Wafa News also reported escalating Israeli raids from warplanes, artillery shelling and gunfire in the southern and western neighbourhoods of Khan Younis. UN rapporteur claims Israel has killed higher share of population in Gaza than the percentage of population killed in the Ukraine and Iraq wars. Israeli cabinet minister Gadi Eizenkot said a lightning raid to free Israeli hostages in Gaza is extremely unlikely to succeed. Israel has accused Russia of distorting the Holocaust after Moscow said the genocide had targeted “various ethnic and social groups”. The Russian Foreign Ministry has criticised the German government for opposing South Africa’s complaint at the International Court of Justice.