GAZA: More than 30 people were killed in an air strike that hit a house sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza’s centrally located refugee camp Nuseirat, a spokesman for the Hamas-ruled territory’s health ministry said on late Saturday, adding more than 100 people had been killed in the past 24 hours. Witnesses also reported air strikes and fighting in Khan Yunis, Gaza’s main city in the south, as well as in the north. Follow our live blog for all the latest developments.
The Spanish aid vessel Open Arms on Saturday finished unloading its cargo of 200 tonnes of desperately needed food for Gazans.
A second cargo of food aid was ready to depart by sea from Cyprus to Gaza on Saturday, the island’s president said, after a first aid shipment landed in the besieged Palestinian enclave overnight.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has approved the military’s plan for an operation in Rafah, where most of war-battered Gaza’s population has sought refuge. Rafah is the last major population centre yet to be subjected to a ground assault.
At least 31,553 Palestinians have been killed and 73,546 wounded since Israel started its offensive on Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave. Around 1,140 people were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks and 250 people taken hostage, according to Israeli figures, with 132 still missing.