At least 30 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza, according to medical sources, while the Israeli army said it had deployed ground troops in a so-called “safety corridor” in the south of the territory.
At least six people were killed in an air strike on Khan Younis in southern Gaza and six others in a Raid on Beit Hanoon in the North, Tel Aviv Tribune told Tel Aviv Tribune.
Israel pushed to grasp more territory in Gaza since he broke a truce of several weeks in his war with Hamas in mid-March and resumed his bombing of the devastated territory.
Israel has intensified its attacks since then, saying that it will continue to degenerate until the Palestinian group Hamas releases Israeli captives that were seized during the attack on October 7, 2023 against southern Israel.
Israeli troops were deployed in a newly established security corridor in southern Gaza, the army announced on Saturday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the new “Morag corridor” earlier this week and suggested that he would cut the southern city of Rafah, that Israel had ordered to force, from the rest of Gaza.
It was not immediately clear how many forces were deployed, nor where exactly the new corridor was.
Morag is the name of a Jewish colony which was once between Rafah and Khan Younis, and Netanyahu had suggested that he would run between cities.
The maps published by the Israeli media showed the corridor performing the width of the narrow coastal strip from east to west.
Earlier on Saturday, the Hamas armed wing published a video showing two living Israeli captives in Gaza, addressing the camera and describing how they had survived an alleged Israeli strike.
The Israeli campaign group, the hostage forum and the missing families, published a statement confirming that Maxim Herkin’s family had identified it as one of the two captives in the video. Herkin’s family urged the media not to publish the video.
The Israeli media appointed the second captive as a Israeli soldier Bar Kuperstein.
The two men were withdrawn from the Nova Music Festival and transported to Gaza during the October 7 attack led by Hamas against Israel which killed at least 1,139 people, according to a total of Tel Aviv Tribune based on Israeli statistics.
Fifty-eight captives remain in Gaza, including 34 which, according to the Israeli army, are dead.
During the six-week ceasefire which ended with the resumption of Israel’s air strikes in Gaza on March 18, the combatants presented more than 33 captives, including eight dead.
Israel’s military response to the attack on October 7 killed at least 50,669 people in Gaza, the majority of civilians, according to figures from the Ministry of Health in the United Nations consider reliable.
The United Nations said that at least 100 children had been killed or injured every day in Gaza since the strikes resumed.
“Nothing justifies the murder of children,” said Philippe Lazzarini, head of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) on Saturday.
Trilateral meeting
As part of diplomatic efforts for a truce in Gaza, French president Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday that he would hold a trilateral summit on the situation in Gaza with Egyptian president Abdel Fattah Al-Sissi and the King of Jordan Abdullah II.
“In response to the emergency of Gaza and during my visit to Egypt during the invitation of President Al-Sissi, we will hold a trilateral summit with the Egyptian president and the king of Jordan,” Macron wrote on X before his trip.
The French president is expected in Cairo on Sunday evening, where he will hold talks with his Egyptian counterpart on Monday morning.
The trilateral summit will take place the same day in the Egyptian capital, according to Macron’s office.
Tuesday, Macron will also visit the Egyptian port of El-Arish, 50 km (30 miles) west of Gaza, to meet humanitarian and security workers and demonstrate its “constant mobilization in favor of a ceasefire”.
El-Arish is a transit point for international aid intended for Gaza.
