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ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR
Israel pressed on with its offensive in and around Gaza’s main cities on Friday, more than two months after Hamas’s deadly attack sparked a war that has claimed thousands of lives and left the Palestinian territory in ruins. Early Friday, the Hamas run health ministry reported another 40 dead in strikes near Gaza City, and “dozens” more in Jabalia and Khan Yunis.Follow our live blog for all the latest developments. All times are Paris time (GMT+1).
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- Heavy urban combat raged in and around Gaza’s biggest cities on Thursday, with major battles reported in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the north and Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Israel and Hamas have both said the past 48 hours have brought the most intensive fighting since the start of the war.
- Israel and the UN signalled that the Kerem Shalom crossing from Israel into the Gaza Strip might be opened soon to allow aid in. Since the start of the war, the tightly controlled Rafah border between Gaza and Egypt has been the only point of entry into the enclave.
- The head of medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières said on Thursday that Gaza faces a catastrophe extending “far beyond a humanitarian crisis”, describing the situation in the densely populated enclave as chaotic.
- Hamas attacked southern Israeli communities on October 7, killing 1,200 people and taking about 240 hostages, according to the Israeli government. Since then, at least 17,177 people, including 7,112 children, have been killed in Israel’s ensuing assault on the Gaza Strip, the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry said. At least 46,000 people have been injured and at least 7,600 people are missing, the Hamas media office said.
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in his strongest public criticism of Israel’s conduct of the war on Hamas in south Gaza, said there was a gap between the government’s declared intentions to protect civilians and the casualties.
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The US State Department said that the US would object to any proposed buffer zone inside the Gaza Strip, as it would violate Washington’s position that the size of the Palestinian enclave must not be reduced after the current conflict.
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Arab states have renewed their push for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and to that end, the United Arab Emirates has asked for the UN Security Council to vote on Friday morning on a draft resolution.
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Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu says the Israeli military will have to retain open-ended security control over the Gaza Strip long after its war against Hamas ends.
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An Israeli non-governmental organisation warned that Israeli authorities have approved the construction of more than 1,700 new homes, saying that the new homes would expand settlements in annexed east Jerusalem. Israel occupied East Jerusalem during the 1967 Six-Day War and formally annexed the city’s eastern part in 1980 – a move that is not recognised by the United Nations.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)
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