Israel’s war on Gaza live news: ‘More than 30’ killed in Rafah strike
An Israeli army bombed a displacement camp in northwestern Rafah, killing over 30 Palestinians, the Gaza Civil Defence told Al Jazeera.
The Hamas military wing launches a missile attack on Tel Aviv, triggering alarm sirens. Earlier, the Qassam Brigades said its fighters “killed and captured” an unidentified number of Israeli soldiers in Jabalia camp. The Israeli military has denied the claim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
They are being very tight-lipped about it. The meeting should be taking place at the … Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv.
It’s being reported that they will be discussing … resuming negotiations, to try to bring those held captive back to Israel through a deal with Hamas.
That’s off the back of a meeting that took place between the head of the CIA, the head of Mossad, and the prime minister of Qatar, who’s acting as a mediator between Hamas and Israel. That meeting took place in Paris a couple of days ago.
They came back, it seems, with more and new proposals to try and revive those talks.
The pressure on [Israeli] Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu and the war cabinet is immense. There’s been a lot of divisions lately, and those cracks are appearing even more so recently since the World Court order [to halt the Israeli army’s Rafah offensive] and the International Criminal Court prosecutor seeking an arrest warrant both for the defence minister and the prime minister.
More Western states are recognising Palestine, but as long as the US opposes Palestinian independence and sovereignty, “things will get worse for all of us”, says Yezid Sayigh, senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center.
Sayigh tells host Steve Clemons that the United States is lobbying for “day-after” plans in Gaza that “set the stage for future violence” because they don’t lead to statehood.
Despite international pressure and a global solidarity movement supporting Palestine, the former Palestinian negotiator argues, the Palestinian national movement is not coalescing, and Palestinians are “leaderless” on the world stage.
A short video posted by Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz on the social media platform X on Sunday says “Hamas: Gracias Espana” (“Hamas: Thank you Spain”). This comes after Spain said it would recognise Palestine as a state.
“We are not going to fall into provocations. The video is scandalous and execrable,” Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares told a news conference in Brussels.
The video shows the Spanish flag then a couple dancing to flamenco music. Film of Hamas fighters is interspersed, including people fleeing during the October 7 Hamas offensive on southern Israel.
“It’s scandalous because all the world knows, including my colleague in Israel, that Spain condemned the actions of Hamas from the first moment. And execrable for the use of one of those symbols of Spanish culture,” Albares added. lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop lop
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