Hamas on Thursday confirmed the death of its military chief Mohammed Deif, whose killing Israel had announced last year in an air strike in Gaza.
“The Al-Qassam Brigades announce to our great people the martyrdom of a group of distinguished fighters and heroic commanders […] commander Mohammed Deif, chief of staff of the Al-Qassam Brigades (and) commander Marwan Issa, deputy chief of staff,” the armed wing of Hamas announced.
Israel had accused Deif of being one of the masterminds of the October 7 attack.
Earlier,
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has demanded that 2,500 children be immediately evacuated from Gaza for medical treatment after meeting with US doctors who said the children were at imminent risk of death in the coming weeks.
“There’s about 2,500 children who are at imminent risk of death in the next few weeks. Some are dying right now. Some will die tomorrow. Some will die the next day,” said Feroze Sidhwa, a California trauma surgeon who worked in Gaza from March 25 to April 8 last year.
“Of those 2,500 kids, the vast majority need very simple things done,” he said, citing the case of a 3-year-old boy who suffered burns to his arm. The burns had healed, but the scar tissue was slowly cutting off blood flow, leaving him at risk of amputation, said Sidhwa.
While,
US President Donald Trump insisted Thursday that Egypt and Jordan would take in displaced Gazans, despite the two Arab nations dismissing his plan to move Palestinians from the territory.
“They will do it,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when asked for his response to the Egyptian and Jordanian refusal, and whether he would consider imposing tariffs on either country to push them.
“They’re going to do it. We do a lot for them, and they’re going to do it.”
He said the 15-month war had reduced the Palestinian territory to a “demolition site.”
Egypt’s Sisi, a key US ally, had said on Wednesday in his first public response to Trump’s comments that displacing “the Palestinian people from their land is an injustice that we cannot take part in.”
Jordan’s King Abdullah II separately stressed his country’s “firm position on the need to keep the Palestinians on their land.”
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