The essential

  • Hamas health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra announced early Saturday the deaths of 36 people, including women and children, in a strike on a house where displaced people were crowded in Nusseirat (central of the Gaza Strip).

  • The Open Arms aid ship, traveling through a new sea corridor from Cyprus, began unloading its cargo of food on Friday, as Hamas proposed a new six-week truce in the war.

  • Israeli NGOs went to Geneva (Switzerland) where they denounced "systematic abuse", and sometimes torture, against Palestinians in detention in Israel.

The essentials of the day before

  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved the army's "action plans" for an offensive in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, according to a statement sent to the press on Friday.

    Washington “would like to have the opportunity to see” this plan, responded a White House spokesperson.

  • The first boat bringing humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip via a sea corridor opened from Cyprus has started unloading its cargo of 200 tonnes of food on the coast of the Palestinian territory, according to the spokesperson for the NGO World Central Kitchen, in charge of the operation.

  • Hamas, which until now demanded a definitive ceasefire in Gaza before any exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, said it was ready for a six-week truce.

    Despite this change in the position of the Palestinian Islamist movement, Israel rejected the proposal, deeming its demands “unrealistic”.

  • The Hamas Health Ministry reported early Friday that 20 people were killed and more than a hundred injured in "Israeli fire" on a crowd waiting for humanitarian aid in the northern Gaza Strip.

    The Israeli army denied opening fire on a crowd, it said in a statement.

  • The White House welcomed the appointment of Mohammad Mustafa as the new Palestinian prime minister, calling on his next government to implement "credible and far-reaching" reforms.

  • American forces announced early Friday that they had destroyed nine anti-ship ballistic missiles and two Houthi drones after shots by Yemeni rebels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden caused "no damage."

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