Updates: Israel-Hamas war

• Gaza war death toll at 40,074 since Oct 7, says health ministry
•  At least 15 Palestinians killed in Israeli strike in central Gaza: WAFA
•  Pakistan decries Israeli settlers’ assault on Al-Aqsa Mosque: FO
•  Israel orders mass evacuations despite Gaza ceasefire hopes

• 18 August 2024 | 10:14 AMUS secretary of state to arrive in Israel in push for Gaza ceasefire
• 18 August 2024 | 09:09 AMIsraeli strike kills 15 of a family; two Israeli soldiers, two Hamas fighters killed separately
• 18 August 2024 | 06:35 AMTwo Hamas fighters killed in West Bank strike
• 18 August 2024 | 01:22 AMHamas official says Netanyahu main obstacle to achieving ceasefire
• 17 August 2024 | 11:30 PMIsraeli strike kills 15 from same family, say Gaza rescuers
• 17 August 2024 | 10:23 PMIsrael negotiating team expressed ‘cautious optimism’ on Gaza hostage deal, says Netanyahu office
• 17 August 2024 | 09:45 PMShock, grief as Israeli Lebanon strike kills 10 Syrians
• 17 August 2024 | 08:39 PMUN official says people in Gaza trapped in endless nightmare
• 17 August 2024 | 07:35 PMHere are the latest casualty figures as per the Palestinian Ministry of Health
• 17 August 2024 | 06:42 PMHamas official disperses ‘illusion’ that Gaze truce nearer

• Sunday Aug 18, 2024, | 10:14 AMUS Secretary of state to arrive in Israel in the push for Gaza ceasefire 
• US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to arrive in Israel on Sunday as part of Washington’s intensifying diplomatic push to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza that will end the 10-month-old war between Israel and Hamas.The top US diplomat’s tenth trip to the region since the war began in October last year comes days after the United States put forward bridging proposals that it and mediators Qatar and Egypt believe would close gaps between the warring parties. 
• Sunday Aug 18 2024 | 09:09 AM Israeli strike kills 15 of a family; two Israeli soldiers, two Hamas fighters killed separately By: ReutersAt least 17 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike in the central Gaza town of Zawayda on Saturday, health officials said, as Israel issued new evacuation orders, citing Hamas rocket fire nearby.Israel also announced the names of two soldiers Israeli media reported were killed on Saturday afternoon when a roadside bomb exploded in the central Gaza Strip, and an air strike in the occupied West Bank that it said killed two senior Hamas fighters involved in the killing of an Israeli.15 of the people killed in Zawayda were from the same family and they included eight children and four women, according to health officials in the Hamas-administered enclave.”They were asleep in their beds, kids and babies, then three missiles targeted their place,” said Abu Ahmed Hassan, a neighbour. The owner of the house was a known merchant, he said. “There are no military activities here at all,” he added. 
• Sunday Aug 18 2024 | 06:35 AMTwo Hamas fighters killed in West Bank strike By: ReutersRAMALLAH: Israel said it killed two senior Hamas members in an airstrike on their car in Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, claiming they were involved in the killing of an Israeli.
  A joint statement from the Israel Security Agency and the Israel Defense Forces identified the Hamas leaders as Ahmed Abu Ara and Rafet Dawasi, both from the West Bank’s northern district around Jenin.In a statement, Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades military wing said it was mourning the deaths of two fighters in an Israeli air strike on their vehicle in Jenin.The Israeli statement said the two were involved in planning a shooting attack last week in the West Bank’s Jordan Valley where an Israeli man, Yonatan Deutsch, was killed. 
• Sunday Aug 18 2024 | 01:22 AMHamas official says Netanyahu main obstacle to achieving ceasefire By: Web DeskHamas official Osama Hamdan has said that “everyone understands” now that Netanyahu and his government are not willing to achieve a ceasefire deal.
  Talking to told Al Jazeera, Hamdan said: “The Israelis, in the two-day negotiations, rejected the paper, introduced by the Americans on June 24 based on Biden’s initiative, the entire Security Council resolution, and also responsible for the Israeli points.”“We have to remember … what the army minister in Israel said, which was the main obstacle to achieving an agreement, is Netanyahu. He was, and is, the obstacle.” 
• Saturday Aug 17 2024 | 11:30 PMIsraeli strike kills 15 from same family, say Gaza rescuers By: AFPGaza’s civil defence agency said an Israeli air strike in the early hours of Saturday killed 15 members of a Palestinian family, including nine children and three women.The strike hit the home of the Ajlah family in Al-Zawaida neighbourhood of central Gaza, civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP. 
• Saturday Aug 17 2024 | 10:23 PMIsrael negotiating team expressed ‘cautious optimism’ on Gaza hostage deal, says Netanyahu office By: ReutersIsrael’s negotiating team has expressed “cautious optimism” on the possibility of advancing a Gaza hostage deal, according to a statement on Saturday from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office.”The team expressed cautious optimism to the prime minister regarding the possibility of advancing a deal based on the latest American proposal (which is based on the May 27th framework),” the statement read. 
• Saturday Aug 17 2024 | 09:45 PMShock, grief as Israeli Lebanon strike kills 10 Syrians By: AFPSobbing relatives thronged Sheikh Ragheb Hospital Saturday after an Israeli air strike killed 10 Syrians, including two children, who had escaped war at home only to die in south Lebanon.The early morning strike hit a building in the Wadi al-Kafur area of Nabatieh, killing the 10 including a mother and her two children, Lebanon’s health ministry said. 
• Saturday Aug 17 2024 | 08:39 PMUN official says people in Gaza trapped in endless nightmare By: Web Desk
   
• Saturday Aug 17 2024 | 07:35 PMHere are the latest casualty figures as per the Palestinian Ministry of Health By: Web DeskGaza
  • At least 40,005 people, including nearly 16,500 children have been killed
  • More than 92,401 people have been injured
  • More than 10,000 are missing
  Occupied West Bank
  • At least 632 people, including more than 147 children have been killed
  • More than 5,400 have been injured
  IsraelIn Israel, officials revised the death toll from the October 7 attacks down from 1,405 to 1,139.
  • At least 1,139 people killed
  • At least 8,730 injured
   
• Saturday Aug 17 2024 | 06:42 PMHamas official disperses ‘illusion’ that Gaze truce nearer By: AFPA senior Hamas official on Saturday dismissed optimistic talk by US President Joe Biden that a Gaza truce is nearer after negotiations in the Gulf emirate of Qatar.”To say that we are getting close to a deal is an illusion,” Hamas political bureau member Sami Abu Zuhri told AFP. “We are not facing a deal or real negotiations, but rather the imposing of American diktats.”

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