The Israeli military said on Saturday that its forces operating in the Gaza Strip recovered the body of Ron Binyamin, who was among 252 people seized by Hamas-led Palestinian gunmen on October 7. This comes as Israeli troops and tanks pushed into Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, killing 15 Palestinians and wounding dozens of others. Heavy clashes and bombardment were also reported in the southern city of Rafah. Read our liveblog to see how all the day's events unfolded.
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Benny Gantz, a popular centrist member of Israel’s three-member War Cabinet, threatened Saturday to resign from the government if it doesn't adopt a new plan in by June 8 for the war in Gaza, a decision that would leave Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu more reliant on far-right allies.
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The Israeli army said Saturday that troops had retrieved the body of hostage Ron Binyamin from the war-torn Gaza Strip. Military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said Binyamin's body was retrieved in the same operation that saw troops recover the remains of three other hostages, which was announced on Friday.
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Nearly 800,000 Palestinians have evacuated Rafah since Israel launched a ground operation in the southern Gazan city on May 6, the head of the UNRWA aid agency said in an X post on Saturday.
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Israeli troops and tanks edged into the streets of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza on Saturday, an area so far spared by the ground offensive, residents said. In one strike, medics said 15 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded.
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The Israeli military said on Saturday it killed a senior Palestinian militant during an air strike on an "operations centre" in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.
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At least 35,386 Palestinians have been killed and 79,366 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:
- Israel 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 attacks, 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 attacks 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.
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, AP & Reuters)
