Israel ended a ceasefire with Hamas last month and seized the blame from armed groups to accept a new agreement to truce and release the remaining hostages. For more than a month, it blocked the import of food, fuel and other consumables and has been heavily dependent on external aid.
Israeli troops ordered Palestinians to evacuate several communities in Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza later Sunday, and soon after about 10 projectiles were opened by Gaza, the largest barrage in the territory since Israel resumed the war.
The military said about five were intercepted. Hamas’s army claimed responsibility. Police said a rocket in Ashkron City landed in several other areas. Magen David Adom Emergency Services said a man was injured. The military later said it attacked Gaza’s rocket launcher.
Nasser Hospital said Israel had killed five men, five women and five children in a tent and a house in the southern city of Khan Younis on Sunday.
A toddler’s body occupied one end of the emergency stretcher.
A female journalist was the deceased. “My daughter is innocent. She is not involved, she loves journalism and worships it,” said her mother, Amal Kaskeen.
“Trump wants to end the Gaza issue. He is anxious, and it’s obvious from this morning,” said Mohammad Abdel-Hadi, a cousin whom a woman killed.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, Israeli shelling killed at least four people in the Jabbaria refugee camp in northern Gaza. According to an Associated Press reporter there, the bodies of seven people, including a child and three women, arrived at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah.
According to civil defense operated under Hamas-Operation government leadership, a strike in Gaza City attacked people waiting outside the bakery and killed at least six, including three children.
Netanyahu visited Trump amid anti-war protests, with dozens of Palestinians engaging in new anti-war protests on the streets of Jabaliya. Videos on social media show people marching and shouting at Hamas. Although such protests rarely occur in recent weeks.
Israel also has angered at the recovery of the war and its impact on the remaining hostages in Gaza. The hostage family and those recently released from Gaza and its supporters urged Trump to help ensure the battle ends.
Netanyahu will meet with Trump for the second time Monday since Trump began his latest term in January. Prime Minister says they will discuss the war, with the new 17% tariff imposed on Israel, part of the US global decision
“I think this reflects the special personal connection and special connection between the United States and Israel, which is crucial at this time,” Netanyahu said.
The United States, a mediator of the ceasefire effort with Egypt and Qatar, expressed support for Israel’s resumption of war last month.
Since then, hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, with 15 of them recovering only after a week. This weekend, Israeli troops have been backtracked in what happened in the incident, partly captured in the video, which angered the Red Cross and Red Crescent and UN officials.
The war began when Hamas-led militants attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people and taking hostages of 251 people. Gaza still holds fifty-nine hostages in Gaza, and 24 are believed to be alive.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, the Israeli offensive killed at least 50,695 Palestinians, not to say how many were civilians or combatants, but said more than half were women and children. Israel said it has killed about 20,000 militants and provided no evidence.
The violence in the West Bank was the Palestinian Ministry of Health that occupied the West Bank said a Palestinian-American teenager was killed and two others were injured – one in critical condition – and asserted that Israeli settlers had fired.
Israeli troops said they were investigating the incident in the Turmus Ayya Town near Jerusalem and had a large number of Palestinian Americans.
The war in Gaza triggered a surge in violence in the West Bank, with Israeli troops conducting military operations, killing hundreds of Palestinians and displaced. Settlement violence and attacks on Israelis are increasing.
