Overview

• An IDF spokesperson said preliminary operations on Gaza City are underway and that Israeli forces have reached the city’s outskirts.
• Israel announced plans to call up 60,000 reservists for an expanded campaign focused on Gaza City.
• The U.N. agency says hunger is most acute in the north, where about one million people remain and where many may be too weak to evacuate.
• UNRWA’s chief described a manufactured famine and said food has been used as a weapon of war, while noting an evaluation on Gaza’s famine trajectory will be published soon; Israel rejects claims of deliberate starvation.
• Hamas proposed a 60-day truce with phased hostage–prisoner exchanges and expanded aid access, and Israel reiterated that any deal must meet its stated conditions.