A/HRC/28/78 testimony and information pertaining to the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. He is also grateful for the full cooperation extended to him during the mission by the Government of the State of Palestine and for the assistance given by the Governments of Egypt and Jordan. 6. The report begins by addressing the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip and the impact of the latest round of violence between Israel, on the one hand, and Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups, on the other, from 7 July to 26 August 2014. The information recorded and provided by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) showed that 2,256 Palestinians were killed, of whom 1,563 were civilians, including 538 children.3 The numbers speak volumes about the scale of the devastation, but statistics alone cannot do justice to the intensity of human suffering or explain the impact that the conflict will have on Palestinians living in Gaza for months and years to come. It is hoped that the information and testimonies received by the Special Rapporteur will provide a glimpse of the human narrative of those two tragic months and illuminate some of the challenges and problems that lie ahead, particularly with regard to health and education in Gaza. 4 7. In the present report, the Special Rapporteur will also address a number of equally important issues of serious concern affecting human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and make a number of recommendations to the Government of Israel. 8. The present report is not an exhaustive account of the impact of Israeli occupation policies and practices on the rights of Palestinians that were brought to the attention of the Special Rapporteur. Indeed, there is a long list of pressing human rights issues that merit attention: from the expansion of settlements to settler violence; discriminatory policies in East Jerusalem; and the involvement of businesses in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, to name but a few. The Special Rapporteur intends to address these and other issues in future reports. However, as a starting point, the Special Rapporteur has placed most weight on the accounts he heard directly from the victims of the recent hostilities, and hopes to narrate faithfully the ordeal of those who lived through the traumatic 51 days of conflict, focusing in particular on the impact of children, who account for more than half the population of 1.8 million people in Gaza and represent the future of Palestine. 9. On a final introductory note, the Special Rapporteur reiterates that it is in Israel’s own interest to grant the mandate holder full and unconditional access to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. 5 The Special Rapporteur continues to believe that the engagement of Israel would contribute to the effective and even-handed implementation of the mandate. Cooperation with the mandate would be a manifestation of the responsibility of a Member State to respect and protect human rights. 3 4 5 4 erification of data continues. In the present report, the Special Rapporteur will not consider individual incidents of alleged international law violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory in the context of military operations conducted since 13 June 2014, which a commission of inquiry was tasked to do by the Human Rights Council in its resolution S-21/1. The request to enter Israel was made in order to meet with relevant Israeli authorities to discuss the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The Special Rapporteur is not mandated to investigate the situation of human rights in Israel.