The service of the Government of Israel reported that it would like to find a new date for organizing a meeting on Rafah, the besieged city in the south of the Gaza Strip, although the Israelis canceled two days ago the talks on this scheduled for this Sunday - a senior American official said today.
He told AFP that the US was working with Israel to agree on a date.
Angry that the US abstained during a vote on a UN resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza, Israel decided on Monday not to send a delegation to Washington to discuss Israel's plan for an offensive in the Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, which White the house opposes by demanding care for civilians and fixing the catastrophic humanitarian situation.
Washington, the main Israeli federal, is against any major ground offensive in the Rafah, where more than a million Palestinian civilians have taken refuge.
US President Joseph Biden personally asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to send a delegation to the US to discuss possible alternatives. However, Netanyahu decided on Monday not to send a delegation to protest the US decision to abstain during a vote on a UN resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
US officials said they were surprised by the reaction, but confirmed they had not changed their stance on supporting Israel.
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The Health Ministry of Hamas published today a new balance of victims, according to which 32.490 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist organization on October 7 last year.
In the last 24 hours, 76 Palestinians were killed and 102 wounded, Hamas claims.
It was also reported that 74.889 people were wounded during the six months of the war.
The ministry does not differentiate between civilians and combatants, but it was previously reported that most of the victims were women and children.
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The Palestinian Red Crescent announced today that the Al-Amal hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip has ceased to operate.
As stated, the hospital "completely stopped working as the occupying forces forced the hospital teams and the wounded to evacuate and closed the entrances with earth barriers."
A statement posted on the Palestinian Red Crescent's social media said that Israeli forces "renewed the siege of the hospital amid shelling and firing of smoke bombs and fire towards the hospital."
Two people died in that attack.
In a message on Platform X, the Palestinian Red Crescent expressed its disappointment that the hospital stopped working because the international community failed to provide the necessary protection for employees, patients and displaced people.
The hospital was previously under siege for more than 40 days and was shelled several times before Israeli forces renewed the siege and forced everyone to leave, leaving the hospital in ruins.
It is recalled that such a fate also befell Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City in the north of Gaza, which stopped working a few months ago.
The southern Gaza Strip was the scene of intense Israeli bombardment last night despite international pressure for an immediate ceasefire in the famine-stricken Palestinian territory.
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Lebanon's Hezbollah announced today that it fired a barrage of fire into northern Israel in response to an Israeli attack that killed seven rescuers in a border village.
One Israeli civilian was killed in a rocket attack on the town of Kiryat Shmona in the north of Israel, the rescue service announced.
The Lebanese Islamist organization Jama' Islamia previously announced that seven rescuers were killed in an Israeli attack on Habarieh near the border with Israel, condemning what it said was a "heinous crime".
"As a sign of revenge for the massacre committed by the Zionist enemy in the village of Habarieh, Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets at Kiryat Shmon," said the Shia pro-Iranian organization.
An anonymous official of Jama Islamija told France Press earlier that the rescuers were killed in the emergency center in the village.
Another leader of the organization, who also asked to remain anonymous, said ten rescuers were at the center at the time of the attack.
Lebanon's National News Agency reported an attack by the Israeli Air Force that killed seven rescuers, wounded four civilians and destroyed an emergency center.
The Israeli army confirmed that "warplanes targeted a military complex" where attacks on Israeli territory were being prepared.
As stated, the organizer was killed "together with other terrorists".
Since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Hezbollah and other allies of the Palestinian Islamist organization have been exchanging fire with the Israeli military along the southern border with Israel on an almost daily basis.
That country responded with increasingly deeper attacks on Lebanese territory and carried out targeted killings of Hezbollah and Hamas officials present in Lebanon.
Jama'ah Islamiyah has a military wing, the Al-Fajr Forces, which has been carrying out attacks since the beginning of the conflict.
At least 338 people were killed in Lebanon, mostly Hezbollah fighters, but also 57 civilians in the exchange of fire during almost six months, according to France Presse.
Because of the border violence, thousands of people were displaced in southern Lebanon, and also in northern Israel, where ten soldiers and eight civilians were killed, including today's victim.
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The southern Gaza Strip was the scene of intense Israeli bombardment last night despite international pressure for an immediate ceasefire in the famine-stricken Palestinian territory.
Besieged Gaza is in desperate need of aid and the US last night announced it would resume airdrops despite pleas from Hamas to end the practice after the Islamist group said 18 people had died trying to get food parcels. .
A fireball lit up the sky last night in Rafah, the last urban center not attacked by Israeli ground forces.
About 1,5 million people have taken refuge there, fleeing south to the border with Egypt from conflict in other areas.
Israeli forces also surrounded two hospitals in Khan Yunis and the health ministry said 12 people, including several children, were killed in an Israeli strike on the displaced persons camp.
The Palestinian Red Crescent has warned that thousands are in Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis and that their lives are in danger.
The Ministry of Health announced that bullets had been fired, but that there had not yet been a raid.
At Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City in the north, fierce fighting has been going on for nine days.
Israel says 170 Palestinian extremists have been killed there and hundreds arrested.
Palestinians who live next to the hospital said that bodies are in the streets, that the bombing is constant and that people are being detained in their underwear.
The Hamas Health Ministry announced early this morning that 66 people had been killed last night, including three in Israeli strikes in the Rafah area and in that city.
Fighting continues unabated two days after the adoption of the first UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire and the release of about 130 hostages that Israel claims are still being held in Gaza, but 34 are known to be dead.
US Defense Minister Lloyd Austin said before a meeting with his Israeli counterpart Yoav Galant at the Pentagon last night that the number of civilian casualties was too high and the amount of humanitarian aid too small.
The US National Security Council announced last night that deliveries by land will continue, but that airdrops will also continue.
The war began on October 7 last year after the Hamas attack on the south of Israel in which about 1.200 people were killed, most of them civilians, and 250 were kidnapped and taken to Gaza.
More than 32.000 people died in Gaza, most of them women and children.
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At least seven people were killed in an Israeli air strike on the southern Lebanese town of Nabatieh, security sources told Reuters.
It is assumed that the target of the attack was Islamist shelters in the village of Hebariyeh, reports Reuters.
The war between Israel and Hamas - 173th day.
The Israeli army officially confirmed last night that it had killed the deputy leader of Hamas' military wing, Marwan Issa, in an airstrike in the central part of the Gaza Strip earlier this month.
Military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari told a news conference that Isa was "one of the organizers of the October 7 massacre," referring to attacks by Palestinian extremists in southern Israel that killed about 1.200 people and took more than 250 hostages to the Strip. Gaze.
Information about Isa's murder was already published by the White House on March 18, France Press reminds.
The spokesman said the deputy leader of Hamas' military wing was "eliminated in a complex and precise air force strike based on tips from the army and the Shin Bet (Israeli security services)."
Marwan Issa is the highest Hamas official killed by the Israeli army in Gaza since the beginning of the war.
His death was announced earlier by White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan at a press conference. At the time, the Israeli army was still assessing the consequences of the attack on Nuseirat on March 10, Israeli media reported.
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