Hamas accuses Netanyahu of attempting to ‘thwart’ ceasefire and hostage deal – because it occurred

• Hamas has stated there is no such thing as a want for brand spanking new ceasefire proposals for Gaza and stress must be placed on Israel to conform to a US plan that the Islamist group had already accepted. In an announcement posted on Telegram early on Thursday, Hamas stated that Netanyahu was making an attempt to thwart an settlement with calls for about the Philadelphi hall in southern Gaza

• A number of individuals had been killed and others wounded when a reported Israeli airstrike hit tents housing displaced Palestinian individuals in Deir el-Balah within the Gaza Strip. An Al Jazeera journalist who visited the scene reported “The attack was sudden in an area that is supposed to be protected. The hospital has turned into a graveyard rather than a place of treatment”

• Israel’s navy has stated that greater than ten projectiles have been fired in the direction of Israel from the course of Lebanon through the day. The bulk had been intercepted and no Israeli accidents had been reported. The IDF stated it had struck at Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, and native media reported one operative was killed. The Israeli overseas ministry stated “we hold the Lebanese government responsible for every Hezbollah rocket fired from its territory”

• Israel’s Shin Guess safety company has launched information claiming that extra rocket launches from Lebanon geared toward Israel and Israeli-controlled territory had been fired throughout August than in another month because the 7 October Hamas assault inside southern Israel

• Polio vaccinations proceed within the Gaza Strip, with displaced households queueing for his or her kids to obtain doses after the primary case of polion in 25 years was declared within the territory

• Palestinian information company Wafa stories medical groups from the emergency polio vaccination marketing campaign have been denied entry to areas east of Salah al-Din Road within the south of the Gaza Strip by Israel’s navy. It says it’s investigating the declare

• Israel’s safety forces continued widespread raids within the occupied West Financial institution. 5 males and a 16-year-old youngster had been killed in separate incidents in Tubas. One of many males killed was named by the Palestinian well being ministry as Mohammed Zubeidi. His father, Zakaria Zubeidi, was a militant commander through the early 2000s and escaped Israeli jail in 2021, earlier than being arrested and returned to jail days later

• Egypt’s military chief of employees Lt Gen Ahmed Fathy Khalifa has visited the border with Gaza to examine the safety scenario there. Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has just lately made management of the Philadelphi hall strip between Gaza and Egypt a situation in ceasefire negotiations

• Police in Germany have shot useless an 18-year-old Austrian man carrying a “long-barrelled gun” after an change of fireplace close to the Israeli consulate and a Nazi historical past museum in Munich. Native media retailers had been fast to level out that the incident occurred on the 52nd anniversary of the assassination assaults on the Munich Olympics of 1972. The Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, expressed “horror” at what he described as a terror assault

Julian Borger, the Guardian’s world affairs editor, stories from Jerusalem

With the Gaza struggle and West Financial institution raids as a backdrop, there’s a third area of battle stirring in Jerusalem, with simply as a lot potential – arguably even larger potential – to unfold battle throughout the area.

Proper-wing members of Benjamin Netanyahu’s authorities are testing the boundaries of a non secular association that has been in place because the 1967 Arab-Israeli struggle.

Based on that 57 year-old understanding between Israel and the Jordanian monarchy, solely Muslims can pray within the compound containing the al-Aqsa mosque and Dome of the Rock shrines (identified to Jews because the Temple Mount). Non-Muslims can go to respectfully however not pray.

That association is now on the purpose of collapse. With the encouragement of the nationwide safety minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, messianic and different extremist Jews are praying more and more overtly on the sacred stone esplanade within the southeastern nook of Jerusalem’s outdated metropolis.

On Wednesday the prayers went additional than ever. A few dozen non secular nationalists prayed out loud and prostrated themselves alongside the japanese wall of the esplanade. The scene was captured by Haaretz journalist, Nir Hasson, who posted the video on X.

For some whereas beneath the Netanyahu authorities, teams of spiritual Jews have been escorted to the secluded japanese wall of the al-Aqsa esplanade, however till now, they’ve principally opted to hope silently and customarily keep upright.

Wednesday was totally different, stated Daniel Seidemann, a lawyer who’s an professional on the problem and the founding father of Terrestrial Jerusalem, an advocacy group which displays the fixed wrestle over land and historical past within the metropolis.

“A lot of this comes down to body language,” Seidemann advised me. “It is a sizable group singing and praying loudly. It is a quorum, a minyan [10 men in traditional Judaism] getting down and prostrating themselves, to make the world know that the status quo is dead.”

I went to look right this moment strolling up the picket ramp to the esplanade. There was a smaller turnout of Jews praying after I was there, separated into two teams of women and men, six in every in the identical sunken japanese walkway going through the Mount of Olives.

I approached to inside 30 metres of the worshippers earlier than being shooed off by the police. As soon as I began shifting away, the group quietly resumed their prayers, some laying themselves out flat on the flag stones.

Below Ben-Gvir’s management, the police at the moment are defending a violation of a established order which Netanyahu’s workplace formally insists stays authorities coverage.

“The police have transformed into something of a militia throughout Israel, even more so at the Mount right now,” Seidemann stated.

“What happened yesterday I believe is a tipping point, because it’s just so blatant, it’s so unapologetic with such volume,” he added. “We in Israel and Palestine are still living under the pall of a possible regional war. It hasn’t gone away. A single event which could trigger such a war, would be an event like this, at al-Aqsa.”

Palestinian information company Wafa stories medical groups from the emergency polio vaccination marketing campaign have been denied entry to areas east of Salah al-Din Road within the south of the Gaza Strip.

The vaccination marketing campaign has been launched after Gaza reported the primary case of the illness for 25 years.

The UN’s Palestinian refugee company Unrwa has described the vaccination programme as profitable however complicated.

Reuters spoke to at least one displaced Palestinian lady who was queueing for along with her son at a vaccination level. Ikram Nasser advised the company “We live based on fear, from the bombing, from the terror, from the destruction, from the injuries. We add to that the fear of diseases that have spread, such as skin diseases, from the lack of cleanliness and the crowding.”

Approached for remark, Reuters stories Israel’s navy is checking stories that entry has been restricted by troops in japanese areas.

One other Gazan resident, Osama Brika, who was taking his nephew for vaccination, advised reporters “My message to the world is that just as you provided us with vaccination so that our children would be safe, you must provide us with a ceasefire and a stop to this war, as this war is a real catastrophe for us.”

Reuters, citing Egypt’s state tv, stories that Egypt’s military chief of employees Lt Gen Ahmed Fathy Khalifa has visited the border with Gaza to examine the safety scenario there.

Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has just lately made management of the Philadelphi hall strip between Gaza and Egypt a situation in ceasefire negotiations. In Could Israel’s navy seized the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza, successfully giving Israel’s navy management over all of Gaza’s land border.

Israel’s navy has stated that eight projectiles have been fired in the direction of Israel from the course of Lebanon within the final hour. It stated that almost all had been intercepted, however “a fallen projectile was identified in the area of Ramat Naftali” and one other “was identified adjacent to Ya’ara”.

On its official Telegram channel the IDF has stated that no casualities had been reported. Earlier Israel claimed to have “struck Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure in the area of Qana in southern Lebanon.”

Haaretz, citing Lebanese channel Al Mayadeen, has reported {that a} Hezbollah fighter was killed in southern Lebanon in an Israeli assault.

Israel’s Shin Guess safety company has launched information claiming that extra rocket launches from Lebanon geared toward Israel and Israeli-controlled territory had been fired throughout August than in another month because the 7 October Hamas assault inside southern Israel.

The Israeli overseas ministry stated “we hold the Lebanese government responsible for every Hezbollah rocket fired from its territory.”

Palestinian information company Wafa has reported {that a} younger Palestinian man was injured by Israeli safety forces within the village of Kafr Qud, which is to the east of Jenin within the occupied West Financial institution.

Citing the Palestine Crimson Crescent Society, the company stories the person was injured within the thigh by dwell bullets, and has been transferred to hospital.

In an announcement on its official Telegram channel, Israel’s navy claims to have “struck Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure in the area of Qana in southern Lebanon.”

The IDF stated it had beforehand intercepted “two suspicious aerial targets” making an attempt to strategy Israel from Lebanon. It stated they had been intercepted earlier than reaching Israel and that no casualties had been reported.

Related Press stories that one of many males killed by an Israeli strike on a automobile in Tubas within the occupied West Financial institution has been named by the Palestinian well being ministry as Mohammed Zubeidi.

His father, Zakaria Zubeidi, was a militant commander through the early 2000s and escaped Israeli jail in 2021, earlier than being arrested and returned to jail days later.

Folks in Gaza have been queueing this morning in an effort to get their kids vaccinated towards Polio.

Earlier the Palestine Crimson Crescent Society reported that it had obtained additonal vaccine provides, and the World Well being Group revealed a map of the place vaccinations can be carried out.

Yesterday Unicef stated that thus far 189,000 kids had been reached by the vaccination marketing campaign. The marketing campaign was launched after Gaza had its first reported polio case in 25 years – a 10-month-old boy, now paralysed within the leg.