New heavy fights were recorded on Saturday around the Al-Shifa hospital in the north of Gaza. The Israeli army has been conducting an operation from Monday, claiming that the large medical complex is connected to a tunnel network used as a base for Hamas and other Palestinian movements.
On Saturday the IDF reported that at least "170 terrorists have been eliminated" in the area and that the operation will end "only when the last of the terrorists will be in our hands, alive or dead". Palestinian sources report that at least five patients in the hospital, who operates in very difficult conditions, were killed in the fighting.
Guterres: "Nothing justifies the horrible attacks"
The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres arrived on Saturday on the Egyptian side of the Rafah pass and witnessed long truck rows waiting to enter the Gaza strip. "Let's see the torment and lack of the heart of all this".
Protests in Israel in front of government members' houses
Meanwhile, the movement against war grows in Israel. On Saturday it became the "traditional" day for anti -government manifestations throughout the country, with the greatest that was held in Tel Aviv. The activists block the main roads and the roundabouts and approach the homes of prominent politicians and soldiers, asking for the ceased to free the hostages.