Israel-Hamas war
US President Joe Biden said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Gaza policy was a “mistake” and urged Israel to call for a ceasefire, in an interview aired Tuesday. Biden’s comments were some of his strongest criticism yet of Netanyahu amid growing tensions over the civilian death toll from Israel’s war on Hamas and dire conditions inside Gaza. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments.
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- Israel will complete the elimination of Hamas’s brigades, including in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, and nothing will prevent this, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday.
- Hamas said Tuesday it was considering a new truce proposal as the latest round of negotiations in Cairo continued but said the plan did not meet any of its demands.
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The Israeli army said early Wednesday it had carried out bombardments on positions of the Lebanese group Hezbollah in Syria in a bid to thwart its “entrenchment” in the country.
- Netanyahu said Monday that a date has been set for an Israeli invasion of Rafah, where some 1.5 million Palestinians have taken shelter. The US has warned a ground operation in Rafah would be a mistake.
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An in-person meeting of Israeli and US officials on the planned operation in the Gaza city of Rafah will take place in a couple of weeks, the White House said on Tuesday.
- At least 33,360 Palestinians have been killed and 75,933 wounded since Israel began its offensive on Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave. Around 1,170 people were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks and 250 people taken hostage, according to Israeli figures, with 132 still missing.
- Israel for the first time deployed its C-Dome ship-mounted defence system on Monday against a “suspicious” target that entered the country’s airspace near the southern city of Eilat, the military said.
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The Israeli army said that 468 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered Gaza Tuesday, the highest in a single day since the war between Israel and Hamas militants broke out on October 7.
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US Agency for International Development Administrator Samantha Power acknowledged on Tuesday that humanitarian aid into Gaza had risen sharply in the past few days, and said the higher level of aid should be sustained and increased further.
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Turkey announced restrictions on exports to Israel until a ceasefire in Gaza, Ankara’s first significant measure against Israel after six months of war. Israel said it would respond with its own restrictions on products from Turkey.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP & Reuters)
