Israel’s war on Gaza live: 7 killed in attack on school shelter
- At least seven people killed and many wounded in Israeli bombing of the Kafr Qasim School in al-Shati Refugee Camp housing hundreds of displaced people.
- Israel’s military launched 400 attacks on Lebanon on Saturday and Hezbollah fired rockets at the Ramat David base near the city of Haifa, in their largest exchange of fire since the war on Gaza began.
Qassam Brigades claims attack on Israeli bulldozer in Rafah
The armed wing of Hamas says its fighters hit a D9 military bulldozer of the Israeli army with an anti-armour shell.
This is the first of two attacks claimed by Qassam Brigades in the Gaza Strip today, with the group saying it took place in the ash-Shawka area east of the city of Rafah in southern Gaza. It added that its fighters also hit Israeli soldiers with an explosive device in the same area.
On Saturday, the group claimed to have hit another bulldozer in a neighbourhood in eastern Rafah, and said its fighters hit two houses where Israeli soldiers were holed up. The houses were hit with antipersonnel and anti-fortification shells, Hamas said, inflicting deaths.
Lebanon’s health ministry says three killed in Israeli attacks
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says three people have been killed in Israeli strikes on the southern part of the country.
Hezbollah has confirmed two of its fighters killed today.
Former Mossad chief says Netanyahu chooses ‘revenge’ over captives: Report
A former head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service has accused Netanyahu’s government of prioritizing revenge over the lives of Israeli captives still held in Gaza, according to a report.
Tamir Pardo, a director of Mossad between 2011 and 2016, said the government should have accepted Hamas’s offer for a prisoner swap on October 8, 2023.
“Israel, however, chose revenge. It knew that the captives could not all be freed through a military offensive,” Pardo said in an interview with Israeli news outlet Srugim, adding that Israel was aware that captives would be killed in ongoing attacks on Gaza.
“However, the government was not bothered … Instead of pursuing revenge, the government should have reached a deal to secure the captives’ release first and then pursued military objectives,” the former chief told the outlet.
Palestine ministry calls for implementing UNGA resolution after raid on Al Jazeera bureau
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has called for ending the illegal Israeli occupation of the West Bank after Israeli armed forces stormed the Al Jazeera bureau in Ramallah.
The ministry said the UN General Assembly resolution last week that set a 12-month deadline for ending the occupation and was backed by 124 of the 193-member assembly must be implemented to halt the “series of violations of international law and treaties that protect the freedom of media and journalism”.
“This barbaric incursion is part of the occupation army’s and settler militias’ armed aggression on the entire occupied West Bank. It aims to annul the agreements signed with the Palestinian side and commit further crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem,” it said in a statement.
Tents flooded by rainwater in Gaza
Footage and images from the Gaza Strip show that rainfall is presenting a challenge to forcibly displaced Palestinians again as the war approaches the end of its first year.
Many of the dilapidated tents and makeshift shelters used by Palestinians have been flooded by rainwater.
