Hamas official was among 26 people killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza

Hamas, Yemen, and the Houthi rebels continue to attack Israel in their attacks on the rebels of Yemen despite the Israeli attack in Rafah

Several women and children were among the 17 people who died in the strikes in southern Gaza. The Hamas official and his wife were not included in the toll.

The European Hospital said the dead included five children and their parents killed in a strike in Khan Younis. The same family of people was killed in a separate strike on the southern city. A woman and child were killed in an attack, according to the hospital.

Hamas separately said that Salah Bardawil, a member of its political bureau and the Palestinian parliament, was killed in a strike in Mawasi that also killed his wife. Bardawil was a well-known member of the group’s political wing who gave media interviews over the years.

The Palestinian Red Crescent emergency service said Israeli forces were preventing its ambulances from responding to strikes in Rafah and that several of its medics had been wounded.

In Yemen, Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who are allied with Hamas, launched a missile at Israel on Sunday, setting off air raid sirens. The Israeli military said the projectile was intercepted, and there were no reports of casualties or damage.

Despite recent U.S. strikes on the rebels of Yemen, the Houthis continued with their attacks on Israel as a show of support for the Palestinians.

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President Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, proposed that Hamas would release around half of the remaining hostages in exchange for an extension of the ceasefire and a resumption of aid to Gaza, during which talks would start for a permanent end of the war. Hamas said it would release one live dual American-Israeli hostage if talks toward a permanent end of war began immediately.

Israel backed out of the ceasefire deal after Hamas refused Israeli and US-backed proposals to release hostages ahead of any talks on a lasting truce.

The offensive has destroyed vast areas of Gaza and at its height had displaced around 90% of the population. Israel sealed off the territory of 2 million Palestinians from food, fuel, medicine and other supplies earlier this month to pressure Hamas to change the ceasefire agreement.

Mohammed Abu Taha, another resident who fled, said many people were unable to evacuate because of the surprise incursion overnight. He also said his sister and her family were sheltering in a school in an area of Rafah surrounded by Israeli forces.

“It’s displacement under fire,” said Mustafa Gaber, a local journalist who left Tel al-Sultan with his family. Hundreds of people were fleeing in a video call he made. “There are wounded people among us. The situation is very difficult,” he said.

In Rafah on Sunday, Palestinian men, women and children could be seen walking along a dirt road and carrying their belongings in their arms, a recurring scene in a war that has forced most of Gaza’s population to flee within the territory, often multiple times.

Israel’s end-of-the-fire conflict with Hamas ended with a surprise airstrike on December 31, 2014, and Palestinians are expected to return home

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said the new body would be “subject to Israeli and international law” and coordinate “passage by land, sea and air to the destination countries.”

Israel said it would forcibly remove Palestinians from the southern Gaza Strip as it began an offensive in a part of Rafah. The fighting ended in January and many Palestinians returned to their homes.

People were told to get out of Tel al-Sultan on foot, as the military wanted them to leave the poor area of tent camps. Israel ended its ceasefire with Hamas last week when it launched a surprise wave of airstrikes that killed hundreds of Palestinians.

“The Israelis started to shoot at us as we were going out through the safe zone,” he said. Tanks are moving towards us, and shooting into the air.

Last week, the Israeli military also said it had retaken parts of the Netzarim Corridor which divides south and north Gaza. The corridor was a fortified strip of land that troops had withdrawn from at the beginning of the ceasefire. Thousands of Palestinians are being ordered to leave just a few weeks after returning home.