Eleven Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza on Sunday morning, according to Palestinian civil defense and health officials, as reported by BBC World. The strikes, which the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said targeted terror targets in response to ceasefire violations by Hamas, hit a tent encampment and another location in the southern part of the strip. Both sides have accused each other of breaching the ceasefire agreement.
The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that at least six people died in the strike on the tent encampment, while another five were killed in the southern part of the strip, according to BBC World. The IDF stated that militants were killed after emerging from a tunnel into the area controlled by the Israeli military.
In other news, the Israeli government approved a proposal to register large areas of the occupied West Bank as state property, as reported by Al Jazeera. This marks the first time since the Israeli occupation of the territory in 1967 that such a proposal has been approved. The proposal was submitted by far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, and Defence Minister Israel Katz, according to Israeli public broadcaster KAN.
Also, the Nasser Hospital Complex in Gaza condemned aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) for pulling out of operations, alleging the presence of armed men and weapons at the facility, as reported by Al Jazeera. The hospital called the MSF allegation false, unsubstantiated, and misleading, stating it posed a serious risk to a protected civilian medical facility.
In other international developments, five European countries have stated that lab tests concluded that Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was killed in 2024 by a rare dart frog toxin while serving a 19-year sentence in a Siberian prison, according to Al Jazeera. Moscow rejects the claim as Western disinformation, insisting he died of natural causes.
Finally, the US military used Anthropic’s AI model Claude during an operation to kidnap Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, as reported by The Guardian. A spokesperson for Anthropic declined to comment on whether Claude was used in the operation, but said any use of the tool was required to comply with its policies.
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