Israel launches deadly Gaza strikes, says ready for new truce talks

Israel launched devastating air strikes on Gaza Thursday, while also expressing readiness to resume stalled talks on a truce and hostage release deal with Hamas to pause the war raging since October 7. The Gaza Strip's civil defence agency said two pre-dawn air strikes had killed 26 people, including 15 children, in Gaza City. Agency…

Agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal said one strike hit a family house, killing 16 people, in the Al-Daraj area, and another killed 10 people inside a mosque compound.Fierce street battles also raged in Gaza’s Jabalia and Rafah where the armed wings of Hamas and its ally Islamic Jihad said they had fired mortar barrages at Israeli troops.

Senior foreign ministry official Jacob Blitstein told the envoys of Ireland, Norway and Spain on Thursday that there will be “serious consequences” for their relations with Israel after they recognise the State of Palestine next week. “The footage reveals the violent, humiliating and traumatising treatment the girls endured on the day of their abduction, their eyes filled with raw terror,” the forum said.

Israel has since ordered mass evacuations from Rafah, and the UN says more than 800,000 people have fled. His Israeli counterpart Tzachi Hanegbi has meanwhile given a bleak assessment of the war to a meeting of parliament’s foreign affairs and defence committee, according to a report by Israel’s Channel 13.

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has mourned the passing of former Secretary to the Lagos State Government, Omotilewa Aro-Lambo. Sanwo-Olu described the death of Aro-Lambo, who died after an illness at 81, as a big loss to the State, urging the family and political associates to immortalise the late politician. Aro-Lambo was the Secretary…Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf has declared the reinstatement of Muhammadu Sanusi II as the 16th Emir of Kano.

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