Children run past the rubble of a collapsed building in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip April 9, 2024 amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. — AFP picPALESTINIAN TERRITORIES, April 10 — Israel bombed targets in Gaza yesterday as mediators in Cairo sought progress towards a truce and hostage deal and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted Israeli troops would launch a ground invasion of Rafah.
Despite growing pressure from top ally the United States, Netanyahu stressed Israel would pursue the twin goals of bringing home “all our hostages” and destroying Hamas after its October 7 attack. “A full-scale military invasion of Rafah would have an enormously harmful effect” on civilians trapped there and “would ultimately hurt Israel’s security”, said State Department spokesman Matthew Miller.
Displaced Palestinians began to return after Israeli forces pulled out on Sunday in what the army said was a tactical and temporary withdrawal. The war broke out with Hamas’s October 7 attack against Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,170 people, mostly civilians, according to Israeli figures. The army said yesterday it had destroyed “terrorist infrastructure” across Gaza, and killed a militant accused of involvement in the October 7 attack, in a strike on Khan Yunis.
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