Israeli forces of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society attacked Al Amal hospital in Khan Younis the previous day.
“We are concerned about the safety of our teams inside Al-Amal Hospital, as well as the wounded and patients, due to the continuous occupation raid on the hospital,” the organisation said.
In the past, he had reported that Israeli forces had attacked the hospital and the PRCS headquarters in Khan Younis for several days, killing at least 43 people.
The IDF said in a statement that it was carrying out a “precise sweep and clean-up operation to locate the terrorists and dismantle nearby terrorist infrastructure” due to intelligence that Hamas is carrying out activities inside the hospital.
Palestinians express their anguish after learning that they will have to leave the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
More than a million people currently live there, many of whom have been displaced from Gaza.
Israel has announced that it will launch a ground offensive to destroy Hamas battalions.
Palestinian Jihan al-Hawajri asks: “What’s left here?
The Israeli military said it is “possible” that Israeli hostage Yossi Sharabi was killed thanks to the movements of its own forces in Gaza.
Hamas announced Mr. Sharabi’s death a few weeks ago, but the Israeli military said today that an investigation had found that the 53-year-old man may have died in the collapse of a building near a road that was being attacked by the Israeli army. army.
Israel’s military said the structure was a “legitimate target” that had been approved according to procedure.
It added it had intelligence an attack on IDF forces was going to be launched from the structure.
Raz Matalon, the brother-in-law of Mr. Sharabi and his brother Eli Sharabi, who remains in Hamas custody, told NBC News that the IDF had informed his family about the developments the day before.
He said Sharabi was a “great man” and that his circle of relatives feared the fighting in Gaza would “put hostages in danger. “
Protesters earlier gathered at a border crossing between Israel and Egypt in an attempt to stop humanitarian aid reaching Gaza.
The crowd waved Israeli flags and chanted slogans over megaphones.
Footage of the moment shared by the protest organization Tzav 9, which called for help to prevent the flow into Gaza until all Israeli hostages have been released.
“For a few weeks now, thousands of Israelis have been marching to the crossings from all over the country saying in a transparent voice, ‘No aid will be delivered until the last kidnapped user returns,'” the organization said, translated through our NBC. News spousal network.
By Diana Magnay, Press Correspondent
Israel appears to have at least agreed to U. S. demands this week that it take mandatory measures to protect civilian life as it plans its next offensive in Rafah.
After a war cabinet meeting last night, the Prime Minister’s Office issued a statement saying it was executing a two-pronged plan to evacuate civilians from the Rafah area, while seeking to eliminate the four Hamas brigades it said were operational. over there. The important thing about this memorandum is the terminology around the operation, which according to Israel will be “massive. “
There is nowhere further south for Gaza’s civilian population to go, beyond breaking open the Rafah crossing and pouring into Sinai. Egypt is adamant that will not happen.
A potentially militant Palestinian presence in Sinai could simply bring the war to Egyptian soil, undermining the hard-won 1979 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. This is the last thing Egypt wants.
So where do Rafah’s residents, who number more than a million, a maximum of whom have been continuously displaced and living in tents, go?
Yes, Israel may evict them further north, but there is little valuable infrastructure for them there, even less than what remains in Rafah. Another evacuation order calls for contingency plans for humanitarian assistance.
Israel does not seem to have any, and the remaining humanitarian agencies in Gaza, which are struggling to feed and provide shelter, even to their own staff, are unable to meet the wishes of the rest. A disastrous scenario is only going to get worse.
We discussed Israel’s call for civilians to evacuate the city of Rafah in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said four Hamas battalions remained in the city and that a ground offensive was needed to “eliminate” them.
These are some of the most recent photographs from Rafah, where Palestinians assess the damage in the aftermath of Israeli airstrikes.
The office of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has rebuked Israel’s plans for a military escalation in Rafah, southern Gaza.
The Palestinian presidency warned that the move was aimed at expelling Palestinians from their lands.
Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered his army to come up with a two-pronged plan to evacuate civilians from the city (the last community where Gazans have sought safe haven) and defeat the remaining Hamas battalions.
Abbas is the head of the Palestinian Authority, which has partial autonomy in the occupied West Bank.
His presidency said he would hold the Israeli government and the United States accountable for the plan’s repercussions.
He asked the UN Security Council to take note “because the fact that [Israel] takes this step threatens security and peace in the region and in the world” and “crosses all red lines. “
Khalid Abo Middain used his hands, a hammer and a small shovel to build his own shelter on the outskirts of a fast-growing refugee camp near Rafah City in southern Gaza, a Sky News reported last month.
The father of three arrived there with his family after fleeing Israel’s war against Hamas four times in three months.
They originally left Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza after the war broke out and are unsure of what remains of their family home.
“I don’t know how things are going, because right now there is no media,” he said, among the rows of makeshift tents.
As concerns continue to grow around the city of Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians are now trying to hide from Israeli bombardment elsewhere, read our analysis on the extent of the refugee camp – which has turned into a tent city – and surrounding devastation:
Meta has gotten rid of Instagram and Facebook accounts controlled at the behest of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
While no major points were provided about its reasoning, Meta said it got rid of the accounts “for violating our policy on harmful organizations and individuals. “
“We allow organizations or Americans who proclaim a violent project or engage in acts of violence to come forward on our platforms,” the policy states.
Your X account is active.
Iran’s U. N. project responded to requests for comment.
Khamenei himself has suffered U. S. sanctions since 2019 during the administration of then-President Donald Trump.
But tension has risen on online platforms for Khamenei in recent years, especially after the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022 sparked mass protests.
Khamenei’s use of Facebook has raised complaints in the past, and the social network has been banned in Iran since 2009, when protests erupted following a disputed presidential election.
Iran began blocking Meta’s Instagram and WhatsApp messaging service after protests over Amini’s death.
Israel’s plans to evacuate civilians from Rafah leave “no position to pass through or get there,” one expert told Sky News.
Former U. S. special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations Frank Lowenstein, who has been involved in negotiations beyond the ceasefire, said he did not believe there was a position for citizens of the southern Gaza city to go.
More than a million people are now in the city and most have arrived after being forcibly evacuated from other areas, he added.
He said, “Now that I ask you to move, where are you going to move?I just don’t think they have a position to go to. “
While Israel appears to be making plans to move toward Rafah beyond Khan Younis, which lies north of the city, despite the “strong” U. S. recommendation not to do so, Lowenstein says frustration is evident within Joe Biden’s administration.
Tension between the United States and Israel
Biden said Israel’s moves in Gaza had been “exaggerated” overnight, in his harshest complaint yet.
“The losses of this project will be catastrophic,” he said of the expected offensive in Rafah.
“Now we’re seeing frustration boil over from management very publicly, like never before. “
He said public disagreements between the United States and Israel may lead Biden’s team to curb its aid and privately threaten to protect the country at the United Nations.
“We’re not quite there yet,” he said. “But they could be heading towards a big fight publicly.”