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- Hamas fighters continue to put up fierce resistance in southern Rafah and northern Gaza City with a powerful roadside bomb destroying a Merkava tank and a mortar barrage hammering an Israeli command-and-control centre.
- Israeli tanks and drones push into Rafah’s western neighbourhoods as an attack on aid seekers kills at least nine Palestinians and injures 30.
- An Israeli military spokesman says “Hamas is an ideology” and “we cannot eliminate an ideology” in contrast to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s repeated comments that Israel will not end its war on Gaza until Hamas is destroyed.
- At least 37,431 people have been killed and 85,653 injured in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7. The revised death toll in Israel from the Hamas-led attacks stands at 1,139 as dozens of people are still held captive in Gaza.