Mass funeral held in Gaza as Jordan warns of Jerusalem site threat

A mass funeral was held in Gaza City for 112 Palestinians, predominantly women and children, whose bodies were recently recovered from rubble following a November 2023 Israeli airstrike in the Sabra neighborhood. Emergency teams spent two weeks retrieving the victims, mostly belonging to two extended families, from flattened residential buildings.

Simultaneously, Jordan convened an emergency meeting of Arab and Islamic foreign ministers over what it described as an "imminent" threat of an Israeli takeover at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound, warning that status quo violations could "trigger a religious conflict".

These developments coincide with a statement from US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, which affirmed that Israeli forces will remain in Gaza until Hamas completes its full disarmament, following security objections raised by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Sources: BBC News, Cyprus Mail, STV News, Sweden Herald, The Guardian.