Israel issues deadline to release all hostages by Ramadan. The Israeli military is strengthening its stance to carry out ground operations in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
The former defense minister, who is in the wartime cabinet, will be scheduled to be appointed around the 10th of next month. Gaza health authorities said on the 19th that 107 people were killed in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 29,092. It is said that there were approximately 30,000 Hamas fighters as of October last year, but the Israeli government has claimed to have killed more than 12,000 of them.