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Here’s where things stand on Thursday 19 June 2025:
- The White House says US President Donald Trump will make a decision on whether the US will join in the Israel-Iran conflict in the next two weeks.
- Israel’s Defence Minister Katz says “eliminating” Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is one of the country’s war goals.
- Iranian missiles caused serious damage at four sites in central and southern Israel, including at the Soroka hospital, while Israeli forces attacked Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor.
- US President Donald Trump says he’s still weighing his options on United States military intervention in the escalating hostilities.
- The death toll from Israel’s attacks on Iran has risen to more than 240, including 70 women and children. At least 24 people have been killed in Iranian attacks on Israel.
US envoy remaining ‘in contact’ with Iran representatives, White House says
US President Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, has been holding meetings at the White House today with the British foreign secretary and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Reporting from Washington, DC, Al Jazeera’s Kimberly Halkett said the Trump administration has indicated that Witkoff “is continuing to stay in contact with Iranian representatives”.
Iran’s foreign minister will be meeting with his French, British and German counterparts in Geneva on Friday.
“We expect that the message that will be conveyed on Friday [at that meeting] … is that the United States is looking for a path for a diplomatic resolution,” Halkett said.
Trump may be seeking to test Iran’s ‘weaker’ position
Former AP regional editor Dan Perry says he is inclined to believe that Trump is delaying his decision to strike Iran to allow for diplomacy to test Tehran’s position despite the deception that comes with the fog of war.
“I think he sort of let loose the dogs here to create pressure on Iran,” Perry told Al Jazeera.
“And then if they are prepared to come back to the table, this time slightly tail between legs and a little bit in a weaker position, and perhaps more flexible as a consequence, I think he would want to test that,” he said.
“You can always bunker-bust Fordow later. So the logic of that suggests to me that this might be true. If so, it would be a disappointment to the Israeli government.”
Photos: Large crowds gather in Ahvaz, Iran, for funerals of people killed in Israeli strikes
Iran pledges ‘maximum support’ for people with damaged homes
The country’s official news agency IRNA says the government has started damage registration for buildings hit in Israeli attacks.
It said Minister of Urban Development Farzaneh Sadegh pledged “maximum support for the reconstruction and renovation of residential homes”.
Hezbollah chief says group stands with Iran
Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Naim Qassem has broken his silence, releasing an lengthy statement expressing support for Iran against Israeli attacks and US threats.
He said Trump’s suggestion that the US could assassinate Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is an “aggression” against all the people of the region.
Despite its deep ties with Iran, Hezbollah has been sitting on the sidelines since the start of the Israeli assault. Weakened by its devastating war with Israel last year, the group has not activated the Lebanese front.
“We, in Hezbollah and the Islamic Resistance, are not neutral between the legitimate and independent rights of Iran and America’s malevolence and its aggression with the cancerous tumour, Israel,” Qassem said.
The statement left the door open for a possible intervention by Hezbollah, saying that the group will do “what it sees appropriate” to confront “this heinous American-Israeli aggression”.
Trump’s artificial deadlines are fluid
It seems like US President Donald Trump is giving time and space for diplomacy.
This feels a bit like it could be a trap, because it could be an opportunity for Iran to yet again present its red lines – not having any enrichment capabilities – and the US president using that against them as an excuse.
What is important is that Donald Trump still hasn’t made up his mind.
We have to remember to take these things with a grain of salt.
Trump says he had given the Russian president two weeks in the past to reach an agreement with Ukraine; that deadline came and went, and he has not imposed any sanctions on Russia.
Trump’s two-week deadline could be a ploy
Al Jazeera’s senior analyst Marwan Bishara says Trump may still carry out strikes on Iran within the two-week deadline that his spokesperson just announced.
“He could actually use that as a pretext in order to camouflage whatever his intentions are and attack tomorrow,” Bishara said.
Trump had renewed his commitment to diplomacy with Iran hours before the Israeli strikes began last week.
Bishara said the US president could also be pausing his decision to allow talks between Iranian and European officials tomorrow and see where they may lead.
“If one has to over-interpret, I would say the following: He’s giving the Europeans some time so that everyone could save face,” he said.
‘This is a war on the Iranian people’
Iranian American analyst Negar Mortazavi says Israeli attacks are targeting Iran as a nation, not just the governing system.
“This is a war on the Iranian people as much as it is on the regime,” Mortazavi told Al Jazeera.
“Anybody who wasn’t sure about where the ‘freedom’ bombs would be dropped is now clear-eyed that there’s no way the ‘freedom’ bombs will only come on military and nuclear targets to free the people.
“No, the ‘freedom’ bombs are also coming in people’s homes. Civilians are being killed in big numbers.”
Air defences activated in Tehran
Iran’s Tasnim news agency says “successful” air defence operations are continuing in the centre, east and west of the Iranian capital.
Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah renews warning for US against entering war
Abu Ali al-Askari, the spokesperson of the Iran-allied group, says if the US joins Israel in its assault, it will suffer severe consequences and lose the investments it was promised from Gulf states.
“There is no doubt that US bases in the region will resemble fields for hunting ducks, the straits of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandeb will be closed and the oil ports in the Red Sea will stop, not to mention what will happen to its aircraft in the sky,” he said in a statement.
More from Leavitt
The White House spokesperson says the US government maintains that it is a “fact that Iran has never been closer to obtaining a nuclear weapon”.
She says the US is “monitoring and watching” the developments in the Israel-Iran conflict and the US president was just in an intelligence briefing and he continues to be briefed by his National Security Council.
He also remains in “constant communication with our Israeli counterparts, most notably, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu”.
She also said Trump has made it clear he always wants to “pursue diplomacy, but … the president is unafraid to use strength if necessary”.
What is the War Powers Act?
As Trump increasingly appears to hint at the possibility of US engagement in the Israel-Iraq conflict, some lawmakers are seeking to reassert a congressional role under the War Powers Act.
The act was passed during the Vietnam War in 1973 by US lawmakers after decades of US intervention to reassert their authority over military action.
The law restricts the president’s war-making powers – or that was its intention at least.
You can find out more about the act with our explainer on the topic here.
Trump will decide on US involvement in Israel-Iran conflict within two weeks: White House
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says that US President Donald Trump will decide on whether the US will get involved in the Israel-Iran conflict in the next two weeks.
Citing a message from Trump, Leavitt told reporters, “Based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks.”
How close are Iran and Israel to full-scale war?
As Tehran evacuates, an unpopular Iranian government must win over a panicked public facing an all-out war.
What does this mean for Iran’s future, and how is the leadership reshaping the narrative?
One Palestinian killed in settler attack near Hebron: Report
Wafa, citing the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the occupied West Bank, reports that Israeli settlers have opened fire on Palestinian civilians in Surif town, northwest of Hebron, killing one and injuring seven.
The occupied West Bank is home to more than three million Palestinians who live under Israeli military rule with the Palestinian Authority governing in limited areas.
Israel has so far built more than 100 settlements across the West Bank, which are home to about 500,000 settlers.
Settlers are Israeli citizens living illegally on private Palestinian land in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem.
Netanyahu says change or fall of Iranian regime ‘not a formal goal we have’
Israel’s prime minister says: “The matter of changing the regime or the fall of this regime is first and foremost a matter for the Iranian people. There is no substitute for this.”
Speaking to the public broadcaster Kan, he said regime change “could be a result” of Israel’s attacks on the country, but it’s “not a stated or formal goal that we have”.
Explosions heard in Tehran
Our colleagues in Iran’s capital are reporting that air defence systems are active and there have been continuous sounds of explosions.
We will bring you more as we get it.
Israel’s PM says Tehran will pay a heavy price following damage to hospital
Netanyahu said that following the damage to the Soroka hospital after one missile got through Israel’s defence systems, three people were seriously injured, and 80 people were injured in total.
Most of the missiles today, about 40 in total, came this morning.
The Israelis are also saying they believe that, for the first time, the Iranians fired cluster munitions – and they are much harder to intercept.
The missile explodes high up in the atmosphere, and then it sends these smaller missiles over an eight-kilometre (five-mile) radius, raining on the ground, and so it’s much harder for the air defence systems to intercept them.
The Israelis are worried about some of them not exploding and therefore leaving live munitions trailing on the ground.
Israelis will be allowed to travel abroad on Monday: Report
Israel’s Minister of Transportation Miri Regev has said that, as of Monday, Israelis will be able to travel abroad – subject to an exceptions committee, Israeli Army Radio reports.
Photos: The aftermath of Iran’s strike on Ramat Gan
Conflict with Iran has not stopped Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip
The Israeli military has not stopped its operations and attacks across the Gaza Strip.
We’re seeing Palestinians still being killed in makeshift tents, in public spaces, and also in residential buildings.
This has been happening every single day, and whatever is happening in Iran has not affected what is going on in the Gaza Strip.
Earlier today, the Israeli forces attacked a charging point which Palestinians use to charge their phones, batteries, and LED lights.
Palestinians are being killed as they are trying to get aid, trying to get food every single day.
Iranian attacks failing to diminish Israeli public’s support for war
Iranian attacks are so far failing to undermine the widespread Israeli public opinion in support of attacking Iran, Dan Perry, former Associated Press regional editor based in Tel Aviv, tells Al Jazeera.
“I think the narrative in Israel is that although it’s a tragedy that 20-some people have been killed … it’s ‘less bad’ than could have been expected, maybe less bad than they planned,” he said.
“And I don’t think it’s enough to alter the public perception that the attack on Iran’s nuclear programme is justified and even that the implications that Israel would welcome regime change in Iran are also justified, given Iran’s proxy militia programme in the region and its support for Hamas.
“But this can change very quickly if a missile gets through and the Iranians ‘get lucky’ in a way and end up killing 300 people in some 30-storey tower.
“If that happens, you’d be looking at something else. Now, which way that would go is anyone’s guess. It could mean that the public has less appetite [for fighting], but it could lead to a very dangerous [escalation].”
There have been a couple of missile volleys launched at Israel today
More than 200 Israelis were reported injured in the morning volley of 30 Iranian missiles, including four described to be in critical condition.
The first volley of missiles hit several areas in the larger Tel Aviv district, as well as in Beersheba in the south, where the Soroka hospital is.
In the north, in Tel Aviv, damage occurred, and one building collapsed in Holon.
The second volley, which happened earlier this afternoon, was a 15-missile barrage. There are no reports of direct impacts. There are no visuals because of the restrictions imposed by the Israeli military.
But we know the area covered in this volley was different. It was Haifa, the northern, lower and middle Galilee, as well as the occupied Golan Heights.
There are several witness reports of cars catching on fire, as well as fragments falling in various locations, but the medical services do not report any injuries.
Iran’s foreign minister to appeal to UK, France and Germany for help in stopping the fighting
The Iranian foreign minister will travel to Geneva to meet with his British, French and German counterparts on Friday in the hopes that they could exert pressure on Trump to rein in Israel’s attacks on his country, Foad Izadi, a professor of international relations at Tehran University, tells Al Jazeera.
“Iran has been flexible in giving concessions [on nuclear enrichment],” he said, speaking from Tehran.
“The problem that we have is, as we saw today from the Israeli defence minister, they want regime change.
“They knew that Iran’s nuclear programme is not weaponising. Most of the world knew that already.
“Now we realise the real reason for attacking Iran – they want to change the government of Iran, which is not going to happen.”
What’s the impact of the Israel-Iran conflict on oil prices?
As the Israel-Iran conflict escalates, every missile launched could reverberate through the global economy.
At risk is 20 percent of the world’s oil, which flows through the Strait of Hormuz.
Vital trade routes, the shipping industry, travel and tourism face threats too.
Oil prices had soared to $76.45 a barrel. If they continue to rise, it would push up the cost of living worldwide.
Photos: Palestinians in Gaza mourn the loss of loved ones killed in Israeli strikes
Israeli attacks kill 84 Palestinians in Gaza on Thursday so far
Here is a reminder that alongside its strikes on Iran, Israel has been continuing its attacks on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian Health officials say 84 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza today.
At least 59 of those were killed in Gaza City and the north of the enclave, while 16 were killed while waiting for aid assistance near the Netzarim Corridor.
Meeting tomorrow between Iranian, European top diplomats ‘very important’
Former UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths has expressed hope that tomorrow’s planned meeting between Iran’s foreign minister and European counterparts will “shine a light on possible alternatives to war”.
The meeting, scheduled in Geneva tomorrow, is “well-timed” and opportune “not because they’re going to solve the problem”, but because it gives Iran a discrete way to relay its expectations and any concessions it may be willing to make, Griffiths told Al Jazeera.
“A diplomatic solution as evinced by those talks tomorrow could be very, very important,” he said. “A diplomatic deal is always more messy, less efficient in some ways, but it’s safer.”
Iranian Nobel Peace laureates call for end to war
Iranian human rights activists and Nobel Peace Prize laureates Narges Mohammadi and Shirin Ebadi have urged that the war between Israel and Iran end.
“Stop the war and choose dialogue over destruction,” they said in a statement on the Nobel Women’s Initiative website.
“This war, initiated by Israel in violation of international law, is already causing immense suffering and threatens to ignite a broader regional and global conflict. Civilians, including women and children, are being killed,” the statement read.
It added that Ebadi, alongside civil society activists, is demanding “an immediate stop to uranium enrichment, an end to attacks on vital infrastructure in both Iran and Israel, and full respect for human rights, including non-interference in each country’s internal affairs”.
Ebadi, who received the 2003 award for her efforts for democracy and the rights of women, children and refugees, lives in exile in the UK.
Mohammadi received her award in 2023 for her fight for women’s rights and against the death penalty in Iran. She is serving a lengthy sentence in Tehran’s Evin prison.
IRGC announces wave 15 of attacks on Israel
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says via the country’s state media that “a new round of combined missile-drone attacks against military targets and industrial centres related to the military industry in the cities of Haifa and Tel Aviv has begun.”
It said drone operations continue with more than 100 types of combat and suicide drones launched against military targets, especially air defence systems in Haifa and Tel Aviv.
Its message ends with a warning that it will intensify missile attacks against military and military industrial targets in Israel.
German chancellor urges moderation in call with Netanyahu: Report
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has urged Netanyahu for more moderation in Israel’s campaign against Iran, a German government source told the Reuters news agency.
Merz voiced Germany’s support for Israel’s attacks on Iran but stressed the importance of seeking diplomatic solutions to the conflict, the source said.
Netanyahu claims Israel ‘accurately hit’ nuclear, missile targets
The Israeli PM has posted a video of himself outside Beersheba’s Soroka Medical Center, which suffered damage from an Iranian missile attack today.
In it, he claims the Israeli military “accurately hit nuclear targets and missile targets, and they [Iran] hit a hospital, where people can’t even get up and run away”.
“That’s the whole difference in a democracy that acts according to the law to save itself from these murderers and against these murderers who want to destroy each and every one of us”.
Israel has regularly attacked hospitals in its war on Gaza, with officials in the besieged enclave stating that Israel has bombed and burned at least 36 hospitals across the Gaza Strip since the war began in October 2023.
Trump posts cryptic Iran message
The US president has pushed back on a Wall Street Journal report claiming he privately approved attack plans for Iran but delayed a final go-ahead in hopes Iran would abandon its nuclear programme.
Writing on his Truth Social social media platform, Trump said, “The Wall Street Journal has No Idea what my thoughts are concerning Iran!”
As of yesterday, Trump said he was still unsure about authorising a strike.
“We’ll see what happens. I’ve been asked about it by everybody, but I haven’t made a decision,” he told reporters.
Russia ready to mediate conflict between Iran, Israel and US
Putin has “repeatedly” said Russia can help mediate the situation arising between the three countries, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov has told Al Jazeera.
“Everyone was expecting the negotiations in Muscat between the Americans and the Iranians. We also expected these negotiations to continue and had high hopes for them, but unfortunately, the Israeli strike on June 13 disrupted this process,” Bogdanov said, speaking to Al Jazeera at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum.
“However, we hope that this is not the final collapse of all our hopes and we are always ready, if the parties to the conflict also consider it useful, to also provide mediation services since our relations are advanced,” he said.
“I think that our friends in the Gulf are also ready to continue this work, because we do not see any other solution to this problem.”
Israel threatens to kill Iran’s supreme leader after missile strikes
“This man absolutely should not continue to exist.”
Israel’s defence minister threatened to assassinate Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after Iranian missile strikes across Israel.
The missiles injured dozens, damaging a hospital, a high-rise, and several residential buildings.
No injuries reported in Israel after latest missile barrage: Local media
Iran fired at least 10 missiles at Israel in its latest salvo, reports The Times of Israel, citing military “assessments”.
The media said Israel’s emergency service received “no immediate reports of impacts in populated areas or injuries”.
The Israeli military also said moments ago that people can leave protected areas, signalling that the attack is over.
Trump still weighing whether to use bunker buster bombs in Iran, meeting advisers in coming hours
The US president has not said anything in the last hour or so.
But it’s being widely reported that there are plans that would allow the United States to join Israel in its fight against Iran.
The real thing here is the “bunker buster” bombs – which the US has and Israel does not have – according to the president. He is reportedly weighing whether [using this bomb against Iran] would be effective in destroying its Fordow nuclear plant or whether it would allow things to escalate into a full-blown war.
We are told that the president believes there could be a single attack with US assistance that would not lead to escalation. But these are some of the questions that are being weighed.
He is set to meet with his advising team again at 15:30 GMT in the Situation Room. We’ll watch carefully to see what comes out of that.
Iran’s FM defends strike that damaged Soroka hospital, vows to ‘pummel’ Israel
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has claimed a missile attack earlier today hit an Israeli military and intelligence centre located near Soroka hospital, causing only “superficial damage to a small section” of the health facility.
Araghchi also claimed that the facility was “largely evacuated” and has mainly been used “to treat Israeli soldiers” fighting in the Gaza war.
“Our powerful Armed Forces will continue to pummel the criminals who target our people until they cease and pay for their criminal aggression against our nation,” said Araghchi, urging Israeli civilians to avoid military sites.
Earlier, as we reported, Soroka hospital’s Director General Shlomi Kodesh said Iran’s missile attack hit an old surgical ward at the hospital, causing “widespread damage” there and throughout the complex and leaving some people with light injuries.
Photos of the aftermath of the attack show major wreckage in one part of the medical complex, with blown-out windows and debris scattered across nearby buildings.
With more than 1,000 beds, Soroka hospital is the largest in southern Israel and serves a region home to over one million residents. It says it treats at least 15,000 cancer patients each year.
Missiles have been launched at Israel from Iran: Israeli military
In a post on X, the Israeli military says it has identified that missiles were recently launched from Iran towards Israel, and its defence systems are working to intercept the threat.
It has also told the Israeli public to move to protected areas and remain there until further notice.
We will bring you more information as we get it.
Iran has been in an internet blackout for 24 hours: Netblocks
London-based internet watchdog Netblocks says it has now been 24 hours since Iran imposed a nationwide internet shutdown.
In a post on X, it said the ongoing blackout is the most “severe tracked since the November 2019 protests in Iran and impacts the public’s ability to stay connected at a time when communications are vital”.
On Wednesday, Iran’s Ministry of Communications said it will temporarily limit internet access to prevent “the enemy from threatening citizens’ lives and property” amid the ongoing war with Israel.
Israel would not carry out attack without American support: Iranian official
Israel’s attack on Tehran occurred while Iran was holding talks at the request of the American president, “who claimed to be seeking peace”, says Ali Larijani, adviser to Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader.
“In the final stages of the negotiations, the United States was not seeking to resolve the issues, but rather was trying to impose specific demands on us,” Larijani said.
“[Israel] would not have carried out its aggression against us without an American decision, and we believe that Trump resorted to deception in this regard.”
The official added: “Despite the assassination of our military leaders by the Zionist entity, their replacements were appointed within less than 12 hours. Israel imagined that it would force Iran to retreat within a few days, but this did not happen.”
Netanyahu visits Soroka Medical Center, says Israel keeping ‘all options open’
Netanyahu has made a visit to Beersheba’s Soroka Medical Center, which suffered damage from an Iranian missile attack today, according to Israeli media reports.
During the visit, Netanyahu said he would not exclude the possibility of targeting Iran’s supreme leader, The Times of Israel reported.
“No one is immune,” Netanyahu was quoted as saying. “All the options are open.”
“It’s best not to speak about this in the press,” he added.
Earlier, Israel’s defence minister explicitly said that taking out Khamenei was one of Israel’s war goals.
One Iranian ballistic missile used ‘cluster bomb warhead’: Report
At least one of 20 ballistic missiles Iran launched at Israel today contained a “cluster bomb warhead”, reports The Times of Israel, citing the Israeli military’s Home Front Command.
As such warheads fall, they break apart and scatter a group of smaller munitions, said the report. One of the munitions from today’s attack struck a home in Azor, causing damage, it added.
“Iran has claimed to possess Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicles (MIRV) ballistic missiles, as well as other projectiles with submunitions, which allow a single missile to hit several targets”, a journalist with the newspaper wrote on X.
“The army warns the public not to approach any missile remains they may find on the ground, which are hazardous and may explode,” reports The Times of Israel.
Netanyahu to hold security meeting tonight: Report
Israeli media outlets are reporting that the prime minister will hold a small security meeting at 10pm (19:00 GMT).
The meeting follows strikes by Iran today on several areas of Israel, injuring more than 100 people.
More than 5,000 people left homeless in Israel due to conflict with Iran: Report
Thousands of people in Israel have become homeless as a result of Iran’s retaliatory missile attacks, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth is reporting.
The Israeli Ministry of Interior classified 5,110 people as homeless, including 907 from Tel Aviv, the report said.
Khamenei says Israel calling on Americans for help ‘sign of weakness’
“The very fact that the Zionist regime’s American friends have entered the scene and are saying such things is a sign of that regime’s weakness and inability”, Iran’s supreme leader posted on X.
As we reported earlier, Israel’s defence minister said today that “eliminating” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was a goal of its war on Iran.
“I would like to tell our dear nation that if the enemy senses that you fear them, they won’t let go of you. Continue the very behavior that you have had up to this day; continue this behavior with strength”, Khamenei continued.
Can the Israeli and Iranian economies sustain a war?
As Israel and Iran carry out strikes against each other for a seventh straight day, the region is anxiously bracing for a potentially wider conflict. But question marks remain over the two sides’ ability to finance a sustained war effort.
On Friday, Israel killed several of Iran’s top military commanders and nuclear scientists and damaged some of its nuclear sites. It has since damaged parts of Iran’s fossil fuel sector. In response, Iran has launched missile attacks at government buildings and metropolitan areas in Israel.
As of Thursday, the Israeli attacks have killed 240 people, while Iranian strikes have killed at least 24 people.
But the conflict is also costing both nations billions of dollars and could choke their economic growth and trigger concerns over long-term fiscal planning.
Learn more in our explainer here.
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France preparing to help its citizens evacuate from Israel, Iran
France is preparing to help its citizens in Israel and Iran to leave those countries, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot has said.
Barrot told reporters that a convoy will be arranged by the end of the week to get French nationals without their own means of doing so to the Turkish or Armenian borders with Iran to access airports in those countries.
French citizens in Israel, meanwhile, will be able to board buses starting tomorrow morning from the Jordanian border for airports in Jordan, with a flight chartered from Amman by the end of the week to aid the passage of French citizens who are vulnerable or in emergency situations, Barrot said.
Separately, Barrot reiterated that France was committed to holding a conference on a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians, after France postponed one scheduled for this week.
At least 69 people killed in Gaza in last 24 hours: Ministry
At least 221 others were wounded in Israeli attacks in the last 24 hours, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
At least 55,706 Palestinians have been killed and another 130,101 wounded since the start of the war in October 2023, it added.