- Israeli forces continue to pound the Gaza Strip, killing dozens of Palestinians, including 11 people sheltering at a school in Gaza City and four travelling in a car near Deir el-Balah.
- Hundreds of thousands of Israelis take to the streets of Tel Aviv and other cities in Israel, demanding a ceasefire deal after the bodies of six more captives were recovered from Gaza. There is also a general strike taking place across the country.
- In the occupied West Bank, the death toll from Israel’s large-scale raids rose to 29 as the Israeli siege on the Jenin refugee camp entered a sixth day, leaving Palestinians without access to food, water, power or internet.
- At least 40,786 people have been killed and 94,224 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7.
- Hamas official says Netanyahu blocking Gaza ceasefire dealAs we reported earlier, Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya told Al Jazeera that the group has been ready to sign a ceasefire deal for Gaza, but Netanyahu has prevented that from happening.“The last Israeli proposal was presented on May 27. It was presented by the Israeli occupation and adopted by Biden word by word. The US also went to the Security Council and it was adopted there. Hamas welcomed the principles put out by Biden and the decision of the Security Council. We expected an opportunity for an agreement. We agreed to the talks,” said al-Hayya, who leads Hamas’s negotiating team.Yet Israel started to evade any agreement, with Netanyahu imposing new conditions and “falsely” claiming that Hamas had rejected the proposal, al-Hayya said.“In fact, we agreed to Israel’s proposal that was presented on May 29,” he said. “We only sent questions to the mediators who confirmed that all our questions are approved.”
- Gaza death toll risesAt least 40,786 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, Gaza’s Health Ministry announced.Another 94,224 Palestinians have been wounded during the attacks.
- Polio vaccination campaign continues for a second dayReporting from Deir el-Balah, GazaThe polio vaccination campaign is now in its second day. Mobile teams are moving from one tent to another, looking for Palestinian children under the age of 10 to vaccinate them and immunise them against the polio virus.Polio was detected recently by UNICEF inside Deir el-Balah, where we saw the first case of a child was suffering from partial paralysis.But the teams here are also trying to raise the awareness of everyone on the ground so that their children can receive that vaccination.The Health Ministry said on the first day, more than 72,000 Palestinian children received the vaccine and it’s expected more Palestinian children are on the way to receive the vaccination.The bleak reality is that children right now are getting this vaccination in order to have some medical protection, but they cannot have a physical one because of the ongoing, repeated attacks that continue to unfold across the Gaza Strip.