- The Israeli army said one Israeli soldier was killed in fighting with Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah as fighting continued on Israel’s northern border.
- Israel will send a delegation to Cairo for further talks with mediators on a proposed agreement with Hamas on a ceasefire and hostage release, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced on Thursday.
- Most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are confined to tent camps in central and southern Gaza, raising fears of imminent famine.
The Israeli army said on Friday that one soldier had been killed in fighting in northern Israel as a cross-border firefight continued between its forces and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
The military has not said how the 33-year-old sergeant was killed. The Iran-backed group and Israel have been engaged in near-daily gun battles since Israel’s war with Hamas erupted last year.
The night before, President Joe Biden acknowledged disappointments, failures and frustrations with Israel’s far-right government, but noted growing hopes for a ceasefire to end the war between Israel and Hamas that is destroying the lives of Gazans. Israel will send a delegation to Cairo for further talks with mediators on a proposed agreement with Hamas for a ceasefire and the release of hostages, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced on Thursday.
Israel identifies 100 UNRWA staff as “terrorist operatives,” demands firing
Palestinians have been treated to breathtaking scenes of destruction in Gaza City’s Shijaiya neighborhood after Israeli forces pulled out after a two-week offensive, with civil defense workers saying they have so far found 60 bodies in the rubble.
An Israeli soldier jumps off a tank near the Israel-Gaza border in southern Israel on July 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsakhrir Abayov)
Israel launched its war in Gaza following an October 7 Hamas attack in which militants stormed into southern Israel, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting about 250. Since then, Israeli ground attacks and bombings have killed more than 38,300 people in Gaza, according to the Gaza Strip Ministry of Health, which does not distinguish between combatants and civilians in its counting.
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Most of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents are confined to squalid tent camps in central and southern Gaza. Israeli restrictions, fighting and a breakdown in law and order have limited humanitarian access and led to widespread hunger and the threat of famine. The United Nations Supreme Court has ordered Israel to take measures to protect Palestinians as it reviews genocide allegations against Israeli leaders, which Israel denies.
the current:
- The Israeli military acknowledged failures on October 7, including slow and disorganized response times.
- ‘We have nothing’: Palestinians face total destruction of Gaza City again after Israeli military withdrawal.
- The US says an end to aid in Gaza is imminent.
- A Gaza boy was killed in an Israeli airstrike. His father held him close and wouldn’t let go.
- The head of a US aid agency said Israel had committed to improving security for humanitarian workers in the Gaza Strip.
- Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired an Iranian missile at a ship, a US analysis of the wreckage revealed.
