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David Lammy, the newly appointed foreign secretary of the United Kingdom, has affirmed his backing for global initiatives to achieve an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza and ensure the release of the remaining captives.
Al Jazeera correspondents are reporting that an Israeli attack in the eastern area of Khan Younis in southern Gaza has resulted in several Palestinians being killed and more wounded.
The strike hit a group of Palestinians coordinating the entry of commercial trucks into the besieged region.
Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, while winning by a landslide in Thursday's general election in the UK, also lost votes to pro-Palestinian candidates, several of whom picked up shock wins in previously "safe" seats.
Labour's victory has led hundreds of social media users to draw attention to some of the rhetoric surrounding the substantial spate of votes that went to pro-Palestine candidates who ran as independents.
Takes dismissing the victories of candidates like Shockat Adam, Adnan Hussain and Ayoub Khan and labelling Muslim voter mobilisation as “sectarian voting”, are being slammed as dog whistle racism and repetitions of Islamophobic tropes.
“Muslims, like anyone else, have the right to voice their views in democratic elections,” a representative of The Muslim Vote (TMV), a UK-based political campaign, said to MEE in a statement.
Read more: ‘Racist’ takes against pro-Palestine, Muslim candidates spark anger
According to a report by AFP, a senior Hamas official said that the group anticipates "a swift Israeli response - likely today or tomorrow morning" - to its new proposals aimed at ending the Gaza conflict.
An Israeli official informed The Times of Israel that the negotiation team, led by Mossad chief David Barnea, has returned to Israel after discussions with Qatari mediators in Doha about Hamas's latest ceasefire offer.
While Labour celebrated 412 seat victories, there were a small number of constituencies in which it was outflanked by progressive or pro-Palestinian candidates.
After fourteen years of Conservative rule, Britain has voted decisively for a change in government.
In a huge victory, Keir Starmer's Labour Party has achieved a landslide victory, winning over 412 seats in Thursday's general election.
The Tories, who had won the last four elections, had a disastrous night.
They went from 371 MPs to just 121, spelling the end of leader Rishi Sunak's premiership.
Beyond the stark parliamentary seat count, several patterns and stories developed overnight.
Read more: Five things we learned from Labour's landslide election victory
A Palestinian faction known as the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), which is aligned with Hamas, has stated that any effort to introduce international or other forces into Gaza will be viewed as an act of aggression and will be treated as if they were occupying forces.
Hamas said on Friday that it will not accept plans to impose foreign forces on Gaza, adding that the administration of the Strip is for Palestinians alone.
The Palestinian people (...) will not allow any guardianship or the imposition of any external solutions or equations," it said.
The Qassam Brigades, Hamas' armed wing says it struck a “a command and control site” in the so-called Netzarim Corridor in the south of Gaza City with short range missiles.
The attack was coordinated with another armed Palestinian group, al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades, the Qassam Brigades said in a statement on Telegram.
Israeli forces have injured five Palestinian civilians with live ammunition during a military raid in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, Wafa news agency is reporting.
Israeli forces stormed the town and opened fire on civilians, leaving a woman with shrapnel injures to her hand and four young men wounded in their lower limbs, the agency said citing local sources.
They were rushed to hospital for treatment.
Dozens more suffered from tear gas inhalation but were treated on site.
The Israeli army says that it had "eliminated" Palestinian "militants" in its deadly raid on a house in Jenin, which killed seven Palestinians.
In a statement on X, the military said it has killed 23-year-old Hammam Hashash and another Palestinian, whom they said had participated in an attack on Israeli forces on 27 June.
Hamas said on Friday that it will not accept plans to impose foreign forces on Gaza, adding that the administration of the Strip is for Palestinians alone.
The Palestinian people (...) will not allow any guardianship or the imposition of any external solutions or equations," it said.
In June, the group said in response to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's call for the deployment of international troops in the Gaza Strip, that it would attack them like any other "occupation forces."
A video posted on Instagram by Palestinian journalist Hassan Islah has revealed a "lake" of sewage flooding the streets of Khan Younis.
Islah reported that the flooding is preventing many residents from moving and that mosquitos are spreading in the area.
Last month, the UN reported that 67 percent of Gaza's water and sanitation facilities and infrastructure have been destroyed in Israeli attacks, increasing the spread of disease.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society has reported that its emergency teams have been assaulted by Israeli forces while attempting to treat casualties amid an incursion in the town of Beita, south of Nablus.
Israeli forces stormed the area firing at Palestinians with live fire, grenades and tear gas bombs, injuring several residents, Wafa news agency reported citing eyewitnesses.
The death toll in Jenin has risen to seven Palestinians killed in a raid by Israeli forces on the occupied West Bank city, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
The Jenin Government Hospital reported that 19-year-old Asaad Ahmed Hashah was the latest body to arrive.
The identity of the sixth fatality is still unknown. Earlier, the Ministry identified the five other men killed as Ahmad al-Amouri, 20, Qusaid Hazur, 23, Fuad Ashkar, 25, Yasin Aridi, 30, and Mohamed Jabbarin, 54.
The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), an alliance of armed factions in Gaza, issued a statement earlier today condemning the killings and pledging that Israeli forces would "pay the price for their escalating crimes, and these crimes will be faced with a qualitative and quantitative escalation, regardless of the sacrifices”.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell and European Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarcic have warned that Israeli orders to evacuate over 250,000 Palestinians from the eastern area of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, will worsen an already dire humanitarian situation.
In a joint statement, they said that the move would exacerbate overcrowding and exert more pressure on the already overwhelmed remaining hospitals. They added that forced evacuations are creating “a humanitarian crisis within the crisis”.
The orders have already prompted staff and patients at the European Hospital, one of the largest hospitals in southern Gaza, to flee.
“A ceasefire is all the more important now, and would make possible a surge of humanitarian assistance to Gaza as well as the release of all hostages,” they said.
