Overview
- Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades said contact was lost with two Israeli captives after intensified raids in Gaza City’s Sabra and Tal al-Hawa neighborhoods over the past 48 hours.
- The armed wing urged a 24-hour halt to airstrikes and a pullback south of Street 8 from 18:00 local time to allow searches for the captives.
- Israeli authorities say 47 of the 251 people abducted on Oct. 7 remain in Gaza, including 25 considered dead, and the attack killed 1,219 people in Israel.
- Gaza’s Health Ministry reports 66,025 deaths in the Israeli offensive, a tally the United Nations has judged reliable.
- Israeli forces have intensified operations in Gaza City with repeated orders for residents to move south, and Gaza’s civil defense said 38 people were killed on Sunday, including 14 in the city.