Gaza, Hamas and Israel
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On Sunday, Israeli forces launched air strikes and shelling across multiple areas of Gaza, violating the ceasefire. In Khan Younis, naval forces detained two fishermen and destroyed their boat, while artillery and air strikes hit eastern parts of the city, within the Israel-occupied yellow zone.
Hamas has confirmed the death of a top commander in Gaza, a day after Israel said it had killed Raed Saad in a strike outside Gaza City.
The next steps for the president’s 20-point Gaza peace plan have been mired in uncertainty and a lack of detail, but that may be set to change. Here’s what to know.
Israel carried out airstrikes, drone attacks, and artillery shelling across multiple areas of the Gaza Strip, killing several Palestinians.
Israel’s military took journalists into Rafah this week. Troops seized the city at Gaza’s southernmost point last year and largely flattened it.
The rainstorm that battered the enclave this week has left many shivering in tent camps. Despite a cease-fire, rebuilding is still a long way off.
In al-Karama neighbourhood in northern Gaza City, 28-year-old Nesma Hassan lives with her four-year-old daughter in the remnants of her family’s destroyed home. Her husband, Ali, was killed in an Israeli air strike in 2024.
GAZA CITY: Gaza’s civil defence agency said at least 13 people had died in the last 24 hours, including three children who died from exposure to the cold, as a winter storm batters the territory.