Hamas claims 33 Brits including six-month-old baby & 15 children will be allowed to leave Gaza amid Israeli siege
HAMAS claims that 33 Brits including 15 kids and a six-month-old baby will be allowed to escape Gaza today.
The Rafah crossing will allegedly be opened for trapped foreign nationals - allowing dozens of Brits along with 77 Australians and 47 US citizens to flee the fighting.
The Hamas-led General Authority for Crossings and Borders announced the unveiling of "Egyptian Foreign Passports", which should allow the safe travel of the UK, US and Australian nationals into Egypt today.
A spreadsheet of names has been released.
The UK Foreign Office has been contacted for comment.
It comes as the IDF ferociously pushes on with its offensive into the southern city of Khan Younis as they close in on Hamas's top brass, including "Gaza's Bin Laden".
Military reports claim that Yahya Sinwar evaded death twice last week by escaping through the network of terror tunnels.
Israel, shielded by the US, has resisted international pressure to scale back its offensive and has said it would press on until Hamas has been totally eliminated.
Months of fighting lie ahead in southern Gaza - which Israel has dubbed "the new capital of terror" - but is an area densely packed with the majority of the enclave's 2.3 million people who earlier fled the fighting in the north.
With homes destroyed, they are living in crowded shelters and struggling to find food, fuel, water and medical supplies. Diseases are spreading and communications have been repeatedly cut.
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A strike hit a house near Al-Amal hospital in Khan Yunis, killing 22 people and wounding 34, the Hamas-run Gazan health ministry said.
Heavy firefights also raged again around Gaza City in the north, while an air strike wounded 11 people near Rafah, a far-southern city crowded with internally displaced people, witnesses said.
The Hamas-run Gazan health authorities claim that over 21,000 have been killed since Israel began its relentless bombardment and invasion of the densely-populated enclave.
This allegedly includes at least 8,000 children and 6,200 women. The claims cannot be independently verified and are disputed by Israel.
Yesterday, Israel handed over the bodies of 80 Palestinians killed in the conflict in Gaza in recent weeks.
The bodies had been held by Israel to check there were no hostages among them before eventually being sent back through the Kerem Shalom border crossing.
On Tuesday, Israeli leaders said they were steeled for two more years of war in Gaza.
Ministers were told the army is about to enter phase three of the war to wipe out the terror group as a military force that could be finished by summer or in two years.
Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said: “The war in Gaza will be a long, hard war. It has costs — heavy costs — but its justification is the highest that can be. We need determination, endurance, strength and national cohesion with the goals."
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Meanwhile, Hamas warlord Mohammed Deif has been pictured for the first time in decades with only one-eye after a life spent dodging Israeli assassins and strikes.
The net is closing in on Mohammed Deif, the shadowy mastermind of the terror group's October 7 attacks, as Israel's relentless hunt for Hamas's top leaders rages on.