- At least 150 people have been killed in two days of intense air strikes on Gaza, including at least 73 people reported killed throughout Friday and 77 confirmed killed on Thursday.
- Amnesty International said Israel’s detention of Kamal Adwan Hospital director Dr Hussam Abu Safia is emblematic of the “genocidal intent” in Israel’s broader attempts to “annihilate” Gaza’s healthcare sector.
- As talks resume in Qatar, senior Hamas official Basem Naim said the Palestinian group is serious about a ceasefire deal, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, and returning the enclave’s population to their homes.
- UN human rights chief Volker Turk said the world body has recorded 136 Israeli attacks on 27 health facilities in Gaza, causing “significant death and destruction”.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 45,658 Palestinians and wounded 108,583 since October 7, 2023. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day and more than 200 were taken captive.
- Israeli attack ‘flattened’ home in north Gaza with ‘an entire family inside’Reporting from Deir el-Balah, Gaza StripIn another attack on a residential home in the central part of the al-Mawasi “safe zone” – that’s a residential home in the middle of a tent site – seven members of a family were critically injured and were transferred to Nasser Hospital.Two more people were killed in a drone strike as they were walking down the road to their residential home in the central part of Khan Younis city.In Gaza City, civil defence crews, as of the early hours of this morning, managed to pull out three more bodies from under rubble – that was a man, his wife, and the third was the fetus of the woman who happened to be pregnant. That was her unborn baby.Other civil defence members are quite busy at this moment, we heard it from our sources in Gaza City, trying to remove a huge pile of rubble in the eastern part of the city where one residential home was bombed and completely flattened while a whole, entire family was still inside.The situation in northern Gaza continues to remain very challenging and difficult, particularly for those trapped in both the Indonesian Hospital and the al-Awda Hospital.The Israeli military issued a very sharp warning, demanding the immediate evacuation for those staying in these two health facilities, but not giving clear instructions of where to go and how to evacuate.
- Hamas claims attacks on Israeli tanks, helicopterHamas’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades, says it destroyed four Israeli Merkava tanks in Gaza, and targeted a fifth in the Strip’s Jabalia area.The group also claimed responsibility for firing a rocket towards an Israeli helicopter.
Footage shows vehicle destroyed in Israeli attack in southern GazaAs we have been reporting, the Israeli military has attacked a vehicle near Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing at least five people, according to the Palestinian Civil Defence and Al Jazeera’s correspondent on the ground.Footage from the incident shows the aftermath of what is believed to be an Israeli drone strike, which destroyed the vehicle.Latest reports suggest the men inside were members of a private security firm, with the Quds News Network describing the occupants as “aid security personnel”.We will bring you more information when we have it. - Israeli attack deliberately targets Gaza aid convoy security guardsReporting from Deir el-Balah, Gaza StripThe attacks continued until the early hours of this morning. The latest strike that targeted an empty residential home in the city of Deir el-Balah was at about 4am.We know from our sources and witnesses that this residential home was warned in the past but it was not until the early hours of this morning that it was bombed by a fighter jet.Throughout the night, attacks continued to be carried out across the city of Khan Younis, where there were three separate attacks.One was on a privately owned vehicle by a private security company carrying five security personnel. It was struck by a drone missile.This particular vehicle and the staff inside was tasked with securing the delivery of commercial and humanitarian trucks to designated points.This is a pattern that we’ve seen in the past few months where security personnel and those who volunteer from the local community are targeted and killed deliberately in what seems to be an attempt by the Israeli military to create a further power vacuum and throw the entire Gaza Strip into mayhem and the chaos of lawlessness.
- International community must stop Israel’s closure of last hospitals in north Gaza: PHRIThe destruction of the health system in northern Gaza will be total if Israel is permitted to evacuate the last two remaining operational medical centres, Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) said.In a statement on social media, the group said that if the Indonesian Hospital and al-Awda Hospital are forced to closed by Israel’s military, “there will be no medical centres left in northern Gaza”.“Israel is persistently destroying civilian infrastructure across the region and forcibly displacing the entire Palestinian population in violation of international law,” PHRI said.“We call on all international actors to intervene immediately and halt Israel’s ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza,” it added.
- Israel to tell US it will not withdraw from Lebanon after 60 days: ReportIsrael is expected to convey a message to the US that it will not withdraw military forces from Lebanon after the 60-day period agreed in its ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority reports.Israel will claim that the Lebanese army is not adhering to the terms of the ceasefire agreement, by deploying too slowly to areas in southern Lebanon, and that Hezbollah is trying to reorganise, the broadcaster said.
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