Joe Biden will speak today with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the first phone call since February 15.
Israeli media announced it.
"The day new data on the famine in Gaza is released, the Israeli authorities deny my entry into Gaza": says Philippe Lazzarini, the general commissioner of UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, in his account avoided with political will."
The Israeli army has taken control of the Shifa hospital in Gaza City
and called on Hamas members inside to leave and surrender.
The military spokesperson made this known, quoted by the media.
The same source said that so far 80 suspicious people have been "captured by soldiers" and that "some of these have been confirmed as operational terrorists".
The spokesperson then added "that numerous Hamas armed men were killed and wounded in firefights on the hospital grounds".
The army had announced a "high precision" military operation in the hospital facility, the largest in the Palestinian city, following intelligence information about the presence of senior Hamas officials in the medical complex.
According to witnesses, bombings occurred.
"We know that Hamas terrorists have gathered inside Al-Shifa hospital and are using it to organize attacks against Israel," Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari explained in a video posted on X, adding that the Tel Aviv's army reportedly conducted a "humanitarian effort" during the assault and stressed that there is "no obligation" for patients and medical staff to evacuate the health facility.
The Israeli army and the Shin Bet announced that "Faiq Mabhuoch, head of Hamas' internal security operations, was killed" in the operation.
The military spokesperson made this known according to which Mabhuoch was also "responsible for coordinating Hamas' terrorist activities in the Strip".
The senior exponent of the Islamic faction "was eliminated in a clash with the troops while he was armed and hidden in a compound near the Shifa hospital from which he operated and carried out the terrorist activity".
Find weapons in the room next to where he was hiding.
According to Gaza's health ministry, around 30,000 people, including displaced civilians, injured patients and medical staff, are trapped inside the al-Shifa medical complex.
Al Jazeera reports it.
"Anyone who tries to move is targeted by bullets," the ministry wrote on Telegram.
The same ministry launched an appeal to all international organizations to "immediately stop this (Israeli) massacre against the sick, injured, displaced people and medical staff inside al-Shifa hospital".
Al Jazeera reports it.
The displaced people, adds the ministry, are trapped in 2 hospital buildings.
A fire broke out near the gate and cases of suffocation among women and children inside the buildings were reported.
Targeting anyone who approaches windows is another crime against healthcare institutions, the ministry concludes.
Video Israel shows video of terrorists shooting from Shifa hospital
UNRWA, 400 workers killed and over 1000 injured in Gaza
"Over 150 UNRWA facilities have been destroyed, 400 workers have been killed and more than 1,000 injured as a result of Israel's war on Gaza. Israel has arrested several agency employees and mistreated them", and this while "a large number of civilians and children continues to die and hunger increases."
This was said by UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini while meeting Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry in Cairo, to whom he explained the enormous difficulties that the UN agency for Palestinian refugees is encountering in providing aid to the civilian population of the Strip. of Gaza.
Sources Israel: 'The negotiations in Doha will involve Sinwar'
The negotiations in Doha - where an Israeli delegation led by Mossad chief David Barnea is headed - "will involve Sinwar and will last at least two weeks".
An Israeli political source quoted by the media said this.
According to another source, reported by Ynet, the "substance of the negotiation is a 42-day truce in exchange for 40 hostages".
"It will be - it was noted - a long and complex process. There is an external Hamas in Qatar and an internal Hamas in the tunnels, the negotiations are with Sinwar who is in the tunnels".
The delegation received "a clear mandate" from the government which however set "clear red lines" for the negotiation.
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