Overview

• The Israeli military said it struck roughly 250 militant and infrastructure targets in the past 48 hours, while Gaza’s civil defence reported over 30 Palestinians killed in separate airstrikes, including six children at a water collection point.
• Hospital officials and witnesses say at least 31 Palestinians seeking aid in Rafah were shot dead by Israeli troops near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution centre.
• Indirect Doha negotiations have reached an impasse after Hamas rejected Israeli withdrawal maps that would maintain a military presence in about 40 percent of Gaza.
• Gaza’s Government Media Office reports 67 child deaths from malnutrition and warns that 650,000 more children under five face acute risk as blockade and fuel shortages cripple relief operations.
• Defense Minister Israel Katz’s proposal for a “humanitarian city” in Rafah to house more than two million displaced Palestinians has drawn accusations from rights groups of paving the way for forced expulsion.