At least 21 Palestinians died and several others were injured in a nighttime bombing raid by Israeli warplanes on Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip and Khan Yunis in the south. according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa. In particular, 18 victims were recorded in a house in the al-Manara district of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. The other three were found in the rubble of a house in Deir al-Balah, in the center of the Palestinian enclave.
Meanwhile, Paris announced that a French and a Jordanian military transport plane had dropped 7.7 tons of medical supplies for a field hospital in the Gaza Strip during a joint operation. “The humanitarian situation in Gaza remains critical: in a difficult context, France and Jordan have provided assistance to the population and those who help them,” wrote French President Emmanuel Macron in a post on X last night. The operation was carried out at night from Thursday to Friday and aimed to provide medical assistance to the Jordanian field hospital in the southern city of Khan Yunis. The first airdrop by a Western country into the Gaza Strip was agreed upon during Macron's recent visit to Jordan last month, the French presidency said. Both C-130 aircraft had French and Jordanian troops on board as the operation was closely coordinated, Paris added.
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for rocket fire in northern Israel Like this this morning “first reaction” to the assassination of Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri. Haaretz reported this, citing a statement from Hezbollah that 62 rockets were fired. At least 30 rockets were fired at Israel in the early hours of the morning today, writes Ynet, stating that the targets of the barrage were in particular the Galilee and the Golan Heights. According to other reports, some rockets hit Mount Meron while others were intercepted. Warning sirens wailed in the north of the country.
Meanwhile, Hamas's Palestinian Health Ministry has announced Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip You caused this 22,722 people have died since the war began. This latest count includes 122 people killed in the last 24 hours, the ministry said in a statement, which also reported 58,166 injured since October 7.
And thatThe World Health Organization and the United Nations have carried out a new shipment of medical supplies to the south of the Gaza Stripsaid WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, reports the Guardian. The delivery included eight refrigerators, eight solar panels and clean birthing kits to support 66 births, as well as medicines and surgical supplies.
The supplies were sent to a drug warehouse run by the Hamas-run Palestinian Ministry of Health in Khan Younis and would be distributed from there to hospitals, Ghebreyesus said, stressing that they represented a “glimmer of hope” for the population in the south. But they represent “only a small part of what would be necessary”.
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