Hamas-Israel war: two hostages released in Rafah, around a hundred Palestinians killed. Fernando Simon Marman, 60, and Louis Har, 70, two Argentines held hostage by Hamas.

“Victory is within reach,” Benjamin Netanyahu declared on the American channel ABC News. Israel will provide “safe passage for the civilian population so that they can leave” the city, he added. Around 1.7 million people, according to the UN, have fled their homes since October 7 in the devastated Palestinian territory.