al jazeeraSeveral Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Rafah as well as the Jabalia and al-Bureij refugee camps, while Israel continues to bombard Khan Younis.
“Full Israeli security control… is contrary to a Palestinian State,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said in a post on X.
Arrests continue in Israeli raids on the occupied West Bank as the father of a teen killed there slams US support for Israel.
“Disturbing” Western governments not condemning “unspeakable crimes”, says the UN’s special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, regarding an Al Jazeera report of summary executions.
At least 24,927 people have been killed and 62,388 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The revised death toll in Israel from the October 7 Hamas attack stands at 1,139.
Israel’s military has announced the death of a soldier in Gaza.
Sergeant First Class Uriel Aviad Silberman, 23, was killed during fighting in southern Gaza over the weekend, the military said.
The latest death brings the total number of Israeli casualties since the start of Israel’s ground offensive to 195, according to Israeli officials.
It’s just after 7am [05:00 GMT] in the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel.
Here are the main developments overnight:
A fire broke out in Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp after an Israeli attack there, according to a video verified by Al Jazeera.
The United States has called for an “urgent investigation” after 17-year Palestinian-American Tawfiq Ajaq was killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank.
Thousands of people rallied in central Tel Aviv on Saturday, demanding the return of Hamas captives and elections to replace Netanyahu’s government.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that “the right of the Palestinian people to build their own state must be recognised by all” in Kampala on Saturday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu further doubled down on his rejection of a future Palestinian State in a post on X.
The UK’s most senior Orthodox Jewish leader has claimed that accusations of genocide against Israel are designed to “tear open the still gaping wound of the Holocaust” and represent “the ultimate demonisation of the Jewish state”.
In an opinion piece published in The Telegraph on Saturday, UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said that the charge of genocide has been levelled in the knowledge it “will inflict more pain than any other accusation”.
“It is a moral inversion, which undermines the memory of the worst crimes in human history,” Mirvis wrote.
Mirvis said that Israel’s military had taken steps to protect civilians and could “level Gaza in a matter of days” if it aimed to commit genocide.
Israel is currently the subject of a genocide case at the International Court of Justice after South Africa filed a complaint accusing it of violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention.
Israeli forces have raided several locations in the occupied West Bank tonight including:
In Hebron, Israeli forces with bulldozers reportedly surrounded three houses and demolished at least one of them, according to local sources and video verified by Al Jazeera.
The homes targeted reportedly belonged to men involved in an attack on the Tunnel Checkpoint south of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank in November last year.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed has declined to veto a resolution by city officials calling for an extended ceasefire in Gaza despite criticising the measure for leaving her city “angrier, more divided and less safe”.
Breed had been heavily critical of the resolution passed by San Francisco’s legislative body, arguing that it had inflamed anti-Semitism and that city officials had no authority to wade in on foreign policy.
Breed said, however, that she had decided to return the resolution without her signature, instead of exercising her veto, to “try to turn down the volume and begin the healing”.
“My veto would send this issue back to the Board of Supervisors, in whom I have no confidence on this issue,” Breed said in a lengthy statement posted on X on Saturday.
“It would likely lead to yet more divisive, harmful hearings, which in turn would keep this matter and divisiveness front and centre in our city, and fan even more anti-Semitic acts.”
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