Reports of ‘massacre’ at Kfar Aza kibbutz
Journalists from the BBC and the New York Times have been allowed into Kibbutz Kfar Aza, an Israeli community on the border with Gaza where people were killed when Hamas broke through the border on Saturday. Infants and children were among the dead, the New York Times reports.
“Soldiers who spent much of the day in the ruins recovering bodies of civilians said that there had been a massacre. It seems likely that much of the killing happened in the first hours of the assault on Saturday,” the BBC reports.
The Israeli army took 12 hours to reach the community, Davidi Ben Zion, the deputy commander of Unit 71, an experienced team of paratroopers who led the assault, told the BBC, and fighting continued until Tuesday morning.
“Thank God we saved many lives of many parents and children,” he said. “Unfortunately, some were burned by molotov [cocktails].”
Ben Zion told the BBC that Hamas gunmen who killed families, including babies, were “just a jihad machine to kill everybody, [people] without weapons, without nothing, just normal citizens that want to take their breakfast and that’s all”.
The New York Times reported:
Past the village dining hall, kindergarten and culture center, the tidy rows of one-story beige houses came into view. And the scale of the horror began to unfold …
After days of stunned national numbness and chaos, the dimensions of the atrocity that took place here were now coming into clear focus. In all, more than 1,000 soldiers and civilians have been killed in Israel. Nobody could say how many of them were lying here, in Kfar Azza, but it is emerging as one of the worst sites of the bloodshed. Soldiers and rescue workers said scores, possibly hundreds, had been slaughtered here, including grandparents, infants and children.”
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9 of our @UN staffers have been killed in airstrikes in📍#GazaStrip since Saturday.
“The protection of civilians is paramount, including in times of conflict. They should be protected in accordance with the laws of war.” @JulietteTouma @AP https://t.co/Bt87Djf4GM pic.twitter.com/Vxy170Y3pH
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) October 11, 2023
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The health ministry in the Gaza Strip has said Israeli attacks have killed 1,055 Palestinians and wounded 5,184.
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The BBC is reporting that after the weekend’s attack by Hamas, there are 17 dead or missing UK nationals, with children among them. The news site quotes an “official UK source”.
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The previous estimate was “more than 10” British nationals dead or missing.
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Hezbollah has said it was responsible for firing precision missiles on Israel on Wednesday, saying it was in response to Israeli attacks this week that left three of its fighters dead.
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The Israeli military had said it had been targeted with anti-tank fire on Wednesday and had begun attacking Lebanon in return.
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Lebanon’s national news agency said two rockets had been fired from southern Lebanese territory towards Israeli territory, although there was no claim of responsibility.
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The Israeli military said an anti-tank missile was launched toward the town of Arav Al-Amsha, which lies close to the “blue line” that demarcates northern Israeli territory from southern Lebanon.
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Israel “struck targets” in southern Lebanon in response, according to Turkey’s Anadolu news agency. NNA said the southern Lebanese town of Al-Dhahira was shelled.
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Israeli forces and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have exchanged fire repeatedly in recent days along the “blue line”, while militants from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad attempted to enter Israeli territory. Hezbollah has also repeatedly targeted a strip of contested territory in the Golan Heights, raising concerns about an escalation.
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The strike on the town of Arav Al Amsha, however, suggests a broadening list of targets and a potential further escalation.
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Pope Francis has called for the release of all hostages held by Hamas.
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He said he was very worried by the “total siege” imposed by Israel on Gaza.
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The Gaza Strip’s sole power plant and only current provider of electricity will run out of fuel in 10 to 12 hours, the Palestinian Energy Authority chair, Thafer Melhem, told Voice of Palestine radio on Wednesday.
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Israel cut off its own electricity supply to Gaza on Monday as part of what it called a “complete siege” in response to the Hamas attack.
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Journalists from the BBC and the New York Times have been allowed into Kibbutz Kfar Aza, an Israeli community on the border with Gaza where people were killed when Hamas broke through the border on Saturday. Infants and children were among the dead, the New York Times reports.
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“Soldiers who spent much of the day in the ruins recovering bodies of civilians said that there had been a massacre. It seems likely that much of the killing happened in the first hours of the assault on Saturday,” the BBC reports.
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The Israeli army took 12 hours to reach the community, Davidi Ben Zion, the deputy commander of Unit 71, an experienced team of paratroopers who led the assault, told the BBC, and fighting continued until Tuesday morning.
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“Thank God we saved many lives of many parents and children,” he said. “Unfortunately, some were burned by molotov [cocktails].”
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Ben Zion told the BBC that Hamas gunmen who killed families, including babies, were “just a jihad machine to kill everybody, [people] without weapons, without nothing, just normal citizens that want to take their breakfast and that’s all”.
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The New York Times reported:
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Past the village dining hall, kindergarten and culture center, the tidy rows of one-story beige houses came into view. And the scale of the horror began to unfold …
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After days of stunned national numbness and chaos, the dimensions of the atrocity that took place here were now coming into clear focus. In all, more than 1,000 soldiers and civilians have been killed in Israel. Nobody could say how many of them were lying here, in Kfar Azza, but it is emerging as one of the worst sites of the bloodshed. Soldiers and rescue workers said scores, possibly hundreds, had been slaughtered here, including grandparents, infants and children.”
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At least 30 people have been killed and hundreds wounded as Israel pounded the Gaza Strip with hundreds of air strikes overnight, a Hamas government official told AFP on Wednesday.
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Dozens of residential buildings, factories, mosques and shops were hit, said the head of the government’s media office, Salama Marouf.
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The Israeli military confirmed it had struck several Hamas targets during the night.
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It said fighter jets destroyed “advanced detection systems” that Hamas used to spot military aircraft.
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They also hit 80 Hamas targets in the Beit Hanoun area of the north-eastern Gaza Strip, including two bank branches used by the Islamist group to “fund terrorism” in the enclave, the military said.
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Airstrikes also hit a weapons storage facility, and an operational command centre used by the Islamic Jihad militant group, it added.
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It is 9.30am in Gaza City and Tel Aviv. Here is where things stand:
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More than 260,000 displaced in Gaza, says UN. Over 260,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the Gaza Strip, as heavy Israeli bombardments from the air, land and sea continue to hit the Palestinian enclave, the United Nations said. “Over 263,934 people in Gaza are believed to have fled their homes,” said UN humanitarian agency OCHA said in an update Tuesday, warning that “this number is expected to rise further”.
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Overnight, the Israeli Defence Force hit hundreds of “targets” in Gaza, including 80 in the neighbourhood of Beit Hanon, a city on the northeast edge of Gaza and over 450 targets in the Al-Furqan neighborhood in the last 24 hours, including 200 strikes overnight, and 70 more “targets” were hit in the neighbourhood of al-Daraj. The targets included banks and places the IDF says were used by Hamas to directed attacks against Israel.
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Israel’s military aim to destroy Hamas’s military capabilities, says spokesperson. Israel Defence Forces spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Conricus has said in that update, that the Israeli military’s mission is, “to make sure that Hamas, at the end of this war, won’t have any military capabilities by which they can threaten or kill Israeli civilians.”
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The Israeli death toll jumped by 200 people to 1,200, with an IDF spokesperson saying it is “not because there is ongoing fighting”. Israel Defence Forces spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Conricus has just given an update in which he confirms the death toll of 1,200 Israelis killed. They are “overwhelmingly civilians,” he said. More than 2,700 are wounded. The jump in the death toll is “not because there is ongoing fighting,” but rather because, “now as the time has gone by we are discovering bodies of dead Israelis in the various communities that Hamas infiltrated and where they conducted their massacres,” Conricus said.
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The most recent Palestinian toll from the Gaza health authority has put the death toll in the enclave at 900 since Saturday. Among the dead are 260 children and 230 women, it said. Frightened residents of Gaza described bombardments striking residential buildings, hospitals and schools across the enclave amid growing concern over destruction of civilian infrastructure.
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Israeli Defence Minister Yoavv Gallant has told soldiers “we will come from the ground,” in another clear sign that ground offensive into Gaza is imminent. Speaking on Tuesday to soldiers near the Gaza fence, Gallant said, “Hamas wanted a change and it will get one. What was in Gaza will no longer be. We started the offensive from the air, later on we will also come from the ground.”
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The US is talking with Israel and Egypt about the idea of a safe passage for Gaza civilians as Israel strikes the enclave after a deadly Hamas attack over the weekend, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Tuesday. “We are focused on this question, there are consultations going on,” Sullivan told reporters at the White House. “But the details of that are something that are being discussed among the operational agencies and I don’t want to share too much of that publicly at this time,” Sullivan said.
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Israeli Air Force claims to have destroyed Hamas “advanced detection system”. The Israeli Air Force (IAF) claims to have “destroyed an advanced detection system developed by [Hamas], which was used to detect aircraft over the Gaza Strip.” In a post on X, formerly Twitter, the IAF said, “For years, Hamas established a network of high-quality cameras, hidden inside solar heaters throughout the Gaza Strip, with the aim of identifying and tracking aircraft.”
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The Australian government has asked Qantas and Virgin for urgent help to repatriate Australians from Israel as the death toll in the region mounts. The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, directed the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Dfat) on Monday to commence contingency planning for “assisted-departure flights”, meaning government-backed flights.
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Security is being boosted at Jewish schools, hospitals, aged care facilities and synagogues across Sydney in response to the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war and the resulting tensions in Australia that police warned would have a “long tail”.
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Fiji’s Defence Minister said on Wednesday a Fiji Airways flight has left Tel Aviv with almost 200 Fijian religious pilgrims, plus citizens of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States on board.
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Fourteen Thai nationals taken hostage. Thailand said it received reports that three more of its nationals had been taken hostage in the ongoing violence in Gaza, bringing the total abducted to 14, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday. It said 20 of its citizens were killed and 13 injured in the conflict. Thailand is one of the biggest sources of migrant workers to Israel.
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The Danish government said on Wednesday it will offer to evacuate its citizens from Israel and Palestinian territories. Around 1,200 Danes are currently believed to be in Israel and another 90 in Palestinian territories, the Danish foreign ministry said in a statement. Planes will be sent to the region and the evacuation will start in the coming days, it added.
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The Israeli Air Force (IAF) claims to have “destroyed an advanced detection system developed by [Hamas], which was used to detect aircraft over the Gaza Strip”.
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In a post on X, formerly Twitter, the IAF said: “For years, Hamas established a network of high-quality cameras, hidden inside solar heaters throughout the Gaza Strip, with the aim of identifying and tracking aircraft.”
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The post was accompanied by video footage showing strikes.
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“Yesterday, in a matter of minutes, with an aircraft targeted at several targets, aircraft attacked all the locations associated with this network and deprived Hamas of its ability to produce a wide sky image in an attempt to attack aircraft,” the IAF said.
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Fiji’s Defence Minister said on Wednesday a Fiji Airways flight has left Tel Aviv with almost 200 Fijian religious pilgrims, plus citizens of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States on board.
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The Danish government said on Wednesday it will offer to evacuate its citizens from Israel and Palestinian territories.
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Around 1,200 Danes are currently believed to be in Israel and another 90 in Palestinian territories, the Danish foreign ministry said in a statement.
Planes will be sent to the region and the evacuation will start in the coming days, it added.
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Thailand said it received reports that three more of its nationals had been taken hostage in the ongoing violence in Gaza, bringing the total abducted to 14, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
It said 20 of its citizens were killed and 13 injured in the conflict.
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Thailand is one of the biggest sources of migrant workers to Israel, as my colleague Rebecca Ratcliffe reports in her story about the Thais hoping to hear from their loved ones:
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Israel Defence Forces spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Conricus has said in that update, that the Israeli military’s mission is, “to make sure that Hamas, at the end of this war, won’t have any military capabilities by which they can threaten or kill Israeli civilians.”
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Israel Defence Forces spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Conricus has just given an update in which he confirms the death toll of 1,200 Israelis killed. They are “overwhelmingly civilians,” he said.
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More than 2,700 are wounded.
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The jump in the death toll is “not because there is ongoing fighting,” but rather because, “now as the time has gone by we are discovering bodies of dead Israelis in the various communities that Hamas infiltrated and where they conducted their massacres,” Conricus said.
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The Australian government has asked Qantas and Virgin for urgent help to repatriate Australians from Israel as the death toll in the region mounts.
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The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, directed the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Dfat) on Monday to commence contingency planning for “assisted-departure flights”, meaning government-backed flights.
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Guardian Australia understands the minister for transport, Catherine King, has since spoken with the chief executives of both airlines to “convey the government’s sense of urgency and ask them to work with Dfat on options for repatriation flights”.
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It is believed about 12,000 Australians are in Israel, although many of these are dual nationals who may not necessarily wish to leave.
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Over 260,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the Gaza Strip, as heavy Israeli bombardments from the air, land and sea continue to hit the Palestinian enclave, the United Nations said.
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Fierce fighting has left thousands dead on both sides since Hamas launched a surprise assault on Saturday, spurring Israel’s reprisal bombing campaign.
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“Over 263,934 people in Gaza are believed to have fled their homes,” said UN humanitarian agency OCHA said in an update Tuesday, warning that “this number is expected to rise further”.
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It said that around 3,000 people had been displaced “due to previous escalations”, prior to Saturday.
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Reuters reports that Israeli Defence Minister Yoavv Gallant, speaking on Tuesday to soldiers near the Gaza fence, said, “Hamas wanted a change and it will get one. What was in Gaza will no longer be. We started the offensive from the air, later on we will also come from the ground.”
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The statement is another clear sign that a ground offensive into Gaza is imminent.
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My colleagues Bethan McKernan and Quique Kierszenbaum reported that on Monday night that Israelis were told by the Home Front to prepare a safe place to shelter and enough food, water and other supplies to last 72 hours.
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Israel’s public broadcaster Kan reports that the Israeli death toll had passed 1,200. The vast majority of deaths were civilians. It was an increase of 200 people since the last toll. Four days after Hamas rampaged through southern Israeli towns, killing hundreds of people, Israeli soldiers are still discovering and collecting the bodies of the dead.
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The most recent Palestinian toll from the Gaza health authority has put the death toll in the enclave at 900 since Saturday. Among the dead are 260 children and 230 women, it said. Frightened residents of Gaza described bombardments striking residential buildings, hospitals and schools across the enclave amid growing concern over destruction of civilian infrastructure.
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The US is talking with Israel and Egypt about the idea of a safe passage for Gaza civilians as Israel strikes the enclave after a deadly Hamas attack over the weekend, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Tuesday.
“We are focused on this question, there are consultations going on,” Sullivan told reporters at the White House.
“But the details of that are something that are being discussed among the operational agencies and I don’t want to share too much of that publicly at this time,” Sullivan said.
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“We do not deliberately target civilians,” Sullivan said of the US and Israel, when asked about civilian casualties in Gaza in the Tuesday press briefing.
“We work to make sure that our military operations are conducted consistent with the rule of law and the law of war,” he added.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said at least 900 Palestinians were killed and up to 4,600 wounded in Israeli air strikes on the blockaded enclave since Saturday. Gaza is 40km (25 miles) long by 10km (6 miles) wide and is home to 2.3 million people.
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This is the Guardian’s live coverage of the war between Israel and Hamas. My name is Helen Sullivan and I’ll be bringing you the latest.
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In recent developments:
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Israel’s public broadcaster Kan reports that the Israeli death toll had passed 1,200. The vast majority of deaths were civilians. It was an increase of 200 people since the last toll. Four days after Hamas rampaged through southern Israeli towns, killing hundreds of people, Israeli soldiers were still discovering and collecting the bodies of the dead.
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The most recent Palestinian toll from the Gaza health authority has put the death toll in the enclave at 900 since Saturday. Among the dead are 260 children and 230 women, it said. Frightened residents of Gaza described bombardments striking residential buildings, hospitals and schools across the enclave amid growing concern over destruction of civilian infrastructure.
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And the US is talking with Israel and Egypt about the idea of a safe passage for Gaza civilians as Israel strikes the enclave after a deadly Hamas attack over the weekend, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Tuesday.
“We are focused on this question, there are consultations going on,” Sullivan told reporters at the White House.
“But the details of that are something that are being discussed among the operational agencies and I don’t want to share too much of that publicly at this time,” Sullivan said.
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Here is where things stand:
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A massive Israeli military buildup was continuing along Gaza’s border on Tuesday, amid mounting expectations that Israel would launch a ground invasion of Gaza within days. The Israeli military said it had mostly secured its border with Gaza after a night of intensified airstrikes across the enclave that destroyed infrastructure and displaced thousands of people. Israel’s defence minister said he had “released all restraints” on his troops, adding that Gaza “will never return to what it was”.
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Two Palestinians were fatally shot in East Jerusalem by Israel’s border police, in a sign of increasing violence that is disproportionately targeting youth across the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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A salvo of rockets from Hezbollah-controlled southern Lebanon was fired at northern Israel, in a sign of the rapidly escalating crisis. Israeli forces responded with fire in the third consecutive day of violence along the Lebanese-Israeli border.
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The Israeli military also shelled Syria from the Golan Heights after mortar rounds were fired into the territory.
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The UN’s human rights council warned there is already “clear evidence” that war crimes may have been committed in the latest explosion of violence in Israel and Gaza. It said it had been collecting evidence of “war crimes committed by all sides” since Saturday.
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Israel is believed to have identified most of the hostages abducted by Hamas and has started notifying their families. Officers from the Israel Defence Forces were to tell about 100 families on Tuesday that their loved ones were in Gaza.
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Joe Biden declared support for Israel, calling the assault by Hamas militants that left nearly 1,000 people dead an “act of sheer evil”. At least 14 Americans were killed in last weekend’s attack and an as yet unknown number of Americans are being held hostage, Biden said from the White House. The first plane carrying US ammunition landed in Israel on Tuesday.
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EU foreign ministers have reversed the decision by the European Commission to suspend payments to the Palestinian Authority, after an emergency meeting in Oman.
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The EU has issued a warning to Elon Musk over the alleged disinformation about the Hamas attack on Israel, including fake news and “repurposed old images”, on X, which was formerly known as Twitter.
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Key events
The chargé d’affaires ad interim representing the US in Israel, Stephanie Hallett, has visited the site of an attack near the Gaza border inside Israel, she said, “to bear witness to the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists.”
In a video posted to social media from the scene, she said “It’s really unbelievable. As a mother … and just as a human being … to see and know what happened here. It is really important to say that we’ve been, we’ve seen it, and it is evil. And we stand with Israel. All of us. We stand with Israel.”
The US does not currently have an ambassador to Israel as Republican politicians in Washington have so far declined to meet and approve US president Joe Biden’s nomination for the role, Jack Lew.
Angelique Chrisafis
France has expelled three foreign nationals for antisemitic acts or comments since the weekend, a government spokesman has confirmed.
The interior minister Gérald Darmanin said on Wednesday that any non-national accused of antisemitic acts would have their resident permit cancelled and be immediately expelled.
Darmanin said there had been around 50 antisemitic acts recorded across France since the weekend, and 20 people had been arrested. The acts included people gathering in large numbers in front of synagogues shouting threats, drones with cameras entering school playgrounds, graffiti, verbal abuse and threatening letters.
Reuters has a quick snap that a spokesperson for Germany’s government has said it currently has no valid evidence of Iranian direct involvement in the Hamas attack against Israel.
There are reports that the sole power station in Gaza has stopped working.
Earlier, authorities said the plant had 10 to 12 hours’ worth of fuel left.
Israel cut off its own electricity supply to Gaza on Monday as part of what it called a “complete siege” in response to the Hamas attack.
Apart from the grid, some Palestinians in Gaza rely on generators. However, these will also be lacking fuel.
The UK foreign secretary, James Cleverly, has arrived in Israel and will meet survivors of the Hamas attack.
“The foreign secretary has arrived in Israel today to demonstrate the UK’s unwavering solidarity with the Israeli people following Hamas’ terrorist attacks,” a Foreign Office spokesperson said.
“He will be meeting survivors of the attacks and senior Israeli leaders to outline UK support for Israel’s right to defend itself.”
Germany’s foreign ministry says 5,000 German citizens have registered to leave Israel.
The spokesperson did not say how many had already left using their own means.
Israeli airstrikes have killed nine United Nations workers so far, UN says
Here is a post from the UNRWA, the main UN aid agency responsible for Palestinians and operating in the Gaza Strip.
Sam Jones
Our correspondent Sam Jones has spoken to a man whose Israeli family is missing:
Yotam Kipnis hasn’t heard from his parents since 8.30am on Saturday, when he rang his mother and she told him they were hiding inside the shelter of their home on the Be’eri kibbutz and could hear gunfire outside.
“I tried to call her again at 10 o’clock and she didn’t answer,” said Kipnis, 29, a human rights worker who grew up on the kibbutz in southern Israel, four miles (6.5km) from the Gaza border.
“But I’ve heard from other relatives and friends of the family that they spoke to her around 9.30am and she told them that someone was entering the shelter. They heard shouting down the phone. I haven’t been able to contact my parents since then.”
Although more than 100 bodies have been recovered from the kibbutz in the aftermath of the murderous attack by Hamas gunmen, Yotam said his mother and father, Lilach, 60, and Eviatar, 65, had yet to be found.
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More than 1,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza, health ministry announces
The health ministry in the Gaza Strip has said Israeli attacks have killed 1,055 Palestinians and wounded 5,184.
Angelique Chrisafis
The French interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, said 20 arrests had been made in France over antisemitic acts and threats since the weekend. Visiting a Jewish school in Sarcelles, north of Paris, on Wednesday morning, he said: “It’s important that all French Jewish people know they are protected.”
France has stepped up security around 500 sites including Jewish schools, synagogues and cultural centres. Darmanin said police protecting those sites had reported 50 antisemitic attacks, “which shows both the efficiency of the measures, but also the threat which weighs on French Jewish people.”
He had previously said the antisemitic attacks in France since the weekend included people gathering in large numbers in front of synagogues shouting threats, drones with cameras entering school playgrounds, and graffiti, verbal abuse and threatening letters.
Emma Graham-Harrison
Here is our full report on the killings in Kfar Aza:
In Kfar Aza, no one was too old, too young or too weak for slaughter. It took the Israeli army half a day to reach the kibbutz of 750 people in southern Israel, and fighting continued there for three days. In that time, Hamas gunmen killed and mutilated dozens of civilian residents.
“Mothers, fathers, babies, young families killed in their beds, in the protection room, in the dining room, in their garden,” Maj Gen Itai Veruv, of the Israel Defence Forces, told the BBC as his troops searched homes for bodies of victims. “It’s not a war, it’s not a battlefield. It’s a massacre.”
The kibbutz was one of the first Israeli settlements reached by Hamas militants when they launched an assault early on Saturday morning.
The community had a security team, and houses had safe rooms, but they – like the highest echelons of the Israeli army and government – were not prepared for the wave of attackers racing out of the breached Gaza.
Seventeen British people killed or missing in the violence, BBC reports
The BBC is reporting that after the weekend’s attack by Hamas, there are 17 dead or missing UK nationals, with children among them. The news site quotes an “official UK source”.
The previous estimate was “more than 10” British nationals dead or missing.
Rebecca Ratcliffe
The Philippines embassy in Tel Aviv has said it is verifying reports that a third Filipino has been killed in the conflict between Hamas and Israel. Three others remain missing.
Earlier on Wednesday, Philippine authorities announced that two deaths had been confirmed: a 33-year-old woman who had worked in Israel for six years and was originally from Pangasinan, in Northern Luzon, and a 42-year-old man from Pampanga. They were both killed on Saturday during Hamas’s attack. Both of their families asked for their identities to be kept confidential.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said in a statement: “My heart is heavy upon hearing confirmation of the deaths of two Filipinos in Israel. The Philippines condemns these killings and stands firmly against the ongoing terror and violence.”
There are abour 30,000 Filipinos in Israel.
Col Medal Aguilar, a spokesperson for the Philippine armed forces, said the Philippines was ready to evacuate citizens and their families from Israel if necessary.
Hezbollah claims missile attack on Israel
Hezbollah has said it was responsible for firing precision missiles on Israel on Wednesday, saying it was in response to Israeli attacks this week that left three of its fighters dead.
The Israeli military had said it had been targeted with anti-tank fire on Wednesday and had begun attacking Lebanon in return.
Israel says anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon in the north
Ruth Michaelson
Lebanon’s national news agency said two rockets had been fired from southern Lebanese territory towards Israeli territory, although there was no claim of responsibility.
The Israeli military said an anti-tank missile was launched toward the town of Arav Al-Amsha, which lies close to the “blue line” that demarcates northern Israeli territory from southern Lebanon.
Israel “struck targets” in southern Lebanon in response, according to Turkey’s Anadolu news agency. NNA said the southern Lebanese town of Al-Dhahira was shelled.
Israeli forces and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have exchanged fire repeatedly in recent days along the “blue line”, while militants from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad attempted to enter Israeli territory. Hezbollah has also repeatedly targeted a strip of contested territory in the Golan Heights, raising concerns about an escalation.
The strike on the town of Arav Al Amsha, however, suggests a broadening list of targets and a potential further escalation.
Pope calls for release of all hostages held by Hamas
Pope Francis has called for the release of all hostages held by Hamas.
He said he was very worried by the “total siege” imposed by Israel on Gaza.
Here is a video report on the killings in Be’eri and Kfar Aza, two Israeli communities devastated by the Hamas rampage on Saturday.