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Palestinian resistance group Hamas said its fighters succeeded in ambushing Israeli troops in Tuffah area in eastern Gaza City killing and injuring several soldiers.
The Israeli military announced later that a soldier was killed in the fighting, the first fatality since Israel breached the ceasefire last month.
The military added that three other soldiers were also wounded.
Hundreds of Israeli soldiers have been killed in by Palestinian resistance during the ongoing Israeli brutal war on the tiny enclave.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu affirmed his commitment to preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, declaring he would not waver in that effort.
"I'm committed to preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. I will not give up on this, I will not let go of it, and I will not retreat from it -- not even by a millimetre," Netanyahu said in a televised statement.
Israeli authorities have denied Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa’s permission to visit Palestinian towns and villages in the occupied West Bank that have been repeatedly targeted by illegal settlers, a Palestinian official said.
Mouayed Shaban, head of the Colonization and Wall and Resistance Commission, told Anadolu Agency that Israel refused to coordinate Mustafa’s planned visit to the villages of Burqa and Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah, and Duma and Qusra, south of Nablus.
Palestine warned of growing incitement by Israeli far-right settler groups calling for the destruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem.
Palestine’s Foreign Ministry condemned an AI-generated video titled “Next Year in Jerusalem,” circulating on extremist Hebrew platforms. The video shows Al-Aqsa Mosque being bombed and replaced by a so-called Third Temple.
In a statement, the ministry called the video “a systematic provocation aimed at escalating attacks on Islamic and Christian holy sites in occupied Jerusalem.”
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed concern over the recent US air strikes in and around Yemen’s port of Ra’s Isa, his spokesman said.
Guterres is "gravely concerned about the airstrikes conducted by the United States over the course of 17 and 18 April in and around Yemen’s port of Ra’s Isa, which reportedly resulted in scores of civilian casualties, including five humanitarian workers injured," Stephane Dujarric said in a statement.
Guterres is also "alarmed" by reports of significant damage to the port infrastructure and of possible oil leaks into the Red Sea, Dujarric said.
Former Israeli Air Force Chief Nimrod Sheffer announced that he was dismissed from military reserve service due to his signing a petition calling for an end to the war in order to secure the return of hostages from Gaza.
The number of Israelis who signed petitions demanding the return of captives from Gaza even at the cost of halting the war climbed to nearly 140,000, according to the campaign, which is gaining momentum across Israeli society.
The movement, coordinated through the website Restored Israel, reflects growing frustration over the government's military strategy and its failure to secure the release of captives.
In the past 24 hours alone, over 10,000 new signatories joined the campaign. As of early Saturday, the total number of signatures had reached 138,434, up from 128,114 on Friday. The number is expected to continue rising.
Hamas's armed wing released a video showing an Israeli captive alive in Gaza speaking on a telephone in Hebrew.
The Qassam Brigades released the more than four-minute clip, in which the hostage is seen sitting in a tiny room.
Armed illegal Israeli settlers stormed the Bedouin village of Ras Ein al-Auja, north of Jericho in the occupied eastern West Bank, attacking Palestinian-owned property, according to eyewitnesses and human rights groups.
Hassan Mleihat, coordinator of the al-Baydar Organisation for the Defence of Bedouin Rights, said armed illegal settlers in groups entered the village with herds of sheep, grazing them near Palestinian homes, damaging property, and trying to stop residents from reaching their lands.
“Settler attacks on Bedouin communities have sharply escalated and now target every aspect of Bedouin life,” Mleihat said.