Israel keeps pummelling Gaza ahead of Trump-Netanyahu meeting

Several neighbourhoods have been targeted by Israeli forces in Gaza City, with a number of residential buildings flattened or catching fire as the army continues the bombardments of the entire Gaza Strip.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, following the US proposal to stop the war in Gaza.
Israeli forces bulldoze restaurant, fire stun grenades in West Bank raids: Report
Israeli forces have carried out a familiar wave of overnight raids in the occupied West Bank. According to the Wafa news agency, they:

Searched residents’ vehicles and fired stun grenades in the city of ad-Dhahiriya, near Hebron
Severely beat a young man in the town of Idhna
Clashed with local residents while storming the Dheisheh refugee camp, near Bethlehem
Arrested a young man in the Askar refugee camp, near Nablus
Bulldozed part of a restaurant located in the town of ar-Ram, north-east of Jerusalem
Families of Israeli captives pen letter to Trump ahead of Netanyahu meeting
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, a group representing the relatives of Israeli captives held in Gaza, has written a letter to the US president in advance of his meeting with the Israeli PM later today, urging him to secure a deal for their release.

“All the hostages should have been released right when you came into office, just as you boldly demanded – yet here we are still fighting for freedom,” they said. “We pray that this deal [to stop the war in Gaza] comes to fruition and that this ordeal will soon be coming to an end.”

The letter also criticised Israel’s renewed offensive in Gaza, contrasting it with Trump’s claim that he wants to end fighting.

“Your dual focus on ending the war and bringing all 48 hostages home stands in stark contrast to the expanded war that Israel is currently conducting,” they said.