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28-04-2025
JERUSALEM/ GAZA/ SANA’A: Israeli forces continue bombarding Gaza, killing at least 40 Palestinians on Saturday, as aid officials sound the alarm over “full-scale famine conditions” amid Israel’s blockade.
Hamas says it presented its “vision for reaching a comprehensive deal that achieves a ceasefire, prisoner exchange, and reconstruction” to mediators in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
US keeps up its offensive against Yemen’s Houthis, bombing several neighborhoods in Sanaa and wounding at least eight people, according to media reports.
At least 51,495 Palestinians have been confirmed killed and 117,524 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza since it began 18 months ago. The Gaza Government Media Office updated its death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.
At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks and more than 200 were taken captive.
The Palestinian group has now issued a statement saying that its delegation, headed by Mujahid Muhammad Darwish, has left Cairo.
“The delegation presented the movement’s vision for reaching a comprehensive deal that achieves a ceasefire, prisoner exchange, relief and reconstruction. It was agreed to exert further efforts and continue communication to ensure the success of these efforts,” the statement said.
“The meeting also addressed the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip after two months of a total blockade, with the occupation preventing the entry of aid, food, and medical supplies into the Strip. The meeting also emphasized the need for urgent action to deliver aid and meet the needs of the Strip’s citizens,” it added.
The statement did not offer details on the group’s vision for a comprehensive deal.
According to media affiliated with the Ansar Allah [the Houthis], US fighter jets launched new air strikes on Saturday evening, on several Yemeni provinces, targeting different areas, particularly in the capital, Sanaa, and the northern province of Saada.
The attacks included three air raids around the city of Saada and four targeting the Kitaf district in the province of Saada.
In Sanaa, what the Yemeni sources are calling aggression, involved a series of air strikes on Al-Sab’een, with one of them hitting a house near the Lebanese hospital. US forces also hit a residential neighborhood in the Bani Al-Harith district in the north of the capital, injuring at least eight civilians.
These attacks come after the US forces carried out more than 15 raids targeting the provinces of Hodeidah, Saada, Marib and Al Mahwit, in what has been described as an ongoing escalation.
Naftali Bennett says the Israeli military has been “stretched beyond its limits” with the fighting in Gaza, the occupied West Bank, the Jordan Valley, Lebanon, Syria and the Sinai over the past year and a half.
“Never have we been required to manage so many borders and soldiers,” he said, in a lengthy post on social media.
“At this moment, the (Israeli army) is short 20,000 soldiers.”
Bennett called on the government to further lift restrictions on enlisting ultra-orthodox Jewish Israelis to help alleviate pressure on other reservists, which he said includes his son.
In January, the Israeli military enlisted 338 ultra-Orthodox Jews, after the Supreme Court ruled there was no legal ground for previous exemptions. (Int’l News Desk)
