UN secretary general calls for immediate ceasefire in Gaza to end ‘epic suffering’
The United Nations’ secretary general has called for an immediate ceasefire to end “epic suffering” in the Gaza Strip after Israeli airstrikes reportedly killed more than 700 people in a single day and hospitals began to shut down for lack of fuel.
António Guterres said the bombardment and blockade of Gaza amounted to the “collective punishment of the Palestinian people” and violated international law, comments that sparked a fierce row with Israel.
“To ease epic suffering, make the delivery of aid easier and safer and facilitate the release of hostages. I reiterate my appeal for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire,” he said.
Guterres said the 7 October attacks by Hamas were “appalling” but did not happen in a vacuum. “The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation,” he said. “They have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence; their economy stifled; their people displaced and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing.”
Israel’s envoy to the UN, Gilad Erdan, called on Guterres to resign immediately, accusing him of being detached from reality. “His comments … constitute a justification for terrorism and murder. It’s sad that a person with such views is the head of an organisation that arose after the Holocaust.”
Israel’s foreign minister, Eli Cohen, cancelled a planned meeting with Gutteres.
Here’s our full report on the day’s events:
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The military said armed Palestinians “fired and hurled explosive devices” at its forces in Jenin refugee camp, in the northern West Bank. The military then struck them with a drone, and “hits were identified”, it added.
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The Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance service said two Palestinians were killed, with others injured.
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The strike was at least the third use of Israeli air power in the West Bank since violence in the territory surged after Hamas’ Oct. 7 gun rampage in southern Israel.
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Jenin refugee camp, a Palestinian militant stronghold, was the focus of a major Israeli military operation earlier this year.
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The United Nations’ secretary general has called for an immediate ceasefire to end “epic suffering” in the Gaza Strip after Israeli airstrikes reportedly killed more than 700 people in a single day and hospitals began to shut down for lack of fuel.
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António Guterres said the bombardment and blockade of Gaza amounted to the “collective punishment of the Palestinian people” and violated international law, comments that sparked a fierce row with Israel.
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“To ease epic suffering, make the delivery of aid easier and safer and facilitate the release of hostages. I reiterate my appeal for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire,” he said.
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Guterres said the 7 October attacks by Hamas were “appalling” but did not happen in a vacuum. “The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation,” he said. “They have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence; their economy stifled; their people displaced and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing.”
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Israel’s envoy to the UN, Gilad Erdan, called on Guterres to resign immediately, accusing him of being detached from reality. “His comments … constitute a justification for terrorism and murder. It’s sad that a person with such views is the head of an organisation that arose after the Holocaust.”
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Israel’s foreign minister, Eli Cohen, cancelled a planned meeting with Gutteres.
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Here’s our full report on the day’s events:
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Israel’s military has carried out a drone strike on the West Bank city of Jenin during clashes with armed Palestinians, the Israel Defence Forces has said, according to Reuters.
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We’ll bring you more on that when we have more detail.
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Child casualties in Gaza are a “growing stain on our collective conscience”, the UN’s children’s organisation has said, calling for an immediate ceasefire and for all crossings into Gaza to be opened to allow aid in.
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Unicef said in a statement that a reported 2,360 children had been killed in Gaza and a reported 5,364 injured due to “unrelenting attacks” since the conflict erupted on 7 October after Hamas’ attack on Israel. It is difficult to verify death tolls from Gaza.
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It also noted more than 30 Israeli children reportedly have lost their lives, and dozens remain in captivity within the Gaza Strip. Adele Khodr, Unicef’s regional director for the Middle East and North Africa said:
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The killing and maiming of children, abduction of children, attacks on hospitals and schools, and the denial of humanitarian access constitute grave violations of children’s rights.
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UNICEF urgently appeals on all parties to agree to a ceasefire, allow humanitarian access and release all hostages. Even wars have rules. Civilians must be protected – children particularly – and all efforts must be made to spare them in all circumstances,
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She continued: “The situation in the Gaza Strip is a growing stain on our collective conscience. The rate of death and injuries of children simply staggering.”
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This is Helen Livingstone, taking over from my colleague Gloria Oladipo.
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It’s just after 2.00 am in Gaza. Here is a summary of the latest developments:
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The Health ministry in Gaza reported that at least 704 people have been killed in the past day by Israel air strikes, Associated Press reports. The territory’s health ministry, run by Hamas, said that women and children have died as a result of air strikes hitting residential buildings.
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Israel called on UN secretary general António Guterres to resign after Guterres said that the “appalling attacks” by Hamas against Israel on 7 October cannot justify the “collective punishment of the Palestinian people” during a UN security council meeting.
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During the security council meeting, Guterres called for an immediate ceasefire and warned that conflict in Gaza could spill out into other areas of the Middle East region.
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US secretary of state Antony Blinken said on Tuesday countries should still send humanitarian aid to Palestine, adding that Palestinian civilians “must be protected”.
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Jordan’s foreign minister criticized Israel as appearing to be above international law when it comes to the Gaza conflict. Foreign minister Ayman Safadi called out double standards on how leaders are handling Israel’s war “against Palestinians”.
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Stay tuned for further updates.
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The Health ministry in Gaza reported that hundreds of people have been killed in the past day by Israel air strikes, Associated Press reports.
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Israel said on Tuesday that it has launched 400 air strikes across the day, killing Hamas militants and hitting command centers.
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But such air strikes have leveled residential buildings, killing civilians.
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The Health ministry, which is run by Hamas, said that 704 people have died amid the air attacks, mostly women and children.
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Health ministry officials say that hospitals and other facilities have had to close due to bomb damage and a lack of electricity.
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The Guardian was not able to independently verify the fatality count in Gaza or that Israel strikes hit Hamas targets and command centers.
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It’s just after 10.30 pm in Gaza. Here’s a summary of the developments we’ve been following today in the Israel-Hamas conflict:
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Israel has called on UN secretary general António Guterres to resign after Guterres said that the“appalling attacks” by Hamas against Israel on 7 October cannot justify the “collective punishment of the Palestinian people”.
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Guterres warned that the situation in the Middle East is getting more dire by the hour. In remarks made at the UN security council meeting Tuesday in New York, Guterres called for an immediate ceasefire and warned that conflict could spill out into other parts of the region.
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said countries should still send humanitarian aid to Palestine during remarks made at the UN security council. “We call on all countries” to send humanitarian aid to Gaza, he said. “A civilian is a civilian is a civilian,” Blinken said, adding that Palestinian civilians “must be protected”.
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Earlier today, Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said the military was “ready and determined” for the next stage in the conflict, adding that they are awaiting further political instruction.
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Stay tuned for further developments.
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Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, has called on UN secretary-general, António Guterres, to resign after his remarks earlier today saying the “appalling attacks” by Hamas inside Israel on 7 October cannot justify the “collective punishment of the Palestinian people”.
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Things got pretty aggressive at the UN security council meeting at the UN headquarters in New York a little earlier, after Guterres called for a ceasefire in Israel and Gaza and said that the attacks by Hamas on southern Israel on 7 October didn’t happen “in a vacuum” and followed “56 years of suffocating occupation” for the Palestinian people by Israel.
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Erdan posted angrily on X/Twitter, demanding that Guterres resign immediately.
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The @UN Secretary-General, who shows understanding for the campaign of mass murder of children, women, and the elderly, is not fit to lead the UN.
I call on him to resign immediately.
There is no justification or point in talking to those who show compassion for the most…
— Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן (@giladerdan1) October 24, 2023
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He further posted another furious condemnation of the secretary general, calling him “completely disconnected from the reality in our region and that he views the massacre committed by Nazi Hamas terrorists in a distorted and immoral manner”.
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The shocking speech by the @UN Secretary-General at the Security Council meeting, while rockets are being fired at all of Israel, proved conclusively, beyond any doubt, that the Secretary-General is completely disconnected from the reality in our region and that he views the…
— Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן (@giladerdan1) October 24, 2023
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Israel’s foreign minister, Eli Cohen, also became angry and heated in the meeting – see next post.
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The UN secretary general, António Guterres, warned at the UN security council meeting today in New York that the situation in the Middle East was growing more dire by the hour with the risk of the Gaza war spreading through the region increasing as societies splintered and tensions threatened to boil over, the Associated Press reports.
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Guterres called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire to deliver desperately needed food, water, medicine and fuel. He appealed
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to all to pull back from the brink before the violence claims even more lives and spreads even farther”.
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Guterres told the council’s meeting on the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict – which has turned into a major event with ministers from the war’s key parties and a dozen other countries flying to New York – that the rules of war must be obeyed.
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The secretary-general said the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify “the horrifying and unprecedented October 7 acts of terror” by Hamas in Israel and demanded the immediate release of all hostages.
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But Guterres also stressed that “those appalling attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people”.
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Without naming Hamas or the Israeli government specifically, Guterres criticised hostage-taking [by Hamas] and unreasonable demands [from Israel] for swift evacuation of Palestinian civilians within Gaza.
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The US is pushing for adoption of a resolution that would condemn the Hamas attacks in Israel and violence against civilian and reaffirm Israel’s right to self-defence. There were some expectations that it might be voted on today, but diplomats said it is still being negotiated.
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The @UN Charter – which entered into force 78 years ago today – is rooted in a spirit of determination to heal divisions, repair relations & build peace.
We are a divided world. We can and must be united nations.#UNDay pic.twitter.com/EJgMLCakDg
— António Guterres (@antonioguterres) October 24, 2023
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The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, is talking this moment at a meeting of the UN security council at the UN headquarters in New York.
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“We call on all countries” to send humanitarian aid to Gaza, he said.
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“A civilian is a civilian is a civilian,” Blinken said, and Palestinian civilians “must be protected”.
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At the heart of our efforts to save innocent lives in this conflict – and every conflict, for that matter – is our core belief that every civilian life is equally valuable. A civilian is a civilian is a civilian – no matter his or her nationality, ethnicity, age, gender, faith.
— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) October 24, 2023
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“That means Hamas must cease using them as human shields … and Israel must take precautions. It means food, water, medicine must be able to flow into Gaza and to the people who need it. Civilians must be able to get out of harm’s way,” he said and added that the US had “worked relentlessly” for these goals.
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Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has told Vladimir Putin that the “savagery” towards Palestinian lands is deepening.
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In a call with his Russian counterpart, Erdoğan said western countries’ silence was exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and that civilians were constantly being killed. The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry has put the death toll at 700 in the last 24 hours.
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Reuters reports that a statement from Erdoğan’s office repeated earlier comments that Ankara would continue working to achieve calm in the region. Turkey was one of the first countries to try to send aid into Gaza via Egypt after the conflict broke out.
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It has just gone 4.15pm in Gaza City and in Tel Aviv. Here is a summary of the latest developments:
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The Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said the military was “ready and determined” for the next stage in the war and was awaiting political instruction. In a social media post, the Israel Defence Forces claimed to have struck more than 400 targets in the past 24 hours in what was described as “a wide-scale operation to dismantle Hamas’ terrorist capabilities”.
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At least 5,791 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry. It said the number included 2,360 children, and it said 704 Palestinians had been killed in the previous 24 hours. A spokesperson for the ministry, Ashraf al-Qidra, said they had received 1,550 reports of missing people, including 870 children, and suggested that those missing could still be under the rubble of collapsed buildings. The claims have not been independently verified.
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Hamas released two more hostages from Gaza yesterday on “humanitarian and poor health grounds”. Nurit Cooper, also known as Nurit Yitzhak, 79, and Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, were kidnapped along with their husbands from the Nir Oz kibbutz near the Gaza border on 7 October.
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Lifshitz described her ordeal at a press conference in a Tel Aviv hospital. The 85-year-old told reporters she had “been through hell” after being captured by Hamas fighters on motorbikes and beaten with sticks and forced to walk. She went on to describe conditions in the tunnels where she had been held, where she said she said people treated her “gently” and “looked after our needs”. The captives were fed and they slept on mattresses. She said there were doctors and paramedics there to tend to wounds. She was critical of Israel’s military for not taking the threat of Hamas seriously enough before the attack.
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On Monday, Israel said it had established that there were 222 hostages being held in Gaza by Hamas. The IDF said on Tuesday it was attempting to contact residents in Gaza to offer them “a better future for you and your child” by providing information “regarding the abductees in your area”.
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In a joint media appearance with the French president, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, threatened “horrible consequences” for Hezbollah in Lebanon if it decided to join the war in a meaningful way.
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Emmanuel Macron called for the release of hostages and said terrorism was a common enemy of Israel and France. He said terrorism must be fought without mercy but with rules.
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Netanyahu said Hamas must be destroyed and warned that the war may take some time. He said that after it was finished, nobody would live “under Hamas tyranny”.
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Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, has described the 7 October Hamas attack as “one of the worst atrocities of modern times”, and accused Hezbollah in Lebanon of “playing with fire” in Israel’s north. He accused Iran of stoking tension between Hezbollah and Israel.
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About 1.4 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million-strong population is now displaced, the UN’s humanitarian agency OCHA has said in its latest update, and the shortage of clean drinking water as well as overcrowding has become a “major concern”. Doctors in Gaza say patients arriving at hospitals are showing signs of disease caused by overcrowding and poor sanitation.
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Tamara Alrifai, of the UN Palestine refugee relief agency UNRWA, has described the aid delivered to the Gaza Strip as a drop in the ocean. Just 54 trucks with relief supplies are reported to have crossed into Gaza since Saturday. Alrifai said urgently needed fuel was not supplied, and that some of the aid sent in – rice and lentils – was useless because people did not have clean water or fuel to cook them.
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Overnight the UNRWA confirmed that another six of its staff had been killed in Gaza, bringing the total killed since 7 October to 35. It said 40 UNRWA installations had been damaged so far by Israeli airstrikes.
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Israel’s air force said it killed someone in Lebanon who was trying to launch a rocket into northern Israel.
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The UK said 12 British people were killed on 7 October in Israel and five remained unaccounted for. British-Israeli families of those thought to be held hostage held a press briefing at the Israeli embassy in London. People also took part in a vigil for children killed in Gaza in central London.
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At least 5,791 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry.
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It said the number included 2,360 children, and it said 704 Palestinians had been killed in the previous 24 hours alone, Reuters reports.
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The claims have not been independently verified.
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It is approaching noon in Gaza City and in Tel Aviv. Here is a summary of the latest developments in the Israel-Hamas war …
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The Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said on Tuesday that the military was “ready and determined” for the next stage in the war and was awaiting political instruction. In a social media post, the Israel Defence Forces claimed to have struck more than 400 targets in the past 24 hours in what was described as “a wide-scale operation to dismantle Hamas’ terrorist capabilities”.
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Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, has described the 7 October Hamas attack as “one of the worst atrocities of modern times”, and accused Hezbollah in Lebanon of “playing with fire” in Israel’s north. He accused Iran of stoking tension between Hezbollah and Israel, and said: “I want to make clear we are not looking for a confrontation in our northern border or with anyone else. We are focused on destroying Hamas infrastructure, and bringing our citizens back home. But if Hezbollah will drag us into war, it should be clear that Lebanon will pay the price.”
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Addressing the media during a visit to Israel, Emmanuel Macron said the attack on 7 October was an “immense shock”. He said France supported Israel “today, tomorrow and the day after”, saying the victims of the Hamas attack “were killed just because they were Jewish”. He said it was a duty of France to fight against terrorist groups.
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Hamas released two more hostages from Gaza on “humanitarian and poor health grounds”. Nurit Cooper, also known as Nurit Yitzhak, 79, and Yocheved Lifschitz, 85, who were kidnapped along with their husbands from the Nir Oz kibbutz near the Gaza border on 7 October, are now in the care of the Israeli military, the office of the Israeli prime minister confirmed.
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About 1.4 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million-strong population is now displaced, the UN’s humanitarian agency OCHA has said in its latest update, and the shortage of clean drinking water as well as overcrowding has become a “major concern”.
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Overnight the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) confirmed that another six of its staff had been killed in Gaza, bringing the total killed since 7 October to 35. It said 40 UNRWA installations had been damaged so far by Israeli airstrikes.
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In the UK, the junior minister Victoria Atkins told Sky News that the government believes six British nationals are being held hostage by Hamas, cautioning: “It’s a very fast-moving situation and that figure may or may not change.”
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Germany’s antisemitism commissioner has condemned the recent increase in anti-Jewish violence in the country, warning that it risks transporting Germany back to its “most horrific times”. In an interview with the Guardian, Felix Klein said he was also worried about an erosion of basic rights as officials sought to crack down on expressions of support for the Palestinian people.
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The Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said on Tuesday that the military was “ready and determined” for the next stage in the war and was awaiting political instruction.
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Reuters reports that he said Israel was learning from US experience in the Middle East but “our war is on our borders, not thousands of miles from Israel”, and he added that he was expecting weeks of fighting ahead.
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Hagari said Egypt was playing a key role in negotiations for the release of hostages from Gaza, which he said was a top priority for Israel.
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Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, has described the 7 October Hamas attack as “one of the worst atrocities of modern times”, and accused Hezbollah in Lebanon of “playing with fire” in Israel’s north.
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In a joint media appearance with Emmanuel Macron, Herzog said he was worried by the rise of antisemitism around the world, including in France, and said the international community needed to take firm action.
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He described the situation in Israel’s war with Hamas as “extremely complicated and fragile”, saying Israel demanded the “immediate release of all of our citizens abducted and hijacked”.
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He said Israel did not make a distinction between those being held by Hamas with Israeli passports and “anyone who holds another citizenship”.
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“They are all one,” he said, “and for us we want them back immediately.”
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He accused Iran of stoking tension between Hezbollah and Israel, and said:
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I want to make clear we are not looking for a confrontation in our northern border or with anyone else. We are focused on destroying Hamas infrastructure, and bringing our citizens back home. But if Hezbollah will drag us into war, it should be clear that Lebanon will pay the price.
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In the UK, the junior minister Victoria Atkins has told Sky News that the government believes six British nationals are being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza.
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The financial secretary to the Treasury said:
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It’s a very, very fast-moving situation but the latest figure I’ve been given is that there are suspected to be six British nationals. They are our absolute priority. We understand … that they are hostages.
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I do acknowledge that it’s a very fast-moving situation and that figure may or may not change, and I know how difficult that must be for the families and the friends at home here in the UK who are grappling with incredible worry and concern about their loved ones.
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Israel’s siege and bombardment of Gaza following the Hamas attack of 7 October risks backfiring and ultimately undermining long-term efforts to achieve peace and stability in the region, Barack Obama has said.
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“Even as we support Israel, we should also be clear that how Israel prosecutes this fight against Hamas matters,” the former US president said in a statement that also emphasised Israel’s “right to defend its citizens against such wanton violence”. He continued:
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The world is watching closely as events in the region unfold, and any Israeli military strategy that ignores the human costs could ultimately backfire.
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Thousands of Palestinians, including many children, had already been killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza, while hundreds of thousands had been forced from their homes, Obama wrote.
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The Israeli government’s decision to cut off food, water and electricity to a captive civilian population threatens not only to worsen a growing humanitarian crisis; it could further harden Palestinian attitudes for generations, erode global support for Israel, play into the hands of Israel’s enemies, and undermine long term efforts to achieve peace and stability in the region.
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It was a rare foreign policy intervention for Obama and it was not clear if the statement was coordinated with the Biden administration.
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Joe Biden has “underscored the need to sustain a continuous flow of urgently needed humanitarian assistance into Gaza” in a phone call with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the White House has said.
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The phone call came after a third aid convoy, of 20 trucks, was allowed into Gaza via the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. However, the UN warned that fuel was not included and reserves would run out within the next two days.
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Gaza residents are already struggling to find clean water and the lack of fuel means the strip’s water desalination plants, on which it is heavily reliant, as well as bakeries and hospitals, will cease to function.
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UN officials say about 100 aid trucks would be needed daily to meet essential needs in Gaza, which is home to 2.3 million people. Some 1.4 million of those are now homeless.
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In their phone call, Biden also updated Netanyahu on US support for Israel and “ongoing efforts at regional deterrence, to include new US military deployments”, the White House statement said.
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The president also welcomed the release of two hostages from Gaza and reaffirmed his commitment to securing the release of the remaining hostages as well as safe passage for US citizens and other civilians in Gaza.
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The military wing of Hamas have released a video showing the release of Israeli hostages Yocheved Lifshitz and Nurit Yitzhak, who also goes by the name Nurit Cooper.
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The video shows masked men escorting the two women as they are met by representatives of the Red Cross. At one point, Lifshitz – who is 85 – turns to shake the hand of one of the Hamas fighters.
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The Palestinian militants said they released both women on health grounds, after taking them and more than 200 others hostage during the 7 October rampage in Israel in which the militants killed 1,400 people.
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Lifshitz and her 83-year-old husband, Oded, were kidnapped from their home at the Nir Oz kibbutz, close to the border with Gaza in southern Israel, the Israeli prime minister’s office said late on Monday. Oded remains captive, it added.
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Lifshitz is a peace activist who together with her husband helped sick Palestinians in Gaza get to hospital for years, her grandson told Reuters.
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Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the conflict between Israel and Hamas with me, Helen Livingstone.
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US President Joe Biden has urged Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to maintain “a continuous flow of urgently needed humanitarian assistance into Gaza” in a phone call, the White House has said.
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The comments came after Israel intensified its bombardment of the enclave, killing hundreds of Palestinians, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. A third convoy of aid trucks was allowed into Gaza on Monday, although the UN said it was far below the threshold required to meet essential needs.
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Biden also welcome the unilateral release of two hostages by Hamas on “humanitarian and poor health grounds”. Two Israeli women, Nurit Yitzhak (also known as Nurit Cooper), 79, and Yocheved Lifschitz, 85, were transported by the Red Cross to Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Israel, then taken for medical care and a reunion with their families in Tel Aviv.
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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) earlier said it believed Hamas was still holding 222 hostages in Gaza.
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In other developments:
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Reports from Israel suggested that the release of about 50 hostages held by Hamas could be imminent. The Tel Aviv news channel I24 reported “sources within Gaza” as saying “the finalization of a potential deal” brokered by Qatar was under way for the release of about 50 abductees who hold dual citizenship. Officials of Red Cross are believed to on their way to receive the group, I24 said, and the release could be concluded “in the hours ahead” if there are no obstacles.
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The Biden administration does not believe the time is right for a ceasefire in Gaza, according to John Kirby, strategic communications coordinator for the national security council. Speaking to CNN, he said the US position was that all hostages held by Hamas in Gaza must be released first, echoing comments made by President Joe Biden earlier.
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There were reports of an Israeli strike on Gaza’s Al-Shati camp late on Monday. “Many of the casualties are children and women who are still under rubble,” the Hamas-run health ministry said.
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The ministry also said at least 5,087 Palestinians, including 2,055 children, have been killed in Israeli strikes since 7 October, with another 15,273 people wounded. The ministry put the death toll in the past 24 hours at 436, including 182 children. It said most of the fatalities had occurred in the southern Gaza Strip, to where Israel’s military has ordered Palestinians to evacuate. The claims have not been independently verified.
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The White House said Iran is behind attacks by proxy on US troops in the Middle East after a barrage of drone and missile attacks over the weekend. At a media briefing on Monday, John Kirby, strategic communications coordinator for the national security council said the US was ramping up its military capabilities in the Middle East and warned Iran or other nations seeking to use the conflict as an excuse to attack US interests.
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Washington is concerned that Israel lacks achievable military objectives in Gaza and does not yet have a workable plan for a ground invasion, the New York Times has reported, citing senior officials in the Biden administration.
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Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi has said Beijing is “deeply concerned” by the escalating war between Israel and Hamas and called on Israel to respect humanitarian law in a phone call with his Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen, Chinese state media has reported.
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Israel’s siege and bombardment of Gaza risks backfiring and ultimately undermining long term efforts to achieve peace and stability in the region, Barack Obama has said. “Even as we support Israel, we should also be clear that how Israel prosecutes this fight against Hamas matters,” the former US president said.
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Almost 20,000 people have been internally displaced in south Lebanon and elsewhere since early October, a United Nations agency said on Monday, reflecting escalating violence on the Lebanese-Israeli border. The UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) said 19,646 people had been displaced inside Lebanon since it began tracking movements on 8 October, the day after the assault on Israel by Hamas militants, the AFP news agency reported.
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Israel’s military said on Monday that ground forces mounted limited raids into the Gaza Strip overnight to fight Palestinian gunmen, and that airstrikes were being focused on sites where Hamas were assembling to attack any wider Israeli invasion. The IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari said: “During the night there were raids by tank and infantry forces. These raids are raids that kill squads of terrorists who are preparing for our next stage in the war. These are raids that go deep.”
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Washington has advised Israel to delay its expected ground invasion of Gaza in order to buy time to negotiate the release of hostages held by Hamas and allow more aid in to Palestinian civilians, the New York Times reported, citing US officials.
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A third convoy of aid trucks entered Gaza via the Rafah crossing from Egypt on Monday. On Saturday and Sunday 34 trucks passed through. The UN said aid arriving so far was just 4% of the daily average before the hostilities and that about 100 trucks would be needed daily to meet essential needs in Gaza.
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The EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, joined calls on Monday for a humanitarian pause in the conflict to let more aid supplies into Gaza.
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Benjamin Netanyahu thanked the Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, for his country’s support as the latter visited Tel Aviv. Netanyahu said of the conflict: “It’s a battle against civilization. It’s civilization against barbarism. We’re on the side of civilization. We have to unite, all together, against Hamas, which is Isis.”
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The Palestinian prime minister, Mohammad Shtayyeh, has said the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip are exposed to “the Israeli murder and criminal machine”.
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A Palestinian photojournalist, Roshdi Sarraj, has been killed in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, Radio France reported. The French broadcaster said Sarraj was killed on Sunday in Israeli strikes on Tel al-Hawa, in Gaza City. His wife and one-year-old daughter were injured.
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Israel’s military has claimed to have fired at a “suspicious aerial target” attempting to enter Israel from the direction of Lebanon.
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A 33-year-old Dutch woman has been killed in an explosion in Gaza, the Dutch foreign ministry said. Named locally as Islam al-Ashqar, she was visiting relatives at the Nusairat refugee camp in central Gaza and was one of 22 Dutch nationals that the ministry was trying to help leave, the broadcaster NOS said.
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As the death toll from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza rises, the Associated Press has sent this report from inside the enclave:
Across central and south Gaza, where Israel told civilians to take shelter, there were multiple scenes of rescuers pulling the dead and wounded out of large piles of rubble from collapsed buildings.
Graphic photos and video shot by the AP showed rescuers unearthing bodies of children from multiple ruins.
A father knelt on the floor of the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah next to the bodies of three dead children cocooned in bloodied sheets. Later at the nearby morgue, workers prayed over 24 dead wrapped in body bags, several of them the size of small children.
Buildings that collapsed on residents killed dozens at a time in several cases, witnesses said. Two families lost a total 47 members in a leveled home in Rafah, the Health Ministry said.
A strike on a four-story building in Khan Younis killed at least 32 people, including 13 members of the Saqallah family, said Ammar al-Butta, a relative who survived the airstrike. He said there were about 100 people sheltering in the building, including many who had evacuated from Gaza City.
“We thought that our area would be safe,” he said.
Another strike destroyed a bustling marketplace in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, witnesses said. AP photos showed the floor of a vegetable shop covered with blood.
In Gaza City, at least 19 people were killed when an airstrike hit the house of the Bahloul family, according to survivors, who said dozens more people remained buried.
The legs of a dead woman and another person, both still half buried, dangled out of the wreckage where workers dug through the dirt, concrete and rebar.
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.
Harari – the author of bestselling books including Sapiens and Homo Deus – joined 90 signatories of a statement expressing dismay with “elements within the global left … until now, our political partners” who had, on occasion, “justified Hamas’s actions”.
The 47-year-old, who has recently become a high-profile political activist in Israel, opposing Benjamin Netanyahu’s rightwing populist coalition and its plan to weaken judicial oversight, told the Guardian he intervened after speaking with peace activists in his home country who were “completely devastated” and “feeling abandoned and betrayed by supposed allies” in peace efforts, after academics, artists and intellectuals signed letters which failed to condemn Hamas.
Speaking about the reaction from parts of the left in the US and Europe while on a visit to London, Harari said it was “shocking to hear some of the responses that did not only not condemn Hamas, but placed all responsibility on Israel” and to see “the lack of solidarity with regard to the horrific attacks on Israeli civilians”.
Two Palestinians killed in Israeli raid and drone strike in West Bank, medics say
Israeli forces on an overnight raid in the occupied West Bank came under fire by a group of Palestinians whom the military then targeted with a drone strike, the Israeli military said on Wednesday, and medics said two Palestinians were killed. Reuters reports:
The military said armed Palestinians “fired and hurled explosive devices” at its forces in Jenin refugee camp, in the northern West Bank. The military then struck them with a drone, and “hits were identified”, it added.
The Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance service said two Palestinians were killed, with others injured.
The strike was at least the third use of Israeli air power in the West Bank since violence in the territory surged after Hamas’ Oct. 7 gun rampage in southern Israel.
Jenin refugee camp, a Palestinian militant stronghold, was the focus of a major Israeli military operation earlier this year.
As we look for more details of what’s happening in the city of Jenin right now, here are some of the most recent images that have come to us from the West Bank.
UN secretary general calls for immediate ceasefire in Gaza to end ‘epic suffering’
The United Nations’ secretary general has called for an immediate ceasefire to end “epic suffering” in the Gaza Strip after Israeli airstrikes reportedly killed more than 700 people in a single day and hospitals began to shut down for lack of fuel.
António Guterres said the bombardment and blockade of Gaza amounted to the “collective punishment of the Palestinian people” and violated international law, comments that sparked a fierce row with Israel.
“To ease epic suffering, make the delivery of aid easier and safer and facilitate the release of hostages. I reiterate my appeal for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire,” he said.
Guterres said the 7 October attacks by Hamas were “appalling” but did not happen in a vacuum. “The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation,” he said. “They have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence; their economy stifled; their people displaced and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing.”
Israel’s envoy to the UN, Gilad Erdan, called on Guterres to resign immediately, accusing him of being detached from reality. “His comments … constitute a justification for terrorism and murder. It’s sad that a person with such views is the head of an organisation that arose after the Holocaust.”
Israel’s foreign minister, Eli Cohen, cancelled a planned meeting with Gutteres.
Here’s our full report on the day’s events:
Israel carries out drone strike on West Bank city of Jenin
Israel’s military has carried out a drone strike on the West Bank city of Jenin during clashes with armed Palestinians, the Israel Defence Forces has said, according to Reuters.
We’ll bring you more on that when we have more detail.
More than 90 people are reported to have been killed and 1,200 arrested by Israeli forces in the West Bank since 7 October, Bethan McKernan and Sufian Taha reported, amid fears that the occupied Palestinian territory could erupt in a fresh wave of even more violence.
At least eight Palestinian communities have been forced to leave their land in the face of escalating violence from Israeli settlers. In Wadi as-Seeq, near Ramallah, soldiers and settlers detained three Palestinians, stripping them to their underwear before beating them, urinating on them, extinguishing cigarettes on them, and sexually assaulting them. The IDF has opened an investigation.
Here’s a taste from Bethan and Sufian’s report:
In their uncle’s house, next door to the ruins of their demolished home, two young boys from Aqbat Jaber refugee camp in the occupied West Bank were still asleep at midmorning.
A few nights ago, their own bedroom was blown up during an Israel Defence Forces (IDF) operation in the camp on the outskirts of Jericho: it was targeted because the boys’ father, Maher Shalon, has been arrested on suspicion of killing an Israeli settler. A 17-year-old Palestinian was killed during the raid on Friday, six people injured, and two arrested.
After the family home was destroyed, the boys’ mother took their older brother to Bethlehem for medical treatment. The younger children are now being cared for by their uncle, Mansour, and their paternal grandmother, Hamda. According to them, the boys have not gone outside since.
“The Israelis are coming almost every day since 7 October,” said Mansour, 56, referring to the date the Palestinian militant group Hamas broke out of the besieged Gaza Strip, massacring 1,400 Israelis and sparking a new war in which more than 5,700 Palestinians in the coastal exclave have been killed.
Australia has called for humanitarian pauses in hostilities and said “the way Israel exercises its right to defend itself matters,” in a statement by foreign minister Penny Wong. She said:
Innocent Palestinian civilians should not suffer because of the outrages perpetrated by Hamas.
Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people and undermines the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people.
She said the humanitarian situation in Gaza was “dire” and called for “safe, unimpeded and sustained humanitarian access, and safe passage for civilians,” saying the access allowed in recent days was “nowhere near enough”.
She continued:
The way Israel exercises its right to defend itself matters. It matters to civilians throughout the region, and it matters to Israel’s ongoing security.
The Israel Defence Force said early Wednesday its fighter jets had struck military infrastructure and mortar launchers belonging to the Syrian army in response to rocket launches from Syria a day earlier.
More detail from Reuters:
The military said it had identified two rocket launches from Syria that had landed in open areas late on Tuesday, and that it had responded with artillery fire at the sources of the launches.
In a further response, the military said its fighter jets “struck military infrastructure and mortar launchers belonging to the Syrian Army”.
The military did not provide further details. It did not accuse Syria’s army of firing the two rockets, which set off air raid sirens in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday.
There was no immediate comment from Syria.
Israel has traded fire with Lebanon’s Hezbollah and militants in Syria in recent days, a wider conflict over its northern border as it battles Islamist Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip following a deadly attack in Israel.
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The Australian government is sending a “significant contingent” of aircraft and supporting troops to the Middle East on standby in the event “this gets worse”, as the death toll from Israel airstrikes passed 5,700.
The acting prime minister and defence minister, Richard Marles, appeared across multiple media outlets on Wednesday morning to announce two additional RAAF planes and support troops were being flown to the Middle East “as a contingency”.
Marles would not say where in the region Australia would base its troops, or how many, but told the ABC a C-17 transporter and a KC-30 tanker would join an existing aircraft on standby, in the event Australians across the wider Middle East needed sudden evacuation.
“We’re not identifying where they will be, but the point of this is to provide support to Australian populations who are in the Middle East, if this gets worse, in essence,” he said.
Here a bit more background from Reuters on the two draft resolutions put forward by the US and Russia and how they came about:
The United States last week vetoed a Brazil-drafted resolution for humanitarian pauses, arguing that time was needed for US-led diplomacy focused on brokering aid access to Gaza on the ground and trying to free hostages held by Hamas.
Twelve members voted in favor of the draft text on Wednesday, while Russia and Britain abstained.
The US then proposed its own draft text on Saturday that initially shocked some council diplomats with its bluntness in stating that Israel has a right to defend itself and demanding Iran stop exporting arms to militant groups in the region.
It did not initially call for any pause or truce. But – responding to growing international pressure – it amended the draft to include a call “for all measures necessary, such as humanitarian pauses” to allow aid access.
The US also toned down the overall draft, removing direct references to Iran and to Israel‘s right to self-defense.
But Russia put forward its own alternative draft resolution on Tuesday after saying it does not support the proposed US action …
Russia last week failed to get the minimum nine votes needed for a draft resolution that called for a humanitarian ceasefire. The draft resolution received five votes in favor and four votes against, along with six abstentions.
The US and Russia have put forward rival plans at the UN to help Palestinian civilians caught in the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza, after previous draft resolutions failed.
Both countries want aid including food, water and medicines to be delivered to Gaza but while Russia is calling for a ceasefire, the US opposes a ceasefire and is only calling for pauses in fighting to allow the aid in.
Reuters has more on the differences between a “pause” and a “ceasefire”, who supports what and what might happen next:
A pause is generally considered less formal and shorter than a ceasefire. While the differences may seem semantic, the US proposal for pauses has grown out of an initial draft given to the 15-member council on Saturday that was staunchly pro-Israel, Washington’s longtime ally.
Russia announced on Tuesday that it could not support the US plan for action and put forward its own text that calls for a ceasefire, an idea backed by Arab states.
A council resolution needs at least nine votes and no vetoes by the United States, France, Britain, Russia or China to be adopted. It was not immediately clear if or when the US and Russian draft resolutions could be put to a vote.
Here are some of the latest images coming through on the wires, taken at al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in the central Gazan city of Deir Al-Balah:
Child casualties in Gaza a ‘growing stain on our collective conscience’, Unicef says
Child casualties in Gaza are a “growing stain on our collective conscience”, the UN’s children’s organisation has said, calling for an immediate ceasefire and for all crossings into Gaza to be opened to allow aid in.
Unicef said in a statement that a reported 2,360 children had been killed in Gaza and a reported 5,364 injured due to “unrelenting attacks” since the conflict erupted on 7 October after Hamas’ attack on Israel. It is difficult to verify death tolls from Gaza.
It also noted more than 30 Israeli children reportedly have lost their lives, and dozens remain in captivity within the Gaza Strip. Adele Khodr, Unicef’s regional director for the Middle East and North Africa said:
The killing and maiming of children, abduction of children, attacks on hospitals and schools, and the denial of humanitarian access constitute grave violations of children’s rights.
UNICEF urgently appeals on all parties to agree to a ceasefire, allow humanitarian access and release all hostages. Even wars have rules. Civilians must be protected – children particularly – and all efforts must be made to spare them in all circumstances,
She continued: “The situation in the Gaza Strip is a growing stain on our collective conscience. The rate of death and injuries of children simply staggering.”
This is Helen Livingstone, taking over from my colleague Gloria Oladipo.
Summary of the day so far
It’s just after 2.00 am in Gaza. Here is a summary of the latest developments:
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The Health ministry in Gaza reported that at least 704 people have been killed in the past day by Israel air strikes, Associated Press reports. The territory’s health ministry, run by Hamas, said that women and children have died as a result of air strikes hitting residential buildings.
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Israel called on UN secretary general António Guterres to resign after Guterres said that the “appalling attacks” by Hamas against Israel on 7 October cannot justify the “collective punishment of the Palestinian people” during a UN security council meeting.
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During the security council meeting, Guterres called for an immediate ceasefire and warned that conflict in Gaza could spill out into other areas of the Middle East region.
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US secretary of state Antony Blinken said on Tuesday countries should still send humanitarian aid to Palestine, adding that Palestinian civilians “must be protected”.
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Jordan’s foreign minister criticized Israel as appearing to be above international law when it comes to the Gaza conflict. Foreign minister Ayman Safadi called out double standards on how leaders are handling Israel’s war “against Palestinians”.
Stay tuned for further updates.
The credit assessor S&P Global has lowered Israel’s credit outlook from ‘stable’ to ‘negative’, Bloomberg News reports.
S&P’s rating comes after concerns that the ongoing conflict in Gaza could harm Israel’s wider economy. S&P did retain Israel’s rating of AA-, the fourth highest possible rating.
Other credit assessors including Moody’s Investors Service and Fitch have not downgraded Israel’s credit but have placed the country on watch given the ongoing conflict.
Read the full article here (paywall).
Delta airlines said on Tuesday that they will temporarily halt all flights to Israel through 15 November, Reuters reports.
The international airline said the pause in flights to Israel is due to ongoing fighting in the country. Delta added that they would resume some flights beginning 1 November.
This month, United Airlines and American Airlines also announced that they would temporarily halt direct flights to Israel.
Hundreds killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, the territory’s health ministry reports
The Health ministry in Gaza reported that hundreds of people have been killed in the past day by Israel air strikes, Associated Press reports.
Israel said on Tuesday that it has launched 400 air strikes across the day, killing Hamas militants and hitting command centers.
But such air strikes have leveled residential buildings, killing civilians.
The Health ministry, which is run by Hamas, said that 704 people have died amid the air attacks, mostly women and children.
Health ministry officials say that hospitals and other facilities have had to close due to bomb damage and a lack of electricity.
The Guardian was not able to independently verify the fatality count in Gaza or that Israel strikes hit Hamas targets and command centers.