Israel’s war on Gaza live: New Israeli evacuation orders in Khan Younis
- Israeli forces have destroyed two residential towers in Khan Younis where new evacuation orders have been issued, days after displaced Palestinians were permitted to return to the southern Gaza city.
- Medics and survivors of Israel’s attack on a Gaza City school-turned-shelter collected body parts of victims and searched for the missing as world leaders condemned the bombing that killed more than 100 people.
‘Being subjected to dreadfully wrong humiliation and suffering’
Palestinian Maha Freih told Al Jazeera it was her eighth displacement since the war on Gaza began.
“It’s only been a week since I came back home to rebuild it. But I don’t think I’ll ever find my house again,” she said.
“We are being subjected to dreadfully wrong humiliation and suffering. We don’t know where to go. There is no safe place in the whole of the Gaza Strip. Whoever dares to say there is a safe zone is a liar.”
Hani al-Fajm, another displaced Palestinian, said it was the third time he was being displaced in a short period of time, and the sixth since the war began.
“We had just been back home for five days when we were suddenly told to leave again,” he said.
How a Gaza athlete escaped war to fight for his Olympic dream
Mohammed Hamada lost 18kg (40 pounds) in five months, ate animal food to survive, and ultimately left Gaza and his family behind to pursue his dream of competing in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
For him, competing on the world stage is not about fame or glory – it’s about carrying a message of representation. He wants the world to stop and recognise the Palestinians.
Watch the film by Tierney Bonini and Harriet Tatham, which is an intimate journey of determination, resilience, and the courage to dream even in the face of unthinkable adversity.
Iran’s top diplomat pledges ‘legitimate and decisive action’ against Israel
Iran’s Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani reiterated the promise during a phone call with his Belgian counterpart, Hadja Lahbib, saying such action was necessary to defend the country’s “national security, territorial integrity and sovereignty”, according to Iranian media.
Kani spoke with Lahbib on Sunday.
The Iranian diplomat added that Israel “has violated the stability and security of West Asia by targeting a school in Gaza and killing innocent people praying there, attacking a residential area in Beirut, and cowardly assassinating Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran”.
The Belgian minister, in a read-out of her call with Kani, said she expressed “our deepest concern about the risk of regional escalation in the Middle East” and called “on Iran, like all regional players, to exercise the utmost restraint
Horrific testimonies unfold over Israel’s massacre in Gaza City
The extent of the brutality of the attacks on al-Tabin School in Gaza City keeps unfolding with more horrific testimonies.
These are either from the medical staff at al-Ahli Arab Hospital (Baptist Hospital), who were treating the wounded and dealing with a huge influx of injuries arriving, or from the civil defence crews who were at the bombsite after receiving the news of the strikes.
There are stories of remaining family members still searching for their missing children in the attack, who somehow evaporated with no signs of them any more.
The medical staff would describe injuries arriving at the hospital, and admitted right away to the operating theatre for surgeries, removing flesh and bones of other bodies.
They say they had to remove other people’s body parts shredded into pieces and stuck to these wounded people that needed to be operated.
