Palestinians gather to pray near the ruins of a mosque in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip (Reuters)

On the 169th day of the aggression against Gaza, the occupation committed a new massacre against the hungry, claiming dozens of martyrs and wounded, at a time when the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced the death of the first Israeli prisoner of starvation.

Politically, sources revealed to Al Jazeera that Israel's conditions for the prisoner exchange deal did not stipulate a ceasefire, while a Hamas leader described the Israeli response as "very negative."

New massacres

The government media office in Gaza announced the death of 19 Palestinians and the injury of 23 others who were waiting for aid near the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza City as a result of an Israeli bombing.

The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip said on Saturday that the Israeli occupation committed 7 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, of which 72 martyrs and 114 injuries reached hospitals.

The Ministry announced that the death toll from the Israeli war had risen to 32,142 martyrs and 74,412 injured since October 7, 2023.

The occupation repeatedly committed massacres against people waiting for aid in Gaza (Anatolia)

Battles

On the ground, the Al-Qassam Brigades announced that they had targeted 3 Israeli tanks and killed or wounded a number of occupation soldiers south of Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City.

Al-Qassam confirmed that an Israeli troop carrier was also targeted by an “Al-Yassin 105” shell south of the Al-Shifa Complex.

Since the start of the new invasion of the occupation forces into Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex in the Gaza Strip, the resistance has been waging violent battles in its vicinity, and those forces have suffered losses in lives and equipment.

Siege of Al-Shifa Complex

Five of the wounded trapped in the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City were martyred, according to what the Gaza Ministry of Health announced today, Saturday.

The ministry said that the wounded were trapped for six days in a row without water, food, or health services. She added that the besieged medical teams and patients appeal to all UN institutions and the international community to intervene urgently to save their lives.

In turn, Salama Maarouf, head of the Government Information Office in Gaza, said in an interview with Al Jazeera that hundreds of detainees inside the Shifa Complex are being subjected to abuse and humiliation by the occupation forces.

An Israeli prisoner dies of starvation

Abu Ubaida, spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades, announced the death of Israeli prisoner Yegev Bukhataf (34 years old) as a result of lack of medicine and food.

Al-Qassam spokesman said, "We had previously warned that the enemy's prisoners were suffering from the same conditions as our people, from hunger, deprivation, and lack of food."

Abu Ubaida previously revealed that "the number of enemy prisoners who were killed as a result of the enemy army's military operations in the Gaza Strip may exceed 70 prisoners."

Exchange deal developments

Agence France-Presse quoted a leader in the Hamas movement on Saturday as saying that the positions are “very far apart” in the ongoing truce negotiations through mediators in Doha, accusing Israel of deliberately “disrupting and blowing them up,” after sources revealed the Israeli conditions regarding the ceasefire.

A Hamas leadership source also told Al Jazeera that Israel's position conveyed by the Egyptian and Qatari mediators was very negative and aimed to obstruct the agreement.

Earlier, sources revealed to Al Jazeera that the Israeli response presented to the mediators regarding the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip included a refusal to stop the war, the withdrawal of its forces from the Strip, and the return of the displaced without conditions, indicating that the response maintained the framework of the agreement in 3 stages.

The response provided detailed points regarding the exchange of prisoners and conditions for stopping operations. Regarding the return of the displaced, the Israeli response offered a restricted return of two thousand displaced persons per day to the northern Gaza Strip, two weeks after the start of implementation of the agreement.

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An officer was killed

The Israeli occupation army announced that a non-commissioned officer was killed, and an officer and a soldier were seriously injured, as a result of the operation carried out by the Palestinian Mujahid Barakat Mansour in the village of Deir Bazi’ near Ramallah in the West Bank, yesterday, Friday, and he was martyred after clashing with soldiers for hours.

The Israeli army said that the non-commissioned officer who was killed belonged to the elite Duvdevan unit.

Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that 7 Israeli soldiers were injured in the clashes that took place yesterday morning with the Palestinian gunman who attacked a settler bus in Deir Bazi', west of Ramallah, stressing that the wounds of at least two of the wounded soldiers were serious, before announcing the officer's death today.

Guitrich in Rafah

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the world has witnessed enough atrocities in the Gaza Strip, and called for a ceasefire to allow more aid to enter, at a time when the Israeli Foreign Minister attacked him.

Guterres spoke at the crossing on the Egyptian side of Rafah on Saturday, where most of Gaza's residents took refuge, but Israel pledged to send ground forces to Rafah under the pretext of pursuing the Hamas movement, despite the concerns of Guterres and world leaders.

The Secretary-General of the United Nations said, "The Palestinians in Gaza - children, women and men - are still stuck in a nightmare that does not stop." "I carry the voices of the vast majority of the world who have seen enough," he added.

Source: Al Jazeera