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According to the Hamas-controlled health authority, the number of Palestinians killed has risen to more than 30,000. The US is considering dropping aid supplies over the Gaza Strip, according to a report. All developments in the live blog.
According to the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by the militant Islamist Hamas, at least 70 people were killed in an Israeli attack on Palestinians in the city of Gaza. 280 others were injured in an attack that targeted people waiting for aid deliveries, said ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Kidra. A doctor had previously mentioned around 50 dead and 250 injured on the Al Jazeera channel.
Conflict parties as a source
In the current situation, information on the course of the war, shelling and casualties provided by the Palestinian and Israeli conflict parties cannot be directly verified by an independent body.
According to a doctor, around 50 people have died in a suspected Israeli attack on Palestinians in the city of Gaza. Around 250 were injured, Jadallah Shafai from Shifa Hospital told Al Jazeera. Palestinians who were waiting for aid deliveries were hit in the attack. The channel showed footage of bodies and injured people arriving at the hospital. The Israeli military said it was investigating the reports.
Kamal Adwan Hospital emergency services chief Fares Afana said there were not enough ambulances. Some would be transported to hospitals by donkey cart. The executive director of Al-Auda Hospital, Mohammed Salha, reported that 90 injured and three dead arrived there and were forwarded to Kamal Adwan Hospital. “We expect the number of people killed to increase,” he said. His hospital is mostly out of service. There is no electricity.
According to the UN, more than 30,000 people have died in the Gaza Strip since the Israeli military offensive began. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, gave the number at a meeting of the Human Rights Council. The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, had previously mentioned the number on the X platform. Neither Türk nor Tedros named the source of their information. The AFP news agency also reported the number 30,000, referring to the health authority controlled by the militant Islamist Hamas.
According to Syrian sources, Israel has attacked targets near the capital Damascus. The airstrikes were launched from the occupied Golan Heights, the Syrian Defense Ministry said. “Places in the Damascus region were targeted.” “Our air defense responded to the aggressors’ missiles and shot down most of them.”
A correspondent for the AFP news agency in Damascus heard explosions. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Israeli army had targeted locations where Iranian-backed groups such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah were based. Two fighters close to the Hezbollah militia were killed in the Israeli attacks.
The Observatory is based in the UK and obtains its information from various sources in Syria. Your information can hardly be verified by an independent party. The Israeli army declined to comment.
According to media reports, there are signs of gains for strictly religious and right-wing extremist parties in the local elections in Israel. In the Jerusalem City Council, preliminary results indicate an “unprecedented majority” of ultra-Orthodox forces, reported the Times of Israel. The reason for this is that ultra-Orthodox people voted in large numbers, while other groups stayed away from the polls.
According to the paper, only just under 50 percent of the more than seven million citizens called to vote nationwide cast their votes on Tuesday – fewer than usual in local elections in Israel. Because of the war in Gaza, which has been going on for almost five months, a low voter turnout had already been expected.
According to the media, it was also becoming apparent in Jerusalem that the right-wing conservative mayor Moshe Lion would remain in office as expected. According to the Haaretz newspaper, the coastal cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa remain “liberal strongholds” in the country. In Tel Aviv, former Economy Minister Orna Barbivai congratulated her rival Ron Chuldai on her victory. Chuldai has been mayor of the coastal metropolis for many years.
In Jerusalem, where this woman voted, an “unprecedented majority” of ultra-Orthodox forces is emerging.
According to the Health Ministry, which is controlled by the militant Islamist Hamas, more than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war. “The number of martyrs exceeds 30,000,” the authority said, according to the AFP news agency. This included at least 79 people who were killed during the night. The information cannot be independently verified.
Conflict parties as a source
In the current situation, information on the course of the war, shelling and casualties provided by the Palestinian and Israeli conflict parties cannot be directly verified by an independent body.
Gray areas: Built-up areas in the Gaza Strip, hatching: Israeli army
The US has called on Israel to allow Muslims easier access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem during the holy month of Ramadan. “Peaceful believers” should be able to freely access the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, as in the past, said US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller.
It’s not just about “granting people the religious freedom that they deserve and to which they have a right,” said Miller. The question is also “directly important for Israel’s security.” It is not in Israel’s security interest to “inflame tensions in the West Bank or in the entire region,” said Miller, referring to calls by Israeli politicians to limit or even ban access to the Temple Mount for Palestinians from the West Bank during Ramadan.
The Berlin police are investigating an incident in which pro-Palestinian activists are said to have harassed the Israeli ambassador in Berlin, Ron Prosor. A police spokeswoman said this.
According to media reports, several activists intercepted Prosor at a private meeting. Among other things, they allegedly accused him of having blood on his hands. A video of the scene shared on social media can be heard shouting “Ron Prosor, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide.” hear.
Berlin’s Governing Mayor Kai Wegner (CDU) said of the incident: “I condemn the threat to Ambassador Ron Prosor. It is absolutely unacceptable if people from Israel are personally harassed and threatened.” He was glad that the ambassador was safe. “Berlin does not accept hatred and incitement and will take action against anti-Semitism in culture, at universities and in every other place in Berlin.”
The Berlin police did not provide any details about the incident. The BZ newspaper reported that an investigation had been initiated on suspicion of a criminal offense. However, the police did not provide any details when asked. Prosor wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “German democracy is being used and abused to incite violence and hatred. These actions will only strengthen our resolve. Shame on them.”
New Zealand was one of the last Western countries to classify the militant Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas as a “terrorist organization” in its entirety. Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel on October 7 refuted the assumption that the political and military wings of the Palestinian organization could be viewed separately, New Zealand’s government justified the move. Hamas bears responsibility “for these terrible terrorist attacks” “as a whole.”
With the decision, New Zealand follows the example of Australia, Great Britain, the USA, Canada and the European Union, which had previously classified Hamas as a terrorist organization. The government in Wellington also announced further steps to freeze Hamas assets in New Zealand and ban the provision of “material support”.
According to Lebanese sources, at least two people were killed in Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon. Fourteen other residents were injured in attacks on the towns of Siddikin and Kafra, the Lebanese News Agency (NNA) reported. According to its own statements, the Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas had previously fired a volley of rockets from southern Lebanon into northern Israel. The Israeli army said it had responded to the “causes of the fire in Lebanon.”
According to a media report, the government under US President Joe Biden is considering air-dropping aid supplies into the Gaza Strip. This is reported by the news portal Axios, citing four US representatives. The reason for the considerations is that deliveries by land to the Gaza Strip are becoming increasingly difficult. The UN fears severe famine in the Gaza Strip due to the Israeli offensive.
According to Doctors Without Borders, medical staff in the Gaza Strip are barely able to provide people with adequate care. For the first time in a month, aid deliveries have reached the north of the region. You can read the developments in the live blog.