The Israeli military on Friday said its troops in Gaza found the bodies of three Israeli hostages killed during the October 7 attack, including German-Israeli national Shani Louk. All three were killed by Hamas while fleeing the Nova music festival, said the military. The announcement came as the first aid trucks began moving through a temporary US military-built pier anchored to a Gaza beach. Read our liveblog to see how all the day's events unfolded.
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Summary:
- Israel has rejected charges of genocide at the International Court of Justice on Friday, after South Africa filed an urgent request with the court to order a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
- The Israeli military on Friday said it recovered the bodies of three Israelis killed during the October 7 attack, including German-Israeli Shani Louk.
- Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said Friday he was "deeply saddened" by the deaths of two Thais in the October 7 attack on Israel and whose bodies were being held by Hamas.
- Aid trucks began moving through a temporary US-built pier off the Gaza Strip on Friday, amid growing international pressure to get more supplies into the besieged coastal enclave, where hundreds of thousands face an acute humanitarian crisis.
- At least 35,303 Palestinians have been killed and 79,261 wounded in Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory. Some 1,170 people were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks and 250 people were taken hostage, according to Israeli figures, with 132 still missing.
Yesterday's key developments:
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The Israeli army will send more troops to Rafah with the military operation in the southern Gaza city set to intensify, said Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on Thursday.
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South Africa on Thursday accused Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) of stepping up what it called a "genocide" in Gaza, urging the top UN court to order a halt to the Rafah offensive.
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The US military on Thursday said it had finished installing a floating pier for the Gaza Strip, with officials poised to begin ferrying humanitarian aid into the besieged enclave.
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Israeli troops shot and killed three men during clashes in the occupied West Bank town of Tulkarm, the Palestinian Authority's health ministry said, adding that several others were wounded during the confrontation between Israeli forces and Palestinian activists.
Gaza’s health ministry collects data from the enclave’s hospitals and the Palestinian Red Crescent. For more on the health ministry’s casualty figures, click here.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, Reuters, AP)
