This occurred as 700 people were still confined by Israeli tanks in the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza. There, an Israeli attack claimed the lives of twelve Palestinians, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
In the meantime, families of the hostages begged Israel’s Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, not to advocate for the execution of Palestinian militants who are in custody.
Why is this story important?
On October 7, after the Palestinian terror group Hamas invaded Israel, murdering 1,200 people and kidnapping almost 240 more, the Israel-Hamas conflict broke out.
Over 13,300 people have died as a result of Israel’s retaliatory attacks in Gaza, which is controlled by Hamas, including about 5,600 children and 3,550 women.
In exchange for the release of 50 hostages, negotiations for a potential three-day truce are being mediated by Qatar.
Prior to now, US and Israeli authorities denied rumors that a truce was being worked out for the release of Hamas hostages, although they did point to developments.
Ben-Gvir is confronted by hostage families over the death penalty.
Ben-Gvir, a well-known far-right politician, is said to have been advocating for legislation that would make it easier for captured Palestinian militants to be executed.
Israeli lawmakers are being urged by the relatives of the Hamas detainees not to escalate hostilities until the hostages are released.
They worry that talking about executions could have disastrous results.
In a related development, three Palestinians were killed in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza and at least 17 in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to reports of Israeli attacks.
The senior EU official advocates for a state in Palestine
Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), denounced the Israeli offensive, calling it a “unparalleled” massacre of civilians in Gaza.
He remarked that such misery should never be experienced by people or health professionals.
Furthermore, the best assurance for Israeli security, according to EU Ambassador Josep Borrell, is the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Borrell stated that after the current crisis is over, Gaza should be governed by the Palestinian Authority. Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, recently turned down a similar Biden request.
28 preterm infants were flown to Egypt.
A group of twenty-eight preterm babies who were evacuated from al-Shifa Hospital on Monday were flown to Egypt in order to receive emergency medical attention. Israel seized control of the largest medical facility in Gaza, claiming it was the home of Hamas headquarters.
A number of additional patients perished in the hospital as a result of the incubators failing as a result of the medical services collapsing under Israel’s military assault on Gaza City.
Israel recently claimed to have discovered a “Hamas tunnel” at the al-Shifa Hospital; however, Gaza’s Health Ministry referred to this as a “pure lie.”