Almost 25,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the current war began, the Hamas-controlled Health Ministry reported on Saturday. The ministry put the figure killed since October 7 at 24,927, with a further 62,388 injured, a rise in the number of injured of 280 since the previous day. The humanitarian situation remained catastrophic, as a result of the destruction and lack of provision, the UN’s humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, posted on X in the early hours of Saturday. Many of the 1.7 million internally displaced persons were living under plastic in wintry conditions. Diarrho…