The Israeli army announced that it had found a ten-kilometer-long tunnel connecting parts of central Gaza with the capital, Gaza City, to the north.
The tunnel passes by the Turkish Hospital in the central part and Israa University in Gaza City.
Photos and videos have been released that the military claims show the interior of the tunnel with long corridors, stairs, beds and weapons, among other things.
Soldiers destroyed several buildings on the Israa University campus in January, claiming they were being used by Hamas for military purposes.
Hamas has confirmed that it has built hundreds of kilometers of tunnels across Gaza.
One of the main goals of the Israeli offensive is to destroy a network of tunnels that Israeli leaders say is used by Hamas to move fighters from the Islamist organization, transport weapons and supply supplies throughout the territory.
Israel accuses Hamas of using civilians as human shields and has found many underground tunnels under mosques, schools, hospitals and UN facilities.
Some hostages kidnapped in southern Israel on October 7 during a Hamas attack said they were being held in tunnels.
Soldiers have found similar tunnels across Gaza during the nearly five-month war.
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Israel has submitted a report to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the measures it has taken in compliance with the court's decision to prevent actions in war that could border on genocide, an Israeli official said today.
Details of the content of the report, which was submitted a few hours before the deadline, were not disclosed.
In January, the UN's highest court ordered Israel to refrain from any act that could be considered genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.
In addition, he was ordered to ensure that Israeli soldiers did not commit genocidal acts against Palestinians after South Africa accused Israel of state genocide.
Israel and its Western allies called the accusation baseless.
The court said in the decision that Israel must prevent and punish any public incitement to genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and preserve evidence related to any accusation of genocide in the territory.
It was also said that Israel must take measures to improve the humanitarian situation for Palestinian civilians, Israeli media reported.
It could be years before the final verdict is reached in the court in The Hague.
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Hezbollah announced today that it fired 60 Kachusha rockets at an Israeli military base in response to attacks in eastern Lebanon, in which two members of the Lebanese extremist organization were killed.
As stated, the rockets were fired at the "Nafah base" on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights "in response" to Israeli attacks in the Baalbek region of the Beka Valley.
The Israeli army answered a question from France Press that "dozens of rockets" were fired from Lebanon. Israeli media reported that several rockets exploded near the bus with passengers, who quickly got out to take cover and there were no reports of injuries.
Israel previously said Hezbollah positions in Baalbek were targeted in retaliation for a surface-to-air missile attack that shot down a large Israeli drone over southern Lebanon this morning.
The target of one attack was a Hezbollah warehouse, and the other a building belonging to the pro-Iranian organization in the suburb of Baalbek, known for its Roman temple, a security source told France Presse. Hezbollah confirmed the death of two of its fighters.
Israel's military said its warplanes targeted Hezbollah anti-aircraft sites in the Bekaa Valley, following an attack on a Hermes-450 drone that it said was damaged.
The Baalbek region in the Bekaa Valley, which borders Syria, is a Hezbollah stronghold.
Hezbollah confirmed that its anti-aircraft defense unit shot down a large Israeli drone twenty kilometers from the border with Israel.
Today's attack on Baalbek is the first outside southern Lebanon since the beginning of the Gaza war on October 7, after which almost daily cross-border clashes broke out between the Israeli army and Hezbollah, an ally of the Palestinian Hamas.
At least 281 people, including 196 Hezbollah fighters, members of allied organizations and at least 44 civilians have been killed in more than four months, according to France Press.
Ten soldiers and six civilians were killed on the Israeli side.
Hezbollah has announced that it will stop attacks as soon as the war in Gaza ends.
On Sunday, however, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant warned that a possible ceasefire in the conflict with Hamas in Gaza would not affect Israel's goal of pushing Hezbollah from its northern border.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today that Israel has a plan to evacuate civilians from Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, before the expected Israeli military operation.
"We have a combined plan to evacuate civilians to a safe place and destroy those battalions (in Rafah), we will get the population out, while at the same time achieving a total victory," Netanyahu told Fox News.
"They will have the option to leave," the Israeli leader told more than a million civilians who fled the war in Gaza's southernmost city, near the closed border with Egypt.
Speaking about the truce agreement to release hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, Netanyahu said that Palestinian Hamas has "unusual demands".
"They have to come back to reality," Netanyahu said.
In the meantime, agencies report that Israeli officials are traveling today to Qatar, where representatives of the political wing of Hamas are also present, to discuss the conditions for a cease-fire in Gaza.
Israel is under pressure from its main ally the US to agree to a ceasefire soon.
In the interview, Netanyahu pointed out that the Israeli people are united like never before in the position that they will not accept a Palestinian state.
"It's not my personal position, it's the position of the people of Israel," Netanyahu said when asked about California Governor Gavin Newsom's comment yesterday that the Israeli prime minister had stepped up opposition to the creation of a Palestinian state.
Netanyahu also said that the people of Israel are not stupid, adding that Gaza was a de facto Palestinian state, and that it was used to kill, rape and kidnap Israelis.
He assessed that giving the Palestinians a state could be a threat to Israel and set a "Guinness record for rewarding terrorism."
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A member of the US military who set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington as a sign of protest against the war in Gaza has died of his injuries, the Pentagon has confirmed.
A US Air Force spokeswoman said the unnamed man "succumbed to his injuries and died last night. We will provide additional details 24 hours after next of kin notifications are completed."
Twenty-five-year-old Aaron Bushnell, from San Antonio, Texas, said before setting himself on fire that he "no longer wants to be an accomplice in genocide."
Bushnell arrived at the embassy shortly before 13 p.m. Sunday and began broadcasting live on the streaming platform Twitch, a person familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press.
Officials believe the man started a live stream, put down his phone, then doused himself in gasoline and set himself on fire. At one point, he said that "he will no longer be an accomplice in genocide," said the person.
The video was later removed from the platform, but police officers obtained and reviewed a copy.
The incident comes as Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, seeks government approval for a military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah while a temporary ceasefire is being negotiated.
Israel's military offensive in Gaza, however, has drawn criticism, including accusations of genocide against Palestinians. Israel has strongly denied accusations of genocide and says it is conducting operations in accordance with international law in the war between Israel and Hamas.
In December, a person set himself on fire outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta. A Palestinian flag was found at the scene, and it is believed to be an "extreme political protest".
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The United States military said Houthi extremists fired a ballistic missile late Sunday that was believed to have targeted a US-owned and operated tanker in the Gulf of Aden.
The American Central Command (USCENTCOM) stated in a statement that the missile fell in front of the ship "M/V Torm Tor", but did not cause any damage and did not cause any injuries.
Central Command also announced that US forces shot down two drones on Sunday night over the southern Red Sea, while a third drone crashed due to "in-flight problems".
"These actions are being taken to protect freedom of navigation and to make international waters safer for US Navy and merchant shipping," USCENTCOM said.
The actions came a day after US and British forces launched the latest strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, including targeting weapons depots, air defense systems and drone systems.
The Houthis have been carrying out attacks on ships in the Red Sea since November in what they say is a sign of solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza.
Iran condemned US and British strikes on Yemen
Iran on Sunday condemned the latest strikes by the United States and Britain on Yemen, saying they seek to "escalate tensions and crises" in the region.
American and British forces also carried out new strikes on 18 Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday, in response to a wave of attacks by the Iran-backed group on ships in the Red Sea.
"With such attacks, America and Britain seek to escalate tensions and crises in the region and expand the scope of war and instability," said the spokesman of the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Kanani, in a statement.
"Certainly, such an arbitrary and aggressive military operation, apart from worsening insecurity and instability in the region, will not achieve anything for these aggressor countries," Kanani added.
He further condemned the United States and Britain for failing to "take immediate and effective action" to halt Israel's deadly campaign in Gaza.
The Houthis say their attacks on ships around the Red Sea are in support of the Palestinians in war-torn Gaza.
Israel's military campaign in Gaza began after an unprecedented terrorist attack by the Palestinian extremist group Hamas on October 7 in southern Israel.
Iran supports Hamas but has denied any involvement in the October 7 attack. Regional tensions have risen since the war broke out, fueling violence among Iran-backed groups in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
After Saturday's attacks, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said the US "will not hesitate to take action, as necessary, to defend lives and the free flow of commerce in one of the world's most critical waterways."
Houthi army spokesman Jahja Sari said the attacks would continue until "aggression stops" in Gaza.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has previously said it sees its "duty" to support what it calls "resistance groups" in the region, but insists they are "independent" in their decisions and actions.
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Today, for the first time since the beginning of the war against Hamas, the Israeli army targeted Hezbollah targets in eastern Lebanon, the Agence France-Presse reported, citing security sources.
The army targeted two targets on the outskirts of the city of Baalbek - a Hezbollah warehouse and a building housing a civilian institution belonging to a pro-Iranian group.
In the vicinity of Balbek, Hezbollah has a significant military presence.
It was the first time Israeli forces targeted Hezbollah outside the area of southern Lebanon, which has been the scene of daily violence between the Shiite group and Israel's military since the start of the Gaza war.
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The Hamas Health Ministry announced today that 29.782 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of Israeli military operations in retaliation for attacks by Palestinian extremists on October 7.
In the past 24 hours alone, 90 people have died.
Since the beginning of the war, 70.043 Palestinians have been wounded.
The killed and wounded were mostly women and children, according to the ministry.
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The Israeli offensive in Rafah would mean the end of the humanitarian aid program for Gaza, where aid to the population is still "completely insufficient", United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres said today.
A large-scale offensive announced by Israeli authorities on the city in the southern Gaza Strip "would not only be terrible for the more than a million Palestinian civilians who have taken refuge there, but would spell the end for our aid programs," Guterres warned at the start of the 55 session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
The UN Secretary General said that "nothing can justify Hamas's deliberate killing, wounding, torture and kidnapping of civilians, its resort to sexual violence or its indiscriminate firing of rockets at Israel."
"And nothing justifies the collective punishment of the Palestinian people," Guterres added.
According to him, "humanitarian aid is still completely insufficient".
"I repeat my call for a humanitarian ceasefire and the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages," he said.
Guterres added that despite his urgent appeals to the UN Security Council to take all necessary measures to "end the bloodshed in Gaza and prevent escalation", the Council did not react.
As one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, the US - Israel's main ally - vetoed all calls for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Guterres warned of the consequences of the Security Council's failure to respond to Gaza, recalling the Council's failure to respond to the war in Ukraine due to Russia's veto.
Failure to react has "seriously, perhaps fatally, undermined the authority of the Security Council," he warned.
The UN Security Council "needs a serious reform of its composition and working methods", added the UN Secretary General.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Mohamed Staye said today that his government is resigning.
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A US soldier set himself on fire, apparently to protest the war in Gaza, outside the Israeli embassy in Washington on Sunday afternoon, authorities said, according to Reuters.
He was taken to a hospital after the fire was extinguished by US Secret Service agents, the fire department said.
The man remains in critical condition, a police spokesman said Sunday afternoon. An Air Force spokesman confirmed that an active airman was involved in the incident.
"I will no longer be complicit in genocide," said a man in military uniform in a video streamed live online, the New York Times reports.
He then doused himself with a clear liquid and set himself on fire, shouting "Freedom to Palestine," the Times reports.
Local police and the Secret Service are investigating the incident.
The Israeli embassy is the target of ongoing protests against the war in Gaza. The war in Gaza led to pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel protests in the United States.
In December, a protester set himself on fire outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta.
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The Israeli army proposed a plan for the evacuation of civilians in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli government announced this morning before a possible offensive in Rafah.
The army "presented to the war cabinet a plan for the evacuation of the population from the combat zones in the Gaza Strip, as well as a plan for future operations," according to a statement from the cabinet of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Details about the method of evacuation, as well as the location, have not been announced.
Israel's prime minister wants to launch a ground operation in Rafah, which he says is the "last bastion" of the Islamist movement Hamas.
The Hamas Health Ministry announced today that 92 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip in Israeli attacks overnight.
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