Israel’s continued closure of the Rafah border crossing is “choking off the entry of life-saving aid into Gaza”, says the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society has shared photos on X documenting how its members evacuated the body of “a martyr following the targeting of a motorcycle at the Abu Halawa junction in Rafah”.
Turkish Trade Minister Omer Bolat says Israeli claims of Ankara easing its trade ban with Israel are “absolutely fictional and have nothing to do with reality”.
Turkey’s trade ban with Israel will remain in place until a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and humanitarian aid flow to the region is secured, the minister said on X.
Earlier Israel’s foreign minister said that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had retreated on his earlier position and lifted many of the trade restrictions he imposed on Israel.
Hamas’s political bureau says its delegation has left Cairo, where they held ceasefire talks, and is en route to Doha, Qatar.
In a statement, the bureau said Israel’s invasion of Rafah and occupation of the Rafah border crossing were aimed at blocking the efforts of the mediators and escalating the war.
It also reaffirmed the group’s “commitment and adherence” to the current truce proposal.
At 3am (02:00 GMT) last Wednesday, as the rain poured down, pro-Palestine students at Bristol University set up an encampment opposite a study centre on campus.
Eugenia and five other student activists who had met at previous protests put four tents together. But despite the cold, more sprung up over the next few nights.
“It’s now grown to at least 20 tents, with loads of people rotating in and out, usually about 30 [people] at the camp during the day. But it’s sometimes more if we have a specific event on,” Eugenia, an organiser with the Bristol for Palestine group, told Al Jazeera.
Relaxing Turkey’s ban on exports to Israel is “out of the question” though companies have three months to fulfil existing orders via third countries, a Turkish Trade Ministry source has said.
In a document seen by Reuters, the Trade Ministry outlined the three-month reprieve for companies exporting to Israel. Ankara introduced the trade ban with Israel last week.
Separately, Israel’s foreign minister said that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had retreated on his earlier position and lifted many of the trade restrictions he imposed on Israel, adding the lesson to draw was not to succumb to threats “of a dictator”.
We have been reporting on the US delaying an arms shipment to Israel, but let’s take a look back at what deliveries have been completed since Israel began its war on Gaza.
The US Defense Department has publicly stated that it has sent Israel more than 50,000 M795 155mm artillery shells. These shells are effectively large bullets that are used in howitzer systems, which are towed large guns.
It also sent 30,000 M4 propelling charges for howitzers, as well as thousands of artillery shells and tank rounds.
The Biden administration doesn’t have to notify Congress of other military aid deliveries if they fall below a certain value. However, US media outlets have reported other military sales to Israel, including guidance kits for converting “dumb” bombs into GPS-guided munitions.
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) collated a list of some of the other weapon deliveries made by the US using public information and news reports available about the weapons delivered.
Palestinian Civil Defence teams have exhumed 49 bodies from another mass grave recently uncovered at Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital.
It is the seventh mass grave discovered during the war, according to health officials.
“The corpses are those of children, women, and men, and most of them were patients,” paramedic Adel al-Mashharawi told Al Jazeera.
