A four-year-old Palestinian girl died in an attack on a checkpoint in East Jerusalem, not far from the West Bank city of Biddu. According to Israeli police, the little girl was “accidentally” hit by bullets that officers fired to neutralize the two people in the car who had hit a border guard, slightly injuring him. The attackers, a man and a woman, also died. In Jenin, also in the West Bank, an airstrike carried out by Tel Aviv forces using drones killed at least seven people, while an Israeli border police officer, 18-year-old Sergeant Shay Germay, died when a bomb struck the vehicle where he was traveling. And again: an Israeli was shot dead in the West Bank. A bloody Sunday that did not spare journalists: two people were killed in an Israeli attack west of Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip. 29-year-old Hamza Al-Dahdouh, one of the murdered reporters, was the son of Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau director, Wael Al-Dahdouh. The freelancer Mustafa Tharaya died with him. Ali Salem Abu Ajwa, also a journalist and nephew of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who founded Hamas in Gaza in 1987 and was its spiritual leader until he was killed by Israel in 2004, was killed in another raid in the Gaza Strip. Al Jazeera said it “strongly” condemned Israel's killing of journalists, which is aimed at preventing reporters “from carrying out their mission and thereby violating the principles of press freedom.” For Hamas, Israel aims to “intimidate journalists, a failed attempt to obscure the truth and prevent media reporting.”
While US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke of an “unimaginable tragedy”. Deaths that compound the toll of three months of war. According to the Ministry of Health there, over 22,800 Palestinians died in the Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip. Children in particular suffer from the offensive. According to Save The Children, more than ten minors lose a limb every day in the enclave. Tel Aviv, in turn, after announcing the dismantling of Hamas' military capabilities in the north of the enclave, claimed responsibility for the killing of 8,000 militiamen in the same area in attacks in response to the October 7 massacres. The crisis is the focus of the new diplomatic trip, the fourth since the war began, by Blinken, who met King Abdullah II in Jordan before traveling to Qatar. The Jordanian leader warned the US official of the “catastrophic impact” of the war in Gaza. Blinken responded to Amman's concerns about possible Israeli plans to relocate Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank, emphasizing the United States' “opposition to the forcible expulsion of Palestinians” from both areas. Israeli President Isaac Herzog also weighed in on the issue, claiming that the relocation was “absolutely not the position of the Israeli government, the Israeli parliament or Israeli public opinion.” American concerns remain about a possible expansion of the conflict into Lebanon. U.S. officials interviewed by The Washington Post said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may want a real war with Hezbollah for political reasons. Netanyahu himself issued an urgent warning to the Lebanese militiamen: “Hezbollah is learning what Hamas has already learned in the last few months. No terrorist is immune,” he warned.