Israel’s war on Gaza live: Six captives’ bodies found amid ceasefire push
- The Israeli army says that it recovered the bodies of six people taken captive by Hamas from Khan Younis, as the families of the remaining captives demand the government reach a ceasefire deal.
- Hezbollah has attacked military targets in Israel with a large barrage of rockets after the Israeli army carried out intense strikes deep into the country’s Bekaa Valley, far from the border region.
Qassam claims killing Israeli soldiers in Rafah
The armed wing of Hamas says on Telegram that its fighters entered into close clashes with troops, using hand grenades and machine guns.
Three soldiers were killed in the clashes in the Canada Camp in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood, west of the southern city of Rafah, it added.
PRCS recovers two killed in Israeli strikes
The Palestine Red Crescent Society says in a post on X that it transported the bodies of two people killed in an Israeli attack Ain Jalut area of southern Gaza’s Rafa.
It said that it transported the bodies to Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis.
Blinken, Sisi meet in Egypt: Report
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Egypt’s coastal city of El-Alamein, reports Reuters news agency.
During the meeting, Sisi said it is time for an end to the Gaza war, which he warned could spread regionally in a way “difficult to imagine”.
Hamas slams ‘misleading’ US claims about ceasefire status
Hamas has released a new statement rejecting US accusations that it is blocking a ceasefire deal.
In its statement, Hamas said the claim by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that it is backing away from a deal is “misleading”. The group stressed it is eager to reach a deal and remains committed to the US- and UN-backed ceasefire framework put forward in June.
However, the Palestinian group said the latest proposal being pushed by the US and Israel includes new provisions contradicting that earlier framework.
By shifting the terms, the US is showing “blind bias” towards Israel and acquiescing to its demands, Hamas said, enabling it to “commit more crimes against defenseless civilians, in pursuit of the goals of exterminating and displacing our people”.
‘Systematic torture’ at Israel’s Ofer Prison
Palestinians being held in Israel’s Ofer Prison face “systematic torture and humiliation”, alleges the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, citing inmates’ testimonies.
The abuse at this prison is on par with that documented at Israel’s Sde Teiman facility, which has been rocked by allegations its guards raped a Palestinian inmate.
Since October 7, Israel has carried out more than 10,200 arrests in the occupied West Bank and hundreds more in Gaza, often keeping prisoners in custody without charge.
Many of the detainees from Gaza are being held at Ofer Prison, according to the society. In late July, eight of those released from the facility said they experienced torture.
Civil defence says 700 displaced Palestinians sheltered in targeted school
The strike was launched against one of the main evacuation centres on the western side of Gaza City.
According to initial information we managed to obtain from the civil defence, they managed to recover 10 Palestinians who were found killed.
The strike left a great deal of destruction on the buildings of the Mustafa Hafez school that was housing 700 displaced Palestinians, according to the civil defence.
Israel, in the past period, had targeted at least nine evacuation centres only in the north of Gaza.
Emergency workers say they were forced to leave victims under the remnants of these shuttered buildings, because of a lack of essential equipment.
