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The Palestinian health ministry reported on Sunday that at least 73 people waiting for aid had been killed across Gaza in Israeli attacks.
The largest toll was in northern Gaza, where at least 67 Palestinian people were killed while attempting to access aid entering northern Gaza through the Zikim crossing with Israel, according to health officials. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.
At least 58,895 Palestinian people have been killed and 140,980 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since 7 October 2023, the Gaza health ministry said in an updated death toll. Around 130 Palestinian people were killed and 495 others injured in the last 24 hours alone, the ministry said.
The Israeli military issued evacuation orders for the city of Deir al-Balah – a crowded part of central Gaza full of displaced Palestinian people with nowhere safe to flee relentless bombardments.
A fragile calm returned to southern Syria’s Sweida province on Sunday, after fighters withdrew following a week of violence estimated by a war-monitor to have killed over 1,000 people. The uneasy calm was reported by local residents after Syria’s Islamist-led government said Bedouin fighters had withdrawn from the predominantly Druze city (you can read more in this story).
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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 75, is recovering from a bout of food poisoning, his office has said.
He fell ill overnight and was found to be suffering from intestinal inflammation and dehydration, for which he is receiving intravenous fluids, a statement said.
“In accordance with his doctors’ instructions, the prime minister will rest at home for the next three days and will manage state affairs from there,” his office added.
Netanyahu was fitted with a pacemaker in 2023 and last December he had his prostate removed after he was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection.
