Israel kills 47 in Gaza as ‘difficult’ truce talks continue
US President Donald Trump extends timeframe for a truce, saying there is a “very good chance” of a deal in Gaza this week or next, but Hamas says talks in Qatar have been “difficult” because of Israel’s stubbornness.
Israeli forces intensify air attacks on Gaza, killing at least 47 Palestinians across the enclave since dawn, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera.Israeli forces shoot 5 Palestinians dead near Khan Younis
Five Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces to the northwest of the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, according to sources at Nasser Hospital speaking our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
Districts surrounding Khan Younis are coming under sustained attack as the Israeli military mounts a new incursion in the area.Gaza death toll since dawn rises to 47
At least 47 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn, with the largest death toll recorded in the central city of Deir el-Balah, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera.
The latest killing came in northern Gaza’s Jabalia al-Balad, where at least one person was killed and several injured, according to a source at Gaza City’s Ahli Hospital.More on Israeli drone strike in Deir el-BalahI’m here on one of its busiest streets of Deir el-Balah, where an Israeli drone struck a group of civilians earlier today. The attack took place where people were lining up outside a charity to get food supplements. More than a dozen people were killed, many of them women and children.
Evidence of the strike is all around. This is a small but very deep hole in the ground resulting from the Israeli attack. You can see one of the shoes left by a Palestinian child, a shattered window in a nearby house. There are craters on the wall left by Israeli drone shrapnel.
People here say there was a great deal of panic. You can see blood on the ground, where attempts were made to rescue the victims.
People are terrified. Right now, everyone is left wondering what might come next.Displaced Jenin residents recount their brief return to pack up belongings
After months of relentless Israeli attacks on the Jenin refugee camps in the occupied West Bank, some Palestinian women have been allowed to briefly return, only to pack up their belongings and leave.
After applying for permission from the Israeli military, they were given 40 minutes to pack a lifetime of memories in the al-Hawashin neighbourhood of Jenin.
Nisreen Abu Zeina, a displaced woman from Jenin, said they just wanted to check on the camp and their homes.
“We pray that one day we will be back,” she told Al Jazeera. “We were searched over and over again, but we eventually managed to get to our homes that are still standing. We walked a long distance on destroyed roads, the stench was unbearable. They kept rushing us.”One operational GHF aid site cannot meet Gaza’s needsThe GHF’s announcement that it is suspending operations at a number of its aid distribution sites in Gaza leaves only one site still open. That cannot be enough to meet the needs of hungry Palestinians in Gaza.
It will mean people will be forced to travel to the southern part of the territory in order to get food supplies, and will often return empty-handed after making the long and dangerous journey to Rafah.Amid Israel’s blockade, hungry Palestinians have come to rely on food supplies provided by charitable organisations.
Earlier this morning, at least a dozen Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike while they were waiting for a food supplement to be distributed by a charitable organisation very close to where we are in Deir el-Balah.
Tragically, these kinds of horrific scenes have become routine in Gaza, leading to widespread calls for the resumption of normal flows of aid into the territory to avoid the dangerous, chaotic scenes we’re seeing.
