Israel's war on Gaza, now in its 214th day, has killed at least 34,789 Palestinians — 70 percent of them babies, children and women — and wounded over 78,204 while some 10,000-plus Palestinians are feared buried under debris of bombed homes.
Israel's war on Gaza, now in its 214th day, has killed at least 34,789 Palestinians — 70 percent of them babies, children and women — and wounded over 78,204 while some 10,000-plus Palestinians are feared buried under debris of bombed homes.A senior Hamas official said that a delegation from the Palestinian group was due to leave for Gaza truce talks in Cairo, warning it would be Israel's"last chance" to release its hostages.
In a post on social media platform X, spokesperson Oncu Keceli said Israel's operation came"amid such a positive development towards ending the destruction and massacre in Gaza," and said the status quo in Rafah and the border crossing must be restored without further delay. "The closure of the Rafah crossing prevented the entry of medicine, medical equipment and fuel needed for hospitals," the ministry said in a statement.
Speaking on Monday, Al Jazeera English news director Salah Negm said the network would"follow every legal path," adding:"If there is a possibility of challenging that decision we are going to pursue it until the end." The UN human rights office said there are"strong indications" that Israel's forced displacement of people from the southern Gaza city of Rafah, under threat of Israeli attacks, is"being conducted in violation of international law."
"1.3 million people have fled to Rafah to seek shelter from Israeli bombs and attacks. They are crammed together in extremely poor conditions, with aid organisations struggling to help them," Amnesty's Denmark chapter said on X.Norway has called for an urgent ceasefire in Gaza, warning against an Israeli ground offensive in Rafah in southern Gaza.
The spokesman pointed to the lack of a safe zone in Gaza as a major problem, saying:"This leads to a lot of complexities when you deliver your humanitarian aid." “Israel, the day after Hamas approved the ceasefire proposal of Qatar and Egypt, carried out a ground attack on Rafah, adding yet another war crime to its record in Palestinian territories since Oct. 7,” said Cevdet Yilmaz on X.
"If no fuel comes in for a prolonged period of time it would be a very effective way of putting the humanitarian operation in its grave," he added.China has urged Israel to"stop attacking Rafah", after the Israeli army said it took"operational control" of the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt.
"The Rafah offensive has started again, in spite all the requests of the international community, the US, the European Union member states, everybody asking Netanyahu not to attack", Josep Borrell told journalists. The Israeli military statement said that it tried to intercept the drone, but failed leading to the killing of two soldiers and the injury of another.Human Rights Watch has said an Israeli strike in Lebanon that killed seven first responders was"an unlawful attack on civilians", and urged Washington to suspend weapons sales to Israel.
The latest bombardment was immediately condemned by neighbour Jordan which accused Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu of jeopardising the truce dealThe Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt has been closed on the Palestinian side because of the presence of Israeli tanks, the spokesperson of the Gaza border authority.US President Joe Biden and Jordan’s King Abdullah II have discussed the latest situation in Gaza, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said.
Earlier on Monday, Israel's War Cabinet decided to push ahead with a military invasion in Rafah, after Hamas announced its acceptance of an Egyptian-Qatari proposal for a ceasefire deal.Israel carried out air strikes in Rafah and told Palestinians to flee from the city where more than 1.5 million people uprooted by the seven-month war are crowded together.
"The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement sent on Monday to the mediators a response to their proposals that they put forward to Israel and the movement regarding the truce," Majed bin Mohammed Al-Ansari, the official spokesperson for the Qatari Foreign Ministry, said in a statement.
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