JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reiterated that the attack on Gaza will continue until Hamas is defeated. Israel continues to bombard Gaza despite international pressure, including from its ally, the US. 2 houses destroyed by Israeli bombardment in Rafah crowded with refugees; 20 people were killed. 11 people were killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.


 The UN Palestine Refugee Agency (UNRWA) has announced that relief supplies have become impossible to deliver in famine-stricken Gaza. Many people have not eaten anything for two or three days.


 UNRWA head Filipe Lazzarini said that crowds blocking the streets of trucks bringing food to the camps were eating the food on the spot. At Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, multiple sick babies are being treated in one bed.

So far, 18,787 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza due to Israeli attacks. 113 Israeli soldiers have been killed so far. Meanwhile, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan arrived in Tel Aviv yesterday.


 Foreign Secretary David Cameron has said Britain will not admit migrants responsible for violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. The European Union has also banned them. The violence committed by Israeli settlers against the Palestinians in the West Bank led to the attack by Hamas in southern Israel.


Hamas has gained support in Palestine


 ∙ As the war drags on, support for Hamas increases among Palestinians. A poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in the occupied West Bank found 44% supported Hamas. Last September it was only 12%.


 At the same time, the survey also brought out popular sentiment against Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who rules the West Bank with Western support. 99% wanted him to resign.


 The US recommends that Gaza be handed over to the Palestinian Authority after the war. Ismail Haniyeh, the supreme leader of Hamas, said that all Gaza projects that exclude Hamas are a myth.