Fifteen martyrs of Israel’s attack. Hamas fired on soldiers securing the evacuation route

> US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet on Sunday in Ramallah with the leader of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, the Times of Israel reported on the night from Saturday to Sunday. This will be the first time since the outbreak of the war Israel visit of the head of American diplomacy to the West Bank with Hamas.

> During the Hamas attack carried out in early October, 247 people were taken prisoner, of whom four have so far been released and one has been rescued. The people detained in the Gaza Strip include: at least 33 children, young female soldiers attacked shortly after entering compulsory military service, families and a retired Arabic language teacher.

> Since the beginning of the war, 421 trucks carrying urgent humanitarian aid have reached the Gaza Strip. On Friday evening to the Gaza Strip – through the border crossing with Egypt in Rafah – another convoy of 47 trucks with humanitarian aid arrived, mainly food, water, medicines and medical equipment. According to the UN, 100 aid trucks are needed every day to provide the more than two million residents of the war-torn Gaza Strip with the necessities they need.

> 15 people were killed and dozens injured in an Israeli attack on a UN-run school in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, where displaced people have taken refuge, said the director of Shifa Hospital, Mohammad Abu Selmejah, on Saturday. “There are 15 martyrs and it is believed that the number will increase,” said Abu Selmejah, who is also an official at the health ministry in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. – People were preparing breakfast when suddenly the bombing began. I found my two daughters. One was already a martyr, she was hit in the head, and the other was injured in the leg, said one of the men in a recording obtained by Reuters.

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> Already 9,488 people, including 3,900 children, have died in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war with Israel, the Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip, administered by Hamas, reported on Saturday. According to Ministry of Health 2,509 women are also among those killed since Hamas launched its attack on Israel on October 7. Since then, 1,400 Palestinians have been killed and 5,400 injured in the West Bank, according to data compiled by the AP.

> Between 800,000 and 1 million inhabitants have already left the northern part of the Gaza Strip, said US special envoy David Satterfield, who is staying in Amman. According to Satterfield, despite the appeals of the Israeli military, which is fighting the terrorist organization Hamas, between 350,000 and 400,000 remain in the north. civilian inhabitants of the Zone.

> US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Saturday that both Washington and Arab countries believe that the status quo in the Gaza Strip, where Hamas ruled, cannot continue. Blinken spoke in Jordan with the foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan about how to “pave a better path to a two-state solution.”

> The Israeli army accused Hamas of using the “humanitarian window” for civilian residents of Gaza to fire rockets at soldiers securing the evacuation route, CNN reported on Saturday. On Saturday morning, the army told Gaza City residents that it would secure the evacuation route south through Saladin Street within three hours. On this occasion, there was also shelling from Hamas in this area.

> Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said that the army had already killed 12 Hamas commanders and announced that it would soon reach and eliminate the commander-in-chief of Hamas in Gaza. Yahya Sinwar is believed to have been one of the main organizers of Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7, when the terrorist organization killed over 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted over 240 others to the Gaza Strip.

> President of the USA Joe Biden said on Saturday that progress had been made in ensuring a “humanitarian break” in the fighting between Israel and Hamas. He explained that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is working on this issue in the Middle East.

> 51 Palestinians were killed on Saturday evening in the Israeli bombing of the Maghazi refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported, quoted by Reuters. The AFP agency reports at least 30 deaths. According to Reuters, the Israeli bombing killed mainly women and children. Many people were injured. The Israeli military did not comment on these reports.