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The Jenin pullout came with Zionist entity at loggerheads with the United States over talks to forge a truce in the Gaza war. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said “90 percent is agreed” and urged Zionists and Hamas to finalize a deal. But Netanyahu denied this, telling Fox News: “It’s not close.” Hamas is demanding complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, saying it agreed months ago to a proposal outlined by US President Joe Biden.

AFP reporters said several air strikes and shelling rocked the territory overnight and early Saturday. Gaza’s civil defense agency and the Palestinian Red Crescent said a Zionist airstrike killed four people near the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. The civil defense and a witness said an air strike that targeted a flat in Bureij camp killed another four.

And in Jabalia, a Zionist airstrike killed four more Palestinians, civil defense officials said. They added that a woman and a child were also killed in an air strike north of Gaza City. Medics reported at least 33 Palestinians wounded in an air strike on a residential area in Beit Lahia and said they were being treated at Al-Awda, Kamal Adwan and Indonesian hospitals. In the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, the civil defense said an airstrike on a school-turned-shelter for displaced people killed at least three people and wounded more than 20.

Zionist entity has also traded fire with Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement since the October 7 attack. On Saturday Hezbollah said it targeted two bases with Katyusha rockets. Lebanon’s National News Agency said Zionists carried out air strikes and shelling of several areas of the country’s south. The military said it detected missiles crossing from Lebanon, intercepting some of them. — AFP

It said it later struck a Hezbollah launch site in the Qabrikha area of southern Lebanon, as well as Aita Al-Shaab and Kfarshuba.- AFP