ISRAEL killed at least another 27 people in Gaza today, not including four Palestinian detainees who died in custody.

The total, reported by Gaza’s Health Ministry as fatalities resulting from direct Israeli military action, does not include either one-month-old Ali al-Batran, who died of hypothermia in Gaza City’s al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital the day after his twin brother froze to death. Ali is the sixth baby to have died from the winter cold amid the ongoing war.

Israel admitted having arrested the director of the Kamal Adwan hospital, the last in northern Gaza, when Israeli troops assaulted it on Friday. A photograph of Dr Hussam Abu Safia striding into the hospital ruins to look for patients or colleagues who had been unable to get out has gone viral, becoming a symbol of Palestinian courage.