Israel war on Gaza updates: 28 killed in 24 hours in Gaza – Health Ministry

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• The Health Ministry in Gaza says 28 people have been killed in the past day in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, as the army carries out raids on Nuseirat and Gaza City.
• A stabbing attack at a mall in the northern Israeli city of Karmiel has killed one soldier and injured another. Israeli media has named the attacker as a man from an Israeli town where many Palestinian citizens of Israel live.
• Hamas says its leader, Ismail Haniyeh, has held talks with Qatari and Egyptian mediators around ideas to reach a deal to end the war in Gaza.
• Israel has transferred 435 million shekels ($116m) of withheld tax revenue to the Palestinian Authority, the first such transfer since April, the Israeli and Palestinian finance ministries have said.
• An Israeli attack on Tyre in southern Lebanon has killed a Hezbollah commander. In response, the Lebanese group said it fired “100 Katyusha rockets” at two Israeli positions in the occupied Golan Heights.

Israeli forces have stormed Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank, arresting a young Palestinian, the Wafa news agency is reporting.

The raid comes after several Palestinians and an Israeli soldier have been killed in recent days in Tulkarem and the neighbouring Nur Shams refugee camp.

The United States’ largest Muslim civil rights organisation has condemned US President Joe Biden’s unconditional support for Israel, saying its military “is committing genocide, starving innocent civilians, and engaging in ethnic cleansing [and] land theft”.

“We are at a loss for words to describe the depravity unfolding every day before our eyes,” the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) said in a statement on X.

“The Biden administration’s policies are endangering world peace, human rights, and American national interests and security.”

Students at the University of Toronto have cleared out an encampment ahead of a court-ordered deadline to leave.

The move came a day after the Ontario Superior Court of Justice granted the university an injunction to tear down the encampment, and gave Toronto police the authority to remove and arrest anyone who did not comply with the 6pm (22:00 GMT) deadline, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported.

It quoted Mohammad Yassin, an encampment organiser, as saying: “We refuse to give the Toronto Police Service any opportunity to brutalise us.”

“We are leaving on our own terms to protect our community from the violence the University of Toronto is clearly eager to unleash upon us,” Yassin told reporters ahead of the deadline

“Let us be clear – the university will disclose its investments, divest from companies profiting from Palestinian suffering and deaths, and cut ties with academic institutions tied to the Israeli war machine. The question is not if, but when,” he added.

The encampment was set up on May 2, after students on campuses across North America set up similar sit-ins to demand their schools divest from companies profiting from Israel’s offensive in Gaza.

The Israeli forces have stormed the occupied West Bank town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, the Palestinian Wafa news agency has reported.

Separately, the agency also said clashes broke out following raids in the towns of Aqraba and Sebastia in the Nablus governorate.

Let’s bring you up to speed with some of the latest developments:

• Hamas says its leader, Ismail Haniyeh, has held talks with Qatari and Egyptian mediators around ideas to reach a deal to end the war in Gaza.
• Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency has issued a statement saying it is studying Hamas’s response to a proposal that would include a captives release deal and ceasefire in Gaza.
• The Association of Families of Israeli Prisoners Detained in Gaza has told Netanyahu to accept a deal to bring back their relatives held in Gaza or face street protests.
• The Israeli military has raided a five-storey building near Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, spreading panic among Palestinians who had relocated to the area after leaving the eastern part of the city following an Israeli evacuation order.
• The Lebanese group Hezbollah has said in a statement that it fired “100 Katyusha rockets” at two Israeli positions in the occupied Golan Heights after an Israeli attack in south Lebanon killed one of its senior commanders.

The European Union has condemned the planned legalisation of five Israeli settlement outposts and the announcement of thousands of new housing units in the occupied West Bank, according to a statement by the office of the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell.

“Israel’s policy of building settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories constitutes a serious violation of international law, exacerbates tensions, and undermines efforts to achieve a two-state solution,” the statement said.

“The EU will not recognise changes to the 1967 borders unless agreed by the parties.”

It added that the EU “firmly condemns the continued policies of dispossession implemented in the occupied West Bank by the current Israeli government” and that “ongoing efforts aiming at establishing facts on the ground and risking to lead to a de-facto annexation must stop”.

The US Central Command says it destroyed two Iranian-aligned Houthi radar sites in Yemen and two unmanned surface vessels (USVs) in the Red Sea.

“It was determined the radar sites and USVs presented imminent threats to U.S., coalition forces, and merchant vessels in the region”, CENTCOM said in a statement on X. “This action was taken to protect freedom of navigation and make international waters safer and more secure.”

The Houthi group has launched drones and missiles at shipping in the Red Sea since November 19 in response to Israel’s military operations in Gaza. The US and the UK have launched multiple rounds of air raids against the Houthis since their attacks began.

The Israeli military has announced the death of another soldier during fighting in the Gaza Strip.

Army spokesperson Daniel Hagari identified the soldier as Elie Elisha Lugsi. He added that three others have been wounded.

He said those wounded were taken to a hospital for treatment.

According to the army, the number of troops killed since the beginning of the war on October 7 has risen to 676, including more than 300 in ground battles that started on October 27.

The Association of Families of Israeli Prisoners Detained in Gaza has told Netanyahu in a statement that the prime minister must accept a deal to bring back their relatives held in Gaza or face street protests.

The group said it would not allow the government to obstruct reaching an exchange deal again and that millions of Israelis would take to the streets if one is not reached.

The European Hospital in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis has been put out of service after Israeli forces bombarded several areas there and issued a new evacuation order for the embattled city.

Medical personnel were forced to evacuate what was left of devices and equipment, as well as sick and wounded patients, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.

Medical equipment have been transferred to Nasser Hospital, about eight kilometers (five miles) west of Khan Younis, which has partially resumed operations after it came under siege and repeated attacks by Israeli forces months ago.

Gaza’s health ministry said only 15 out of 36 hospitals in Gaza are now partially operational.

The World Health Organisation has repeatedly warned that the amount of medical supplies entering Gaza is insufficient to sustain the health response, and that all planned medical evacuations remain halted.

Hamas says it has “exchanged some ideas” with mediating parties with the aim of stopping the “aggression against our people”.

The group did not provide details in its statement, which it published on its official Telegram channel.

The announcement comes as Israel said it is evaluating Hamas’s response to a ceasefire proposal that would include the release of captives and a ceasefire in Gaza.

Approximately nine in every 10 people in the Gaza Strip have been displaced at least once since Israel’s assault on the besieged enclave began, the UN humanitarian agency says.

Andrea De Domenico, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said, “At the moment, we estimated that nine out of every 10 people in Gaza Strip had been internally displaced at least once, if not up to 10 times, unfortunately, since October.”

“Out of the current Gaza population, we also estimate that 1.9 million are internally displaced multiple times,” he said, speaking to reporters at a briefing from occupied East Jerusalem.

De Domenico also noted the difficulties involved in delivering much-needed aid to Palestinians in Gaza, saying that this remains to be “a daily struggle”.

“Literally, we have to make gigantic efforts to sustain some lifeline of our services,” he said. “Nowhere and no one is safe in Gaza.”

Negotiations had for some time been at a standstill. Tonight, Israeli officials say they are approaching the news that the Mossad is evaluating a Hamas response to a ceasefire deal with cautious optimism.

At the end of May, Israeli officials had laid out to mediators what they were looking for in a deal. On May 31, US President Joe Biden gave a speech in which he outlined a three-phase plan to end the war.

In the following weeks, on June 11, Hamas had given their own response to that deal. It was slammed, with Israel and the United States saying that they had removed key elements.

On June 24, Netanyahu told Israeli media that he was willing to come up with a partial deal that would see the release of only some of the captives. But later, he told the Israeli parliament that he was committed to the plan outlined by the Biden administration.

Now both sides are saying there is a willingness to reach a deal, but some sources say there are still going to be major obstacles.

What has changed is that perhaps the Israelis themselves are looking to come to the table because the Israeli population is increasingly frustrated with Netanyahu’s governance.

Gaza’s health ministry says its teams managed to pull out an injured Palestinian man who had been stuck for more than three weeks in Rafah’s Tal as-Sultan area.

In a statement, the ministry said the man had sustained wounds 22 days ago, without providing more details.

Medics and civil defence crews have been struggling to reach areas that had been subject to Israeli bombardment due to a lack of adequate supplies and destroyed roads and infrastructure.

Thousands of Palestinians remain stuck under the rubble as Israel’s assault on the enclave continues.

The Palestinian Red Crescent says it transported the bodies of four slain Palestinians following an Israeli attack on a home in Gaza City.

It said it also transported one person who sustained injuries.

Several Palestinians have suffered from tear-gas inhalation after the Israeli military raided the West Bank villages of Odla and Ytma, south of Nablus, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

Israeli soldiers fired live and rubber bullets, stun grenades and tear gas as clashes broke out, causing a number of injuries, the agency said.