Welcome to our continuing live coverage of Israel’s
war in Gaza and the wider Middle East crisis.
Israel has
confirmed that its forces have withdrawn from Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital after a
two-week operation there.
Earlier,
Palestinian residents reported that the Israeli military had withdrawn and the
Gaza health ministry also said the IDF had withdrawn tanks and vehicles from
the complex housing the hospital, Agence France-Presse (AFP) said.
More on
that in a moment but first, here is a summary of the latest developments:
Talks
aimed at brokering a truce between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip resumed
in Cairo on Sunday, but Hamas, the militant Palestinian group, were reportedly
not present as it waited to hear from mediators on whether a new Israeli offer
was on the table. Egypt, Qatar and the US have mediated previous rounds of
negotiations, but a workable agreement has remained elusive.
Israel’s
Red Sea port city of Eilat came under an aerial attack on Monday that caused no
casualties, the military said, with an Iranian-backed armed group in Iraq
issuing a claim of responsibility. The military’s statement said a flying
object launched from east of Israel had struck a building in Eilat. There was
no interception by air defences, it said. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a
militia, later said it had attacked a “vital objective” in Israel “using
appropriate weapons”.
Israel
has given the UN a proposal to dismantle Unrwa, its relief agency in the
Palestinian territories, and transfer its staff to a replacement agency to make
large-scale food deliveries into Gaza, according to UN sources. The proposal
was presented late last week by the Israeli chief of the general staff, Lt Gen
Herzi Halevi, to UN officials in Israel, who forwarded it to the organisation’s
secretary general, António Guterres, on Saturday, sources familiar with the
discussions said.
An
Israeli airstrike hit a tent camp in the courtyard of a crowded hospital in
central Gaza on Sunday, according to reports. An associated press reporter
filmed the strike and aftermath at al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al-Balah,
where thousands of people have sheltered. The Israeli military said it struck a
command centre of the Islamic Jihad militant group and claimed the hospital’s
functioning was not affected. “The command centre and terrorists were struck
precisely, intended on minimising harm to uninvolved civilians in the area of
the hospital,” the military said.
The
strike at al-Aqsa hospital was witnessed by a World Health Organization team
sent there to assess needs and to collect incubators for the north of Gaza, WHO
chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said in a post on X. “Four people were
killed and 17 injured. WHO staff are all accounted for.” He gave no details of
the victims. Several journalists were reportedly injured in the strike.
Israel’s
prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has undergone a “successful” hernia
surgery, according to a statement from his office. Netanyahu was “in good shape
and beginning to recover”, AFP reports. Doctors discovered the hernia on
Saturday and Netanyahu had the surgery after completing his daily schedule, his
office said.
The
United States and Israel are expected to hold a virtual meeting on Monday to
discuss the Biden administration’s alternative proposals to an Israeli military
invasion of Rafah, Axios reported on Sunday citing three Israeli and US
officials.
At least
32,782 Palestinians have been killed and 75,298 injured in Israeli strikes on
Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement.
A bomb
exploded in a shopping area in a northern Syrian city held by pro-Turkish
forces on Sunday morning, killing eight people and injuring more than 20
others, a war monitor said. At least “eight people were killed and 23 others
wounded” when “a car bomb exploded in the middle of a popular market” in Aleppo
province’s Azaz, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It is
unclear who carried out the attack in the town which is run by pro-Turkish
militias fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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