Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has given directives for the Israeli military to expand occupation of Gaza to 70 percent for now, as his cabinet minister has confirmed the regime’s plan for ethnic cleansing in the strip.

Resistance factions have mourned the assassination of the commander of the Qassam Brigades in an Israeli airstrike against a neighborhood in the Gaza Strip.

A Hamas spokesman says the Israeli regime’s attack on a refugee camp in Gaza shows it does not care about the peace process.

At least six Palestinians have been martyred and eight others wounded

Hamas spokesperson says the occupying regime’s ongoing crimes and violations in Gaza constitute a clear breach of the understandings and agreements brokered by mediators.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says skin infections linked to rats and parasites have spread throughout the Gaza Strip within the first five months of the year.

Countries have summoned Israeli ambassadors after far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir taunted Gaza flotilla activists.