ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR: LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

• Israeli bombardments had been intense within the southern Gazan metropolis of Khan Younis, the place the Israeli army stated it killed some members of Hamas. A minimum of 12 individuals had been killed and 50 others injured in an Israeli airstrike on a residential constructing and one other 4 individuals died in an airstrike on a faculty in central Gaza, Palestinian information company WAFA reported.

• In accordance with the Palestinian Pink Crescent, a humanitarian organisation, heavy shelling occurred close to the Al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis. Shrapnel few into the hospital premises amid sound of firing from drones, Reuters reported. The Israeli army stated it killed a number of Hamas terrorists and recovered army tools utilized by the group.

• On Saturday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met the leaders of Turkey and Greece as a part of his week-long journey to the Center East the place he can even go to Israel, West Financial institution, Jordan, Qatar, the UAE, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He held discussions with Turkish International Minister Hakan Fidan and President Tayyip Erdogan, who has publicly denounced Israel’s army actions in Gaza.

• EU’s prime diplomat Josep Borell, who was within the Lebanese capital of Beirut since Friday, expressed considerations concerning the steady alternate of fireplace between Israeli forces and the Iran-backed Hezbollah group and the chance of the Israel-Hamas battle spilling over to Lebanon.

  “Diplomatic channels have to remain open. Conflict shouldn’t be the one possibility – it is the worst possibility,” Borrell was quoted as saying by Reuters.

• Hezbollah forces fired a number of rockets into Israel on Saturday in what it referred to as an “preliminary response” to the killing of a prime Hamas chief, Saleh al-Arouri, in Lebanon final week, The Occasions of Israel reported.

  In accordance with the IDF, some 40 rockets had been fired on the Mount Meron space of northern Israel from Lebanon. Hezbollah acknowledged it focused an Israeli army unit within the space with 62 “several types of missiles”.

• In accordance with Palestinian well being officers, as many as 22,722 individuals had been killed within the battle that started after Israel started bombarding Gaza after Hamas attacked the Jewish nation on October 7 final 12 months. Round 1,200 individuals had been killed and greater than 240 individuals had been taken hostage by Hamas.

  Thus far, over 100 hostages are believed to be held by the Palestinian group after dozens of captives had been launched in a short-lived ceasefire deal.