Israel’s military said Friday that one of its soldiers was killed in combat in northern Israel as the country’s army and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah continue to exchange cross-border fire.
The military did not specify how the 33-year-old sergeant was killed. The Iranian-backed group and Israel have engaged in almost daily exchanges of fire since war between Israel and Hamas broke out last year.
Last night, President Joe Biden acknowledged disappointments, missteps and frustrations with Israel’s far-right government, but signaled greater hopes for a ceasefire to end the war between Israel and Hamas that is devastating the lives of the people of Gaza. Israel will send a delegation to Cairo for talks with mediators on a proposed deal with Hamas for a ceasefire and the release of hostages, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Thursday.
Palestinians returned to stunning scenes of destruction in the Shijaiyah district of Gaza City after Israeli troops withdrew following a two-week offensive there. Civil Protection workers said they had so far found the bodies of 60 people in the rubble.
Israel launched war in Gaza after Hamas attack on October 7 in which militants swept into southern Israel, killing about 1,200 people (mostly civilians) and kidnapping about 250. Since then, Israeli ground offensives and bombings have killed more than 38,300 people in Gaza, according to the territory report. Ministry of Health. It does not distinguish between combatants and civilians in its count.
Most of Gaza’s 2.3 million inhabitants are crammed into miserable tent camps in central and southern Gaza. Israeli restrictions, fighting and breakdown of law and order have limited humanitarian aid efforts, causing widespread hunger and sparking fears of famine. The United Nations’ top court has ordered Israel to take steps to protect Palestinians as it examines genocide allegations against Israeli leaders. Israel denies the accusation.
At the moment:
—The Israeli army recognizes October 7 rulingsincluding slow response times and disorganization.
— ‘We have nothing’: Palestinians speak out again destruction in Gaza city after the Israeli withdrawal.
— The United States says that the end of its Dock for aid to Gaza soon.
— A child in Gaza was killed in an Israeli airstrike. His father He hugged him and didn’t let go.
— U.S. aid agency chief says Israel is committed to improve the safety of humanitarian workers in Gaza.
— Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired an Iranian missile at a ship, wreckage analyzed by the United States shows.
— Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Gaza on https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war.
Here’s the latest:
Dozens of bodies collected from a western neighborhood of Gaza City arrived at Al-Ahli Hospital on Friday morning as Palestinian emergency workers said they continued to unearth the dead from the neighborhood’s streets and destroyed buildings.
Hospital director Fadel Naem told The Associated Press that dead and wounded people had been brought to the hospital from the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, transported in groups of up to 10, amid sniper fire and the drone of helicopters. .
Meanwhile, civil defense emergency teams continued to recover bodies strewn across streets and destroyed buildings, where entire families appear to have been killed by artillery fire and aerial bombardment, said Mahmoud Basal, a spokesman for the group.
The Israeli military said it could not comment on its activities in the area.
“There are houses that we cannot reach, and there are those who were burned inside their houses,” Basal said, noting that many of those who died had left nearby shelters after being ordered to evacuate.
In recent months, Israel has stepped up operations in several neighborhoods of Gaza City, including the Shati and Shujaiya refugee camp, and has issued multiple evacuation orders in the north of the territory.
The scenes in Tal al-Hawa mirror those in other Gaza City neighborhoods from which the Israeli army has withdrawn in recent days. On Thursday, civil defense workers found 60 bodies in Shujaiya in similar circumstances, with more believed to be buried under rubble.
JERUSALEM – Israel’s military said Friday that one of its soldiers was killed in combat in northern Israel as the country’s army and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah continue to exchange cross-border fire.
The military did not specify how the 33-year-old sergeant was killed.
The Iranian-backed group and Israel have engaged in almost daily exchanges of fire since war between Israel and Hamas broke out last year.
Hezbollah says it is attacking Israel in solidarity with Hamas, another Iran-allied group that started the war in Gaza with its Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel. The group’s leadership says it will stop its attacks once there is a ceasefire in Gaza, and that while it does not want a war, it is ready for one.
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden on Thursday acknowledged disappointments, missteps and frustrations with Israel’s far-right government, but noted there is now greater hope for a ceasefire to end the war between Israel and Hamas. that devastates the lives of the people of Gaza.
Biden reviewed the course of his efforts in Israel’s war against Hamas during a widely watched news conference at the site of the just-concluded NATO summit.
He called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government the most conservative Israeli government he had ever experienced and said he had urged Israeli leaders not to follow the example the United States set against al Qaeda and other extremist militant groups. “’Don’t think that’s what you should be doing, doubling down,’” she said he told them.
He said he was “disappointed” that his order to the US military to build a dock to bring aid by sea to Gaza, along with some other efforts, “were also unsuccessful.”
But Biden said Israel and Hamas had agreed to the broad terms of a deal to stop the fighting and free the hostages, and he said that made prospects brighter now. The mediators were helping to resolve differences in the agreement, he said.
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