What We Know? Hamas submitted on Friday its response to US President Donald Trump’s Gaza plan to end the two-year genocide, agreeing to release all Israeli captives. The group said it is ready to “immediately enter negotiations through mediators to discuss the details” of the exchange. Trump welcomed the Hamas response, and wrote on his Truth Social site that he believes the Palestinian group is “ready for a lasting PEACE”. In a major announcement, he also said that “Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza” so that the captives could be released. World leaders also welcomed the group’s response and called on Israel to stop the genocide immediately. Israeli Claims of Reducing Assault Unconfirmed reports from Israel’s Army Radio also claim Israel has instructed the military to reduce Gaza operations to a “minimum”, following Trump’s order, and only “carry out defensive actions” in Gaza. “The practical implication: the operation to conquer [Gaza City] has been blocked – and halted for now,” Army Radio’s military correspondent, Doron Kadosh, said in a post on X. Gaza Under Israeli Attack However, local sources and residents reported that last night was particularly harsh amid relentless and indiscriminate Israeli bombardment, especially targeting Gaza City. Attacks have also been reported since the early hours of Saturday morning. Gaza’s Civil Defence said on Saturday that Israel carried out dozens of air strikes and artillery shelling on Gaza City.Breaking | Nonstop Israeli airstrikes hit residential areas in Gaza City.
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Dozens of Palestinians are forcibly evacuating their homes and displacement tents to the streets in the middle of the night as Israeli bombardment intensify. pic.twitter.com/HKxbVlRTYZ
“It was a very violent night, during which the [Israeli army] carried out dozens of air strikes and artillery shelling on Gaza City and other areas in the Strip, despite President Trump’s call to halt the bombing,” civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told the AFP news agency. Bassal said 20 homes were destroyed in overnight bombardments. Adalat Matar, a resident of Gaza City who refused to flee south despite Israeli threats, told Quds News Network: “Last night felt like Israel and Trump had opened the gates of hell on us. The bombing was everywhere, relentless and intense, as if the soldiers wanted to wipe us out.” Six people were killed in an Israeli attack on two homes housing residents in the Tuffah neighborhood this morning. Several injuries and missing people under the rubble were also reported. At least three others were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a gathering of civilians in the Jala’a Street. The Al-Remal neighborhood also came under relentless Israeli attacks, with heavy shelling and fire reported.Hundreds of Palestinians, including children, are being forced to evacuate to the streets past midnight, as Israeli airstrikes intensively hit multiple residential neighborhoods of Gaza City. pic.twitter.com/clPgiNs2Q7
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At least seven people were killed last night in an airstrike targeting a group of civilians in Al-Maghazi camp. The Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said two children were killed and eight people wounded in a drone strike on a tent in a camp for displaced Gazans in the so-called al-Mawasi “safe zone.”Breaking | Israeli aircraft strike Al-Noor Center for the Blind, operated by UNRWA, in the Al-Rimal neighborhood of western Gaza City. pic.twitter.com/arumgfYaA1
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