Evening recap

Good evening Middle East Eye readers,

At least 48 Palestinians were killed on Thursday by Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Meanwhile, in an interview aired on Thursday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel will attack Gaza City regardless of whether it reaches a ceasefire with Hamas that sees the release of Israeli captives. “We’re going to do that anyway,” Netanyahu said in the interview. 

Also on Thursday, Hamas’s armed wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, claimed an attack on what it described as an Israeli “command and control site” and a gathering of Israeli soldiers west of the city of Rafah.

Here is what else you need to know:

• The number of Palestinians killed while seeking food aid in Gaza rose to 13 according to Al Jazeera Arabic
• Lebanon on Thursday said it had started disarming Palestinian resistance groups
• At least five Palestinian boys between are missing after seeking humanitarian aid in Gaza, the Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCIP) said
• Amnesty International has condemned Israel’s plan to build a sprawling new settlement in the occupied West Bank as a flagrant violation of international law