A delegation from the Shin Bet and representatives of the Mossad left for Cairo for talks on the release of the hostages but Hamas is freezing expectations by announcing that it is not sure about sending its representatives given “the excessive distances” regarding the truce. “I doubt that there will there will be no progress in these negotiations because the positions are too distant. Netanyahu is not serious and is not interested, and the American administration does not exert any real pressure”, underlined a leader of the Palestinian faction.
On the Lebanese front, meanwhile, the Israeli armed forces announced that they had eliminated a leading member of Hezbollah’s elite force, Radwan, in a drone attack in Kounine, in the south of the country. This is Ismail Ali al-Zin, who according to the IDF was a commander of the anti-tank missile unit. The Israeli media reported it. The IDF described al-Zin as an expert “in anti-tank missiles who was responsible for dozens of attacks against civilians and Israeli security forces.”
In a press conference before being admitted to hospital, where he will be operated on for a hernia, leaving Justice Minister Yariv Levin in charge for the time of the operation, the Israeli prime minister reiterated that he is ready for the evacuation of Rafah for the operation land without giving indications on the timing: “It is the right thing to do at an operational and international level. It will take time, but it will be done”,
Wafa, ’13 Palestinians killed in raid on Khan Yunis area’
At least 13 Palestinians have been killed in the last few hours in bombings carried out by Israeli forces with planes and artillery in Khan Yunis, in the south of Gaza Strip: the Palestinian agency Wafa writes. Of these, 11 died from an artillery bombardment in the town of Bani Suheila, east of Khan Yunis, while to the west, in the Al-Mawasi area, a woman and her daughter died. The bombings, writes Wafa, also targeted Gaza City.
Gaza, media: 17 dead in raids on people waiting for help
The Palestinian news agency Wafa reports at least 17 dead and several injured in an Israeli bombing that hit a group of people waiting for humanitarian aid trucks at the Kuwait roundabout in the city of Gaza last night.
Gaza, media: 3 dead in Israeli raid on Maghazi refugee camp
The Palestinian news agency Wafa says that at least three people have died and several others have been injured in an Israeli air strike that hit a house in the Maghazi refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip this evening. Raids are also reported in the southern areas of Deir al-Balah, in the center of the Palestinian enclave. A few hours earlier, Wafa had reported 12 people killed in a bombing on the Kuwait roundabout in the city of Gaza. The death toll in the Strip since October 7 is at least 32,705 dead and over 75,190 injured, according to the local Hamas-run Ministry of Health.
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