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A group of 1,000 current and former Israeli Air Force reservists called for the return of all captives held in Gaza, "even if it means ending the war".
"The continuation of the war doesn’t advance any of the declared goals of the war and will bring about the deaths of the hostages, soldiers and innocent civilians," reads a letter published by the reservists in Israeli media.
The letter called for the "immediate return" of Israeli captives from Gaza, saying that the current war is being fought for "political and personal interests".
At least 15 more Palestinians were detained in fresh Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank, according to prisoners’ affairs groups.
The arrests, which took place in several towns and areas in the occupied West Bank, included a journalist and a woman from Nablus city, the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a joint statement.
At least 40 more Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes in Gaza in the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll from Israel’s genocidal war since October 2023 to 50,886, the Health Ministry has said.
A ministry statement said that 146 wounded people were also transferred to hospitals, taking the number of injuries to 115,875 in the Israeli onslaught.
“Many victims are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.
The Turkish Defence Ministry has said that to ensure regional security, Israel must abandon its expansionist, occupying stance, and the international community must prevent this unlawfulness.
“Israel's activities in the West Bank and continued attacks on neighbouring countries are harming regional stability and peace,” according to a statement from the Turkish National Defence Ministry.
The foreign ministers of Egypt and Iran spoke over the phone and discussed efforts to restore the ceasefire in Gaza, according to an Egyptian Foreign Ministry statement.
Badr Abdelatty and Abbas Araghchi discussed efforts to start the implementation of the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement.
Yemen's Houthis said that overnight strikes blamed on the United States killed three people in the capital, Sanaa.
"Three citizens were killed in the American aggression on the Sabeen neighbourhood of the capital," news agency Saba said, quoting the health ministry.
At least four Palestinians were killed and several others wounded in Israeli strikes in Gaza.
In Khan Younis, an airstrike on a tent for displaced people left two people dead and several others injured in the Al-Qarara town, according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA.
A child was also killed in the Al-Fukhari area, Khan Younis, as a result of Israeli artillery shelling.
The news agency also reported that one more Palestinian was killed in an Israeli strike on a tent for the displaced people in central Gaza.
It added that Israel carried out artillery shelling overnight in several areas across Gaza, including the southern cities of Rafah and Khan Younis, eastern Gaza City, and northern Gaza's Beit Lahia town.
The Israeli army has released some 80 detainees from Gaza, with some hospitalised at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza, a medical source tells Anadolu.
The detainees were set free at the Israeli-controlled Kissufim crossing in eastern Khan Younis in southern Gaza, the sources added.
A medical source said that at least 10 of the freed prisoners were in poor health and were hospitalised at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Deir al-Balah.
An Israeli prisoner freed in a Gaza prisoner swap said that she received threats and insults from supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for blaming him for the October 7 attack.
Earlier, Israeli state television KAN interviewed Liri Albag, who was released about two months ago as part of the exchange deal between the Palestinian resistance group Hamas and Israel.
Albag blamed Netanyahu's government for the Hamas attack, saying, “You are to blame, and you need to fix what you did.” Following the interview, Albag said she faced backlash from Netanyahu's Likud party supporters. "I’m reading the comments, the threats, and the insults, and I’m scared,” she wrote in an Instagram post.