Israel killed 71 in prison attack, Iran says, as Netanyahu-ordered Gaza strikes continue
*More Israeli army arrests, assaults in occupied West Bank *Israel facing growing pressure – at home and abroad – to reach Gaza ceasefire
Trump previously said Israel could wrap up its operations inside of Gaza within the next two weeks. But while Israeli officials have hinted they are closer to achieving their objectives, they are in no way there.
Israel’s attack on Evin Prison in Iran’s capital killed at least 71 people last week, Iranian judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir says, with the dead including family members of detainees.
Israeli forces killed at least 60 people in Gaza on Saturday, hospital sources tell Al Jazeera, including at least nine children in an attack on Gaza City’s Tuffah neighbourhood, as hunger continues to stalk the territory.
The Israeli army says it killed senior Hamas figure Hakham Muhammad Issa al-Issa in fighting in Gaza City. Hamas has not commented.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 56,412 people and wounded 133,054, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7 attacks, and more than 200 taken captive.
Israeli forces have carried out a wave of violent incursions and arrests across the occupied West Bank, reports the Wafa news agency. The incidents include:
Al Jazeera, noting it is reporting from Amman, Jordan, because it has been banned in Israel and the occupied West Bank, reported that there are more evacuation threats and more Palestinians forcibly displaced across the Gaza Strip, as Netanyahu convenes his cabinet and later will hold security consultations about the idea of a ceasefire.
Trump previously said Israel could wrap up its operations inside of Gaza within the next two weeks. But while Israeli officials have hinted they are closer to achieving their objectives, they are in no way there.
They haven’t completed any of the goals they set out to achieve more than 20 months ago and all the pressure is being upped on them, both domestically and internationally, to reach a deal.
Last week, Netanyahu said mediators were still talking to negotiators behind the scenes to try to secure a 60-day pause in the fighting that wouldn’t mean an end to the war, but the prime minister also denied there were any talks towards formally ending the war.
