+++ News in the Middle East conflict +++: Dead after rains in the Gaza Strip

According to civil defense, two women and three children died in heavy rains in the Gaza Strip. South of Deir al-Balah in the center of the Gaza Strip, a sand embankment collapsed over tents of displaced people, the civil defense controlled by the radical Islamic Hamas announced on Sunday. The emergency services were looking for missing people. There have been heavy rains in the Palestinian territory since Saturday.

A video circulating online shows dozens of men at the scene of the accident trying to lift a large slab of stone while others dig beneath it with shovels. Civil Defense warned against “pitching or staying in tents near sand masses and mounds of earth, especially during periods of rain.” This poses a great danger. He called on humanitarian organizations to provide equipment.

On Saturday, tens of thousands of tents of refugee Palestinians were flooded, the Hamas press office said. Several people were injured when walls and roofs collapsed. Despite a ceasefire brokered by Egypt, Qatar and the USA in October 2025, the Israeli army continues its attacks in the Gaza Strip almost daily. The war in the Gaza Strip was triggered by the major Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. (afp)

The leader of the centrist Jashar party, Gadi Eisenkot, has promised a new leadership that should lead Israel out of its deep crisis. He wanted to represent all parts of society and work to ensure that the country “regains safe shores and finds its way back to mental health,” said Eisenkot after President Izchak Herzog commissioned him to form a new government.

In the most recent parliamentary election, Jashar was behind the right-wing conservative Likud party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (77). However, the 66-year-old former chief of general staff received the most recommendations during the president's consultations with the parties to form a government.

“We are in a state of emergency and approaching a point of no return for the state of Israel,” Eisenkot said. He called for the formation of an emergency government. This will require “creative and unconventional political steps”. He extends his hand to all parties and their representatives: “My door is open.”

Three years after the Hamas massacre of October 7, 2023 and the subsequent Gaza war, Israel is increasingly isolated internationally and deeply divided domestically.

“The challenges facing the State of Israel are immense,” said President Herzog at the ceremony in his official residence in Jerusalem. He particularly referred to the threat from Iran. It is now necessary to “develop a diplomatic perspective for the region and for the period after the war.”(dpa)

According to Iranian sources, no important infrastructure was damaged in a US attack on the Iranian island of Qeshm. Services are also not affected, reports the semi-state news agency Fars, citing regional authorities. The targets reached are therefore away from residential and commercial areas. State media reported night explosions on the island, which is near the Strait of Hormuz.

According to Iranian information, navigation systems were destroyed in the south of the Strait of Hormuz. No unauthorized ships passed through the sea route during the night, reports Iranian state television, citing circles in the Revolutionary Guard Navy. Such navigation aids include buoys, lighthouses or radar beacons that mark safe navigation channels. Without these facilities, passage through the strategically important and narrow strait is dangerous, especially at night. (rtr)

According to the White House, US President Donald ⁠Trump will meet with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani for talks about the conflict with Iran. Qatar is mediating in the dispute between Washington and Tehran.

According to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, there is little progress in the negotiations. He describes Iran's demands as unacceptable and unrealistic. Trump ‌considers new military strikes against ‌Iran to be very unlikely given diplomatic progress, but at the same time warns of possible attacks on the country's infrastructure in the ‌case of failure. (rtr)

Federal Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul (CDU) is traveling to Paris on Monday for a G7 meeting. In addition to the foreign ministers from the seven large industrialized countries Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Canada and the USA, the EU and partner countries Saudi Arabia, Egypt, South Korea, Kenya, Brazil and Ukraine are also represented at the two-day meeting. Global crises and conflicts are on the agenda.

In addition to the Ukraine war, it will also be about the situation in the Middle East and Iran, the security of trade routes such as the Strait of Hormuz and the effects of artificial intelligence (AI) on peace and security. The US's foreign policy positioning following the Republican defeat in the congressional elections is also eagerly awaited. The French G7 Council Presidency ends at the end of the year, and the presidency then goes to the USA in rotation. (afp)