Middle East crisis live: Israeli strikes kill at least 10 people in attack on al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’

Airstrike hit tent encampment sheltering displaced families in southern Gaza Strip and also killed director-general of Gaza’s police department, say medics

Israel’s defense minister Israel Katz has defended plans for a new conscription law in Israel after his predecessor Yoav Gallant announced yesterday he would resign from the Knesset over the issue.

In a post to social media on Thursday morning Katz said “There is no place for cynical political use of a moral issue like conscription into the IDF.”

The new conscription law, upon its completion, will bring about a historic turning point and the recruitment of tens of thousands of additional ultra-Orthodox members for significant service in the IDF for the first time.

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