Gaza: Israeli strikes have killed 92 Palestinians since this morning. Among the victims are 56 people who were waiting for humanitarian aid, Arab media reports.
Meanwhile, protests have erupted in Tel Aviv against the Israeli government. Demonstrators blocked a major road, leading to clashes between protesters and police, Israeli media reports.
Police have arrested multiple demonstrators. The protesters are demanding the return of hostages and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
On the other side, Netanyahu has plead to International Committee of Red Cross to intervene to help captives as just 36 aid trucks entered Gaza.
Hamas has said it is open to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delivering aid to Israeli captives in Gaza after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu requested the Geneva-based international organisation to step in.
The statements from Hamas and Netanyahu came after Palestinian groups last week released videos showing two emaciated Israeli captives held in Gaza, where some 2 million Palestinians are struggling to survive the Israeli-induced starvation crisis.
Netanyahu said on Sunday he had spoken to Julian Larson, the head of the ICRC delegation to Israel, requesting the group’s “immediate involvement” in providing food and medical treatment to captives still held in Gaza.
In a post on X, Netanyahu wrote in Hebrew that he told Larson that Hamas was propagating a “lie of starvation” in the enclave, but the reality was that “systematic starvation is being carried out against our hostages”.
Later on Sunday, the spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, said in a statement that Israeli captives held in Gaza “eat what our fighters and all our people eat”.
“They will not receive any special privilege amid the crime of starvation and siege,” the spokesman, known as Abu Obeida, said.
But, he added, the group is “ready to act positively and respond to any request from the Red Cross to deliver food and medicine to enemy prisoners”.
