Trump-Gaza latest: ‘Dozens’ of airstrikes on Gaza despite Trump’s call for Israel to stop bombing immediately
Hamas has accepted certain key parts of Donald Trump's plan, including ending the war, Israel's withdrawal and the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian captives
Israel has launched dozens of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip just hours after Donald Trump called for an immediate ceasefire, Palestinian officials have claimed.
Gaza’s civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that 20 homes had been destroyed in what he called a “very violent night”.
Gaza City’s Baptist hospital said it had received casualties from strikes in the area. Israeli fire killed six people across Gaza Strip, local authorities said. One strike killed four people in a house in Gaza City while another killed two others in Khan Younis in the south, medical workers and local authorities said.
It comes just hours after Donald Trump called for Israel to “immediately stop the bombing of Gaza”.He said he he believed Hamas is ready for “lasting peace” after it accepted some elements of his peace plan, including releasing all of the remaining hostages in Gaza.
Trump has warned “all hell” will break loose if an agreement is not reached by the end of Sunday.
Trump wrote on Truth Social: “Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza, so that we can get the Hostages out safely and quickly!”
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Egypt trying to persuade Hamas to accept Trump’s peace plan
Egypt is working with Qatar and Turkey to persuade Hamas to accept Trump’s proposal, Egypt’s foreign minister Badr Abdelatty said.
Speaking in Paris, he stressed that Hamas must disarm and Israel should not be given a pretext to continue its assault on Gaza.
“Let’s not give any excuse for one party to use Hamas as a pretext for this mad daily killings of civilians. What’s happening is far beyond the seventh of October,” he said.
“It is beyond revenge. This is ethnic cleansing and genocide in motion. So enough is enough,” Abdelatty said.
Hamas leader in Gaza opposes US ceasefire plan - report
Hamas’s military chief in Gaza, Izz al-Din al-Haddad, has reportedly opposed the new US ceasefire plan, believing it aims to dismantle Hamas regardless of its response, according to the BBC.
Israel has accepted the 20-point plan to end the war, put forward by US president Donald Trump, which requires Hamas to disarm and relinquish power in Gaza.
Some Hamas political leaders in Qatar are reportedly open to a modified version of the plan, but they have limited influence as they do not control the hostages held by the group.
Pakistan foreign minister says Trump's Gaza plan 'not ours'
Pakistan’s foreign minister Ishaq Dar claimed US president Donald Trump's 20-point Gaza plan does not align with the draft proposed by a group of Muslim-majority countries.
Speaking during a national assembly session in Islamabad on Friday, he said changes had been made to the original proposal.
"I have made it clear that these 20 points which Trump has made public are not ours,” he said.
“These are not the same as ours. I say that some changes have been made in it, in the draft we had.”
Leaders of Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia and the UAE held a meeting with Trump on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly last month, where the US president discussed his plan for ending the war in Gaza.
Israel launches airstrike near Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) says it struck a Hezbollah facility near Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon, targeting weapons, buildings and underground infrastructure after detecting "terror activity".
The site, previously hit in May and June, was used to manage Hezbollah’s fire and defence operations, the IDF said on Thursday.
MSF denounces killing of 14th staff member in Israeli attack in Gaza
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said one of its staff members was killed in an airstrike while waiting for a bus in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza.
Occupational therapist Omar Hayek, 42, was killed in the attack that seriously injured four others, the international medical group said on Thursday.
“The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir Al-Balah. All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers,” the group said in a statement.
Mr Hayek was described as a "quiet man of profound kindness and utter professionalism". MSF said he had recently fled from Gaza City to the south.
He is the 14th MSF staff member killed in Gaza since the war began, the organisation said.
Dutch supreme court orders government to review of F-35 parts exports to Israel
The Netherlands' highest court has ordered the Dutch government to review its policy on exporting weapons to Israel.
The supreme court on Friday overturned a lower court's ruling that banned the export of F-35 fighter jet parts, but said the government must decide for itself whether there was a risk that the jet parts would be used in violation of international law.
The court gave the government six weeks to complete the review. Until then, the export of the jet parts remains suspended.
Last year, the court of appeal in The Hague ruled that the Netherlands could no longer supply these components because they would constitute serious violations of international humanitarian law.
Situation for mothers and babies 'never been worse' in Gaza, says Unicef
Mothers and newborn babies in Gaza face dire conditions, as Nasser hospital in the south of the enclave is overwhelmed with patients fleeing from the north and medical resources running out, Unicef said on Friday.
"The situation for mothers and newborns in Gaza has never been worse. In Nasser hospital, we're seeing hospital corridors lined with women who've just given birth," said James Elder, a spokesperson for the UN children’s agency.
He denounced the Israel-designated safe zones in the south of Gaza as “places of death”.
“The notion of a safe zone in the south is farcical,” he said, pointing out that “bombs are dropped from the sky with chilling predictability; schools, which had been designated as temporary shelters are regularly reduced to rubble, (and) tents… are regularly engulfed in fire from air attacks”.
Greta Thunberg is to be deported after her aid vessel was intercepted by the Israeli military as it neared the besieged Gaza Strip, Israeli officials have said.
The final sailing flotilla vessel, Marinette, has been captured 42 nautical miles from Gaza, organisers said on Friday.
The move to stop the Global Sumud Flotilla has sparked backlash from the international community. Turkey’s foreign ministry called Israel’s interception “an act of terror”.
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Trump gives Hamas until Sunday to agree Gaza ceasefire plan
US president Donald Trump has given Hamas until Sunday to agree to his Gaza ceasefire plan, or else “all hell” will break out if a deal is not reached by then.
In a post on his Truth Social platform on Friday, he warned Hamas will be given “one last chance”.
“An Agreement must be reached with Hamas by Sunday Evening at SIX (6) P.M., Washington, D.C. time,” he wrote.
“Every Country has signed on! If this LAST CHANCE agreement is not reached, all HELL, like no one has ever seen before, will break out against Hamas.”
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