UNRWA chief: ‘What continues to shock me is the ever increasing level of dehumanization’ of Gaza
In his address at the Global Refugee Forum, Philippe Lazzarini, chief of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said that what continues to shock him is the “ever increasing level of dehumanization” with the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
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“The fact that people can laugh, cheer and mock any type of wrongdoing that we observe in this war, when in fact what is happening in Gaza should outrage anyone, should make us all rethink our values… This is also a make or break moment for all of us and for our shared humanity.”
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He said:
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“The fact that people can laugh, cheer and mock any type of wrongdoing that we observe in this war, when in fact what is happening in Gaza should outrage anyone, should make us all rethink our values… This is also a make or break moment for all of us and for our shared humanity.”
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"The fact that people can laugh, cheer and mock any type of wrongdoing that we observe in this war, when in fact what is happening in Gaza should outrage anyone, should make us all rethink our values"- @UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini pic.twitter.com/dXnn3dRGnF
— UN News (@UN_News_Centre) December 15, 2023
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Israel has approved the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom crossing, the Israeli prime minister’s office said on Friday, Reuters reports.
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The office said in a statement the opening would allow Israel to maintain its commitments to permit the entry of 200 trucks of aid a day, agreed upon in a hostage deal brokered and implemented last month.
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The crossing had been closed since the 7 October attack by Hamas. Aid was being delivered solely through Gaza’s Rafah crossing with Egypt which, Israel said, could only facilitate the entry of 100 trucks a day.
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As the time approaches 5pm in Jerusalem, here’s a roundup of today’s news in the Israel and Gaza war.
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Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has met US national security adviser Jake Sullivan, a day after the Biden government official met Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Abbas told Sullivan that Gaza was an “integral” part of the Palestinian state. He called for the aggression to stop, and for civilians to not be targeted by Israel.
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Sullivan told a press conference that Israel will begin to target its war efforts at the leadership of Hamas, and on intelligence-led operations.
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At least three people have been killed in Israeli shelling of a UN-run school in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza. The death tolls vary, with Al Jazeera citing doctors who said that 33 have died in the attack.
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Two journalists for Al Jazeera have been injured while covering the attack in Khan Younis. Wael Al-Dahdouh and Samer Abu Daqqa were hurt after a drone fired a missile at the area. The attack has been condemned by several journalists’ bodies, including the Committee to Protect Journalists who said the war is “the deadliest conflict for journalists” in three decades.
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The bodies of three Israelis who were kidnapped and killed by Hamas have been returned to Israel.
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Elya Toledano, 28, who was attending the Nova Music festival with friends, as well as two army soldiers Corporal Nick Beizer, 19,and Sergeat Ron Sherman, 19, have been confirmed to have died after being taken hostage.
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Israeli special forces also recovered the body of a 28-year-old hostage, who has not been named. 130 remain in Gaza.
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The Israeli army has dropped leaflets on southern Lebanon warning residents not to help Hezbollah.
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The UK has joined calls for settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank to stop. It signed a statement alongside the EU, Australia and Canada. Our reporter Chris McGreal reports on how US citizens are leading the rise of the attacks.
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I’m now handing the blog across to Sammy Gecsoyler, who will be taking you through the latest news for the rest of the evening.
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More from Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas’s meeting with the US national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Friday.
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Abbas told Sullivan that Gaza was an “integral part” of the Palestinian state, according to Agence France Presse.
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His office said in a statement that “the president underscored that separation or any attempt to isolate any part of it is unacceptable”.
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Abbas “emphasised the urgent need to halt the ongoing Israeli aggression, particularly the genocide being carried out these days upon the Palestinian people in Gaza”, the statement added.
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He said it was crucial to “spare civilians from the woes and devastation caused by the Israeli war machine”.
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We’re starting to get information through from US national security adviser Jake Sullivan’s press conference in Tel Aviv.
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He said the war in Gaza will transition to a new phase focused on precise targeting of the Hamas leadership and on intelligence driven operations.
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Sullivan gave no details on the timing of a shift in the war’s intensity.
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“The conditions and the timing for that was obviously a subject of conversation that I had with prime minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu,” the war cabinet, Israel’s military leaders and the defence minister, Sullivan said in a news conference.
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Sullivan accused Hamas of using civilians as human shields, and using schools and hospitals as protection from attacks.
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He repeated the US’s position that the Palestinian Authority needed to be “revamped and revitalised”. He saidultimately the war would end with a “negotiated outcome” but that Gaza needed to be under Palestinian control.
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He will meet the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, in the West Bank later on Friday. He met Netanyahu yesterday.
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“We will discuss ongoing efforts to promote stability in the West Bank, including through efforts to confront terrorism, to support the Palestinian Authority security forces through the US security co-ordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority,” Sullivan said.
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“Through ongoing efforts to revitalise and revamp the Palestinian Authority and through initiative to hold extremist settlers accountable for violence against Palestinian civilians.
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“The Israeli people need and deserve to live in peace and security with their neighbours in a region that is integrated, dynamic and stable.”
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The Israeli army said on Friday that it had recovered and returned to Israel the body of the French-Israeli hostage Elya Toledano, who was kidnapped and taken to Gaza by militants during the October 7 attacks.
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Toledano, who turned 28 in captivity, was among an estimated 240 people taken hostage during the Hamas attacks in southern Israel. A resident of Tel Aviv, he was attending the Nova music festival along with friend and fellow French-Israeli, Mia Schem, who was released under a truce agreement at the end of November.
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The two friends had tried to flee by car at the start of the attack on the Nova music festival, but their tyres had been shot out. Schem had messaged other friends: “They’re shooting at us, come to help us.”
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Schem, 21, who was training to be a tattoo artist, was later shown in the first Hamas video of a hostage speaking from captivity. She was released on November 30.
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“During an operation in Gaza, the body of the hostage Elya Toledano (28) was recovered by IDF Special Forces and brought back to Israel,” the Israeli army said in a statement, adding that forensic experts had identified the remains.
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“The IDF sends the family its heartfelt condolences,” it said, adding that Toledano’s family had been notified prior to the public statement.
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The families of hostages had said in recent weeks that they did not know whether Toledano was still alive.
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The French foreign minister, Catherine Colonna, said her country was “deeply saddened to hear the Israeli armed forces announce the death of our compatriot Elya Toledano, a Hamas hostage whose body was found in Gaza”.
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“We share the grief of his family and loved ones. The release of all hostages is our priority,” she wrote on X.
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The bodies of hostages Nick Beizer and Ron Sherman have been recovered by the IDF, a spokesperson has confirmed.
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They were soldiers in the Israeli army, holding the position of corporal and sergeant respectively.
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Sherman was 19 on 7 October when he was kidnapped from his base. He had messaged his parents in the moments before he was taken saying “it’s over”.
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He was later shown on social media in civilian clothing, being held by Hamas.
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Beizer, also 19, was taken from the base near the Erez crossing.
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He was part of the Erez District Coordination Office which works with the Palestinian Authority regarding import and export, training, escorting convoys and Palestinian businesses.
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The IDF has destroyed the headquarters of a “battalion” in Shejaiya, a spokesperson for the Israeli army has said.
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In a tweet, Avichay Adraee said the army discovered and destroyed a tunnel opening and killed a militant.
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He added that in the last 24 hours soldiers had raided sites in Khan Younis, southern Gaza “eliminating tunnel openings belonging to the Hamas terrorist organisation”.
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Adraee added that during the raids they destroyed a weapons store, and found motorcycles used in the 7 October attacks in a tunnel.
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Israeli tanks and planes intensified their bombardment of northern Gaza as well as Khan Younis and Rafah in the territory’s south, say residents, authorities and media.
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Four people, including two children, were killed and several others wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Khan Younis early on Friday, Palestinian health officials said.
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Reuters also reports that official Palestinian news agency Wafa said overnight Israeli airstrikes on Khan Younis and Rafah killed or injured tens of people.
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One of the strikes hit a housing block near the Kuwaiti hospital in Rafah, Wafa added.
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Live video footage looking into southern Gaza from Israel after dawn on Friday showed thick, black plumes of smoke rising into the air. The cause of the smoke was not immediately known.
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Israel has been pounding the 40km (25-mile) length of Gaza with no sign of a pause in hostilities or a ceasefire that would enable delivery of more desperately needed basic supplies for civilians to survive as their homes have been destroyed.
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US efforts to show it retains significant influence over the Israeli government were dealt a double blow on Thursday when the Israeli defence minister said it would take months to complete the task of rooting out Hamas, and a leaked US intelligence assessment revealed up to 45% of the 29,000 air-to-ground munitions that Israel has dropped on Gaza since 7 October have been unguided “dumb bombs”.
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The predictions of a months-long campaign were delivered on camera by Yoav Gallant to a stony-faced Jake Sullivan, the US national security adviser, who had arrived in Israel to convey a message that its campaign needed to change – and preferably be wrapped up in weeks. They were later reinforced by the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Neyanyahu, who said Israel would not stop until complete victory.
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The leak about the munitions contradicted claims by the US state department that it had no concerns and no assessment whether Israeli bombing could be in breach of international humanitarian law.
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More broadly the two issues highlight questions about the nature of the control America has over Israel’s political and military response to Hamas’s bloody attacks of 7 October.
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Israeli special forces have recovered the body of a 28-year-old hostage who was held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas since its 7 October rampage in southern Israel, the military has said.
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An “identification procedure” had been carried out by medical officials, military rabbis and forensic experts, Reuters reports a military statement as saying on Friday.
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The man was taken by Hamas from an outdoor music festival that turned into a massacre, Israeli media reported.
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More than 130 hostages remain in Gaza. Some have been declared dead in absentia by Israeli authorities.
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The Palestinian Authority “will look to ultimately have a role in Gaza” and that is something the US is talking about with them, according to a senior US official.
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Reuters reports that the comments came as the US said the White House’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, would meet with the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, in Ramallah on the occupied West Bank on Friday about the war in Gaza and ensuring the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October is never repeated.
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Sullivan would discuss “ongoing efforts to revamp and revitalise” the Palestinian Authority and reining in “extremist settler violence” against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, said a US official, who declined to be named.
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Sullivan said on Thursday that governance of the West Bank and Gaza Strip needed to be connected under a refurbished Palestinian Authority.
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The official said US-trained Palestinian security forces had performed “incredibly well” in preventing violence instigated by Hamas in the West Bank after the 7 October attack and there were a number of personnel there that could form “some sort of a nucleus” for a future force in the months following Israel’s military campaign.
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The official said:
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This is something we’re discussing with the Palestinians and with the Israelis and with regional partners. And it very much remains a work in progress. That is one idea of many.
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The US president, Joe Biden, remained strongly committed to a two-state solution, but that could not happen as long as Hamas remained the dominant power in Gaza, the official added, also saying:
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The Palestinian Authority will look to ultimately have a role there, and that is something we are talking about with them.
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Welcome to a new blog in our continuing live coverage of Israel-Gaza war. This is Adam Fulton and here are the latest developments.
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A senior United States official has said the Palestinian Authority “will look to ultimately have a role in Gaza” and that is something the US is talking with the authority about.
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The comments came ahead of a planned meeting between the White House’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Friday to discuss the war in Gaza.
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Washington has previously suggested it sees the Palestinian Authority returning to Gaza and playing a key role in any postwar scenario if Hamas is removed from power.
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Meanwhile, Israeli special forces have recovered the body of 28-year-old hostage who was held in Gaza by Hamas since its 7 October attack in southern Israel, the Israeli military said.
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US president Joe Biden and Jake Sullivan discussed scaling back Israel’s high-intensity operations in Gaza with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Reuters reported a senior US official as saying. Sullivan told Israel’s Channel 12 television he had “constructive” talks with Netanyahu about Israel shifting to a more precise and targeted phase of operations, without giving details or a timeline. The New York Times reported the US was pushing for a shift by new year.
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Biden has said he wants Israel to “be focused on how to save civilian lives” in Gaza. He said that meant “not stop going after Hamas, but to be more careful”. A White House spokesperson said it wanted Israel’s war in Gaza to “end as soon as possible” but that the US was not dictating a timeline to Israel.
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All communication and internet services were completely cut off in Gaza on Thursday, Palestinian telecommunication companies said.
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The Israeli military said soldiers were facing disciplinary action after violating its code of conduct during an “operational activity” near a mosque in the West Bank city of Jenin. The soldiers were seen on video singing Hanukkah songs and mocking the Islamic call to prayer over loudspeaker in the mosque during a raid. The incident came during three days of raids in the occupied West Bank, during which Israeli troops killed 12 Palestinians, including one youth shot dead at a hospital, Palestinian officials and international health charities said.
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The Palestinian Football Association says it has documented the killing of 85 Palestinian athletes, including 55 football players and 30 players in other sports, since the start of the war, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. The association said in a report on Thursday that Israeli forces “targeted Palestinian athletes and sports facilities, especially football players and club presidents, administrators, referees and others”, according to Wafa.
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At least 18,787 Palestinians have been killed and 50,897 wounded in Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said on Thursday. The strikes followed Hamas’s attack that killed about 1,200 people in Israel, with more than 200 others taken hostage.
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Key events
The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza as a result of Israel’s attacks across the strip is worsening due to dire humanitarian conditions, lack of aid and cold weather, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said on Friday.
In a video posted onto X, Hasan Abualamren, a displaced Palestinian resident, told PRCS:
“Airstrikes were on top of…the heads of my kids when we left the house. My house is made of asbestos and all of it fell on my kids’ heads and they sustained head injuries. I then took my kids and evacuated towards the south and I found that the safest place was the PRCS headquarters.
It is cold and the water floods from under us. We try to find something to elevate our clothes on a surface to prevent the water from reaching them.”
Here is additional reporting from Reuters on the World Health Organization welcoming Israel’s announcement of temporarily allowing aid into Gaza through the Kerem Shalom border crossing:
WHO called for the aid to be distributed throughout the embattled Palestinian territory.
“That’s, of course, very good news,” said Richard Peeperkorn, WHO representative for the occupied Palestinian territory, of the Israeli announcement.
But he added: “How can we make sure that these trucks can go everywhere in Gaza, and not just in the southern Gaza, but also to the northern Gaza?”
There were still three functioning hospitals in the north of the territory, he added, speaking by video conference from Jerusalem.
“We’re talking about getting supplies to the people all over Gaza,” he said.
UNRWA chief: ‘What continues to shock me is the ever increasing level of dehumanization’ of Gaza
In his address at the Global Refugee Forum, Philippe Lazzarini, chief of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said that what continues to shock him is the “ever increasing level of dehumanization” with the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
He said:
“The fact that people can laugh, cheer and mock any type of wrongdoing that we observe in this war, when in fact what is happening in Gaza should outrage anyone, should make us all rethink our values… This is also a make or break moment for all of us and for our shared humanity.”
In his closing remarks at the second Global Refugee Forum, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, said:
“Indeed, Palestine refugees there are enduring unparalleled and unprecedented levels of suffering, and the UN system is doing its utmost to support them, particularly through your sister agency.”
The World Health Organization has called the reopening of the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza “good news”, Reuters reports.
Reuters reports that rocket sirens and the booms of at least three interceptions by Israel’s Iron Dome air defences were heard over Jerusalem on Friday for the first time in recent weeks, witnesses told the outlet.
More aid to be delivered into Gaza after crossing reopens
Israel has approved the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom crossing, the Israeli prime minister’s office said on Friday, Reuters reports.
The office said in a statement the opening would allow Israel to maintain its commitments to permit the entry of 200 trucks of aid a day, agreed upon in a hostage deal brokered and implemented last month.
The crossing had been closed since the 7 October attack by Hamas. Aid was being delivered solely through Gaza’s Rafah crossing with Egypt which, Israel said, could only facilitate the entry of 100 trucks a day.
Summary
As the time approaches 5pm in Jerusalem, here’s a roundup of today’s news in the Israel and Gaza war.
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Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has met US national security adviser Jake Sullivan, a day after the Biden government official met Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Abbas told Sullivan that Gaza was an “integral” part of the Palestinian state. He called for the aggression to stop, and for civilians to not be targeted by Israel.
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Sullivan told a press conference that Israel will begin to target its war efforts at the leadership of Hamas, and on intelligence-led operations.
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At least three people have been killed in Israeli shelling of a UN-run school in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza. The death tolls vary, with Al Jazeera citing doctors who said that 33 have died in the attack.
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Two journalists for Al Jazeera have been injured while covering the attack in Khan Younis. Wael Al-Dahdouh and Samer Abu Daqqa were hurt after a drone fired a missile at the area. The attack has been condemned by several journalists’ bodies, including the Committee to Protect Journalists who said the war is “the deadliest conflict for journalists” in three decades.
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The bodies of three Israelis who were kidnapped and killed by Hamas have been returned to Israel.
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Elya Toledano, 28, who was attending the Nova Music festival with friends, as well as two army soldiers Corporal Nick Beizer, 19,and Sergeat Ron Sherman, 19, have been confirmed to have died after being taken hostage.
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Israeli special forces also recovered the body of a 28-year-old hostage, who has not been named. 130 remain in Gaza.
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The Israeli army has dropped leaflets on southern Lebanon warning residents not to help Hezbollah.
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The UK has joined calls for settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank to stop. It signed a statement alongside the EU, Australia and Canada. Our reporter Chris McGreal reports on how US citizens are leading the rise of the attacks.
I’m now handing the blog across to Sammy Gecsoyler, who will be taking you through the latest news for the rest of the evening.
Israel’s security cabinet is expected to approve the introduction of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom crossing on Friday, Haaretz reports.
The move will ease the load at the Rafah checkpoint and allow more extensive humanitarian aid to flow into Gaza.
According to the proposal, the trucks will be brought from Egypt to the Kerem Shalom crossing, and will be searched at a checkpoint in Israeli territory and then allowed through to the Gaza Strip.
Abbas tells US official Gaza is an ‘integral’ part of Palestinian state
More from Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas’s meeting with the US national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Friday.
Abbas told Sullivan that Gaza was an “integral part” of the Palestinian state, according to Agence France Presse.
His office said in a statement that “the president underscored that separation or any attempt to isolate any part of it is unacceptable”.
Abbas “emphasised the urgent need to halt the ongoing Israeli aggression, particularly the genocide being carried out these days upon the Palestinian people in Gaza”, the statement added.
He said it was crucial to “spare civilians from the woes and devastation caused by the Israeli war machine”.
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has responded to the news that two Al Jazeera journalists have been injured while covering the shelling of a school in Gaza.
The group called for journalists’ lives to be safeguarded.
Chris McGreal
Washington’s ban on travel to the US by extremist Jewish settlers who attack Palestinians in the West Bank has one gaping loophole.
American citizens have been at the forefront of the rise of settler violence in the occupied territories, and the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land, but as US passport holders they cannot be barred from their own country.
Many of the estimated 60,000 Americans living in the West Bank outside of occupied East Jerusalem moved to settlements for the lifestyle and have little to do with the Palestinians on whose land they live. But a core of ideologically driven US citizens were at the forefront of building religious settlements on land expropriated from Palestinians while others have led the rise of what has been described as “settler terrorism”.
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The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has told the US national security advisor Jake Sullivan that Israel’s attack on Palestinian people, especially in Gaza, must stop, the official WAFA news agency reports.
Abbas told Sullivan during their meeting in Ramallah that the U S must “intervene to force Israel to stop its aggression against our people in the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem,” WAFA said.
Two Al Jazeera journalists – Wael Al-Dahdouh and Samer Abu Daqqa – have been wounded by a missile fired from a drone in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, their colleague has said.
Dahdouh was injured in his hand and was being treated, while Abu Daqqa’s whereabouts were unknown, Heba Akila, who was also reporting live from elsewhere in Khan Younis, told the channel’s live feed.
The Israeli army has dropped leaflets on parts of southern Lebanon warning residents not to help Hezbollah for the first time since the war with Hamas began, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports.
The frontier between Lebanon and Israel, which is about 100 miles from Gaza, has seen deadly exchanges of fire, mainly between the Israeli army and the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, which says it is acting in support of Hamas.
A resident of the border town of Kfarshuba, who requested anonymity due to security concerns, told AFP the leaflets were dropped by a drone early on Friday morning. Another said leaflets were dropped twice after the wind blew many from the initial batch away. A copy of a leaflet, seen by AFP, reads:
To the residents of south Lebanon, we inform you that the terrorist Hezbollah is infiltrating into your homes and your lands. You must stop this terrorism for your own security.
It adds a warning that assisting Hezbollah would expose the population “to danger”.
Residents along the Lebanese border have said the Israeli army has stepped up its bombardment of frontier villages in recent days.
Israel also dropped leaflets over parts of south Lebanon during a 2006 war with Hezbollah.