Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in overnight Israeli airstrikes on the south of the Gaza Strip including children in Rafah. Fears are growing that Israeli troops could push further into Gaza’s southernmost town, where roughly half of the Strip’s population have taken refuge. In the coming days, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected in the region. And on a visit to Cairo, the French foreign minister Stéphane Séjourné has condemned talk about forced displacement of Gazans into Egypt.
As the fighting continues, so too do efforts to halt the nearly four-month war. Hamas now says Israel and international mediators have made them a tentative truce offer. But the militant group, considered a terrorist organization by most Western states, says it is still reviewing the details.
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00:00 Efforts continue to halt nearly four-month war
00:50 Hamas considering US-backed ceasefire proposal
03:26 Oliver McTernan, director of NGO ‘Forward Thinking’

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