The office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says Israeli attacks on Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp may be “disproportionate attacks that could amount to war crimes,” reports BBC.
UN chief Antonio Guterres’s spokesman also says the United Nations chief is “appalled” by the Israeli strikes on Jabalia, which was hit twice in two days, killing 195 people, and leaving 120 missing.
The UN children’s agency UNICEF has described attacks on the Jabalia refugee camp as “horrific and appalling”.
Ambulances carrying wounded Palestinians enter Egypt from Gaza through Rafah crossing, which opened for the first time since October 7.
The General Authority for Crossings in Gaza tells Al Jazeera that 335 holders of foreign passports also were allowed to cross.
Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno has announced that his government successfully evacuated from Gaza the 10 Japanese citizens and their eight Palestinian family members who had expressed their desire to leave the territory.
Matsuno also told reporters in Tokyo that one Japanese national living in Gaza remains there with family.
Jordan says it is recalling its ambassador to Israel over the war in Gaza.
Israeli bombardment continues across Gaza overnight, following a day in which the Jabalia refugee camp was hit once again, as well as a bakery. The vicinity of several hospitals was also hit, and the Palestinian death toll in Gaza has now risen to at least 8,805.
Meanwhile, for the second time this week, the Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah has said that it has destroyed an Israeli drone flying over south Lebanon.
Hezbollah said that its fighters had downed the drone using a surface-to-air missile, as cross-border fighting between Hezbollah and Israel increases in the shadow of the war in Gaza.
On the other hand, the Israeli military has claimed to have killed Muhammad A’sar, whom it identified as the head of Hamas’s “antitank missile unit”.
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