Israel issued a fresh warning to Palestinians in the southern Gaza town of Khan Yunis to move away from the battlefield and closer to the humanitarian aid zone, suggesting it plans to attack Hamas in the southern enclave after it gains control of the north. .

Israeli military equipment in the Gaza StripPhoto: Jim Hollander/UPI/Profimedia

Israel-Hamas war – all information for the 44th day LIVE on HotNews.ro:

08:49 Israel has told Palestinians in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis to leave

“We are asking people to move. I know it’s not easy for many of them, but we don’t want civilians caught in the crossfire,” Mark Regev, adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Friday.

This could force hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled south from Israel’s assault on Gaza City to resettle with residents of Khan Younis, a city of more than 400,000, worsening an already dire humanitarian crisis.

00:38Joe Biden and Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani spoke by phone on Friday about the “urgent” need for Hamas to “immediately release” hostages taken in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, the White House said.

A brief summary of the latest information

  • 5 countries ask the International Criminal Court to investigate the situation in the Palestinian territories
  • The US has announced new sanctions against Iran-backed militias
  • Israeli planes struck Hezbollah bases in Lebanon in response to the terrorist group’s rocket fire
  • The deputy speaker of the Knesset calls for the burning of Gaza. A far-right Likud lawmaker who is also the Knesset’s deputy speaker calls for the burning of Gaza.
  • According to the Hamas office, at least 12,000 Palestinians were killed. Among the victims are 5,000 children, he added.
  • On Friday, Hamas released a video showing 86-year-old Aryeh Zalmanovich, one of the hostages in Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.
  • “Killing children is not in the Torah,” Erdogan says in Germany. This was announced by the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Friday. in Germany that “killing children is not in the Torah,” referring to the civilians killed in the Israeli army’s shelling of Gaza after the deadly Hamas attack on October 7, AFP reported.
  • The White House accuses Elon Musk of “vile propaganda” of anti-Semitism. On Wednesday, the billionaire responded to a post in which he claimed Jews were promoting “hate against whites,” saying, “You spoke the absolute truth.”

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