With cease-fire talks resuming in Egypt, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that his country’s armed forces were getting ready to invade Rafah.
Around a million Palestinians who have been displaced and are looking for safety from shelling now call Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza, home. Any ground operation in the city will have disastrous effects for civilians, according to experts from the UN and a number of other nations.
Earlier in March, Netanyahu approved the military’s strategy for a ground operation in Rafah; today, the army is getting ready to evacuate the civilian population before striking the city, he stated in a news conference.
“It will take time, but it will be done,” he stated. “There, we will murder Hamas units after we enter Rafah. Without invading Rafah and defeating Hamas forces there, there can be no triumph.”
Israeli troops carried out their raid on the Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest hospital in the enclave prior to the fighting, in northern Gaza, where the UN declared that hunger was approaching. At least 200 militants have been slain at the medical complex, according to Netanyahu. At the hospital, which was housing roughly 3,000 patients and refugees, dozens of people were slain, according to the Health Ministry, which is run by Hamas.
An Israeli security group left for further negotiations with Egyptian mediators on Sunday afternoon.
“It will take time, but it will be done,” he stated. “There, we will murder Hamas units after we enter Rafah. Without invading Rafah and defeating Hamas forces there, there can be no triumph.”
Israeli troops carried out their raid on the Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest hospital in the enclave prior to the fighting, in northern Gaza, where the UN declared that hunger was approaching. At least 200 militants have been slain at the medical complex, according to Netanyahu. At the hospital, which was housing roughly 3,000 patients and refugees, dozens of people were slain, according to the Health Ministry, which is run by Hamas.
An Israeli security group left for further negotiations with Egyptian mediators on Sunday afternoon.
According to witnesses, a drone launched at least one missile at a tent that was housing journalists and internally displaced people in the hospital courtyard in the city of Deir al-Balah.
Although they did not provide his name or rank, the Israeli military claimed to have killed a top member of Islamic Jihad during the hospital attack.
On its official X account, the Israel Defence Forces declared that there was no damage to the hospital building and that its operation was unaffected.
According to Palestinian medical sources, the incident left 17 persons with varied degrees of injury, including two journalists, and killed four people.
In the meantime, a statement from the Gaza-based media office managed by Hamas said that the Israeli army carried out another “massacre” by attacking the hospital during the busiest times of the day for moving injured and displaced patients.
The number of people killed by the current Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has increased to 32,782, according to a Sunday announcement from the Gaza Health Ministry.
The ministry also stated in a news release that the Israeli army has killed 77 Palestinians and injured 108 others in the last 24 hours.
According to Xinhua, which cited Lebanese military sources, an Israeli raid on a Hezbollah member’s car on Sunday resulted in his death. Kunin is a municipality in southern Lebanon.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the military sources said that a drone had launched two air-to-surface missiles at the automobile, causing it to catch fire and killing its driver, Ismail Ali Al-Zein.
According to military sources, Israel fired artillery against nine towns and villages and conducted 15 airstrikes on eight border towns and villages in southern Lebanon, destroying 12 houses and damaging roughly 45 more.
The Syrian Defence Ministry reported that two people were hurt in an Israeli attack on Sunday night that targeted multiple military locations close to Syria’s capital, Damascus.
The ministry said in a statement that two civilians were injured and material damage was caused by an aerial bombardment by Israel that originated in the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
Israel fired four rockets at scientific research sites in the Jamraya district of Damascus’ western countryside, setting fire to them, according to a report by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.