Israeli strike on humanitarian zone kills at least 40, says Gaza Civil Defense

The Gaza Civil Defense announced that 40 people were killed in an Israeli strike in the Al-Mawasi humanitarian zone in Khan Younis, on the night of Monday 9 to Tuesday 10 September. It also reported 60 wounded and “15 people missing”. The Israeli army said it had targeted the area, which it described as a “command center” from Hamas after identifying the presence of leaders of the Palestinian terrorist movement there. Hamas has denied having fighters in the area. Follow our live coverage.

IDF orders new evacuations in the Gaza Strip. A map calling for the evacuation of various neighborhoods in the northwest of the Palestinian enclave “considered dangerous combat zones” has been published on the social network X by a spokesman for the Israeli army. The IDF, which is continuing its offensive, had nevertheless announced at the beginning of January that it had “completed the dismantling of the military structure” Hamas in the north.

Antony Blinken visits the United Kingdom to discuss the Middle East. The head of American diplomacy is to meet in London with his British counterpart David Lammy and the Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The opportunity for the United States and the United Kingdom to iron out their differences on Gaza, while the United Kingdom has hardened its positions towards Israel.

The UN warns of the situation in the West Bank. “In the West Bank, deadly and destructive operations, some of them on a scale unmatched in the last two decades, are worsening a calamitous situation already exacerbated by deadly settler violence.”warned theand UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk.


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