Yemen's Houthis have launched a large series of drones at several targets in Israel, the group's military spokesman said today, Reuters reports.
The group will "continue to carry out military operations in support of the Palestinians, until the Israeli aggression in Gaza ends," Houthi army spokesman Yahya Sareahe said.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said today that Hamas has a choice between "die or surrender unconditionally."
Hamas is a Palestinian militant organization that holds political power in the Gaza Strip.
Gaza has been under siege and under attack by Israeli security forces since Hamas launched a surprise rocket and ground attack on the Jewish state on October 7, taking hundreds of Israelis and foreign nationals hostage.
"The enemy has only two options: to die, or to surrender unconditionally. There is no third option," Galant said at a press conference in Tel-Aviv.
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In the war between Israel and Hamas, 34 journalists were killed, reported Reporters Without Borders (RSF), accusing both sides of possible war crimes.
The organization called on the prosecutors of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate those deaths, reports Radio Free Europe.
The RSF, they said, had already filed a complaint regarding eight Palestinian journalists they say were killed in Israeli bombardment of civilian areas in the Gaza Strip and an Israeli journalist killed during a Hamas attack in southern Israel.
As reported by Free Europe, RSF Director General Christophe Deloire stated that the scale, seriousness and recurring nature of international crimes targeting journalists, especially in Gaza, require a priority investigation by the ICC prosecutor.
This is the third such complaint filed by the group since 2018 alleging war crimes against Palestinian journalists in Gaza.
Israel says it does everything it can to avoid killing civilians and accuses Hamas of putting them at risk by operating in residential areas.
The latest complaint also mentions the "intentional, total or partial destruction of the premises of more than 50 media outlets in Gaza" since Israel declared war on the militant group's attacks on October 7, according to the organization.
Pope Francis said a two-state solution is needed for Israel and Palestine, adding that war has always been a defeat, Reuters reports.
"(It is) two peoples who must live together. With that wise solution, two states. The Oslo agreement, two well-defined states and Jerusalem with a special status," the pope said in an interview with Italy's RAI.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan discussed the latest developments in Gaza in telephone conversations with his Jordanian and Saudi counterparts, according to a statement from the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Reuters reports.
In separate talks with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, Fidan discussed steps that could be taken toward an immediate ceasefire and lasting peace.
The United Nations Human Rights Office said it was concerned that Israeli airstrikes on the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza could constitute war crimes, Reuters reports.
"Given the large number of civilian casualties and the extent of destruction following Israeli airstrikes on the Jabaliya refugee camp, we have serious concerns that these are disproportionate attacks that could amount to war crimes," the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights wrote to the IKS platform. (X).
Argentina, home to the largest Jewish community in Latin America, today condemned Israel's attack on a densely populated refugee camp in the Gaza Strip a day earlier, reports Reuters.
"Nothing justifies the violation of international humanitarian law," said a statement from Argentina's foreign ministry, which also called for the release of Israeli hostages held by Palestinian Hamas militants.
The announcement comes a day after the neighboring South American country of Bolivia cut diplomatic ties with Israel over its attacks on the Gaza Strip, while Colombia and Chile recalled their ambassadors to the Middle Eastern country.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will travel to Israel and Jordan on Friday, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said, adding that Blinken will meet with Israeli government leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to update their military goals, Reuters reports.
"He will reiterate US support for Israel's right to defend itself in accordance with international humanitarian law and discuss the need to take all precautions to minimize civilian casualties, as well as our humanitarian work," he said. Miller to reporters.
The United States does not believe that the pro-Iranian Palestinian militant group Hamas can be included in the future administration of Gaza when the war with Israel ends, the White House said today, Reuters reports.
White House National Security Adviser John Kirby, speaking to reporters as President Joe Biden flew to Minnesota, also said the United States does not support the permanent settlement of Gazan civilians outside of Gaza.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh accused Israel of carrying out "massacres" in Gaza to cover up its "failures", and stressed that there will be no stability in the region unless the Palestinians get their "independence".
"We are telling the enemy and those who support him that your efforts to cover up your failures will not save you from a great defeat," the leader of the Qatar-based Palestinian movement said in a speech carried by Hamas media.
According to the Hamas Health Ministry, 8.796 people, including 3.648 children, have died in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war with Israel, launched after an unprecedented attack by Hamas militants on Israeli soil on October 7. On the Israeli side, according to the Israeli authorities, more than 1.400 people, mostly civilians, died in that attack.
Haniyeh said that the attack was a reaction to the "racist policy" of the Israeli government led by Benjamin Netanyahu towards the Palestinians.
"We warned all parties with whom we spoke before this war that the continuation of the policy of oppression and violence carried out by Netanyahu and his fascist government, the aggression against the Al Aqsa Mosque (in Jerusalem), against Islamic and Christian shrines, the construction of colonies and the letting of extremist colonists to sow destruction, chaos and death will not go unpunished," he said.
He said that they warned that it will not go unpunished and that there is an immediate threat of an explosion and that it is important to stop the activities of "that criminal and his gang".
"Unfortunately, no one listened to our calls, on the contrary," said the Hamas leader.
He added that there will be neither security nor stability in the region and beyond if the rights of the Palestinian people to freedom, independence and return are not realized, referring, as reported by France Press, to the return of Palestinian refugees to the territories from which they were expelled when Israel was formed. in 1948.
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At least 320 foreign passport holders crossed into Egypt from Gaza today in the first batch of evacuations from the besieged enclave, three Egyptian security sources and a Palestinian official said, Reuters reports.
A Palestinian official on the Gaza side of the border said foreign passport holders left the lane on six buses. The first list of about 500 foreigners or dual nationals has been approved to leave Gaza, and evacuations are expected to continue in the coming days.
China supports the convening of a broad and authoritative international peace conference as soon as possible to return the Palestinian issue to a "two-state solution", Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said today, Reuters reports.
Wang commented on this in a conversation with his Omani counterpart Sajid Badr Albusaid, according to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Jordan has told its ambassador to return from Israel because of the ongoing war in Gaza, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced today.
The ambassador would only return to Tel Aviv if Israel stops the war against the enclave and ends "the humanitarian crisis it has caused," the ministry added.
Israel's ambassador to Jordan, who left two weeks ago amid protests, would only be allowed to return under the same conditions, the ministry added.
The leader of the Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas said today that Israeli hostages being held in the besieged Gaza Strip are being subjected to the same "death and destruction" that Palestinians have faced, Reuters reports.
Hamas told mediators that it was necessary to stop the "massacre" and called on people to continue protesting, especially in the West, to put pressure on decision-makers, Ismail Haniyeh said in a recorded video message.
The Swiss government will ask the parliament for additional funds to provide humanitarian aid to the Middle East worth 90 million Swiss francs (about 93 million euros), it announced on Wednesday, reports Reuters.
The funds will mainly go to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (ICRC), the UN and international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) offering assistance to people in the region affected by the armed conflict.
"The humanitarian consequences of the armed conflict in the Middle East are dire in Israel, in the occupied Palestinian territory and in the affected neighboring countries," the Swiss Federal Council said in a statement.
At least 20 injured Palestinian civilians entered Egypt from the Gaza Strip at the Rafah crossing, the BBC reports.
110 people with dual citizenships also entered Egypt from Gaza.
About 80 wounded Palestinians and about 500 people with dual or foreign citizenships are expected to leave Gaza for Egypt during the day.
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The Hamas government in the Gaza Strip announced today that residential buildings in the Jabaliya refugee camp were hit by Israeli bombardment for the second day in a row, and that there are many dead and wounded.
Israel believes that the camp, located near the capital of Gaza, is the stronghold of that Islamic extremist organization.
There is still no information on the number of dead and wounded in the new bombing.
Israeli forces continued to attack extremist targets in Gaza from the ground and from the air and earlier today dozens of members of the "terrorist organization" were said to have been killed, Israeli media reported.
The activity is focused on Jabalija.
Several buildings in the camp collapsed on Tuesday, with the Israeli military claiming it happened when Hamas tunnels collapsed under the buildings after Israeli airstrikes targeted the battalion leader and the extremists' infrastructure.
Al-Jazeera television, which is still reporting from the Gaza Strip, released videos of the destruction and several wounded people, including children brought to a nearby hospital, the AP reported.
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The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced today that 8.796 people, including 3.648 children, have been killed in the Palestinian territory since the beginning of the war with Israel.
According to the Ministry, 2.290 women were among the dead.
Yesterday's announcement stated that 8.525 people died.
More than 1.400 people were killed in Israel, mostly civilians, most of them in the initial attacks by Hamas on October 7.
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The military wing of Hamas announced today that seven hostages, including those with foreign passports, were killed on Tuesday in an Israeli bombardment of the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.
"The death of seven detainees, among whom three have foreign passports, in the massacre in Jabalia yesterday," the Izzedin al-Qassam Brigades stated in a message on Telegram.
Several dozen people were killed in the bombing of the largest refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, the Ministry of Health announced.
The goal was, as announced by the Israeli army, to "eliminate" the military commander of the Palestinian organization.
A few days ago, the military wing of Hamas already announced that it "estimates" that "almost 50 hostages" died in the Israeli bombing. Those estimates could not be independently verified.
Israeli authorities say at least 240 hostages, Israelis, dual nationals and foreigners, are still being held by Hamas.
They were kidnapped on October 7, when the commandos of that Islamic extremist organization entered southern Israel from the Gaza Strip and attacked civilians. The attacks were sudden and the violence unprecedented.
More than 1.400 people were killed, according to Israeli authorities. Since then, Hamas has released four women, two American and two Israeli.
On Monday, the military announced it had freed an Israeli woman serving her military service in a ground operation in Gaza, but Hamas' military wing said it had detained her. The possibility that she was abducted by the smaller Islamic Jihad, which also participated in attacks on Israel, is not excluded.
The al-Qassam Brigades announced on Tuesday that they would release the foreign hostages in the coming days.
According to the latest Hamas reports, more than 8.500 Palestinians, including around 3.500 children, have been killed since the start of Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip after the October 7 attack.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today expressed his condolences in a statement released after the Israeli army said 12 soldiers had been killed in clashes in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war.
"We are in a difficult war. It will be a long war. We have important achievements in it, but also painful losses. We are all with you in a time of great sadness," the Israeli leader said, according to Israeli media.
"Our soldiers fell in an unjust war, a war for our home. I promise you citizens of Israel, we will finish the job. We will continue until victory," announced the Prime Minister of Israel on the 26th day of the war.
More than 1.400 people in Israel were killed in that war, with the most casualties occurring in the initial attacks by extremists from Gaza on October 7. About 240 people were then kidnapped and taken to the Gaza Strip, and five female hostages have been released so far.
The number of Palestinian casualties in the war on Tuesday exceeded 8.500 in the Gaza Strip, and in the West Bank, violence and Israeli raids killed more than 120 Palestinians.
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