Four people have been reported killed and nine injured in an Israeli attack on a residential apartment in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood and a mother and her child were killed in a separate attack on an apartment in the city’s Yarmourk area, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

An Israeli attack drone killed a Palestinian and injured two others when it targeted a group of civilians on Old Gaza Street in Jabalia city in the north of the territory, the Wafa news agency reports.

Air strikes have also hit Gaza City’s Remal and Zeitoun neighbourhoods overnight and Israeli artillery continued to pound the Nuseirat refugee camp as well as other locations in central Gaza, including the Yaban refugee camp.

Israeli naval ships stationed off Gaza were reportedly pounded on the northern coast of the territory, Wafa says.

The news agency also reports that Israeli ground forces blew up buildings in Jabalia and several areas in the north of the territory as well buildings in the as-Salam neighbourhood, east of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip.

_{A smoke plume rises during Israel’s bombardment of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday}

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Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic have obtained and verified video clips showing members of the Qassam Brigades – the military wing of Hamas – carrying out daring attacks against Israeli tanks and bulldozers in the ongoing battle for Rafah city.

In one video, Palestinian fighters can be seen emerging from a tunnel in the earth nearby to parked Israeli tanks. The fighters rush towards the tanks with what appear to be antitank mines, which they prime for detonation before fleeing.

A fighter then fires a rocket-propelled grenade at another Israeli tank before all three escape back into the tunnel.

Palestinian armed groups have “preserved or rebuilt” their fighters and weaponry required to challenge Israeli military operations in northern Gaza, war monitors say, adding that the groups fighting in Jabalia report carrying out – on average – 28 attacks each day on Israeli forces since May 11.

In the latest battlefield assessment from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP), the two US-based defence think tanks continue to emphasise that Palestinian armed groups are far from vanquished, and now rebuilding, despite months of war with a vastly better-equipped Israeli army.

“Palestinian militias are sustaining a very high daily rate of attacks targeting Israeli forces in Jabalia,” the ISW/CTP said, noting that Israel’s military is conducting “two re-clearing operations” in the north of the Gaza Strip, where it claimed in December that it had defeated Hamas.

Also, on Tuesday, Palestinian fighters carried out four “indirect fire attacks” from Gaza towards Israel, including Palestinian Islamic Jihad firing rockets from northern Gaza towards Israel’s Sderot area.

The Israeli military has released details of the latest soldier to be killed in its war on Gaza. The 19-year-old sergeant in the 75th Battalion was killed on Tuesday in fighting in the south of the Gaza Strip, the military said.

With the deaths of five Israeli soldiers in Gaza between Friday and Monday this week, a total of 272 Israeli soldiers have been reported killed and 1,674 injured since the start of Israel’s ground operations in the Palestinian territory, the United Nations reports.

The latest death in southern Gaza will add to that total.

The Israeli military said earlier today “two projectiles” were launched from the Gaza Strip towards the city of Sderot in southern Israel.

Initially, the military said its air defences had intercepted the projectiles but it later reported that one of them landed in the city and “caused damage”.

No casualties have been reported.

At least 60 rockets were fired from Lebanon in a recent barrage towards northern Israel with minor damage reported, Israeli newspaper Haaretz has reported, citing the Israeli military.

Since the start of the war, Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and the Israeli military have regularly traded fire across the border.

Haaretz says that Lebanon’s Hezbollah group claimed responsibility for the latest attack and said it was targeting the Biranit army base on the border with Lebanon.

The Lebanese armed group said it was in response to an Israeli strike on Tuesday which killed senior field commander Hussain Ibrahim Mekky, according to Haaretz.

The US secretary of state says the Rafah operation has had a “negative impact” on humanitarian conditions in Gaza, adding that it is urgent for the Rafah crossing – shuttered since it was seized by Israel last week – to regain operational capacity.

Addressing a news conference in Kyiv, Blinken also warned the enclave could fall into a chaotic power vacuum if no clear, long-term plan is put in place.

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Belgium’s development cooperation minister has said Brussels, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, backs a complete ban on EU weapons exports to Israel but is facing resistance from other EU members.

“It is very clear that Belgium is in favour of a full weapons ban but some member states are still exporting,” Caroline Gennez said on a visit to the Jordanian capital, according to comments carried by The National newspaper.

“Israel has the right to defend itself. On the other hand, it is not allowed to punish an entire population for what happened on October 7,” said Gennez.

Germany, by far the bloc’s biggest military exporter to Israel, defended its shipments at the International Court of Justice in April in a case brought against it by Nicaragua.

However, Germany’s Defence Minister Boris Pistorius indicated last week that Berlin is weighing pausing some arms shipments to Israel following its Rafah operation.

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The Wafa news agency reports that “dozens” of casualties have resulted from Israel’s targeting of a group of Palestinians at the intersection of al-Jalaa Street and al-Oyoun Street in the centre of Gaza City, which we reported on earlier.

At least three bodies arrived at al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City as well as a number of critical cases, Wafa reports.

The number of dead from this attack, which targeted a gathering point for internet access, is expected to rise, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reports.

In the past 45 minutes, a drone seems to have fired a missile at a group of people at Jalaa Street, one of the major streets in the centre of Gaza City – very popular and thriving before the war.

There was a group of people who was gathering at a place to get an internet connection. The vast majority of people here have family in the southern part and the centre, and trying to get hold of them.

This is not the first time we see this pattern of attacks on civilians gathering in large groups, either at a food distribution or internet connection points, or even at a solar-powered point to charge their phones or computers.

It has happened repeatedly in the past month; it happened in Sheikh Ridwan, where at least 12 people were killed as they were trying to get an internet connection.

So far, what we have learned from civil defence crew members, three [bodies of dead people] were transferred to al-Ahli Arab Hospital. A few more are in critical condition and we are expecting the number of dead to increase.

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Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has urged the government to make a decision about post-war governance in the Gaza Strip, saying he would not support open-ended Israeli military rule over the Palestinian territory.

In a televised news conference, Gallant said he had promoted a plan for a new Palestinian administration not linked to Hamas since soon after the conflict began in October but “got no response” from various Israeli cabinet forums.

Earlier in the day, Netanyahu said talking about the “day after” the war was a moot point because the war would not end until after the defeat of Hamas, a goal that he said is still elusive.

An Israeli journalist says the far right is using the October 7 Hamas attack “as an opportunity to launch a new Nakba” in Gaza.

“Unfortunately in this war, we’re seeing too many Israeli politicians saying this should be repeated. It’s being used as a political tool to threaten the Palestinians with another expulsion,” said Meron Rapoport, who writes for +972 magazine and is an editor at Local Call.

He said the language used by some of the hardline politicians about pushing Palestinians out of the area is because of “frustration that they won’t leave”.

“I think there was a calculated effort to bring these terms into the political discourse. How successful they are? It is a question,” Rapoport said.

In a message directed at Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, Netanyahu said, “I am not prepared to exchange Hamastan for Fatahstan. The first thing I did after October 7 was order the army to destroy Hamas … The first condition for ‘the day after’ is to eliminate Hamas – with no excuses.”

Comments from Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant saying he would not support open-ended Israeli military rule over Gaza have placed him in the crosshairs of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, both members of Israel’s hard right

“From Gallant’s point of view, there is no difference between whether Gaza is controlled by [Israeli] soldiers, and whether Hamas murderers control it,” Ben-Gvir said in an X post.

“This is the essence of the concept of a defense minister who failed on October 7, and continues to fail even now. Such a defense minister must be replaced in order to achieve the goals of the war.”

In his comments, Gallant also said he has repeatedly been ignored by the members of the Israeli government when he asked them to formulate a plan for post-war governance in the Gaza Strip and Smotrich appeared to take issue with that claim, as well.

“Defense Minister Gallant announced today his support for the establishment of a Palestinian terrorist state as a reward for terrorism and Hamas for the most terrible massacre of the Jewish people since the Holocaust”, he said in his own X post.

“I demand that the Prime Minister immediately bring to the government a decision on denying any involvement of the PA in the Gaza Strip and then demand that Gallant choose between implementing the government’s policy and [resigning],” he continued.

Yair Lapid has said that as long as the Netanyahu government is in power, Israel will not be able to win the war in Gaza.

His comments came after Defence Minister Yoav Gallant rejected the possibility of Israeli civil or military governance of post-war Gaza.

“The government has lost control,” Lapid wrote in a post on X. “Soldiers are being killed every day in Gaza and they fight among themselves on television. The cabinet is disassembled and non-functional. Ministers protest in front of cabinet meetings.”

“One cabinet sends humanitarian aid convoys and the other burns them,” he added. “Relations with the US are collapsing, the middle class is collapsing, they have lost the north”.

“We can’t go on like this. We will not win with this government.”

Israeli settlers have attacked and vandalised two homes in the occupied West Bank – one in the Hebron area and another near Nablus, the Wafa news agency reports.

Settlers vandalised a house in Masafer Yata and threatened its owner while in the village of Qusra near Nablus, Israelis from the settlement of Esh Kodesh under soldiers’ protection attacked another home.

Al Jazeera’s correspondent reports that settlers have attacked aid trucks as they were heading to Gaza via Jerusalem.

The correspondent reported that they attacked a truck driver near the Beit El military checkpoint, north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

We will bring you updates on this incident as we get more information. The attack comes just days after a mob of Israeli settlers looted aid trucks near Hebron, also in the West Bank, destroying their cargo and then setting them on fire.

According to new information, it appears that Israeli settlers attacked commercial trucks with Palestinian drivers and not aid trucks.

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz quoted a security source as saying the settlers thought the truck was carrying humanitarian aid. The attack took place near the Israeli settlement of Givat Assaf.

Prisoner rights groups have said that among the detainees are 3,424 in administrative detention, 80 women and 250 children.

The groups said that this tally does not include the number of prisoners from Gaza, who are being subject to “enforced disappearance” since the war began in October.

“Six hundred Palestinians are serving life in prison or are expected to be handed this sentence,” the groups said. “Among them are 21 who have been in prison since before the Oslo accords were signed in 1993. One of the prisoners, Mohammed al-Tous, has been in jail since 1985.”

Prisoner rights groups said that this number includes:

• 292 women
• 615 children
• 75 journalists (49 of them still imprisoned)
• 18 who have died in detention

This excludes detainees from Gaza, whose numbers the groups estimate are in the “thousands”.

The Israeli historian and author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine says that what happened during the Nakba in 1948 and what’s occurring in Palestine now is comparable in some ways but added that “in many other respects” today’s events are “even worse”.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Ilan Pappe pointed out to the higher number of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks over the past seven months. He also said that in 1948, “massacres were then used in order to persuade people to leave”.

“What we see now are massacres which are part of the genocidal impulse, namely to kill people in order to downsize the number of people living in Gaza,” Pappe, who is a professor of history at the University of Exeter, added.

“Ethnic cleansing is a terrible crime against humanity but genocide is even worse,” he continued. “So I think we are seeing a transition from using ethnic cleansing as the main method of taking as much of Palestine as possible, with as few Palestinians in it as possible – we are moving into a far more lethal method, that of genocide.”

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