🔴Live: Fighting rages as Hamas-run health ministry says Gaza death toll tops 25,000

Summary:

• Fighting raged across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, with reports of gunfire, air strikes and tank shelling in Khan Younis, Gaza’s main southern city.
• Thousands of people demonstrated in central Tel Aviv on Saturday, calling for the return of hostages held in Gaza and early elections to oust Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
• The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza says at least 25,105 people have been killed, mostly women and children, and 62,681 have been injured in Israeli strikes on the enclave since October 7. Israeli officials say 1,139 people were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks in southern Israel. Militant fighters took some 240 hostages during the attack and 136 are still in Gaza, according to Israeli figures.

• An alleged Israeli missile strike on Damascus killed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards‘ intelligence chief for Syria and his deputy as well as three other Guards members.
• The Israeli military released photos of a kilometre-long tunnel with holding cells where Hamas allegedly kept about 20 hostages.
• Later on Saturday, missiles and rockets launched by Iran-backed militants in Iraq, where such groups have targeted US forces, hit al-Asad air base, the US Central Command said. A number of US personnel were being evaluated for traumatic brain injuries and one Iraqi service member was wounded.
• Fighting raged across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, with Hamas’s armed wing reporting fierce combat against Israeli troops in northern Gaza while the Israeli military said its troops were pushing southwards. Fighting overnight and earlier in the day was focused on Khan Younis.

(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP, Reuters)