At least 49 Palestinians, including eight aid seekers, have been killed and 262 others injured in Israeli attack across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
US President Donald Trump has held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, with both leaders touting their controversial proposal to push besieged Palestinians into neighbouring countries.
Their meeting comes as Israeli negotiators and Hamas held indirect talks in Qatar for a ceasefire in Gaza.
The Houthis in Yemen have damaged a second ship in as many days in the Red Sea, targeting a vessel with rocket-propelled grenades.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 57,575 people and wounded 136,879, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023 attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.
At least 54 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks carried out since dawn in various parts of the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera.
The delegations from Hamas and Israel are in Doha for the indirect talks mediated by Qatar, Majed al-Ansari, spokesman for Qatar’s Foreign Ministry, says.
Senior Hamas official Abdul-Karim Hanini says Israel has killed six freed Palestinian prisoners in an attack on Gaza, calling it evidence of Israel’s continued “policy of revenge and systematic killing against those who resisted”.
The Israeli army’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, has issued the latest forced evacuation order for civilians living in nine areas in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
The Israeli army confirms its forces were behind yesterday’s attack in southern Lebanon’s Deir Kifa town that it said killed Hezbollah commander Ali Abd al-Hassan Haidar. One more Hezbollah fighter was killed soon after in the country’s Beit Lif area, it added without elaborating on the name of the victim.
The Palestinian Education Ministry says at least 18,243 students and staff members, including teachers, have been killed and 31,643 wounded in Gaza and the occupied West Bank since Israel began its war in October 2023.
