The aim of the warnings is to prevent harm to civilians, the army said in a statement.
8.31 am: The Israeli army believes it is “highly likely” that a high-ranking member of the terrorist organization Islamic Jihad was killed in yesterday’s attack on a school in the Gaza Strip. The terrorist is said to be Brigade Commander Ashraf Juda, said army spokesman Daniel Hagari in a video message on the X platform.
According to Hagari, the terrorist organization Hamas has recently been increasingly using school buildings as command centers and to store weapons, even though civilians are staying there. The information cannot be independently verified.
10.16pm: In Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities, thousands of people demonstrated for an agreement to release 115 hostages held by the Islamist Hamas. “Military pressure on Hamas will lead to even more hostages dying,” said a speaker at the rally in Tel Aviv, whose uncle was abducted to the Gaza Strip, the newspaper Haaretz reported. The mother of another abductee shouted to the crowd: “This is our last chance to reach a deal that will save lives.”
According to media reports, there were further protests in Jerusalem, Haifa, Beersheba and in Caesarea in front of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private villa. The indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas about a ceasefire in the Gaza war and the release of hostages in return for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons have been dragging on for months. The USA, Egypt and Qatar are mediating.
20:41: Israel rejects reports from the civilian rescue service in the Gaza Strip that around 100 people were killed in the attack on a school complex. The military says the number is too high. “The attack was carried out with three precise missiles that cannot cause the damage that has been reported.” The target was not seriously damaged. The military presents aerial photographs and videos that are supposed to prove this.
