A spokesman for Hamas’s armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, said about 50 captives had been killed in Gaza due to Israeli strikes.
Israeli ground forces mounted a big raid into Gaza overnight to attack Hamas targets amid growing anger across the Arab world over Israel’s relentless bombardment of the besieged Palestinian enclave.
Gaza’s health ministry said that 7028 Palestinians had now been killed in the retaliatory air strikes, including 2913 children. Palestinians said Israeli air strikes had pounded the territory again overnight and people living in central Gaza, including near the Bureij refugee camp, reported intensive tank shelling all night.As the bloodshed continued with no sign of a let-up, the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Egypt and Morocco condemned the targeting of civilians and violations of international law in Gaza.
“The absence of a political solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has led to repeated acts of violence and suffering for the Palestinian and Israeli peoples and the peoples of the region,” it said.German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said EU leaders meeting in Brussels on Friday will send a clear signal of backing for Israel in what he called its self-defence efforts.Concern also grew over the fate of more than 200 hostages seized by Hamas in the October 7 assault and taken to Gaza.
“Did he kill? Did he wound someone? Did he capture someone? They were innocent children inside their house,” he said.
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