Israeli strikes target homes, shelters and aid facilities
At this moment, the strikes are everywhere, targeting not only homes and apartment buildings but even the tents housing displaced people who have been forcibly uprooted.
We’ve witnessed deliberate attacks on civilian infrastructure and essential facilities. Schools, shelters and distribution points have been hit, as well as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Even more concerning is the targeting of the ICRC facility. This is the second time in just two weeks that the ICRC office in the southern part of Gaza came under direct fire from the Israeli military.
Although these strikes resulted in no casualties, they did cause physical damage. However, these attacks are not isolated to the ICRC. Similar organisations providing vital aid to displaced populations have also been directly targeted.
People gather at the site where Palestinian man Ghassan Asaliya, his wife and all five of their children were killed in an Israeli strike on their tent, according to medics
Hundreds of Israeli veterans sign new petition for halting Gaza war
Israeli media outlet Haaretz is reporting that “hundreds of veterans from the Golani Brigade signed a new petition calling for the return of the captives, even at the cost of halting the war in Gaza”.
Additionally, around 315 graduates of the Israeli army’s infantry and special forces units signed another petition echoing the same demands.
Hamas ready to release all captives in return for an end to war
Hamas’s Gaza chief has said the group is ready to negotiate to swap all captives with an agreed number of Palestinian prisoners within a deal that ends the war.
In a televised speech, Khalil al-Hayya, who leads the Hamas negotiating team for the indirect talks with Israel, said the group refuses an interim truce but is ready to hold talks on a deal whereby Israel ends the war and withdraws its troops from the enclave.
Al-Hayya said interim deals were “a cover” for Netanyahu’s “continued genocide” and claimed it was Hamas’s right to have weapons as long as Israel continued its occupation of Palestinian territory.
Israeli minister says time has come to implement Trump’s Gaza plan
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said Israel would not halt the war before accomplishing a “complete victory” in Gaza, which includes the destruction of Hamas and the return of all captives.
“The time has come to open the gates of hell on Hamas, to deepen the fighting until the complete occupation of the Strip, the elimination of Hamas, and the implementation of President Trump’s plan for the voluntary exit and rehabilitation of Gazans in another country,” he wrote on X. “Mr. Prime Minister, go ahead. Give the order.”
