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Meanwhile #Israel's defence minister, Yoav Gallant, has said Israel will sever all ties with the #Gaza Strip once its war with #Hamas is over -- it would, as he put it, end its "responsibility" for life there.
The #Hamas authorities say #Israeli attacks have now killed more than 4100 people.
Over 1400 Israelis were killed in Hamas' unprecedented extremist attacks within Israel earlier this month
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#BBCNews - 'My family is in #Gaza ': Solo vigil sparks protests
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67221219
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#BBCNews - #Israelis and #Palestinians fear worst to come
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67219256
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#BBCNews - #Israel #Gaza : #EU leaders set to back #humanitarian pauses
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67216072
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#BBCNews - George Washington University protest on #Israel - #Gaza war stirs outrage
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67209848
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V ARD Tagesschau:
Acc to Egypt a fourth convoy of 20 lorries with humanitarian aid has arrived in #Gaza
Nach Angaben Ägyptens ist ein vierter Hilfskonvoi mit 20 Lastwagen in Gaza angekommen.
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#BBCNews - #Israel - #Gaza war: The brutal impact on Gaza's children
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67211248
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Eight Syrian soldiers were killed and seven wounded by #Israeli strikes on military positions in the southern province of Daraa, state media reports.
#Syria 's state news agency SANA says the attack happened around 01:45 local time on Wed.
Israel's military confirmed it attacked Syrian targets - saying its fighter jets carried out a strike on military infrastructure and mortar launchers after rockets were fired across the border.
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More on UN spat: response to Guterres from #Israel 's for min Cohen, who said there can be "no cause for such a massacre". "In what world do you live?" he asked
Gilad Erdan, Israel’s Ambo to the UN, called on Guterres to resign, saying he "is not fit to lead the UN"
Guterres later wrote on X that the "grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the horrific attacks by Hamas", and that "horrendous attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people"
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US Sec of State Antony Blinken reiterated that every country has the right to defend itself and that "we must unequivocally condemn #Hamas ’s barbaric terrorist attack against #Israel ". But he added that "humanitarian pauses must be considered" to protect civilians in #Gaza
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry called for a ceasefire, expressing "regret" over the Security Council's failure to adopt a resolution calling for one
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#Israel 's military has confirmed it launched extensive attacks on the strip, targeting " #Hamas operatives and terrorist infrastructure".
The #IDF says tunnel shafts, military headquarters and munitions warehouses were destroyed.
On Tuesday, the IDF said it hit at least 400 sites, and the day before, 320. It has not yet put a number on the number of strikes on Wednesday.
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Recap of UNSC meeting:
SecGen Antonio Guterres called for an immediate ceasefire to end "epic suffering" in Gaza and that "no party to an armed conflict is above international humanitarian law"
He too said the Hamas Oct 7 attack "did not happen in a vaccum". That drew an angry response from Israel's For Min Eli Cohen, who wrote on X, describing Guterres' statement as "shocking" and "disconnected from the reality in our region". He added that he would cancel his meeting with the UN chief (cont)
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US, Australia and Canada have called for "#humanitarian pauses", but not for a ceasefire.
"I have no expectation that a terrorist organisation would respect international law or any call for a ceasefire," Canadian Def Min Blair told reporters. "Quite frankly, Hamas has to be eliminated as a threat, not just to Israel, but to the world."
Earlier top White House and US State Department officials also said now is not the right time for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
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US Sec of State Blinken has told the UN SC that he will work with China's for min Wang Yi to ensure the #Israel - #Gaza war doesn't escalate into a wider conflict.
China's envoy to MENA, Zhai Jun, has already visited several countries in the Middle East with an aim to broker a ceasefire.
China's growing influence in the region was evident earlier this year when it brokered a deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia - the rivals agreed to restore ties and held their first official talks since 2016.
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#IDF carried out a drone strike during clashes with Palestinians near the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank "a short while ago", the Israeli military has said in social media posts.
Two people were also arrested in Jenin amid a gunfight with "armed terrorists" according to an IDF statement posted online.
The clashes broke out as Israel was conducting patrols near the Jenin refugee camp, Israel says, and began after Palestinian militants opened fire and threw bombs at Israeli troops.
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V #BBC Rushdi Abualouf in #Gaza :
hospitals have shut down all but the emergency departments as fuel reserves that keep the operations running dwindle.
"Most other departments in the hospital are shut because they want to minimise the amount of fuel they are spending."
"They are just focused on saving life missions," he said, so that people need life saving treatments like kidney dialysis are still able to receive that.
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Yael Noy was born and raised in a community in #Israel nearby to #Gaza and runs 'Road to Recovery', which ferries Palestinians to hospitals in Israel. Her kibbutz was attacked on 7 October, some of her volunteers were killed, others kidnapped, incl Yocheved Lifschitz. But Noy has vowed to continue her work, speaking of the desperation Palestinians - her "good friends" -are feeling. "we didn't stop. We take, every day, patients from the West Bank.. the most important thing now is to stay human"
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V Guardian:
'The #Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari has backed academics and peace activists in his home country in an attack on the “indifference” of some American and European progressives to #Hamas atrocities, accusing them of “extreme moral insensitivity” and betraying leftwing politics':
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/24/yuval-noah-harari-backs-critique-of-leftist-indifference-to-hamas-atrocities?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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V i24news:
' #Israel declined a visa request for the #UN humanitarian relief coordinator Martin Griffiths, who was supposed to travel to Israel after his visit to Egypt, as earlier reported by Israeli channel 12 news
In addition, the Israeli ambassador to the UN is considering expelling other UN officials from Israel'
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Around 1.4 million of #Gaza 's 2.2 million people have been internally displaced already – and there has been a rapid escalation in the numbers since #Israel ordered people in the north to evacuate.
The UN says that without #fuel supplies entering Gaza its #humanitarian operation will cease by the end of tomorrow
There are currently nearly 590,000 people being housed in 150 facilities designated as emergency shelters - most of which are UN-operated school buildings.
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Her daughter Sharone (translates and) describes a "huge network" of underground tunnels run by #Hamas, which she likens to a "spider's web".
She says her mother's captors took off her watch and jewellery as she was being driven.
When she got off the motorbike, she was told by the people who greeted her that they "believe in the Quran" and therefore would not hurt her.
#Lifschitz adds that a paramedic came to see them to bring the medicines they needed.
(Cont.) #Israel #hamas #hostages
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The #Hamas-run ministry of health in #Gaza has issued an update, saying at least 5,791 people have been killed in Gaza since 7 October.
That's an increase of more then 700 on the figure announced yesterday.
#Israel says its air strikes hit more than 400 targets in Gaza in the past day - it says it's targeting Hamas infrastructure.
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#Israel has claimed #Hamas are stockpiling #fuel in #Gaza for own use although needed by hospitals and civilians.
In posts on social media, the Israeli military published satellite imagery of what it says are 12 Hamas-operated fuel tanks positioned on the border with Egypt.
There's growing concern that #hospitals in Gaza are running out of power.
While some humanitarian aid has been arriving via Egypt, Israel has not allowed any fuel in because it says it will be commandeered by Hamas.
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According to the NUJ in 1972 he defended the rights of Bedouin people who were expelled from their homes in the #Rafah area, south of #Gaza.
In 1982 he was among the first journalists to report on the massacre in #Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut.
He and his wife co-founded their Kibbutz Nir Oz, and after leaving his job at the newspaper, Oded wrote for the local press and published opinion articles in Haaretz newspaper.
(Cont. W Yocheved's testimony) #hostages
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and guarded inside a network of tunnels. She said she was treated well, had a mattress and one meal a day. She also said a doctor was sent to examine them.
"They were scared we’d become sick," she said.
She ended with critical words for the #Israeli government "We were their scapegoat," she said, describing the infiltration of Hamas into their fields three weeks before the 7 October attack. "They showed us what they were capable of, burning our fields, but the #IDF didn't take it seriously."
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Oded #Lifschitz - Yocheved's husband - is a journalist who for decades has worked for peace and the rights of #Palestinians, his daughter told #BBC
Oded speaks Arabic and used to work for newspaper Al-Hamishmar, published in #Israel and #Palestinian territories.
More recently, he volunteered for a group that transports sick Palestinians from #Gaza for treatment in Israeli hospitals.
(Cont.) #hostages
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V #BBC Lucy Williamson in Tel Aviv:
There was steel beneath Yochedev Lifschitz' frailty:
"I've gone through hell," she described how the attackers kidnapped her from her house in kibbutz Nir Oz, carrying her to Gaza on a motorbike, punching her and hitting her with sticks - until, she said: "It was so painful that I couldn't breathe."
In #Gaza, she said, she joined a group of 25 hostages, and was then separated into a smaller group with 4 other people from her kibbutz (cont.) #Israel #hostages
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UNRWA has warned of a potential end to its aid work in the Gaza Strip. Juliette Touma tells #BBC that "if we do not get fuel urgently, we will be forced to halt our operations in the Gaza strip as of tomorrow (Wednesday) night".
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Extremely graphic descriptions from a woman described by the Daily Mail as a morgue worker in #Israel of the injuries on the bodies she has seen after the unprecedented #Hamas attack on 7th Oct:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12653435/Israeli-morgue-worker-says-horrors-inflicted-Hamass-victims-worse-Holocaust-including-decapitated-pregnant-woman-beheaded-unborn-child.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline
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#BBCWorldService news:
the Israeli military have released more raw footage recovered from Hamas body cameras in an attempt to remind the world of the brutality of the 7th Oct attack on Israel. Journalists in tel Aviv were shown a grahic montage of clips lasting more than 40 minutes. (CONT with graphic decriptions)
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they show Hamas gunmen shooting civilians and throwing grenades into homes. More than 1400 people were killed in the rampage.
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During any war w #Israel support for #Hamas among Palestinians grows, Khalil Shikaki, dir of the Pal. Center for Policy and Survey Research based in Ramallah, has told the #BBC.
He says support for Hamas is usually much higher in #Gaza, which is "more religious, more Islamist" than in the West Bank, which is comprised of "mostly secular nationalists" and is run by the #Palestinian Authority.
Before the latest conflict, a poll in the West Bank and Gaza Strip showed support for Hamas was at 22%
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#BBC Rushdi Abualouf reports from Khan Younis:
'every night there are #airstrikes in this area.
When you talk about the #humanitarian situation, things are getting worse and worse here.
People are watching the trucks coming in but there is no aid being distributed.
Very little aid goes to the UN shelters - about 130 shelters for the more than half a million people who are displaced from their homes elsewhere in the #Gaza Strip.'
#hamas #Israel
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French President Emmanuel Macron has arrived in #Israel, and will be meeting PM Netanyahu later today.
The purpose of the visit is to show France's solidarity with Israel, assist in the release of #hostages still being held by #Hamas, and to prevent any escalation of the current conflict, his advisers told Reuters.
Macron will also meet Pres Herzog, and centrist leaders Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid from the opposition during his visit.
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"My father was getting more frail. He was very involved in political things in the kibbutz. He was very involved in rights for Palestinians and working towards peace with our neighbours."
he was dedicated to the belief that "we have to find a way to live together, he felt that it was very easy to find a way and was very disappointed and fought very hard against this idea of occupation, the idea of perpetual war".
#hostages #Israel #Gaza #hamas
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"And I hope that he's there and he's being looked after and he's got the chance to talk.
He speaks good Arabic so can communicate very well with the people there. He knows many people in Gaza. I want to think he's going to be OK.
"I know for my mum, she says they have been looked after and there was a doctor there so this brings a lot of comfort to everybody that there is some treatment."
You can listen to her full interview
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_fourfm
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V #BBC Frank Gardner:
'There is no unified "Western position" in the way that there has been over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The sheer savagery and cruelty of #Hamas's attack on #Israeli civilians meant that many Western leaders rushed to offer Israel their full support.
However after retaliatory air strikes been causing appallingly high civilian casualties, there are growing misgivings abt Netanyahu's govt actions
"Don't be blinded by anger in the way we were in the US after 9/11"
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#BBC's Fergal Keane has spoken to Sharone Lifschitz, the daughter of released hostage Yocheved Lifschitz :
"We still have over 200 people held hostage and we cannot stop until we bring all of them back. It’s wonderful to see my mum. I’m so proud of her. This is on another scale. There is nothing that can prepare you for a massacre with hundreds dead". Sharone has visited her mother in hospital in Israel and says she "seems OK".
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"The nurses say she is very keen to pass on the information to families of other hostages that she was with."
"There are still over 200 people there and we must must must not kind of get caught only in our personal happiness but work towards the release of everybody."
"I guess no family has a plan for what happened if something like that happened, it’s so off the scale. We are just living one day at a time."
(Cont.)
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Obama stmt on #Israel #Gaza
https://barackobama.medium.com/my-statement-on-israel-and-gaza-a6c397f09a30
"I fully support Pres Biden’s call for the US to support our ally in going after Hamas, dismantling its military capabilities... we shd also be clear that how Israel prosecutes this fight against Hamas matters". #Hamas leadership "seems to intentionally hide among civilians, thereby endangering the very people they claim to represent".
"Any Israeli military strategy that ignores the human costs could ultimately backfire," he says.
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UK PM Sunak says the British government will give an additional £20m in aid to civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, doubling its previous commitment
And in a domestic development UK hate crime law to be clarified after protest row where a man shouted 'jihad' in a megaphone on a London street
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67197002
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Now is not the right time for a ceasefire between #Israel and #Hamas , top White House and US State Dept officials have said.
"We don't believe that this is the time for a ceasefire," National Sec Council spox Kirby told reporters. "Israel has a right to defend themselves. They still have work to do to go after Hamas leadership."
State Dept spox Miller said: “What we will continue to do, with respect to this question, is focus on getting #humanitarian assistance in to #Gaza .”
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Latest HRW report on #Israel #Gaza #hamas :
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/10/23/israel-still-blocking-aid-civilians-gaza
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UK foreign sec Cleverly has told the #BBC that #Hamas "has habitually brutalised #Palestinian people... Hamas published videos of water pipes funded by the EU being torn up and turned into missiles". (thought to refer to an al-Qassam Brigades vid - where they appear to be digging water pipes out of the desert and turning them into missiles. The BBC has not verified it).
He claimed Hamas is using "fuel which could be used for the desalination plants to send rockets into Israel".
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The 3rd humanitarian convoy in as many days has reached #Gaza from #Egypt via the #Rafah crossing. The #Palestinian Red Crescent said the 20 trucks were loaded with food, water and medical supplies. UNRWA, which looks after Palestinans in Gaza says its fuel reserves are nearly exhausted, meaning water desalination plants, hospitals or bakeries may be unable to work in couple of days. #Israel says it's not permitting fuel deliveries because they could be commandeered by Hamas.
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#IDF has disputed a claim from #UNRWA that #fuel will imminently run out in #Gaza.
“As far as I know, there's still electricity in the Gaza Strip. And this report is a bit questionable,” IDF spox Conricus said. “We responded to the claim by UNRWA referring them to where Hamas - which governs Gaza - source fuel, both diesel fuel and other types. It's all inside the Gaza Strip."
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“There's enough for many days for hospitals and water pumps to run. Only the priorities are different. #Hamas prefers to have all of the fuel for its warfighting capabilities, leaving civilians without it,” the #IDF spox added.
Hospitals in Gaza are taking on emergency cases only amid fears fuel supplies could run out in the coming hours, according to the UN
A WHO rep told the B#BC that UN supported hospitals were running generators "at minimum levels only for life-saving operations".
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#BBCNews - Humanity blasted and broken: #Gaza through a #medic 's eyes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67223273
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Good morning, 9 AM in the Middle East here are some of the latest headlines:
The Israel Defense Force #IDF said it carried out an overnight "targeted raid" in northern #Gaza using tanks
It said it had struck "numerous terrorist cells, infrastructure and anti-tank missile launch posts"
Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu has reiterated that Israel is preparing for a ground invasion of Gaza, while offering no details on timings
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in #Gaza, the UN says that fuel could run out in the coming hours, and has warned that hospitals are now only taking emergency cases
Later today EU leaders are expected to call for a pause in the current fighting to facilitate the passage of urgent humanitarian aid
The World Health Organization has urged #Hamas to release all hostages on medical grounds
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