a strike that left 15 people wounded, “including children.”
One other person, a civilian per Bassal, was killed near the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis.
When contacted by AFP, the Israeli military declined to comment on the strikes, saying it could not do so without precise coordinates.
Israel has stepped up its offensive in Gaza this month, aiming for “the defeat of Hamas,” more than 18 months after the group’s October 2023 attack on Israel triggered the war.
Some 1,218 people were killed in that attack, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures.
Militants also took 251 hostages, 57 of whom remain in Gaza, including 34 who the Israeli military says are dead.
