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Israel has launched a military operation on Gaza’s southernmost city Rafah, seizing operational control of the border crossing that is a major route for humanitarian aid. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said seizing the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing was an "important step" toward dismantling Hamas' military and economic capabilities. "The entrance to Rafah serves two main war goals: the return of our hostages and the elimination of Hamas. We have already proven in the previous release of the abductees, that military pressure on Hamas is a necessary condition for the return of our ...
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As Israel appears to begin its long-feared assault on Rafah in the Gaza Strip, the EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has warned that the consequences for the hundreds of thousands sheltering there could be dire. Speaking to the press, Borrell described as "sad news" the blockage of a ceasefire deal that was first accepted by Hamas before being shunned by Israel. "Hamas accepted, Israel rejected, and the land offensive against Rafah has started again," Borrell said, "in spite of all the requests of the international community, the US, the European Union member states, everybody asking Net...
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The United Nations humanitarian aid agency says hundreds of thousands of people would be “at imminent risk of death” if Israel carries out a military assault in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. The city is a critical lifeline for humanitarian aid and currently hosts thousands of displaced Palestinians from other parts of Gaza. The UN's Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths has said that an invasion of Rafah would be "nothing short of a tragedy beyond words". Israel has previously said it would begin a ground invasion into the city, i...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a military operation against Hamas in Rafah will go ahead, regardless of the success of truce talks. The United States and other countries have urged Israel not to invade the city for fear of a humanitarian catastrophe.
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Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah have killed at least 22 people, including six women and five children, according to Palestinian health officials. One of the children killed in the strikes overnight into Monday was just 5 days old. The strikes hit three family homes with those killed taken to Abu Yousef al-Najjar Hospital. Israel has carried out regular airstrikes in Rafah since the beginning of the war and has threatened to send in ground troops. Israel has maintained that Rafah is the last major Hamas stronghold in Gaza, despite other nations, including the US, warning t...
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The European Union's foreign policy chief has compared the scale of destruction across Gaza to damage to German cities in World War II. Josep Borrell said that an assessment by the World Bank and the United Nations put the cost of rebuilding Gaza’s infrastructure at $90 billion (€84 billion). “We can say that more than 60% of the physical infrastructure has been damaged and 35% fully destroyed,” he said. He was speaking during a a plenary session of the EU Parliament on the bloc’s response to the killing of humanitarian aid workers, journalists and civilians by the Israel Defence Forces. The c...
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Israeli airstrikes in the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight killed at least 22 people, 18 of them were children, according to health officials on Sunday. Meanwhile, the United States has approved billions of dollars in additional military aid to Israel, its key ally. Israel has been conducting daily air raids on Rafah, where 2.3million of Gaza's inhabitants have sought refuge from conflict elsewhere. Despite international calls for restraint, including from the US, Israel has expressed intentions to escalate its ground operations against the Hamas militant group in the city near the Egypti...
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Truce talks resumeFollowing a setback on Monday, ceasefire discussions have commenced in Cairo between representatives of Israel and Hamas according to local Egyptian television. Egypt, Qatar and the US are mediating the discussions, which Israel previously claimed have failed due to Hamas failing to show flexibility. Hamas has called for all northern Gazans to return and for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza to be dependent on IDF forces fully withdrawing from Gaza and the end of hostilities. Israel withdrew its negotiating team on Monday after Hamas refused to accept a collection of co...
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The US top diplomat said on Thursday a major Israeli ground assault on the southern Gaza town of Rafah would be “a mistake” and “unnecessary” to defeating Hamas. His remarks underscore the further souring of relations between Israel and its principal ally, the United States. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on his sixth urgent mission to the Middle East since the Israel Hamas war began in October, spoke after discussing a ceasefire and Gaza’s post-conflict future with Arab diplomats. He said an “immediate, sustained ceasefire” with the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas was urgentl...
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Reports have emerged saying six people were killed and at least 83 wounded after Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinians waiting for food in Gaza city. The attack came a few hours after Israeli forces bombed a United Nations food distribution centre in southern Rafah city, killing at least five people including a member for the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA). UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said on X that "Since this war began, attacks against UN facilities, convoys and personnel have become commonplace in blatant disregard to international humanitarian...
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