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Gaza authorities: 76 family members killed in raid
An Israeli airstrike killed 76 members of an extended family in Gaza City, the Associated Press reported on its website, citing aid workers in the enclave who today reported the death toll from yesterday's raid on a building in the city. The attack “was among the bloodiest in the war between Israel and Hamas,” said Mahmoud Bassal, spokesman for the Gaza Civil Protection Department, providing an incomplete list of names and stressing that among the dead were women and children as well as Issam al-Mughrabi, a U.N. employee development program, his wife and their five children.
1:59 p.m
Attack on a ship in the Indian Ocean for Israel leaving Iran
Israel believes that the drone that attacked a Liberian-flagged chemical tanker off the coast of India in recent hours and, according to various sources, linked to the Jewish state, came from Iran. This is reported by the Israeli broadcaster Channel 12.
1:41 p.m
Iran: We will close the Mediterranean if crimes in Gaza continue
This was said by a commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards The Mediterranean could be “closed” if the United States and its allies continue to commit “crimes” in Gaza. Portal reports this on its website. “You should soon expect the closure of the Mediterranean, the Strait of Gibraltar and other waterways,” said Pasdaran commander Mohammad Reza Naqdi, quoted by Tasnim. Iran has no direct access to the Mediterranean and it is unclear how it can try to close it, although Naqdi spoke of “the rise of new resistance powers and the closure of other waterways.”
10:59
Guterres: 136 UN staff killed in Gaza in 75 days
In the 75 days of war in Gaza, 136 UN staff were killed, which was “unprecedented” in the history of the UN, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told his colleagues. “Many of our employees had to leave their homes. “I pay tribute to them and the thousands of humanitarian workers who are risking their lives to help civilians in Gaza,” Guterres wrote again in his tweet.