The United Kingdom will carry out several observation flights over Israel and Gaza. The aim is to track down hostages that the extremist Palestinian movement Hamas took away on October 7. The British Ministry of Defense announced this.
The ministry emphasizes that the flights will be unarmed. Information about the location of hostages would be shared with Israel. The United States has also deployed drones over the Gaza Strip for the same purpose.
About 130 hostages are still in the hands of Hamas. Several Britons also belong to that group. London wants to get them – and the other hostages – released.
Violence has erupted again since the ceasefire ended on Friday morning. On Saturday, Israel launched “more than four hundred” attacks across the Gaza Strip.
The situation is the same on Sunday, with night attacks on “terror targets” such as tunnel shafts, command centers and weapons depots, the Israeli army announced early on Sunday morning. Israel says a combat drone also killed five Hamas fighters.
In Khan Younis, a city in the south of the Gaza Strip, fighter planes hit “more than fifty targets”, according to the Israeli army. At least seven people were killed early Sunday morning in an Israeli bombardment near Gaza’s southern border with Egypt, the Hamas-led government said.
