Israeli planes and tanks pounded areas across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, residents said, as White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid US calls for a more focused military campaign. Read our liveblog to see how all the day's events unfolded.
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Summary:
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US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is visiting Israel on Sunday for talks on the Gaza war, according to the White House. Sullivan was expected to press for Israel to go after Hamas militants in a targeted way, not with a full-scale assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, the White House said before the discussions.
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At least 31 people were killed in an Israeli air strike targeting a house at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre of the Palestinian territory, a Gaza hospital reported.
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At least 35,456 Palestinians have been killed and 79,476 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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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.
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)
