Middle East crisis live: More than 20 killed in further Gaza strikes as Trump’s Gulf visit ends

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Gaza rescuers accidental 50 killed successful Israeli strikes since midnight

Gaza’s civilian defence agency said connected Friday that 50 radical had been killed successful Israeli strikes connected the Palestinian territory since midnight.

“The fig of martyrs killed successful Israeli shelling targeting civilian homes successful the bluish Gaza Strip betwixt midnight and aboriginal this greeting has risen to 50 … Our teams are inactive moving successful those areas,” civilian defence authoritative Mohammed al-Mughayyir told Agence France-Presse (AFP).

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Trump’s connection recalled the plan helium enactment guardant successful February for the US to instrumentality power of Gaza to reconstruct it arsenic a luxury leisure and concern hub. The strategy implied the imaginable imperishable displacement of galore oregon each of the territory’s 2.3 cardinal radical and triggered planetary outrage.

Israeli forces carried retired an airstrike that deed the al-Tawba supplication hall, located westbound of the Jabaliya exile campy successful bluish Gaza. Photograph: Abood Abo Salama/SIPA/Shutterstock

The astir caller strikes lasted hours into Friday greeting sending radical fleeing from the Jabaliya exile camp and the municipality of Beit Lahiya and followed days of akin attacks that killed much than 130 people, according to Gaza’s wellness ministry. The Israeli subject had nary contiguous remark connected the strikes.

Israeli premier curate Benjamin Netanyahu vowed earlier successful the week to propulsion up with a promised escalation of unit successful Israel’s warfare successful the Gaza Strip to prosecute his purpose of destroying the Hamas militant group.

In comments released by Netanyahu’s bureau connected Tuesday, the premier curate said Israeli forces were days distant from entering Gaza “with large spot to implicit the ngo … It means destroying Hamas”. It was unclear if Friday’s bombardment was the commencement of the operation.

In different developments:

• Israel’s subject killed 5 Palestinian militants successful the occupied West Bank connected Thursday, hours aft a large pistillate died successful a shooting. Islamic Jihad said 5 of its members had been killed portion clashing with Israeli forces who surrounded their location successful the municipality of Tammun. It was unclear whether they had immoderate nexus to the shooting.

• Israeli settlers meantime attacked Palestinians and blocked roads successful the occupied West Bank, portion WhatsApp groups for Israeli settlers successful the West Bank were rife with calls for vengeance, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). Far-right concern curate Bezalel Smotrich called for “nests of terror” to beryllium flattened.

• Trump announced deals totalling much than $200bn betwixt the United States and the United Arab Emirates, including a $14.5bn committedness among Boeing, GE Aerospace and Etihad Airways. The White House said connected Thursday that Boeing and GE had received a committedness from Etihad Airways to put $14.5bn to bargain 28 US-made Boeing 787 and 777X craft powered by GE engines.

• Trump has said that the US’s aerial run against the Houthi rebels was “very successful, but possibly tomorrow, an onslaught volition beryllium made, successful which lawsuit we spell backmost connected the offensive”. He made the comments connected a sojourn to al-Udeid airbase successful Doha, Qatar. Prior to that visit, the president attended a concern forum successful Qatar.

• Trump said connected Thursday that the US was getting precise adjacent to securing a atomic woody with Iran, and Tehran had “sort of” agreed to the terms. “We’re successful precise superior negotiations with Iran for semipermanent peace,” Trump said connected a circuit of the Gulf, according to a shared excavation study by AFP.

• Hamas connected Thursday accused Israeli premier curate Benjamin Netanyahu of undermining mediation efforts for a hostage merchandise and ceasefire woody by carrying retired subject operations successful Gaza. “War transgression Netanyahu undermines mediation efforts done deliberate subject escalation, showing indifference to his captives, endangering their lives,” Hamas said successful a connection referring to hostages held successful the Palestinian territory.

• “Israel’s blockade has transcended subject tactics to go a instrumentality of extermination”, Human Rights Watch (HRW) interim enforcement manager Federico Borello said successful a connection connected Thursday. HRW said: “The Israeli government’s program to demolish what remains of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure and ore the Palestinian colonisation into a tiny country would magnitude to an abhorrent escalation of its ongoing crimes against humanity, taste cleansing and acts of genocide.”