Israel-Gaza updates: Gantz rejects Netanyahu's request, resigns
He said Netanyahu is "preventing us from progressing towards a true victory."
As the Israel-Hamas war continues, negotiations are apparently stalled to secure the release of hostages taken by the terrorist organization, and Israeli forces continue to launch incursions in the southern Gazan town of Rafah ahead of a possible large-scale invasion.
Latest headlines:
- Gantz resigns from emergency government in blow to Netanyahu
- Hamas military wing claims 3 hostages, including American, killed in raid
- Hundreds killed or injured during hostage rescue, Gaza ministry says
- Central Gaza death toll rises to 150
- Gaza hospital receives 55 dead bodies amid Israeli raid on central Gaza
Biden, Macron welcome rescue of hostages
President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed the rescue of the hostages at a press briefing Saturday.
Biden welcomed the safe return of four hostages from Gaza, pledging that the United States will not stop working until all hostages are home.
"I want to echo President Macron’s comments welcoming the safe rescue of four hostages that were returned to their families in Israel. We won't stop working until all the hostages come home and a ceasefire is reached. That is essential to happen,” Biden said.
President Macron spoke before President Biden, also celebrating the news.
“In Gaza, we want to attain the immediate liberation of hostages and we can only welcome the liberation of four hostages by the Israeli army. We want to achieve the immediate ceasefire and open up the prospect of a political solution which is the only one that can bring about a fair and lasting peace and meet the security of concerns of both people,” Macron said.
“And that is why we are supporting the comprehensive proposal of the United States of America,” he added, calling on Israel to do more to assist humanitarian aid to Rafah, calling the situation “unacceptable.”
-ABC News’ Molly Nagle and Michelle Stoddart
Central Gaza death toll rises to 150
At least 150 Palestinians were killed in Israeli bombing targeting Nuseirat, in central Gaza, Saturday, according the Ministry of Health.
One video verified by ABC News shows about a dozen bodies lying on the street, covered in blood and surrounded by rubble.
Others show people fleeing Nuseirat market as smoke fills the background, and people arriving at the hospital in droves, carrying wounded people and children.
Gaza hospital receives 55 dead bodies amid Israeli raid on central Gaza
Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital says it received 55 bodies Saturday amid the Israeli raid on central Gaza, calling on people to come to donate blood, according to a spokesperson.
The hospital is overcrowded and cannot accommodate any more injured people, it said.
“We call on the international community and UN organizations to intervene to stop this brutal aggression,” the hospital said in a statement.
-ABC News’s Victoria Beaule
47 killed in Central Gaza amid Israeli raid
At least 47 Palestinians have been killed and dozens others were wounded in Central Gaza Saturday amid ongoing Israeli raids in Nuseirat, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry.
A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, with ambulance and civil defense crews unable to reach them.
"The occupation forces penetrating into the Central Governorate are committing a massacre against citizens in the Nuseirat camp, as a result of which many martyrs and wounded were transported to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital," the Health Ministry said.
At least 36,801 Palestinians have been killed and 83,680 have been wounded since Oct. 7, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
Videos obtained by ABC News from the hospital show dozens of people being brought in and lining the floors of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
-ABC News' Samy Zyara and Nasser Atta
US calls for Security Council vote on Gaza cease-fire, hostage deal resolution
The U.S. is calling for the United Nations Security Council to vote on a draft resolution urging Hamas to accept the ceasefire-hostage release deal on the table, according to a statement from the spokesperson for the U.S. mission to the UN.
"Israel has accepted this proposal and the Security Council has an opportunity to speak with one voice and call on Hamas to do the same," the statement read. "Doing so would help save lives and the suffering of civilians in Gaza as well as the hostages and their families. Council Members should not let this opportunity to pass by and must speak with one voice in support of this deal."
The Security Council vote has been scheduled for 3 p.m. Monday.
-ABC News' Shannon Crawford