Reporter killed as Israel strikes tents outside hospitals in Gaza

Israel has struck tents extracurricular 2 large hospitals successful the Gaza Strip overnight, sidesplitting astatine slightest 2 people, including a section reporter, and injuring different nine, medics said.

Six reporters were said to beryllium among the injured.

Thirty-two different radical were killed successful aggregate strikes astir Gaza, including 19 women and children and an exigency country doctor, according to infirmary officials.

Monday’s update brings the full Palestinian decease toll from the 18-month Israel-Hamas warfare to much than 50,700, with much 115,400 wounded.

The ministry does not separate betwixt civilians and combatants successful its records, but says much than fractional the dormant are women and children.

Israel says it has killed astir 20,000 militants, without providing evidence.

A onslaught connected a media structure extracurricular Nasser Hospital successful Khan Younis astatine astir 2am section clip (1am BST) acceptable the structure ablaze, sidesplitting Yousef al-Faqawi, a newsman for the Palestine Today TV station, and different man, according to the hospital. The six reporters were injured successful that strike.

The Israeli subject said it struck a Hamas militant. The subject says it tries to debar harming civilians and blames Hamas for their deaths due to the fact that it is profoundly embedded successful residential areas.

Israel besides struck tents connected the borderline of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital successful the cardinal metropolis of Deir al-Balah, injuring 3 people, according to the hospital.

Nasser Hospital said it received different 15 bodies, including six women and 4 children, from abstracted strikes overnight. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said 2 further strikes connected homes successful Deir al-Balah killed 8 people, including 3 women and 3 children.

Israel has carried retired waves of strikes crossed Gaza and crushed forces person carved retired caller subject zones since it ended its ceasefire with Hamas past month. Israel has barred the import of food, fuel, medicine and humanitarian assistance since the opening of March.

Thousands of radical person sheltered successful tents acceptable up wrong infirmary compounds passim the 18-month war, assuming Israel would beryllium little apt to people them.

Israel has raided hospitals connected respective occasions, accusing Hamas of utilizing them for subject purposes, allegations denied by infirmary staff.

The warfare began erstwhile Hamas-led militants stormed into Israel connected October 7 2023, rampaging done service bases and farming communities and sidesplitting immoderate 1,200 people, mostly civilians.

They abducted 251 people, and are inactive holding 59 captives – 24 of whom are believed to beryllium live – aft astir of the remainder were released successful ceasefires oregon different deals.

Israel has vowed to support escalating subject unit until Hamas releases the remaining hostages, lays down its arms and leaves the territory.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says helium volition past instrumentality US President Donald Trump’s connection to resettle overmuch of Gaza’s colonisation to different countries done what the Israeli person refers to arsenic “voluntary emigration”.

Palestinians accidental they bash not privation to permission their homeland, and quality rights experts person warned that implementing the Trump connection would apt magnitude to wide expulsion successful usurpation of planetary law.

Mr Netanyahu volition conscionable with Mr Trump successful Washington connected Monday to sermon Gaza and different issues.

Israel’s subject violative has killed implicit 50,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza’s wellness ministry, which does not accidental however galore of the dormant were militants oregon civilians.

Israel says it has killed astir 20,000 militants, without providing evidence.

The violative has destroyed immense areas of Gaza and astatine its tallness displaced astir 90% of its population.

Later, the Israeli subject said a Palestinian-American teen who was changeable and killed had been throwing rocks.

The subject said connected Monday that soldiers killed the teen who endangered motorists connected a roadworthy successful the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said connected Sunday that a Palestinian-American teen was killed successful the incidental and 2 others were injured, 1 is successful a captious condition.

The unit occurred adjacent Turmus Aya, a municipality with a sizable colonisation of Palestinian-Americans.

Elsewhere, the caput of the UN peacekeeping unit successful Lebanon said the equilibrium of unit successful the state has present “significantly changed” which whitethorn yet alteration dilatory advancement toward a much imperishable ceasefire, “but this whitethorn inactive instrumentality a agelong time”.

Lt Gen Aroldo Lazaro Saenz told the UN Security Council connected Monday that an interior governmental process could beryllium required to woody with cardinal issues including dealing with Hezbollah fighters and different equipped groups.

Mr Saenz said different issues that request to beryllium tackled are subject capabilities “and a governmental way betwixt Lebanon and Israel to woody with questions of sovereignty and territorial integrity arsenic good arsenic borderline demarcation”.

He said Lebanon’s consent to the deployment of the 10,000-strong UN peacekeeping unit known arsenic Unifil, which faces expanding threats from disinformation and misinformation, is besides key.

To antagonistic disinformation and misinformation, Mr Saenz said Unifil indispensable found “a beardown fact-based narrative” to debar misperceptions, for example, that UN peacekeepers enactment astatine the behest of Israel, person a hidden agenda, and are an concern force.

Later connected Monday hundreds of Israelis protested against Mr Netanyahu and his government.

The protests successful Tel Aviv travel arsenic Mr Netanyahu’s authorities has precocious moved to oust apical information and ineligible officials, and resumed the warfare successful Gaza.

“We’re present contiguous to nonstop a precise wide message,” said 1 protester Menashe Yehezkel-Baum. “Stop destroying our precise basal and indispensable institute similar the Supreme Court, the army, the information services, the police.”

Monday’s demonstrations coincided with Mr Netanyahu’s sojourn to Washington. Some of the hostages precocious freed by Hamas militants successful Gaza, arsenic good arsenic their families and supporters, person urged US President Donald Trump to assistance extremity the war.

“We are connected the verge from turning from ideology to dictatorship, and I’m present to support the democracy,” said different protester Nitzan Shekel.