al jazeera

By Alastair Mccready
    Attacks continue and the situation on the ground remains dire despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during Ramadan, an Al Jazeera correspondent says.

      Israel is “losing political cover and protection even in the Security Council” and “the US is unable to impose its will on the international community”, Hamas says.

      Israel’s military claims it killed Hamas commander Marwan Issa in an air strike earlier this month. A Hamas politburo official says it has no evidence of the death and accuses “the enemy” of “psychological warfare”.

      Israeli tanks and armoured vehicles surround a hospital in Khan Younis as the Palestine Red Crescent Society reports another facility is “out of service” because of military operations.

      At least 32,414 Palestinians have been killed and 74,787 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attack stands at 1,139 with dozens still held captive.

    Qatar says Gaza ceasefire negotiations ongoing with no timeline for agreement

    The Qatari Foreign Ministry has said that “talks are ongoing” in Doha on a ceasefire-for-captives deal between Israel and Hamas.

    “The efforts are ongoing and that in its own right is a good thing certainly. As I said, I don’t have any update over the timelines of how we can gauge optimism over the current situation but we remain hopeful,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari said.

    He denied that anyone had pulled out of the mediated talks, despite a report by the Reuters news agency claiming that the Israeli delegation left Doha as discussions were “at a dead end”.

    On the UN Security Council ceasefire resolution agreed on Monday, al-Ansari said that Qatar “welcome[s] such a move because we welcome any international diplomatic initiative, whether it be regional or international, in support of ending this terrible conflict”.

    Israel bombs houses in Rafah, at least three killed: Report

    At least three people were killed and several injured in early morning bombing raids by Israel on a two residential houses in Rafah city’s Khirbet al-Adas and al-Shaout neighbourhoods, the Palestinian state news agency Wafa reports.

    Israeli forces also stormed the Nasser Medical Complex in the west of Khan Younis where they arrested staff and displaced people sheltering inside the compound, Wafa said.

    Fierce clashes were underway in the vicinity of al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza City, including shelling by Israeli artillery, with reports of people wounded.

    On Tuesday evening, 12 people, including children, were reported killed in an Israeli airstrike on tented accommodation in the al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.