Israeli military claims to have targeted Hamas commander in al-Mawasi strike
The Israeli military claims that its recent strike in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, which killed five people, including two children, targeted a Hamas commander and was a response to reported clashes between Palestinian fighters and Israeli soldiers in Rafah earlier today.
Wafa, the Palestinian news agency, says that dozens of people were wounded in the strikes, in addition to those killed.
The attacks caused the burning of several tents housing displaced Palestinians, and medical sources at the Kuwaiti Hospital, which initially reported the casualties to our team on the ground, told Wafa that the bodies of those killed arrived badly charred.
Hamas calls Israel’s strike on al-Mawasi a ‘war crime’
Hamas has released a statement in which it said Israel’s bombing of tents housing displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis was “a war crime” and demonstrated “disregard” for the ceasefire agreement.
It demanded that the mediators and guarantors of the ceasefire agreement “restrain” the Israeli military and not allow the Israeli PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, to evade the agreement.
Phase two of ceasefire will happen ‘pretty soon’, says Trump
The US president, in response to a question about phase two of the Gaza ceasefire deal, said, “Phase two is moving along, it’s going to happen pretty soon”.
At the news conference held in the White House, he referred to “a problem” today in which a bomb that “had just gone off” had injured some people and possibly killed others without providing further details.
However, he said that “we have peace in the Middle East” and that there is “tremendous” support for the ceasefire deal.
Yeah it's so peaceful in the Middle East... What bomb is he referring to? That wasn't in any of the details. Slip of the tongue?







