Israel: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opposes the military’s plan for daily tactical pauses along a main road into Gaza to allow aid delivery.
The daily pauses in the area from the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing to the Salah al-Din Road and then northward had been declared by the IDF. They would last from 05:00 to 16:00 GMT.
“When the prime minister heard the reports of an 11-hour humanitarian pause in the morning, he turned to his military secretary and made it clear that this was unacceptable to him,” an Israeli official told the Reuters news agency.
The military clarified that normal operations would continue in Rafah, the main focus of its ongoing assault in southern Gaza, where eight soldiers were killed on Saturday.
On Sunday, the first day of Eid al-Adha, the biggest Muslim holiday of the year, Israel soldiers destroyed homes in the neighborhood and carried out attacks there.
Nine individuals, including six children, were murdered in an Israeli attack on two houses in the central Gazan refugee camp of Bureij, according to the Palestinian state news agency Wafa.
According to Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondents on the ground, an ambulance carrying victims was targeted by the military after at least two Palestinians were murdered in another Israeli attack in Rafah’s western Tal as-Sultan neighborhood.
Additionally, the Israeli military reported that three soldiers—two of them reservists—had died on Sunday in combat.
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