Israel’s war on Gaza live: Rafah bombarded as Israel plans ground assault

 

  • At least 67 Palestinians were killed in Israeli air and sea attacks on Rafah early on Monday, according to the Health Ministry in Gaza.
  • The Israeli army says it rescued two captives from a house in Rafah’s Shaboura neighbourhood overnight.
  • Israeli snipers have killed seven people inside Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis, the spokesman for Gaza’s Health Ministry says.
  • Israel’s planned ground offensive on Rafah would “blow up” the captive exchange negotiations, Al-Aqsa television channel quoted a senior Hamas leader as saying on Sunday.
  • Israel’s attacks on Gaza have killed at least 28,340 Palestinians and wounded 67,984 others since October 7. The death toll in Israel from the October 7 Hamas-led attacks stands at 1,139.

Prospect of Israeli ground attack on Rafah ‘terrifying’: UN rights chief

Volker Turk, the UN’s human rights chief, has raised alarm over an anticipated Israeli ground assault on Rafah, where more than half of Gaza’s population is packed in with nowhere to flee.

Turk said it is “wholly imaginable what would lie ahead” if the planned incursion is not stopped.

“A potential full-fledged military incursion into Rafah – where some 1.5 million Palestinians are packed against the Egyptian border with nowhere further to flee – is terrifying, given the prospect that an extremely high number of civilians, again mostly children and women, will likely be killed and injured,” Turk said in a statement.


Majority of Americans favour permanent ceasefire in Gaza: Survey

The US-based Institute for Social Policy and Understanding has found that the majority of Muslim, Catholic, Protestant, among them white Evangelical, and non-affiliated Americans favour a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

Though just shy of a majority, Jewish Americans are more likely to favour (50 percent) than oppose (34 percent) a cessation in violence.

However, views on where to lay the blame are divided.

A majority of Jews (65 percent) and white Evangelicals (51 percent) blame Hamas for the ongoing violence, and the plurality of Catholics (47 percent) agree. Muslims are roughly four times as likely to blame the Israeli government (40 percent) for the war.

The survey also found that:

Jewish and Muslim Democrats, like Democrats in the general public, favour an end to the war on Gaza.
The majority of young Americans favour a cessation in violence in Gaza.

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