‘Keep watching us being slaughtered’
A woman walking with a group of people fleeing one of the last shelters in northern Gaza tells Al Jazeera that the Israeli military has been “wreaking killing and destruction before the eyes of the whole world”.
“The whole world is watching,” said Eman Abu Amsha, who was carrying a child in her arms. “Keep watching us being slaughtered. What we are going through cannot be described in words.”
She said soldiers have killed or detained any men they’ve seen.
“I am 62. I have been walking for hours and carrying my granddaughter. Destruction, killing, fear and starvation, what else is left? And the whole world is watching in silence.”
Netanyahu says body of captive brought back from Gaza
The Israeli army has brought back from Gaza the body of Itay Svirsky, who was taken captive during the 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel, Netanyahu says. The prime minister said on X that Svirsky was “murdered in captivity” by Hamas in January.
A statement from the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, which represents families of those being held by Hamas, said returning “Itay’s body for proper burial in Israel provides crucial closure for his family”.
At least 10 people killed in Israeli attack on Gaza City
At least 10 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air strike on the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City. Local sources told Wafa news agency that Israeli fighter jets targeted a house belonging to the ad-Dalu family in the neighbourhood.
Since Israel began its war on Gaza last year, at least 44,532 Palestinians have been killed and 105,538 wounded.
One Palestinian detainee dies in Israeli detention
The Prisoners’ Affairs Commission (PAC) and the Palestine Prisoner’s Society (PPS) have reported that a Palestinian detainee has died in Israeli detention.
In a joint news release, the prisoner organisations said that Mohammad Walkid Hussein Ali, 45, was a resident of the Nur Shams refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank and had previously spent about 20 years in Israeli prisons and detention centres.
Ali was detained again by Israeli forces last week.
According to the latest figures from Addameer, the Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, there are currently 10,200 people, including 270 children and 94 women, in Israeli prisons and detention centres. The total includes 3,443 Palestinians placed under “administrative detention”, which allows Palestinians to be detained without charge or trial.
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