• It is the 180th day of the war: 33,207 dead in Gaza and 75,933 wounded since October 7.
• Palestine at the UN: «Everyone must stop arming Israel».
• The US proposal: «40 hostages in exchange for six weeks of truce».
• Iran reiterates: «Israel will be punished for the Damascus raid».
07.23 am – Trump: «Biden is 100% with the Palestinians, those who vote for him don’t love Israel»
Former American president Donald Trump says his successor Joe Biden is “100%” on the side of the Palestinians. “Anyone who votes for him doesn’t love Israel and frankly they should be asked: how can a Jewish person vote for Biden or a Democrat when they are 100% on the side of the Palestinians,” Trump said last night in an interview with the conservative broadcaster Real America’s Voice picked up by Israeli media. «It’s amazing that Jews historically vote for Democrats. I do not understand. I have been far more pro-Israel than any other American president, added the Republican candidate for the 2024 US elections.
05.27 am – Guterres: «Denying access to the media promotes disinformation»
«Denying entry» into the Gaza Strip «to international journalists means allowing disinformation and misinformation to flourish false narratives», says the Director General of the United Nations António Guterres. «An information war has been added to trauma of the war in Gaza, obscuring the facts and shifting blame”, writes Guterres in a post published last night on his X account.
02.32 am – MO: «Israel deploys C-Dome defense system for the first time»
Israel has deployed its defense system for the first time mounted on shipcalled C-Dome, against a “suspicious” target that entered the country’s airspace near the southern city of Eilat, according to military sources. The C-Dome is a naval version of the Iron Dome air defense system used to protect against rocket and missile attacks. On Monday evening, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported an alert in the Eilat area, which was hit by rocket fire in February ballistic missiles intercepted by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, allies of Palestinian Hamas militants. «After the sirens sounded in the Eilat area to signal a hostile aircraft, the IDF naval forces identified a suspicious aerial target crossing into Israeli territory,” said the IDF, which specified: “The target was successfully intercepted by the naval defense system “C-Dome”» . They were not reported injuries or damage. That defense system costs approx $50,000 for launch.
01.07 am – Hamas: «Netanyahu’s words on Rafah undermine the negotiations»
Hamas claims that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s words about an imminence of a ground attack in Rafah “raises questions about the purpose of resuming negotiations”. “The success of any negotiations depends on the end of the aggression,” Sami Abu Zahry, spokesman for the Palestinian Islamist movement, told the Arab broadcaster Al Jazeera. Hamas’ demands “are clear: an end to the aggression against our people,” Zahry added.
00:54 – MO: «At least 16 Palestinians killed in attacks in central and southern Gaza»
At least 16 Palestinians killed in attacks in central and southern Gaza. This is what the Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera reports. Among the victims there were also women and children. Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that at least five people were killed in an attack on al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza. Also a doctor, identified as Shadi Abu Hassanein, was killed in an attack in Gaza City. At least ten bodies, including those of six children, were recovered by civil protection workers after a residential building was bombed in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. Several other people were injured in the attacks.
