Closing summary
It’s 3.30am in the Gaza Strip and Tel Aviv and we’re about to pause this live coverage. A new blog can be found here. All our reporting on the Israel-Gaza war and wider Middle East crisis can be seen here. A recap of the latest key developments follows. Thanks for reading.
A total of 23,968 Palestinians have been killed and another 60,582 injured by Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said on Sunday. In the past 24 hours, 125 Palestinians were killed and 265 were injured, the ministry added.
Three gunmen who crossed into Israel from Lebanon and two Israelis were killed in clashes and a strike along the frontier between the two countries on Sunday, the army and medics said. Five soldiers were wounded in the firefight with the gunmen, the Israeli military said. Earlier, an Israeli man was pronounced dead and a woman, who the local municipality said was his mother, died later after a missile strike in the Israeli border community of Kfar Yuval that reportedly wounded multiple Israelis.
The US has denied Houthi reports that it carried out new attacks in Yemen that hit the port city of Hodeidah on Sunday. Speaking to Agence France-Presse on condition of anonymity, a US defence official said: “No US or coalition strike occurred today.”
Arab-Israeli legislator Ahmad Tibi said on social media that three of his relatives, including a 10-year-old boy, had been killed in a strike on Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
Hamas has aired video footage showing three Israeli hostages it is holding in Gaza in which they urged Israel’s government to stop its offensive against the militant group and bring about their release, as both sides marked the 100th day of the war. The undated 37-second video of the three captives – aged 26, 53 and 38 – aired on Sunday ended with the chyron: “Tomorrow we will inform you of their fate.”
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said Israel had “failed” in Gaza and would be forced to negotiate. He made the remarks in a televised address on Sunday.
Bangladesh has voiced its support for South Africa in its genocide case against Israel at the international court of justice. Bangladesh “welcomes the opportunity to file a declaration of intervention in the proceedings in due course”, its ministry of foreign affairs said. Namibia, meanwhile, rejected what it called Germany’s support of the “genocidal intent of the racist Israeli state against innocent civilians in Gaza”. The Namibian presidency pointed to Germany’s “inability to draw lessons from its horrific history”, citing the 20th century’s first genocide – the Herero-Namaqua genocide perpetrated by German forces on Namibian soil from 1904-08.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has called the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza caused by Israel’s attacks across the strip – which have displaced nearly 2 million Palestinians – one of the world’s “most complex and challenging” operations. The UNRWA said on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday: “The massive destruction, displacement, hunger & loss of last 100 days are staining our shared humanity.”
The World Health Organisation and its partners have visited al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza and Nasser medical complex in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus said on X that both hospitals required “sustained support and protection to remain operational” and that they were “vital lifelines for patients and thousands of displaced people in Gaza”.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society has set up shelter tents for 315 displaced Palestinian families in the Mawasi Rafah area near the Egyptian border.
An Israeli footballer who displayed a message referring to the Israel-Gaza war during a match in Turkey has been arrested, according to reports in Turkish media. Earlier on Sunday, the country’s justice minister announced an investigation into Sagiv Jehezkel for suspected “incitement to hate” after his club, Antalyaspor, sacked him over the matter. Jehezkel scored a goal for his team and then displayed a message reading “100 days. 07/10” on a bandage on his wrist.
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China is calling for a larger-scale, more authoritative and effective international peace conference over the Israel-Hamas war and a concrete timetable to implement a two-state solution, its foreign minister has said.
Wang Yi made the comments to reporters after talks with the Egyptian foreign minister, Sameh Shoukry, in Cairo on the war, according to a statement from the Chinese foreign ministry late on Sunday.
Reuters also reports that separately, Wang also held talks with the secretary general of the League of Arab States and the two sides had an in-depth exchange of views on the conflict, reaching several points on helping to solve the crisis.
Wang, China’s top diplomat, is currently travelling through Egypt, Tunisia, Togo and the Ivory Coast until Thursday.
After talks with his Egyptian counterpart, Wang said the conflict in Gaza was continuing to escalate and “is causing massive casualties among innocent civilians, leading to serious humanitarian disasters and accelerating the spread of negative spillover effects”, according to the Chinese foreign ministry statement.
He said China had decided to provide a third tranche of emergency humanitarian assistance.
Wang also said the international community should listen carefully to the legitimate concerns of countries in the region, “and the future governance of Gaza should be an important step towards the two-state solution”.
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