Israel's war on besieged Gaza, now in its 219th day, has killed at least 35,034 people — 70 percent of them babies, children and women — and wounded over 78,755.
Israel's war on besieged Gaza, now in its 219th day, has killed at least 35,034 people — 70 percent of them babies, children and women — and wounded over 78,755.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said Israel lacks a"credible plan" to protect some 1.4 million Palestinian civilians in Rafah and warns that an Israeli attack could create an insurgency in the southern Gaza city.
"Hamas has taken a truly critical step towards a permanent ceasefire. The response of the Netanyahu administration, however, was to attack the innocents in Rafah," said Erdogan during his speech at the World Muslim Scholars Consultation Summit in Istanbul. It also urged all countries"to sever relations with the occupation, isolate it internationally, and seek to bring its leaders to accountability over their systematic crimes against children and people in the Gaza Strip."
The two commanders met amid the Israeli army's ongoing assault on Gaza, with the Health Ministry in the besieged enclave stating that the Palestinian death toll from the ongoing offensive has risen to 35,034 since last October.Hamas criticised US President Joe Biden for linking a Gaza ceasefire to the release of Israelis held captive by the Palestinian group.
"The Israeli authorities continue to issue forced displacement orders also known as 'evacuation orders'. This is forcing people in Rafah to flee anywhere and everywhere," Philippe Lazzarini said on X. "The latest evacuation orders affect close to a million people in Rafah. So where should they go now? There is no safe place in Gaza!" Volker Turk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said in a statement., Gerapetritis said:"We made it clear from the beginning that Israel has a right to self-defence within the limits of international law and especially humanitarian law.
“The direct and deliberate Israeli targeting of civil defence crews prevents us from reaching some of the targeted places in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City," spokesman Mahmoud Basal toldHe said the teams were unable to reach 16 members of a family who were trapped under the rubble of a house in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood.
In response, the National Security Council claimed Hamo had expressed his intention to step down several months ago, citing"personal reasons unrelated to public matters."Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is making late German dictator Adolf Hitler “jealous” with his methods of"genocide" in Gaza.
The bodies and injured were shifted to the Kuwaiti Hospital in the city home to 1.4 million people taking refuge from the war in Gaza.Britain's foreign minister David Cameron has said Israel should not carry out an offensive in the Gazan city of Rafah without a"clear plan" to protect people. Meanwhile, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said a 16-year-old was also injured by Israeli forces during the raid.UN chief calls for 'immediate' Gaza ceasefire, hostage release
Witnesses said Israel had carried out strikes in Rafah near the crossing with Egypt on Saturday, and images showed smoke rising over the city.An uncrewed aerial system was launched from a Houthi-controlled area of Yemen into the Gulf of Aden on Friday, with no injuries or damage reported by US coalition, or commercial ships, US Central Command has said.
Addressing protesters, Lapid said Israel is in difficult days and the country needs most for Netanyahu"to be out of our lives." "There is no safe space for civilians in Gaza," it noted, calling for Israel to cease the ground attack.
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