Gaza children wounded in Israel attacks allowed medical care abroad
- The World Health Organization says 50 Palestinians in need of medical care abroad will be let through the newly reopened Rafah border crossing.
- The armed wing of Hamas, Qassam Brigades, says three captives – Ofer Kalderon, Keith Siegel and Yarden Bibas – will be freed tomorrow in Gaza.
Israeli forces storm wedding in Hebron, detain groom
The Israeli military has stormed a wedding hall in Hebron causing panic among the guests, the Wafa news agency reports.
Videos from the scene show Israeli soldiers in fatigues arresting the groom, who was detained for about an hour before being released, according to Palestinian media reports.
Israel to release 183 Palestinian prisoners on Saturday
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Media Office has issued a new statement saying 183 prisoners will be released on Saturday. They are:
- 18 prisoners serving life sentences
- 54 prisoners serving long sentences
- 111 prisoners from the Gaza Strip arrested after October 7, 2023
“The updated number of prisoners to be released tomorrow is 183,” Amani Sarahneh, spokeswoman for the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society advocacy group, said after previously announcing 90 prisoners would be released from Israeli jails.
Is the US sending $50m in condoms to Gaza as Trump claims?
Trump has boasted that his administration had stopped $50m in bomb-making condoms from being sent to Gaza.
Trump provided no evidence for his claims – that condoms were being sent to Gaza or that Hamas is using contraceptives to make bombs – and left many people wondering what the US president was talking about.
Trump, Netanyahu to meet twice in Washington: Report
Netanyahu is expected to meet US President Donald Trump twice in Washington on Tuesday, once for a work meeting and then for an informal dinner, according to a report by Axios.
The American news website said the work meeting would take place around noon Eastern Time (17:00 GMT) and then the two leaders would meet again with their spouses for dinner.
The meeting is set to take place during a fragile six-week ceasefire that has brought a temporary pause to 15 months of fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
Enormous ‘moral weight’ for doctors deciding which patients to evacuate
James Smith, an emergency physician and global health expert, spoke with Al Jazeera about the enormous challenges facing healthcare workers in Gaza as they evaluate which of tens of thousands of patients in need of urgent care should be prioritised for evacuation.
“The number of people who are in need, currently, of medical evacuation outside of Gaza numbers in the tens of thousands,” Smith said. “The process of prioritising which patients most urgently need evacuation is an almost impossible task. The moral weight of having to make those very difficult choices is incredibly difficult for the people working within the healthcare system that are managing this process.”
Smith added, “There are thousands of people who should be in that first cohort of individuals to be evacuated, but as things currently stand the maximum number of people who we believe are going to be able to move across the Rafah crossing numbers to about 250 people per day.”
“At that rate, it would take several months simply to process, from a logistical point of view, the number of individuals that currently need evacuation.”
Attacking nuclear sites would be big mistake: Iran
We reported earlier that Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, spoke with Al Jazeera after meeting Qatari officials.
In the interview, he warned Israel and the United States that launching a military attack on Iranian nuclear facilities would be “one of the biggest historical mistakes the US could make”.
Iran would respond “immediately and decisively” and that would lead to an “all-out war in the region”, Araghchi said.
