Netanyahu convenes war cabinet to discuss continued Rafah operation despite ruling from UN court ordering it to halt movements there
’s financial centre for the first time in four months, as the Islamist Palestinian group sought to show military strength despite Israel ’swas convening his war cabinet later on Sunday to discuss continued operations in Rafah. Israel argues that the UN court’s ruling allows room for some military action there.
On Sunday, Israeli strikes killed at least five Palestinians in Rafah, according to local medical services. The Gaza health ministry identified the dead as civilians. Fighting also continued in the northern Gaza area of Jabaliya, the scene of intense combat earlier in the war. During one raid, the military said it found a weapons storage site with dozens of rocket parts and weapons at a school.
A Palestinian boy rides a bicycle past a destroyed building in Rafah on Sunday. Photograph: Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Khaled Zayed of the Egyptian Red Crescent told Reuters 200 trucks of aid, including four fuel trucks, were expected to enter Gaza on Sunday through Kerem Shalom.
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