Palestinians and the Houthi: Israeli strikes in the southern Gaza Strip on Oct. 7, 2017, as a demonstration of solidarity with the Palestinians
Several women and children were among the 17 people killed from strikes in southern Gaza. The Hamas official and his wife were not included in the toll.
The European Hospital said the dead included five children and their parents killed in a strike in Khan Younis. The family of four, two girls and their parents, was killed in a strike on the city. The Kuwaiti Hospital said it received the bodies of a woman and child killed in another strike.
Hamas claimed that a member of their political bureau and a member of the Palestinian parliament were killed in a strike. Bardawil gave interviews to the media for years as a member of the political wing of the group.
The Palestinian Red Crescent emergency service said Israeli forces were preventing its ambulances from responding to strikes in Rafah and that several of its medics had been wounded.
In a separate development, Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, who are allied with Hamas, launched another missile at Israel overnight and into Sunday, setting off air raid sirens. There were no reports of casualties or damage, and the projectile was stopped by the Israeli military.
Despite the recent missile attacks on the rebels, the Houthis resumed their attacks on Israel, while portraying them as an act of solidarity with the Palestinians.
In an attack on Oct. 7, some 1,200 people, most of them civilians, were killed by militant group Hamas. Most of the captives have been released in truce agreements or other deals, as well as eight who were saved and recovered dozens of bodies.
After Hamas refused Israeli and U.S.-backed proposals to release more hostages before any talks on a long-term truce, Israel withdrew from the ceasefire agreement.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli strikes across the southern Gaza Strip killed at least 26 Palestinians overnight into Sunday, including a Hamas political leader and several women and children. Residents said tanks had advanced into an area of the southern city of Rafah as the military ordered it evacuated.
Mohammed Abu Taha, another resident who fled, said many people were unable to evacuate because of the surprise incursion overnight. He said his sister and family were in a school in a school area that was surrounded by Israeli forces.
The journalist who left Tel al-Sultan with his family said displacement was under fire. Hundreds of people were fleeing as tank and drone fire echoed nearby, in a video call. “There are wounded people among us. The situation is very difficult,” he said.
In Rafah on Sunday, Palestinian men, women and children could be seen walking along a dirt road and carrying their belongings in their arms, a recurring scene in a war that has forced most of Gaza’s population to flee within the territory, often multiple times.
The Gazan War as a Test for State and Local Law: Israel’s Defense Minister and the Secretary of State on a Mission to Gaza
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said the new body would be “subject to Israeli and international law” and coordinate “passage by land, sea and air to the destination countries.”
The Israeli military said on Sunday that it was ordering mass evacuations of Palestinians from southern Gaza, as it launched an offensive in a part of Rafah. After months of displacement due to fighting, many Palestinians returned to their houses during the January ceasefire.
The military forced people to leave Tel al-Sultan on foot along a single route to the Mawasi area, where there are squalid tent camps. Last week, Israel launched a surprise wave of airstrikes, killing hundreds of Palestinians, and ended its ceasefire with Hamas.
He said that the Israelis started to shoot at them as they went out through the safe zone. Tanks are moving towards us, shooting rounds in the street.
Last week, the Israeli military also said it had retaken parts of the Netzarim Corridor which divides south and north Gaza. The corridor is a fortified strip of land that troops had withdrawn from at the beginning of the ceasefire in January. The thousands of Palestinians there are facing mass expulsion orders just a few weeks after returning home.