The Arab broadcaster Al Jazeera says that 25 people have died and dozens more have been injured in an Israeli bombing that hit a residential building east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip in these hours.
The Palestinian Red Crescent says four people were killed and eight injured following an Israeli shelling that hit a house in the al-Hakr neighborhood of Deir al-Balah in the center of the Gaza Strip yesterday afternoon.
Al Jazeera and the Palestinian news agency Wafa say a 19-year-old boy was shot dead in the head by Israeli soldiers last night while riding in a vehicle in Kharb al-Lahm, West Bank. .
A month to complete the operation against Hamas in Rafah, before the month of Ramadan arrives around March 10th.
This is the timing that Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu indicated to the war cabinet as the maximum limit for defeating the 4 Battalions of the Islamic faction deployed in the southernmost city of the Strip, where there are hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians and where Israel has been increased air raids.
Today, the international media report, 44 Palestinians were killed, including around 12 children, in the attacks in Rafah.
However, the operation in the last city in the south will not start before the evacuation of civilians who find themselves close to the barriers with Egypt.
Netanyahu's assessment, which must deal with adverse international pressure, including the strong contrast with Joe Biden's US, was made, according to the media, during a restricted meeting of the War Cabinet in which the " "double plan" of intervention, after Hamas' "inadmissible" requests for a ceasefire and the release of the hostages for Israel.
With the military operation upon us, the Islamic faction in Gaza has called on the UN Security Council to "convene" an "immediate meeting".
"We ask the United Nations Security Council - Hamas said - to convene an immediate and urgent meeting to confirm its determination to force the Israeli occupation to stop the genocidal war it is committing against the Palestinians in Gaza".
He then warned that the attack on Rafah could "leave tens of thousands of martyrs and wounded", adding that he held "the American administration, the international community and the Israeli occupation" responsible for the possible consequences.
The advance on Rafah, Israel's Hamas stronghold not far from Khan Yunis and where the 'Philadelphia Corridor' full of tunnels with Egypt winds, poses more than one diplomatic risk for Israel.
Cairo has once again notified the government in Jerusalem.
Any mass movement of Palestinians in the Sinai - Egypt has warned according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) - would put the 1979 peace treaty with Israel at risk.
"Egyptian efforts have not stopped - said Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry - to find a solution, a ceasefire and to relieve the Palestinians from the scourge of this war and the serious damage caused to innocent civilians".
But the situation "is evolving negatively".
At the 127th of the war, the IDF is continuing to press on Khan Yunis, where attacks from the air are continuing.
According to a hospital official in Gaza and AP journalists, "the number of Palestinians killed has risen to 44 and of these,
about ten children, the youngest only three months old". According to Al Jazeera, "the Khan Yunis hospital was also hit with several people dead and others injured". The deaths in the Strip due to Israel's attacks, claimed the Hamas Ministry of Health, have risen "to 28,064 with 67,611 injured". In the last 24 hours - according to the same source - "117" people have been killed. And today little Hind, 6 years old, who tried to escape, was found dead. call for help by phone when the family's car came under fire. Israel claims to have killed "the head of Hamas police intelligence Ahmed al-Yaakobi" in a vehicle in Rafah. His deputy, his deputy, were killed in the same attack. Iman a-Rantisi and Ibrahim Shatat, the Hamas police delegate for aid distribution. Military spokesmen then announced that a Hamas intelligence tunnel that passed under a main building was discovered in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City. of UNRWA in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City.
700 meters long and 18 meters deep, it was supplied with "electricity from UNRWA facilities".
While the conflict with Hezbollah in northern Israel continues intense, tension with the Houthis in the Red Sea continues.
US and British armed forces are continuing attacks against the positions of the Yemeni militiamen, allies of Iran who today buried 17 of their own killed in those raids.
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