‘Significant’ pause in fighting discussed to secure hostages’ release, says US
Talks are being held on a “very significant” pause in the Israel-Hamas war to win the release of hostages taken Hamas, Agence France-Presse is quoting a senior US official as saying.
“It is something that is under a very serious and active discussion. But there is no agreement as of yet to actually get this done,” the official said on Friday.
Reuters quoted a US official saying there was “indirect engagement” aimed at finding a way to get the hostages out but that the work was extremely difficult.
It’s something we’re working on extremely hard.
An estimated 240 Israeli and foreign hostages were kidnapped by Hamas during its 7 October assault that killed more than 1,400 people, according to Israeli officials.
A US official said “nobody knows” the exact number of hostages, adding that it was “well over 100 and maybe over 200”. To get that many people out “is going to require a fairly significant pause in hostilities”.
But the official warned:
There’s absolutely no guarantee a) that is going to happen or b) when it’s going to happen.
Israel and the US have both previously ruled out a blanket ceasefire, which they say would allow Hamas to regroup and resupply, but US president Joe Biden has backed “temporary, localised” pauses.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said there can be no “temporary truce” in Gaza unless Hamas releases the hostages.
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The PRCS said in a statement early on Saturday that one of its ambulances was struck “by a missile fired by the Israeli forces” about two metres from the entrance to the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Agence France-Presse reports.
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The attack resulted in the deaths of 15 civilians and wounded 60 other people, the PRCS said, mirroring figures released earlier by the Hamas-run health ministry.
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Another ambulance, belonging to the health ministry, was “directly targeted” by a missile about a kilometre from the hospital, causing injuries and damage, it said.
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The PRCS, part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, added that deliberately targeting medical teams constituted “a grave violation of the Geneva Conventions, a war crime”.
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Israel’s military said it had launched an air strike on “an ambulance that was identified by forces as being used by a Hamas terrorist cell in close proximity to their position in the battle zone”.
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“A number of Hamas terrorist operatives were killed in the strike,” a military statement said.
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An AFP journalist at the scene of the attack saw multiple bodies beside the damaged ambulance outside the hospital, which is overcrowded with civilians seeking shelter from Israeli bombing as well as those wounded.
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US secretary of state Antony Blinken is to meet Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Saturday after leaving Israel empty-handed in his efforts to secure humanitarian pauses in its war to destroy Hamas, Agence France-Presse reports.
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Blinken arrived late on Friday in Amman, where he will also join a meeting of foreign ministers of five Arab countries which will be attended by a representative of the Palestinian Authority (PA) led by president Mahmud Abbas, a rival of Hamas.
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In Israel, Blinken discussed with prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu the idea of “humanitarian pauses” to secure the release of hostages held by Hamas and to allow aid to be distributed to the Gaza Strip population.
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But after meeting Blinken on Friday, Netanyahu said there could be no “temporary truce” in Gaza unless Hamas released the hostages it held.
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Talks are being held on a “very significant” pause in the Israel-Hamas war to win the release of hostages taken Hamas, Agence France-Presse is quoting a senior US official as saying.
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“It is something that is under a very serious and active discussion. But there is no agreement as of yet to actually get this done,” the official said on Friday.
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Reuters quoted a US official saying there was “indirect engagement” aimed at finding a way to get the hostages out but that the work was extremely difficult.
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It’s something we’re working on extremely hard.
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An estimated 240 Israeli and foreign hostages were kidnapped by Hamas during its 7 October assault that killed more than 1,400 people, according to Israeli officials.
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A US official said “nobody knows” the exact number of hostages, adding that it was “well over 100 and maybe over 200”. To get that many people out “is going to require a fairly significant pause in hostilities”.
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But the official warned:
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There’s absolutely no guarantee a) that is going to happen or b) when it’s going to happen.
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Israel and the US have both previously ruled out a blanket ceasefire, which they say would allow Hamas to regroup and resupply, but US president Joe Biden has backed “temporary, localised” pauses.
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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said there can be no “temporary truce” in Gaza unless Hamas releases the hostages.
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The Israeli air strike on an ambulance being used to evacuate the wounded from besieged northern Gaza on Friday killed 15 and injured 60, the Hamas-controlled territory’s health ministry said.
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Reuters reports Israel’s military said it had identified and hit an ambulance “being used by a Hamas terrorist cell”. It said Hamas fighters were killed in the strike, and accused the group of transferring militants and weapons in ambulances.
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Hamas official Izzat El Reshiq said allegations its fighters were present were “baseless”.
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Ashraf al-Qidra, a spokesperson for Gaza’s health ministry, said the ambulance was part of a convoy that Israel targeted near Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital.
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Qidra said Israel had targeted the convoy of ambulances in more than one location, including at al-Shifa Hospital gate and at Ansar Square a kilometre (0.6 miles) away.
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In a statement on the incident, Israel’s military gave no evidence to support its assertion that the ambulance was linked to Hamas but said it intended to release additional information.
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This is Adam Fulton picked up our rolling live coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. It’s just passed 2.20am in Gaza City and Tel Aviv
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It’s 2am in Gaza City and Tel Aviv. Here’s where we stand:
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Israeli strikes on Gaza have killed at least 9,227 Palestinians, including 3,826 children, since 7 October, the Hamas-run health ministry said on Friday. The Israeli offensive on Gaza followed terrorist attacks launched by Hamas into Israel on 7 October which killed 1,400 people.
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At least 15 people were killed and 60 injured after an Israeli strike on a convoy of ambulances near the beseiged territory’s biggest hospital, al-Shifa, Gaza’s health ministry said. The Hamas government in Gaza said Israeli forces on Friday targeted “a convoy of ambulances which was transporting the wounded” from Gaza City towards Rafah in the south. The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PCRS) said its ambulance, carrying an injured 35-year-old, was struck by a missile fired by Israeli forces. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it carried out an airstrike on an ambulance which it said was being used by Hamas, adding that “a number of Hamas terrorist operatives” were killed in the strike. It gave no evidence to support its assertion. The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) said he was “utterly shocked” by reports of attacks on ambulances evacuating patients close to al-Shifa hospital.
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The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has warned that they cannot provide safety to the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians “sheltering under a UN flag”. More than 50 UN facilities have been “impacted” by the conflict, including “five direct hits” and 38 people had died in UN shelters, Thomas White, director of UNRWA affairs, said on Friday, adding: “Let’s be very clear, there is no place that is safe in Gaza right now.”
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UNRWA “is practically out of business”, the UN’s humanitarian chief said on Friday, as he paid tribute to at least 72 UNRWA staff who have been killed in the Gaza Strip since 7 October. In a briefing to UN member states in New York, Martin Griffiths said that what has unfolded over the last 26 days of conflict “is nothing short of … a blight on our collective conscience”.
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Israeli forces have surrounded Gaza City and are attacking Hamas infrastructure and destroying tunnels used by militants to launch attacks, the Israeli military said on Friday. Airstrikes continued alongside the intensifying ground offensive in what Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, described as the second stage of the war.
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Israel will continue its offensive in Gaza “with full force” and will refuse any temporary ceasefire that does not include the release of more than 240 hostages held by Hamas, Benjamin Netanyahu has said, rejecting US calls for a pause in the fighting. “I made clear that we are continuing full force and that Israel refuses a temporary ceasefire which does not include the release of our hostages,” the Israeli prime minister said on Friday.
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The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, flew into Israel on Friday to urge the Israeli prime minister to temporarily stop its military offensive to allow aid into the territory. The US’s top diplomat applied the greatest pressure yet on the Israeli government to rethink its strategy in Gaza, calling for localised humanitarian pauses and insisting Israel cannot achieve long-term security solely through military means.
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Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, saying “crimes against humanity” are being committed in Gaza. “There is no concept that could explain or excuse the brutality that we have witnessed since 7 October,” Erdogan said during a summit of Turkic states in the Kazakh capital, Astana.
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France has reacted with “astonishment” and “incomprehension” after it said that an Israeli airstrike had hit the Institut Français in Gaza, and that the Gaza office of Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency was also hit. AFP said its Gaza City office was significantly damaged by a strike on the building on Thursday. No injuries have been reported.
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The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah has said his powerful militia is engaged in cross-border fighting with Israel and has threatened further “realistic escalation”. Hassan Nasrallah stopped short of announcing that Hezbollah had fully joined the Israel-Hamas war but warned that fighting on the Lebanon-Israel border would not be limited to the scale seen so far. Hezbollah should not try to take advantage of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, the White House said.
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Israeli forces on Friday killed six Palestinians in raids across the West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, as violence surged in the occupied territory in tandem with the Gaza war. The Israeli army said its forces were “operating against Hamas” across the West Bank, with operations in Jenin and the northern city of Nablus.
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The US has confirmed for the first time that it has been flying unarmed surveillance drones over Gaza. “In support of hostage recovery efforts, the US is conducting unarmed UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] flights over Gaza, as well as providing advice and assistance to support our Israeli partner as they work on their hostage recovery efforts,” Pentagon spokesperson Brig Gen Pat Ryder said on Friday.
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The first people in a group of about 100 Britons due to leave Gaza on Friday have made the crossing into Egypt, amid concerns about whether individuals in the north of the Palestinian territory will be able to make it to the southern Rafah crossing. By Friday, there were 127 people on the UK list to be evacuated into Egypt since the crossing opened on Wednesday. The parents-in-law of Scotland’s first minister, Humza Yousaf, were among the Britons able to leave Gaza. It is understood hundreds of British nationals remain trapped in Gaza.
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The White House has said 100 American citizens and family members left Gaza on Thursday. Another large group of Americans are expected to leave Gaza on Friday, the White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, told reporters.
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Thirty-four French citizens were evacuated from the Gaza Strip on Friday, according to the French foreign ministry.
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Doctors and aid workers in Gaza say they have been abandoned by the international community to a “humanitarian tragedy” as they “fight to survive” after almost four weeks of war between Israel and Hamas.
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Thousands of Palestinian workers from Gaza who were stranded in Israel when war broke out last month have been deported back to the war-torn strip after being expelled by the Israeli government. The UN Human Rights Office said it was “deeply concerned” about the expulsions.
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Rishi Sunak has described pro-Palestinian protests planned for London on Armistice Day as “provocative and disrespectful”. The UK prime minister’s intervention on Friday came as two women pictured at a pro-Palestinian march in London carrying photos of paragliders have been charged with terrorism offences.
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Five people have been arrested during a pro-Palestinian sit-in at King’s Cross station in London after the demonstration was banned. On Friday evening, scores of people could still be seen outside King’s Cross station on social media.
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Jewish people in Britain have experienced the worst wave of hate incidents in modern times with more than 1,000 recorded after the Hamas massacres in Israel, experts in countering antisemitism have said.
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The US has confirmed for the first time that it has been flying unarmed surveillance drones over Gaza.
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In a statement on Friday, Pentagon spokesperson Brig Gen Pat Ryder said:
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In support of hostage recovery efforts, the US is conducting unarmed UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] flights over Gaza, as well as providing advice and assistance to support our Israeli partner as they work on their hostage recovery efforts.
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The US began flying UAV flights after the 7 October attack by Hamas on Israel, he added.
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The UN’s humanitarian chief, Martin Griffiths, said that what has unfolded over the last 26 days of conflict in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories “is nothing short of … a blight on our collective conscience”.
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In a briefing to UN member states in New York on Friday, Griffiths recalled that 1,400 Israelis and nearly 9,000 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October. The true number will only be known after the rubble is cleared from Gaza, he said.
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He said the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), which provides humanitarian resources in the Gaza Strip, is “practically out of business”.
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UNRWA – the bulwark, the safety net, the buffer of so many people of Gaza for so many years – is practically out of business.
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He paid tribute to the at least 72 UNRWA staff who have been killed in the Gaza Strip since 7 October.
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"@UNRWA, the bulwark, the safety net, the buffer of so many people of Gaza for so many years is practically out of business" – OCHA Chief, Martin Griffiths pic.twitter.com/GwAcgfjcZ1
— UN News (@UN_News_Centre) November 3, 2023
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The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has warned the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians sheltering in UN facilities in Gaza that they cannot provide them safety.
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More than 50 UN facilities have been “impacted” by the conflict, including “five direct hits”, Thomas White, director of UNRWA affairs, said from its Rafah logistics base.
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More than 1.5 million people are now displaced in Gaza and nearly 600,000 are crowded in shelters run by the UN agency.
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Although people are sheltering under the UN flag seeking protection under international humanitarian law, “the reality is we cannot even provide them safety under a UN flag”, White said.
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He said 38 people had died in UN shelters, and that he feared that “that number is going to grow significantly”. He added:
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Let’s be very clear, there is no place that is safe in Gaza right now.
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At least 72 UNRWA staff have been killed in the Gaza Strip since 7 October, according to the agency. It is the highest number of UN aid workers killed in a conflict in such a short space of time, it said.
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The Israeli government has warned its citizens to reconsider foreign travel and to exercise extra caution while abroad, citing an increase in antisemitic incidents and violence in recent weeks.
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A joint statement from the prime minister’s office and the foreign ministry said life-threatening assaults, antisemitism and incitement have been significantly rising in many countries, Reuters reported.
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Its just past 10.30pm in Gaza City and Tel Aviv. Here’s where things stand:
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Israeli strikes on Gaza have killed at least 9,227 Palestinians, including 3,826 children, since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry said on Friday. The Israeli offensive on Gaza followed attacks launched by Hamas into Israel on 7 October, which killed 1,400 people.
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The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said he is “utterly shocked” by reports of attacks on ambulances evacuating patients close to al-Shifa hospital in Gaza. The Hamas government in Gaza said Israeli forces targeted “a convoy of ambulances which was transporting the wounded” from Gaza City towards Rafah in the south. Gaza’s health ministry said “several citizens were killed and dozens wounded.”The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it carried out an airstrike on an ambulance it claimed was being used by Hamas, adding that “a number of Hamas terrorist operatives” were killed in the strike. It gave no evidence to support its assertion.
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Israeli forces have surrounded Gaza City and are attacking Hamas infrastructure and destroying tunnels used to launch attacks, the Israeli military said. Airstrikes continued alongside the intensifying ground offensive in what Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, described as the second stage of the war.
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Israel will continue its offensive in Gaza “with full force” and will refuse any temporary ceasefire that does not include the release of what is says are more than 240 hostages held by Hamas, Benjamin Netanyahu has said, rejecting US calls for a pause in the fighting. “I made clear that we are continuing full force and that Israel refuses a temporary ceasefire which does not include the release of our hostages,” the Israeli prime minister said on Friday.
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The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, flew into Israel on Friday to urge the Israeli prime minister to temporarily stop its military offensive to allow aid into the territory. The US’s top diplomat applied the greatest pressure yet on the Israeli government to rethink its strategy in Gaza, calling for localised humanitarian pauses and insisting Israel cannot achieve long-term security solely through military means.
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Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, saying “crimes against humanity” are being committed in Gaza. “There is no concept that could explain or excuse the brutality that we have witnessed since 7 October,” Erdogan said during a summit of Turkic states in the Kazakh capital, Astana.
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France has reacted with “astonishment” and “incomprehension” after it said that an Israeli airstrike had hit the Institut Français in Gaza, and that the Gaza office of Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency was also hit. AFP said its Gaza City office was significantly damaged by a strike on the building on Thursday. No injuries have been reported.
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The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah has said his powerful militia is engaged in cross-border fighting with Israel and has threatened further “realistic escalation”. Hassan Nasrallah stopped short of announcing that Hezbollah had fully joined the war but warned that fighting on the Lebanon-Israel border would not be limited to the scale seen so far. Hezbollah should not try to take advantage of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, the White House said.
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Israeli forces on Friday killed six Palestinians in raids across the West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, as violence surged in the occupied territory in tandem with the Gaza war. The Israeli army said its forces were “operating against Hamas” across the West Bank, with operations in Jenin and the northern city of Nablus.
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The first people in a group of about 100 Britons due to leave Gaza on Friday have made the crossing into Egypt, amid concerns about whether people in the north of the Palestinian territory will be able to make it to the southern Rafah crossing. By Friday, there were 127 people on the UK list to be evacuated into Egypt since the crossing opened on Wednesday. The parents-in-law of Scotland’s first minister, Humza Yousaf, were among the Britons able to leave Gaza. It is thought that hundreds of British nationals remain trapped in Gaza.
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The White House has said 100 American citizens and family members left Gaza on Thursday. Another large group of Americans are expected to leave Gaza on Friday, the White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, told reporters.
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Doctors and aid workers in Gaza say they have been abandoned by the international community to a “humanitarian tragedy” as they “fight to survive” after almost four weeks of war between Israel and Hamas.
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Thousands of Palestinian workers from Gaza who were stranded in Israel when war broke out last month have been deported back to the war-torn strip after being expelled by the Israeli government. The UN Human Rights Office said it was “deeply concerned” about the expulsions.
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Rishi Sunak has described pro-Palestinian protests planned for London on Armistice Day as “provocative and disrespectful”. The UK prime minister’s intervention on Friday came as two women pictured at a pro-Palestinian march in London carrying photos of paragliders have been charged with terrorism offences.
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Jewish people in Britain have experienced the worst wave of hate incidents in modern times with more than 1,000 recorded after the Hamas massacres in Israel, experts in countering antisemitism have said.
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The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said he is “utterly shocked” by reports of attacks on ambulances evacuating patients close to al-Shifa hospital in Gaza.
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, posting to social media, urged that “patients, health workers, facilities, and ambulances must be protected at all times. Always”. He once again called for a ceasefire.
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it carried out an airstrike on an ambulance which it said was being used by Hamas, adding that “a number of Hamas terrorist operatives” were killed in the strike.
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The Hamas government in Gaza said Israeli forces targeted “a convoy of ambulances which was transporting the wounded” from Gaza City towards Rafah in the south. Gaza’s health ministry said “several citizens were killed and dozens wounded” in an Israeli strike at the entrance to al-Shifa, Gaza’s largest hospital.
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Utterly shocked by reports of attacks on ambulances evacuating patients close to Al-Shifa hospital in #Gaza, leading to deaths, injuries and damage.
We reiterate: patients, health workers, facilities, and ambulances must be protected at all times. Always.
Ceasefire NOW.…
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) November 3, 2023
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The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said it carried out an airstrike on an ambulance in the northern Gaza Strip, “that was identified by forces as being used by a Hamas terrorist cell”.
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An IDF spokesperson said “a number” of Hamas fighters were killed in the strike, and that “more detailed information” was shared with allies. They said:
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We have information which demonstrates that Hamas’s method of operation is to transfer terror operatives and weapons in ambulances.
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It gave no evidence to support its assertion that the ambulance was linked to Hamas but said in a statement it intended to release additional information.
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The IDF added:
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We emphasise that this area is a battle zone. Civilians in the area are repeatedly called upon to evacuate southwards for their own safety.
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The White House has said 100 American citizens and family members left Gaza on Thursday, Reuters reported.
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Another large group of Americans are expected to leave Gaza today, the White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, told reporters.
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She added that negotiations were intense on getting foreign nationals out of Gaza and that it was a fluid situation.
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The US embassy in Cairo posted an image of the first groups of American citizens who had been able to leave Gaza through the Rafah border crossing into Egypt.
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We welcome with gratitude the first groups of American citizens who have been able to safely depart Gaza through the Rafah border crossing. Grateful to Egyptian authorities for their partnership in ensuring the safe, secure transfer of American citizens into Egypt and then… pic.twitter.com/oYxxd424TF
— U.S. Embassy Cairo (@USEmbassyCairo) November 3, 2023
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Oxfam has said it is “gravely concerned” for the lives of about 500,000 Palestinians who are currently trapped in a “siege within a siege” in northern Gaza.
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In a statement on Friday, the charity organisation said Israeli forces have “imposed a near-complete stranglehold on Gaza City and the northern region, effectively cutting the enclave in half from the border wall to the sea”.
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It accused Israel of the collective punishment of civilians in Gaza and violating international humanitarian law by depriving people of food, water, fuel, medicines and other aid. It warned of a “risk of further atrocious cost to civilian life in northern Gaza”.
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Humanitarian support is “virtually impossible” in the north of Gaza, it said. One Oxfam humanitarian worker in north Gaza, Alhasan Swairjo, told the organisation:
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We are sharing resources with ten other families. The markets almost empty. There’s no fresh food across all the city. We depend on canned food. The bread markets have no electricity and only a limited amount of fuel – one day, two days, five days – we don’t know … Our children are suffering, they don’t understand why we moved, why Israel is shooting us.
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The organisation called for an immediate ceasefire and granting of humanitarian access and aid. It also called on the international community “to push for an end to Israel’s prolonged occupation of Palestinian territory, including lifting of the Gaza blockade.”
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Dozens of casualties have been reported after an incident near al-Shifa hospital, the largest hospital in Gaza City, today.
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Gaza’s health ministry said “several citizens were killed and dozens wounded” in what it said was an Israeli strike at the entrance to the hospital.
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A statement by the Hamas-run government in Gaza said Israeli forces targeted “a convoy of ambulances which was transporting the wounded” from Gaza City towards Rafah in the south.
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The cause of the incident is not immediately clear. The Guardian has not been able to verify the claims.
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The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have said they are looking into the report.
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An AFP journalist at the scene saw multiple bodies beside a damaged ambulance, while a doctor at the hospital told Sky News that up to 50 casualties had been brought in.
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The Palestinian Red Crescent Society, which operates at the hospital, shared an image of a damaged ambulance in front of the hospital.
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Targeting a PRCS ambulance while it was in front of Al-Shifa Hospital. Our colleagues were saved by a miracle 🙏#GazaUnderAttack #NotATarget pic.twitter.com/WUJBGrsxXi
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) November 3, 2023
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At least 19 British nationals who are on a list to evacuate from Gaza to Egypt have been unable to do so, the BBC has reported.
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Nearly 100 Britons trapped in Gaza were expected to cross into Egypt today, after the Rafah border crossing opened on Wednesday for the first time to allow foreign nationals and seriously wounded Palestinians to leave.
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But three family groups have told the news outlet that they are located in the north of Gaza and that it is too dangerous to travel to the south, where the Rafah crossing is located.
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By Friday, 127 British nationals had been listed to evacuate into Egypt. Those who crossed into Egypt described the Rafah crossing as “absolute chaos”, and said they had been “abandoned” by the government.
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The health ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza said scores of Palestinians were killed and injured on Friday in Israeli targeting of an ambulance convoy carrying critically wounded people in Gaza.
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The health ministry spokesman, Ashraf Al-Qudra, earlier said they would send critically injured Palestinians who needed to be urgently transferred for treatment in Egypt from Gaza city and the north to the south, Reuters reported.
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The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah said on Friday that his powerful militia is engaged in cross-border fighting with Israel that is unprecedented since 1948 and threatened further “realistic escalation”.
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In a widely anticipated speech, Hassan Nasrallah stopped short of announcing that Hezbollah had fully joined the Israel-Hamas war, but added the fighting on the Lebanon-Israel border would “not be limited” to the scale seen until now.
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Nasrallah said Hezbollah operations had been increasing “day by day”, even as Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, warned Hezbollah against testing Israel or “they would pay dearly”.
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He made clear that Hezbollah’s intention was to tie down Israeli troops who could otherwise be deployed in Gaza, warning that further escalation in the north was a “realistic possibility”.
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He also suggested his militia had had no part in the 7 October attacks, telling flag-waving supporters: “This great, large-scale operation was purely the result of Palestinian planning and implementation.”
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Nasrallah’s speech had been keenly anticipated throughout the region as a sign of whether the Israel-Hamas conflict would spiral into a regional war, following daily exchanges across Israel’s northern border between Israel and Hezbollah and other factions in southern Lebanon.
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Since the beginning of the war, Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, had taken calculated steps to keep Israel’s military busy on its border with Lebanon, but not to the extent of igniting an all-out war.
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Israel considers the Iran-backed Lebanese Shia militant group its most serious immediate threat, estimating that Hezbollah has around 150,000 rockets and missiles aimed at Israel, as well as drones and surface-to-air and surface-to-sea missiles.
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But a full-on conflict would also be costly for Hezbollah, which fought a 34-day war with Israel in 2006 that ended with a draw – but not before Israeli bombing reduced swaths of southern Lebanon, the eastern Bekaa Valley and Beirut’s southern suburbs to rubble.
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A new all-out war would also displace hundreds of thousands of Hezbollah’s supporters and cause wide damage at a time when Lebanon is in the throes of a historic four-year economic meltdown.
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Israel will not agree to any temporary ceasefire with Hamas until the more than 240 hostages seized during the attacks on 7 October are released, the country’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said.
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“Israel refuses a temporary ceasefire that does not include the return of our hostages,” he said during a televised address. (Via Reuters)
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The Hezbollah secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, is speaking now. He has praised “the glorious operation” carried out by Hamas, claiming that the terrorist attack has exposed “the frailty, weakness and total fragility of Israel … it’s more fragile than a spider’s web”.
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He has also said that the attack, which, he added, was planned in secret by the Palestinian group, will have lasting consequences.
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“This glorious, seismic operation has caused an earthquake in terms of security, military, politics, diplomacy and even psychologically,” he said. “It will have profound strategic repercussions.”
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Nasrallah said Israel had set its aim too high when it came to trying to “annihilate Hamas” and wipe out its leaders.
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He also cast doubt on Israel’s ability to achieve its stated aim of releasing the hostages held in Gaza, saying it had been forced to negotiate the release of captives in the past.
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Nasrallah said Israel’s bombardment of Gaza had revealed its “impotence and stupidity” and had made targets of mosques and churches while the world stood by and let it happen. He has also suggested that Israel has yet to secure a single military victory despite is month-long operations in Gaza.
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The Hezbollah leader has said that Israel’s response has shown the world that it is “a brutal and barbaric regime”, and has accused the west and its media of colluding with Israel.
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The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has urged Israel to do everything in its power to protect civilians caught in the fighting in Gaza
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Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, saying “crimes against humanity” are being committed in Gaza
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At least 9,227 Palestinians, including 3,826 children, have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, according to the Hamas-run health ministry
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The families of nine Israeli victims of Hamas’s attacks have lodged a complaint at the International Criminal Court for suspected war crimes
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The UN has launched an emergency aid appeal seeking $1.2bn to help some 2.7 million people in Gaza and the West Bank
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The Israeli military says it’s on “very high alert” along the country’s northern border with Lebanon
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Ireland’s taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, has once again criticised Israel’s actions, describing its operations in Gaza as “something approaching revenge”
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Thousands of cross-border Gazan workers and labourers in Israel and the occupied West Bank have been sent back to Gaza
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The Hezbollah secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, is making a highly-anticipated speech on Friday afternoon
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The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has urged Israel to do everything in its power to protect civilians caught in the fighting in Gaza and ensure they receive humanitarian aid.
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His comments also underscored the country’s right to defend itself. Israel, meanwhile, warned that it was on high alert for attacks on its border with Lebanon as fears grew that the conflict could widen, AP reported.
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As American officials have before, Blinken pledged unwavering support for Israel and its right to defend itself while on a visit to the country, but he also stressed the importance of protecting civilians amid growing alarm over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
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“We stand strongly for the proposition that Israel has not only the right but the obligation to defend itself, and to make sure that 7 October should never happen again,” Blinken said.
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“How Israel does this matters and it is very important that when it comes to the protection of civilians who are caught in the crossfire of Hamas’s making, that everything to be done to protect them and to bring assistance to those who so desperately need it.”
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This is Blinken’s third trip to Israel since the war began and he also plans to visit Amman, Jordan. It follows President Joe Biden’s suggestion for a humanitarian “pause” in the fighting.
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We are very pleased to confirm that Nadia’s parents were able to leave Gaza through the Rafah Crossing this morning.
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We are grateful to all of those who have assisted our parents over the last few weeks, including the FCDO crisis team.
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These last four weeks have been a living nightmare for our family, we are so thankful for all of the messages of comfort and prayers that we have received from across the world, and indeed from across the political spectrum in Scotland and the UK.
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Although we feel a sense of deep personal relief, we are heartbroken at the continued suffering of the people of Gaza. We will continue to raise our voices to stop the killing and suffering of the innocent people of Gaza. We reiterate our calls for all sides to agree to an immediate ceasefire, the opening of a humanitarian corridor so that significant amounts of aid, including fuel, can flow through to a population that have suffered collective punishment for far too long, and for all hostages to be released.
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Families in Gaza and Israel are suffering after the loss of entirely innocent men, women and children. We pray for them all, and pray that the international community at last focuses on achieving a lasting peace in the region: one that recognises that the rights and lives of Palestinians and Israelis are equal.
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Erdogan has strongly supported the Palestinians in the face of Israel‘s war with Hamas, attending pro-Palestinian rallies and positioning himself as a mediator since the war began on 7 October.
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“There is no concept that could explain or excuse the brutality that we have witnessed since 7 October,” Erdogan said during a summit of Turkic states in the Kazakh capital, Astana.
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“To put it bluntly: crimes against humanity have been committed in Gaza for exactly 28 days,” he said.
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“Our priority is to establish a humanitarian ceasefire quickly,” he said, adding that Turkey was working on “new mechanisms that will guarantee the security of everyone, regardless of whether they are Muslims, Christians or Jews.
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“Our efforts to lay the groundwork for an international peace conference continue,” he said, without elaborating. (Via AFP)
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Israeli forces on Friday killed six Palestinians in raids across the West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, as violence surged in the occupied territory in tandem with the Gaza war.
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It said three males, aged between 17 and 26, were killed in the northern city of Jenin, a stronghold of Palestinian armed groups and the target of frequent military incursions.
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According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, two of the men died when a drone strike hit a house in the city’s refugee camp.
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The Israeli army on Friday said its forces were “operating against Hamas” across the West Bank, with operations in Jenin and the northern city of Nablus.
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In the southern city of Hebron, two more Palestinians, aged 33 and 36, were killed during a military raid on Fawwar refugee camp, the ministry and Wafa said.
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The army said troops there “responded with fire” after Palestinians hurled Molotov cocktails and rocks at them as they seized “weapons manufacturing” equipment.
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A sixth Palestinian, aged 29, died during an Israeli arrest operation in Qalandiya refugee camp, between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah, the ministry said.
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The ministry also said two other Palestinians had been shot dead in Jenin late on Thursday. An army spokesperson told AFP troops were conducting “counterterrorism activities” in the area without elaborating
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And it said a Palestinian hit by Israeli fire in Nablus on Wednesday had succumbed to his wounds. (Via AFP)
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The Israeli military says it’s on “very high alert” along the country’s northern border with Lebanon and will “respond to every event” on the border. We’re expecting a big speech this afternoon from Hezbollah’s leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
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The United Arab Emirates, one of a handful of Arab states with diplomatic ties to Israel, said on Friday it was working “relentlessly” for an immediate ceasefire, warning that the risk of regional spillover and further escalation was real.
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Israel has dismissed these calls, saying it targets Hamas fighters whom it accuses of intentionally hiding among the population and civilian buildings.
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The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, is due to meet Jordan’s foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, in Amman on Saturday.
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In a statement, Safadi said Israel must end the war on Gaza, where he said it was committing war crimes by bombing civilians and imposing a siege.
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The Israeli military said its troops and tanks were encountering mines and booby traps as they advanced in Gaza. Hamas fighters were making use of a vast underground tunnel network to stage hit-and-run attacks. Israel has said it has lost 23 soldiers in the offensive.
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Abu Ubaida, spokesperson for the armed wing of Hamas, said in a televised speech that Israel‘s death toll in Gaza was much higher. “Your soldiers will return in black bags,” he said.
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Two US officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the US was flying intelligence-gathering drones over Gaza to help locate hostages. (Via Reuters)
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Ireland’s taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, has once again criticised Israel’s actions, describing its operations in Gaza as “something approaching revenge”.
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This morning, he told state radio RTE:
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I strongly believe that … Israel has the right to defend itself, has the right to go after Hamas, that they cannot do this again. What I’m seeing unfolding at the moment isn’t just self-defence. It looks, resembles, something more approaching revenge. That’s not where we should be. And I don’t think that’s how Israel will guarantee future freedom and future security.
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Asked by a journalist whether Israel’s actions were war crimes, Varadkar said: “That’s not for me to determine.”
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Ireland has been a European outlier in its criticism of Israel’s response to the 7 October attacks.
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Varadkar has previously said that while Israel has a right to defend itself, it “doesn’t have the right to do wrong”. Early on in the bombardment of Gaza, he also said: “To me, it amounts to collective punishment.”
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Some of the workers returned through the Kerem Shalom crossing east of the Rafah border crossing between the besieged Gaza Strip and Egypt, they said.
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The office of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Thursday night: “Those workers from Gaza who were in Israel on the day of the outbreak of the war will be returned to Gaza.”
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Workers crossing into the Palestinian territory said they had been detained and ill-treated by Israeli authorities after the Hamas attack on southern Israel. Some still had plastic stickers carrying numbers around their legs.
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“We used to serve them, work for them, in houses, in restaurants, and in markets in return for the lowest prices and despite that we were humiliated,” said Jamal Ismail, a worker from the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza Strip.
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Those from areas in northern Gaza would have to stay in the south after Israeli forces have completed cutting off roads late on Thursday, according to Palestinian officials. (Via Reuters)
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On Friday afternoon, the Hezbollah secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, is to make a highly anticipated speech. The head of the influential Iran-backed Shia militant group will break weeks of silence with a broadcast from Beirut, which comes in the wake of a rise in violence on Israel’s northern border.
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Hezbollah said on Thursday it had simultaneously attacked 19 positions in Israel on Thursday evening. The clashes have so far been mostly contained to the frontier, and Hezbollah has used only a fraction of the firepower that Nasrallah has been threatening with Israel for years.
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According to some estimates, about 50 Hezbollah fighters have died since 7 October in exchanges in which it has tried to target Israeli positions with anti-tank missiles.
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US national security spokesperson John Kirby said of Nasrallah’s speech: “I don’t believe we’ve seen any indication yet specifically that Hezbollah is ready to go in full force. So we’ll see what he has to say.”
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Concerns that the UK Foreign Office has neglected the Israel-Palestine conflict in its tilt to the Indo-Pacific and the pursuit of trade deals across the Middle East is to be investigated by the Commons foreign affairs select committee.
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Alicia Kearns, the chair of the committee, which will start holding evidence sessions on the issue in November, has been one of the most prominent MPs warning that a crisis was brewing that required greater attention and a more robust approach from the UK towards Israel’s new government.
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Critics argue that the UK government, along with others, missed the danger signals and invested in an unconditional and one-sided relationship with Israel that did not acknowledge how different the government elected in November was to its predecessors:
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Gulf Arab power the United Arab Emirates warned on Friday that there was a real risk of a regional spillover from the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, adding that it was working “relentlessly” to secure a humanitarian ceasefire, Reuters reports.
“As we continue working to stop this war we cannot ignore the wider context and the necessity to turn down the regional temperature that is approaching a boiling point,” Noura al-Kaabi, a minister of state for foreign affairs, told a policy conference in the capital, Abu Dhabi.
“The risk of regional spillover and further escalation is real, as well as the risk that extremist groups will take advantage of the situation to advance ideologies that will keep us locked in cycles of violence.”
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Reuters: The Rafah crossing from Gaza to Egypt is due to open for a third day on Friday for limited evacuations under a Qatari-brokered deal aimed at letting some foreign passport holders, their dependents and some wounded Gazans out of the enclave.
According to border officials, more than 700 foreign citizens left for Egypt via Rafah on the two previous days. Dozens of critically injured Palestinians were to cross too. Israel asked foreign countries to send hospital ships for them.
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Departing the Washington, Blinken said he would discuss concrete steps to minimise harm to civilians in Gaza during his visit to Israel.
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Since Hamas militants attacked Israel on 7 October killing 1,400 Israelis, at least 9,061 Palestinians have been killed in the war, mostly women and minors, and more than 32,000 people have been wounded, the Gaza health ministry said on Thursday. The death toll is without precedent in decades of Israeli-Palestinian violence, the Associated Press reports.
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More than 3,700 Palestinian children have been killed in 25 days of fighting – more than six times the 560 children that the UN had reported killed in 19 months of war in Ukraine as of 8 October.
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Bombardment has driven more than half the territory’s 2.3 million people from their homes. Food, water and fuel are running low under Israel’s siege, and overwhelmed hospitals warn they are on the verge of collapse.
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This is the Guardian’s live coverage of the Israel-Hamas war with me, Helen Sullivan.
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The top developments this morning: the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken arrives in Tel Aviv today and is expected to urge the Israeli government to agree to pauses to the fighting in Gaza, according to the White House.
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White House national security spokesman John Kirby said the US was not advocating for a general cease-fire but a “temporary, localized” pause.
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Departing the Washington, Blinken said he would discuss concrete steps to minimise harm to civilians in Gaza during his visit to Israel.
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Since Hamas militants attacked Israel on 7 October killing 1,400 Israelis, at least 9,061 Palestinians have been killed in the war, mostly women and minors, and more than 32,000 people have been wounded, the Gaza health ministry said on Thursday. The death toll is without precedent in decades of Israeli-Palestinian violence, the Associated Press reports.
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More than 3,700 Palestinian children have been killed in 25 days of fighting – more than six times the 560 children that the UN had reported killed in 19 months of war in Ukraine as of 8 October.
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Bombardment has driven more than half the territory’s 2.3 million people from their homes. Food, water and fuel are running low under Israel’s siege, and overwhelmed hospitals warn they are on the verge of collapse.
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Here are the key recent developments:
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Israeli forces have “completed the encirclement of Gaza City” and are fighting “with full force”, Israel Defence Forces (IDF) spokesperson Daniel Hagari said. The chief of staff of the IDF, Lt Gen Herzi Halevi, said troops are surrounding it from several directions and “deepening” the ground offensive inside the city. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said Israeli forces had pushed through the outskirts of Gaza City. “We’re at the height of the battle,” he said.
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At least 9,061 people have been killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, including 3,760 children, the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said on Thursday. The current conflict began on 7 October when Hamas launched an onslaught on southern Israel that killed more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and swept up hundreds more as hostages. It has not been possible for journalists to independently verify figures from either Israeli or Palestinian authorities.
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In the US, the Republican-led lower chamber of Congress has passed a $14bn aid package for Israel, defying President Joe Biden’s request to also include more money for Ukraine and other pressing priorities. The bill, which diverts funding budgeted to the US tax collection agency, is almost certain to fail in the Democratic-controlled Senate, while Biden has also threatened to veto it.
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The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said four of its schools in Gaza that are being used as shelters have been damaged in less than 24 hours. At least 20 people have reportedly been killed and five others injured on Thursday after a school that is being used as a shelter was damaged at the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, the agency said in its latest update. The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said at least 27 people were killed in a blast near a UN school in the Jabalia camp on Thursday.
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At least 15 people have been killed after a blast in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza on Thursday, the health ministry said. A spokesperson for Gaza’s civil defence said the blast took place in a residential building, and residents reported scores of people trapped beneath the rubble.
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Eighteen Israeli soldiers have been killed amid fierce fighting in Gaza, the IDF said, in a series of incidents that have underlined the mounting challenges facing the IDF in their attempts to push further into built-up areas of Gaza. The dead include Lt Col Salman Habaka, an Israeli tank commander who was hailed a hero for his actions during Hamas’s attack on Be’eri kibbutz.
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A journalist working for the Palestinian Authority’s television channel was killed in an Israeli strike on Gaza, his network reported. Mohammed Abu Hatab was killed along with 11 members of his family in their home, the authority’s official news agency WAFA reported. He is the 36th journalist killed in the conflict, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
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Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia militant group, said it had attacked 19 positions in Israel on Thursday evening. The strikes came hours after Hezbollah said it had used two drones packed with explosives to attack an Israeli army command position in the disputed Shebaa Farms area on the Lebanese-Israeli border earlier in the day. It is the first time Hezbollah has acknowledged carrying out an attack against Israeli forces using such dronese.
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The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt opened for a second day to allow the evacuation of some injured Palestinians and foreign passport holders. British nationals were able to get out of Gaza on Thursday, the UK Foreign Office confirmed. The US has been able to get 74 dual citizens out of Gaza, Joe Biden said. A total of 400 foreign passport holders as well as 60 severely wounded Palestinians were due to cross by the end of Thursday, a spokesperson for the Palestinian side of the crossing said.
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A Japanese military plane departed Israel late on Thursday carrying 46 passengers including 20 Japanese nationals, the Japanese foreign ministry said. Passengers aboard also included 15 South Koreans, four Vietnamese and one Taiwanese, the ministry said on Friday.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) said it was “almost impossible” to bring humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza. The WHO’s emergencies director, Michael Ryan, said the basic safety of staff could not be guaranteed at the moment. WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the situation in Gaza was “indescribable”.
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A group of United Nations experts have called for a ceasefire in Gaza, warning that “time is running out” as Palestinian people there find themselves at “grave risk of genocide”. In a statement, they expressed “deep frustration with Israel’s refusal to halt plans to decimate” the Gaza Strip and said they felt “deepening horror” about Israeli airstrikes against the Jabalia refugee camp.
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The US will not seek to impose any conditions on the support it gives Israel to defend itself in the wake of the Hamas attacks of 7 October, vice-president Kamala Harris said on Thursday. She refused to comment on Israel’s bombing of the Jabalia refugee camp, adding: “We are not telling Israel how it should conduct this war.”
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Key events
The average Palestinian in Gaza is living on two pieces of Arabic bread made from flour the UN had stockpiled in the region, but the main refrain now heard in the street is “Water, water”, the Gaza director for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has said.
The Associated Press reports that Thomas White said he had travelled “the length and breadth of Gaza in the last few weeks” and described the place as a “scene of death and destruction”.
No place was safe now, he said, and people feared for their lives, their future and their ability to feed their families.
The Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) was supporting about 89 bakeries across Gaza, aiming to get bread to 1.7 million people, White told diplomats from the UN’s 193 member nations in a video briefing from Gaza.
But, he said, “now people are beyond looking for bread – it’s looking for water”.
UN deputy Middle East coordinator Lynn Hastings, who is also the humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian territories, said only one of three water supply lines from Israel was operational.
Many people are relying on brackish or saline ground water, if at all.
In case you missed this earlier: thousands of Palestinian workers from Gaza who were stranded in Israel when the war broke out last month have been deported back to the war-torn strip after being expelled by the Israeli government.
A Guardian reporter in Rafah, on the southern edge of the strip, saw a steady stream of men of all ages with no phones, money or identity cards enter the territory on Friday morning via the Kerem Shalom crossing for commercial goods, having walked about 2km from the Israeli side of the border.
Mada Masr, an independent Egyptian news outlet, said about 3,200 people had been sent back through the checkpoint, which is controlled by Israel and Egypt.
The UN Human Rights Office said it was “deeply concerned” about the expulsions.
You can read the full story from Bethan McKernan and Rory Carroll here:
Australia’s foreign minister has called for a renewed international effort to find a two-state solution to end the cycle of violence in the Middle East, arguing that Israel can only find peace and security if it can do the same for Palestinians.
Writing for Guardian Australia, Penny Wong outlines the Labor government’s position in the strongest terms yet, saying that the “status quo is failing everyone” and that the only alternative is to find a “durable peace” through a political process.
While condemning “unequivocally” the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7 October and affirming Australia’s support for Israel’s right to defend itself, she adds that the way in which Israel does so matters.
As Australians who treasure our peaceful community and aspire to ever greater unity as a nation, we mourn every innocent life which has been lost in this conflict.
In Israel’s response to those attacks, thousands of Palestinians have been killed, including more than 3,500 children, as reported by Unicef. The humanitarian crisis in Gaza worsens by the day.
Israel must “exercise restraint and protect civilian lives”, Wong says, as it continues its military action to defeat a “craven terrorist group that has burrowed itself in civilian infrastructure”, and which she says is using civilians as a shield.
The full story from Martin Farrer and Paul Karp is here:
Palestinian Red Crescent condemns deadly strike on Gaza ambulance
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has condemned the targeting of a convoy of ambulances in Gaza by Israeli forces on Friday, which it says killed 15 people and wounded more than 60 others.
The PRCS said in a statement early on Saturday that one of its ambulances was struck “by a missile fired by the Israeli forces” about two metres from the entrance to the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Agence France-Presse reports.
The attack resulted in the deaths of 15 civilians and wounded 60 other people, the PRCS said, mirroring figures released earlier by the Hamas-run health ministry.
Another ambulance, belonging to the health ministry, was “directly targeted” by a missile about a kilometre from the hospital, causing injuries and damage, it said.
The PRCS, part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, added that deliberately targeting medical teams constituted “a grave violation of the Geneva Conventions, a war crime”.
Israel’s military said it had launched an air strike on “an ambulance that was identified by forces as being used by a Hamas terrorist cell in close proximity to their position in the battle zone”.
“A number of Hamas terrorist operatives were killed in the strike,” a military statement said.
An AFP journalist at the scene of the attack saw multiple bodies beside the damaged ambulance outside the hospital, which is overcrowded with civilians seeking shelter from Israeli bombing as well as those wounded.
Blinken in Jordan to meet King Abdullah
US secretary of state Antony Blinken is to meet Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Saturday after leaving Israel empty-handed in his efforts to secure humanitarian pauses in its war to destroy Hamas, Agence France-Presse reports.
Blinken arrived late on Friday in Amman, where he will also join a meeting of foreign ministers of five Arab countries which will be attended by a representative of the Palestinian Authority (PA) led by president Mahmud Abbas, a rival of Hamas.
In Israel, Blinken discussed with prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu the idea of “humanitarian pauses” to secure the release of hostages held by Hamas and to allow aid to be distributed to the Gaza Strip population.
But after meeting Blinken on Friday, Netanyahu said there could be no “temporary truce” in Gaza unless Hamas released the hostages it held.
The day after an explosion that seriously damaged Agence France-Presse’s office in Gaza, the Israeli army claimed on Friday that it carried out a strike “nearby” to the news agency’s bureau without having “in any way” targeted it, the agency reports.
AFP is the only one of the world’s three major international news agencies currently operating a live video feed from Gaza City which has not been interrupted despite the damage, seen by an AFP employee on Friday.
The unmanned AFP camera broadcasting live 24/7 captured the moment of the strike, a few minutes before midday (1000 GMT) on Thursday.
An AFP employee who visited the office on Friday said an explosive projectile appeared to have entered the technician’s office in the bureau horizontally from east to west.
The strike destroyed the wall opposite the window and caused significant damage to the adjacent room and other doors. It also punctured water tanks on the roof.
An Israeli military spokesman initially said it had “checked [the report] multiple times”.
“There was no IDF [Israel Defense Forces] strike on the building” in Gaza, he told AFP.
Following further questioning by AFP, the army said it had carried out a strike near the building.
‘Significant’ pause in fighting discussed to secure hostages’ release, says US
Talks are being held on a “very significant” pause in the Israel-Hamas war to win the release of hostages taken Hamas, Agence France-Presse is quoting a senior US official as saying.
“It is something that is under a very serious and active discussion. But there is no agreement as of yet to actually get this done,” the official said on Friday.
Reuters quoted a US official saying there was “indirect engagement” aimed at finding a way to get the hostages out but that the work was extremely difficult.
It’s something we’re working on extremely hard.
An estimated 240 Israeli and foreign hostages were kidnapped by Hamas during its 7 October assault that killed more than 1,400 people, according to Israeli officials.
A US official said “nobody knows” the exact number of hostages, adding that it was “well over 100 and maybe over 200”. To get that many people out “is going to require a fairly significant pause in hostilities”.
But the official warned:
There’s absolutely no guarantee a) that is going to happen or b) when it’s going to happen.
Israel and the US have both previously ruled out a blanket ceasefire, which they say would allow Hamas to regroup and resupply, but US president Joe Biden has backed “temporary, localised” pauses.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said there can be no “temporary truce” in Gaza unless Hamas releases the hostages.
More on the airstrike on a Gaza ambulance: video shared on social media, which Reuters has verified, showed people lying in blood next to the vehicle with flashing lights on a city street as people rushed to help.
Another video showed three ambulances standing in a line, with about a dozen people lying either motionless or barely moving next to them, the news agency reports. Blood was pooled nearby.
As we’ve reported, the World Health Organisation director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said in a social media post he was “utterly shocked by reports of attacks on ambulances evacuating patients”, adding that patients, health workers and medical facilities must be protected.
Israel’s military has said it hit an ambulance “being used by a Hamas terrorist cell” and that Hamas fighters were killed in the northern Gaza strike. Hamas said its fighters were not present.
Israel’s military said in a statement: “We emphasise that this area is a battle zone. Civilians in the area are repeatedly called upon to evacuate southwards for their own safety.”
Earlier on Friday, Ashraf al-Qidra, a spokesperson for Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, said ambulances would send critically injured Palestinians who urgently needed to be taken to Egypt to be treated from besieged Gaza City to the south of the territory.
Fifteen killed in Israeli strike on Gaza ambulance, says Gazan ministry
The Israeli air strike on an ambulance being used to evacuate the wounded from besieged northern Gaza on Friday killed 15 and injured 60, the Hamas-controlled territory’s health ministry said.
Reuters reports Israel’s military said it had identified and hit an ambulance “being used by a Hamas terrorist cell”. It said Hamas fighters were killed in the strike, and accused the group of transferring militants and weapons in ambulances.
Hamas official Izzat El Reshiq said allegations its fighters were present were “baseless”.
Ashraf al-Qidra, a spokesperson for Gaza’s health ministry, said the ambulance was part of a convoy that Israel targeted near Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital.
Qidra said Israel had targeted the convoy of ambulances in more than one location, including at al-Shifa Hospital gate and at Ansar Square a kilometre (0.6 miles) away.
In a statement on the incident, Israel’s military gave no evidence to support its assertion that the ambulance was linked to Hamas but said it intended to release additional information.
Summary of the day so far
It’s 2am in Gaza City and Tel Aviv. Here’s where we stand:
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Israeli strikes on Gaza have killed at least 9,227 Palestinians, including 3,826 children, since 7 October, the Hamas-run health ministry said on Friday. The Israeli offensive on Gaza followed terrorist attacks launched by Hamas into Israel on 7 October which killed 1,400 people.
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At least 15 people were killed and 60 injured after an Israeli strike on a convoy of ambulances near the beseiged territory’s biggest hospital, al-Shifa, Gaza’s health ministry said. The Hamas government in Gaza said Israeli forces on Friday targeted “a convoy of ambulances which was transporting the wounded” from Gaza City towards Rafah in the south. The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PCRS) said its ambulance, carrying an injured 35-year-old, was struck by a missile fired by Israeli forces. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it carried out an airstrike on an ambulance which it said was being used by Hamas, adding that “a number of Hamas terrorist operatives” were killed in the strike. It gave no evidence to support its assertion. The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) said he was “utterly shocked” by reports of attacks on ambulances evacuating patients close to al-Shifa hospital.
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The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has warned that they cannot provide safety to the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians “sheltering under a UN flag”. More than 50 UN facilities have been “impacted” by the conflict, including “five direct hits” and 38 people had died in UN shelters, Thomas White, director of UNRWA affairs, said on Friday, adding: “Let’s be very clear, there is no place that is safe in Gaza right now.”
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UNRWA “is practically out of business”, the UN’s humanitarian chief said on Friday, as he paid tribute to at least 72 UNRWA staff who have been killed in the Gaza Strip since 7 October. In a briefing to UN member states in New York, Martin Griffiths said that what has unfolded over the last 26 days of conflict “is nothing short of … a blight on our collective conscience”.
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Israeli forces have surrounded Gaza City and are attacking Hamas infrastructure and destroying tunnels used by militants to launch attacks, the Israeli military said on Friday. Airstrikes continued alongside the intensifying ground offensive in what Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, described as the second stage of the war.
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Israel will continue its offensive in Gaza “with full force” and will refuse any temporary ceasefire that does not include the release of more than 240 hostages held by Hamas, Benjamin Netanyahu has said, rejecting US calls for a pause in the fighting. “I made clear that we are continuing full force and that Israel refuses a temporary ceasefire which does not include the release of our hostages,” the Israeli prime minister said on Friday.
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The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, flew into Israel on Friday to urge the Israeli prime minister to temporarily stop its military offensive to allow aid into the territory. The US’s top diplomat applied the greatest pressure yet on the Israeli government to rethink its strategy in Gaza, calling for localised humanitarian pauses and insisting Israel cannot achieve long-term security solely through military means.
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Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, saying “crimes against humanity” are being committed in Gaza. “There is no concept that could explain or excuse the brutality that we have witnessed since 7 October,” Erdogan said during a summit of Turkic states in the Kazakh capital, Astana.
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France has reacted with “astonishment” and “incomprehension” after it said that an Israeli airstrike had hit the Institut Français in Gaza, and that the Gaza office of Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency was also hit. AFP said its Gaza City office was significantly damaged by a strike on the building on Thursday. No injuries have been reported.
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The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah has said his powerful militia is engaged in cross-border fighting with Israel and has threatened further “realistic escalation”. Hassan Nasrallah stopped short of announcing that Hezbollah had fully joined the Israel-Hamas war but warned that fighting on the Lebanon-Israel border would not be limited to the scale seen so far. Hezbollah should not try to take advantage of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, the White House said.
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Israeli forces on Friday killed six Palestinians in raids across the West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, as violence surged in the occupied territory in tandem with the Gaza war. The Israeli army said its forces were “operating against Hamas” across the West Bank, with operations in Jenin and the northern city of Nablus.
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The US has confirmed for the first time that it has been flying unarmed surveillance drones over Gaza. “In support of hostage recovery efforts, the US is conducting unarmed UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] flights over Gaza, as well as providing advice and assistance to support our Israeli partner as they work on their hostage recovery efforts,” Pentagon spokesperson Brig Gen Pat Ryder said on Friday.
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The first people in a group of about 100 Britons due to leave Gaza on Friday have made the crossing into Egypt, amid concerns about whether individuals in the north of the Palestinian territory will be able to make it to the southern Rafah crossing. By Friday, there were 127 people on the UK list to be evacuated into Egypt since the crossing opened on Wednesday. The parents-in-law of Scotland’s first minister, Humza Yousaf, were among the Britons able to leave Gaza. It is understood hundreds of British nationals remain trapped in Gaza.
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The White House has said 100 American citizens and family members left Gaza on Thursday. Another large group of Americans are expected to leave Gaza on Friday, the White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, told reporters.
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Thirty-four French citizens were evacuated from the Gaza Strip on Friday, according to the French foreign ministry.
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Doctors and aid workers in Gaza say they have been abandoned by the international community to a “humanitarian tragedy” as they “fight to survive” after almost four weeks of war between Israel and Hamas.
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Thousands of Palestinian workers from Gaza who were stranded in Israel when war broke out last month have been deported back to the war-torn strip after being expelled by the Israeli government. The UN Human Rights Office said it was “deeply concerned” about the expulsions.
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Rishi Sunak has described pro-Palestinian protests planned for London on Armistice Day as “provocative and disrespectful”. The UK prime minister’s intervention on Friday came as two women pictured at a pro-Palestinian march in London carrying photos of paragliders have been charged with terrorism offences.
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Five people have been arrested during a pro-Palestinian sit-in at King’s Cross station in London after the demonstration was banned. On Friday evening, scores of people could still be seen outside King’s Cross station on social media.
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Jewish people in Britain have experienced the worst wave of hate incidents in modern times with more than 1,000 recorded after the Hamas massacres in Israel, experts in countering antisemitism have said.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PCRS) has accused Israeli forces of targeting a convoy of ambulances which it said was transporting injured Palestinians towards the Rafah border crossing into Egypt.
In a statement, the PCRS – which is part of the International Red Cross – said a convoy of five ambulances departed from al-Shifa hospital at approximately 4pm on Friday towards the southern area of the Gaza Strip. The ambulances then had to turn back towards the hospital, after finding the road blocked by rubble and rocks from shelling, it said.
During the return, at a distance of not more that 1 KM away from Al-Shifa hospital, the leading ambulance (belonging to [Ministry of Health]) in the convoy was directly targeted by a missile, resulting in its immediate and direct damage, as well as injuring its crew and the injured inside.
The statement said the other ambulances – one of which belonged to the PCRS – continued towards al-Shifa hospital. It said that its ambulance was struck by a missile fired by Israeli forces “only at a distance of about two meters” from the gate of al-Shifa hospital. It said the ambulance was carrying an injured 35-year-old who was destined to receive medical treatment in an Egyptian hospital.
The strike resulted in the deaths of 15 civilians and more than 60 were wounded, the PCRS said. It added that a medic sustained minor shrapnel injuries to the leg and bruises, and that the ambulance driver suffered chest bruises and “extreme panic”.
US flying unarmed drones over Gaza in search of hostages
The US has confirmed for the first time that it has been flying unarmed surveillance drones over Gaza.
In a statement on Friday, Pentagon spokesperson Brig Gen Pat Ryder said:
In support of hostage recovery efforts, the US is conducting unarmed UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] flights over Gaza, as well as providing advice and assistance to support our Israeli partner as they work on their hostage recovery efforts.
The US began flying UAV flights after the 7 October attack by Hamas on Israel, he added.
Honduras has recalled its ambassador to Israel for consultations on what it described as the “serious humanitarian situation” facing Palestinians in Gaza.
Honduras’s foreign minister, Enrique Rein, posted to social media:
Amid the serious humanitarian situation the Palestinian civilian population suffers in the Gaza Strip, the government … has decided to immediately call Mr. Roberto Martinez, Ambassador of the Republic of Honduras in Israel, to consultations in Tegucigalpa.
The decision follows similar moves from other Latin American countries to register diplomatic protests against Israel in response to its latest conflict with Hamas.
Bolivia’s leftwing government earlier this week announced that it was cutting ties entirely and attributing its decision to alleged war crimes and human rights abuses being committed in the Gaza Strip.
Hours later, the governments of Chile and Colombia recalled their ambassadors from Israel, while Brazil’s president criticised the continued airstrikes on Gaza.
Protesters demanding a ceasefire in the Israeli war in Gaza blocked a US military ship from leaving the Port of Oakland by locking themselves to the ship.
At least three individuals scaled the Cape Orlando, which protesters believed was bound for Israel after being loaded with weapons and military equipment, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Lara Kiswani, the Palestinian executive director of the Arab Resource & Organizing Center, which helped organise the protest, insisted the ship is meant to carry weapons.
“We came here to demand an immediate ceasefire,” she told the paper, adding that the group wanted Oakland’s leaders “to stop this genocide”.
Union officials and subcontractors working around the ship said it was empty and has been “dead” for 17 years.