An Israeli airstrike targeting a house sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza’s centrally located refugee camp Nuseirat
has killed at least 36 people, a spokesman for the Hamas health ministry said on Saturday.
Following Israel’s security cabinet meeting on Sunday to discuss Doha talks for a likely truce in Gaza, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ordered another military operation in Rafah. Starting with a night raid on Al-Shifa hospital.
Rafah holds most of war-beaten Gaza refugees – being the last major population centre yet to be subjected to a ground assault.
The Spanish aid vessel Open Arms on Saturday finished unloading its cargo of 200 tonnes of desperately needed food for Gazans.
Israeli occupation forces have killed at least 31,553 Palestinians and more than 73,546 wounded since its offensive on Gaza, according to Palestine’s health ministry.
Around 1,140 people were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks and 250 people taken hostage, according to Israeli figures, with 132 still missing.
Prime Minister Netanyahu faces domestic political pressure to secure the release of hostages seized during Hamas’ unprecedented October 7 attack on southern Israel which sparked the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas resistance forces abducted around 250 hostages that day, and Israel believes about 130 remain in Gaza, including 32 presumed dead.