a man carries a dead body wrapped in a white sheet
A Palestinian man carries a body at a funeral for more than 15 people, including several children and women, killed in an Israeli strike, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, Gaza, on Saturday [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP]

  • Palestinians in Gaza have held funerals for 15 members of the same family killed in Israel’s latest attack on az-Zawayda. The victims from the Abu Jawad family included 11 children aged between two and 11.
  • Hamas official Osama Hamdan has told Al Jazeera that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains the main obstacle to a ceasefire and captive exchange deal as Israeli negotiators express “cautious optimism” after two days of truce talks in Qatar.