Israeli troopers are working within the “heart of Gaza City”, the stronghold of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant mentioned on Tuesday. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu advised US media earlier that Israel would take into account “tactical little pauses” within the preventing to facilitate the entry of humanitarian help or permit the exit of hostages held by Hamas. Follow our reside weblog for the most recent updates. All instances are Paris time (GMT+1).
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Israeli troopers are working within the coronary heart of Gaza City, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant mentioned on Tuesday, including: “We are going to destroy Hamas.”
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Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu mentioned his nation will take “overall security responsibility” of the Gaza Strip for an indefinite interval after its struggle with Hamas. Speaking to ABC News, Netanyahu mentioned Israel would take into account “tactical little pauses” in Gaza preventing to facilitate the entry of humanitarian help or permit the exit of hostages held by Hamas.
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The United States opposes any long-term occupation of the Gaza Strip by Israel and any compelled relocation of Palestinians from the enclave, State Department spokesman Vedant Patel advised reporters.
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Israelis noticed a minute of silence on Tuesday to mark a month because the October 7 assaults that noticed Hamas militants slaughter 1,400 folks, most of them civilians, and take greater than 200 hostages to the Gaza Strip.
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The loss of life toll within the Gaza Strip has risen to no less than 10,328 folks, together with no less than 4,237 kids, the well being ministry within the Hamas-run territory has mentioned.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) mentioned a humanitarian convoy got here below fireplace in Gaza City on Tuesday however was in a position to ship medical provides to Al Shifa hospital. Two vehicles have been broken and a driver was frivolously wounded, the organisation mentioned.
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A Doctors Without Borders (MSF) worker was killed within the Shati refugee camp. The group mentioned, “it is clear that no place in Gaza is safe from brutal and indiscriminate bombing.”
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The US House voted 234-188 to censure the one Palestinian-American consultant in Congress for her important feedback about Israel.
5:14am: Doctors Without Borders worker killed, group says ‘no place in Gaza is secure’
An worker of medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has been killed in Gaza together with a number of relations, the group mentioned Tuesday.
Mohammed Al Ahel, a laboratory technician, was killed in his house within the Shati refugee camp when the world was bombed and his constructing collapsed, MSF mentioned in an announcement.
“Today, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is mourning the loss of one of our team members in Gaza, Mohammed Al Ahel, who was killed along with several members of his family on November 6,” the medical charity mentioned.
“It is clear that no place in Gaza is safe from brutal and indiscriminate bombing,” it mentioned.
“Our repeated calls for an immediate ceasefire have gone unanswered, but we insist that it is the only way to prevent more senseless deaths across Gaza and allow adequate humanitarian aid into the Strip,” the charity mentioned.
5:03am: 40 Filipinos go away Gaza via Rafah crossing
Dozens of Filipinos fled from the war-ravaged Gaza Strip into Egypt via the Rafah crossing after Filipino diplomats negotiated for his or her secure passage and Qatar mediated for the border to be opened, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. mentioned Wednesday.
The 40 Filipinos have been touring to the Egyptian capital of Cairo, the place they deliberate to take flights again to the Philippines, Marcos mentioned in a video message in Manila. Two Filipino docs managed to go away the Gaza Strip into Egypt final week.
4:45am: House votes to censure Democratic Rep. for feedback important of Israel
The House voted late Tuesday to censure Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan – the one Palestinian American in Congress – a rare rebuke of her rhetoric in regards to the Israel-Hamas struggle.
The 234-188 tally got here after sufficient Democrats joined with Republicans to censure Tlaib, a punishment one step beneath expulsion from the House. The three-term congresswoman has lengthy been a goal of criticism for her views on the decades-long battle within the Middle East.
4:39am: G7 group tries to seek out frequent stance on struggle in Gaza
The Group of seven main industrial democracies labored to forge a unified stance on the Israel-Hamas struggle at intensive conferences in Tokyo on Wednesday, with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and different senior diplomats trying to include a worsening humanitarian disaster and cease a spillover of preventing into the broader Middle East.
The second and closing day of the G7 Foreign Minister talks intersects with a flurry of worldwide crises. While the devastating monthlong battle in Gaza and the humanitarian struggling that has adopted Israel’s response to the lethal Oct. 7 Hamas assault lead the agenda, the envoys are additionally coping with Russia’s struggle in Ukraine, North Korea’s nuclear and missile packages and China’s rising aggression in territorial disputes with its neighbors.
Blinken, who arrived in Tokyo after a whirlwind tour of the Middle East, mentioned it is essential to discover a unified stance on the struggle in Israel, much like what diplomats have carried out over Ukraine and different main points. The ministers are additionally attempting to maintain current variations on Gaza from deepening
10:52pm: House to vote on punishing Rep. Rashida Tlaib for Israel feedback
The House is headed for a showdown vote Wednesday on whether or not to punish Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan – the one Palestinian American in Congress – for her rhetoric in regards to the Israel-Hamas struggle.
A vote to maneuver ahead on censuring Tlaib, a punishment one step beneath expulsion from the House, superior Tuesday in a procedural vote. Republican Rep. Rich McCormick of Georgia proposed the measure in response to what he known as Tlaib’s promotion of antisemitic rhetoric.
“Rep. Tlaib has levied unbelievable falsehoods about our greatest ally, Israel, and the attack on October 7,” McCormick mentioned.
Debate on the censure decision was emotional and intense. With different Democrats standing by her facet, Tlaib defended her stance and accused Republicans of attempting to silence differing views in regards to the decades-long battle within the Middle East.
“I will not be silenced and I will not let you distort my words,” Tlaib mentioned, including that her criticism of the Jewish state has at all times been directed towards its authorities and its management below Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“It is important to separate people and government,” she mentioned. “The idea that criticizing the government of Israel is antisemitic sets a very dangerous precedent. And it’s been used to silence diverse voices speaking up for human rights across our nation.”
9:46pm: ‘My son was one of many lucky guys’: FRANCE 24 speaks with father of a hostage held by Hamas
After launching its unprecedented assault on Israel on October 7, the Palestinian militant group Hamas took roughly 240 Israeli and overseas civilians hostage. FRANCE 24 spoke with Avi Shamriwz, who says that he stays in the dead of night about what has occurred to his 26-year-old son Alan. However, Avi provides that his son was “one of the fortunate guys”, as the remainder of the folks within the village have been he was residing have been “massacred by Hamas”.
“We have no clue what’s happened to him, if he’s injured, if he’s alive,” says Avi. “I am feeling very bad. [..] After they release the hostages, let the IDF [Israeli Defence Forces] and the Hamas fight each other as much as they want. I don’t care. I first want my son to come back with the rest of the hostages.”
Please click on on the video participant beneath to look at the total interview.
9:19pm: Biden tells Netanyahu a 3-day pause in preventing may assist safe launch of hostages
US President Joe Biden has advised Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu {that a} three-day pause in preventing may assist safe the discharge of some hostages, US news web site Axios reported on Tuesday, citing two US and Israeli officers.
8:15pm: Red Cross says humanitarian convoy got here below fireplace in Gaza City
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) mentioned a humanitarian convoy got here below fireplace in Gaza City on Tuesday however was in a position to ship medical provides to Al Shifa hospital.
Two vehicles have been broken and a driver was frivolously wounded, the organisation mentioned.
It mentioned the convoy included 5 vehicles and two ICRC autos and was carrying “lifesaving medical supplies to health facilities including to Al Quds hospital of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, when it was hit by fire.”
The group didn’t determine the supply of the fireplace. ICRC, a impartial organisation primarily based in Geneva, has escorted sufferers and transported freed hostages out of Gaza.
7:36pm: No ceasefire, gas delivered to Gaza till hostages freed, says Netanyahu
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu mentioned on Tuesday that no gas could be delivered to the Gaza Strip and no ceasefire in Israel’s preventing with Hamas until hostages seized by the Palestinian militants are freed.
In a televised assertion marking the primary month of Israel’s struggle with Hamas he mentioned there could be “no entry of gasoline… no ceasefire without the release of our hostages”.
7:29pm: ‘Gaza City is encircled, we’re working inside it’, says Netanyahu
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu mentioned on Tuesday that Israel’s army was encircling Gaza City and working inside it because it pressed on with a month-long offensive towards Hamas.
In a televised assertion, Netanyahu mentioned there could be no ceasefire or gas supply to Gaza earlier than Hamas launched Israeli hostages and repeated a name on Palestinian civilians to maneuver south for their very own security. “We will not stop,” Netanyahu mentioned.
7:23pm: US says it opposes ‘reoccupation’ of Gaza by Israel
The United States mentioned on Tuesday that it opposed a brand new long-term occupation of the Gaza Strip by Israel, whose Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed “overall security” of the territory following the struggle.
“Generally speaking, we do not support the reoccupation of Gaza and neither does Israel,” State Department spokesman Vedant Patel advised reporters.
6:56pm: Defence minister says Israeli forces are within the ‘coronary heart of Gaza City’
Israel’s army is working deep inside Gaza City, the stronghold of the Palestinian group Hamas, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant mentioned on Tuesday, including that Israel had no want to rule the Palestinian enclave as soon as the struggle was over.
“IDF forces are in the heart of Gaza City. They came from the north and the south. They stormed it in full coordination between land, air and sea forces,” Gallant mentioned in a televised news convention.
“They are manoeuvring on foot, armoured vehicles and tanks, along with military engineers from all directions and they have one target – Hamas terrorists in Gaza, their infrastructure, their commanders, bunkers, communication rooms. They are tightening the noose around Gaza City,” Gallant mentioned.
Gallant described Gaza City as “the biggest terrorism base built by man”. He mentioned that beneath town there have been kilometres (miles) of tunnels that ran below faculties and hospitals and that housed weapon depots, communication rooms and hideouts for militants.
Asked about plans for who would rule Gaza as soon as the struggle was over, Gallant mentioned: “I can tell you who will not govern (Gaza). It will not be Hamas, and it will not be Israel. Everything else is a possibility.”
He repeated Israel’s name on Palestinian civilians to maneuver to the south of Gaza for their very own security.
6:16pm: Dead kids in Gaza struggle is world’s ‘ethical failing’, says Red Cross
A month after the struggle between Israel and Hamas erupted, the Red Cross demanded Tuesday an finish to the horrific struggling of civilians, and particularly kids, decrying a “moral failing”.
“One month on, civilians in Gaza and Israel are being forced to endure tremendous suffering and loss. This needs to stop,” the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) mentioned in an announcement. “Massive bombardments are gutting civilian infrastructure across Gaza, sowing seeds of hardship for generations to come.”
The organisation’s president Mirjana Spoljaric mentioned she had been notably shocked to see the struggling that kids have needed to endure.
“Children have been ripped from their families and held hostage. In Gaza, ICRC surgeons treat toddlers whose skin is charred from widespread burns,” she mentioned within the assertion.
“The images of suffering, dead and wounded children will haunt us all. This is a moral failing,” she added.
6:06pm: Paris Stars of David graffiti could have been ordered from overseas, says prosecutor
The daubing of dozens of Stars of David on buildings in Paris and its suburbs, extensively condemned as anti-Semitic, could have been carried out on the “express demand” of a person residing overseas, the Paris prosecutor mentioned on Tuesday.
An investigating Justice of the Peace will now probe what the intention was behind the mass daubing of buildings with the celebs, prosecutor Laure Beccuau mentioned in an announcement, following the arrest of two Moldovans who advised investigators they have been appearing on the behest of a 3rd social gathering.
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5:59pm: More than 400 US residents, residents have left Gaza, says State Department
The United States has helped greater than 400 US residents, lawful everlasting residents and different eligible folks go away Gaza, a US State Department spokesperson mentioned on Tuesday.
5:12pm: FRANCE 24’s ENTR examines division between European nations on Israel-Hamas struggle
After Hamas launched its unprecedented assault on Israel on October 7 and Israel responded with retaliatory strikes, it grew to become clear that European nations weren’t united on how to reply to this newest episode of violence within the Israeli-Palestinian battle. FRANCE 24’s ENTR examines how a number of European nations have responded over the course of the previous month.
5:07pm: EU proclaims greater than €900 million in help for Jordan
The EU on Tuesday introduced greater than €900 million in help for Jordan after European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen met King Abdullah II for talks dominated by the Israel-Hamas struggle.
Von der Leyen thanked the Jordanian king for “his critical stabilising role in the region”, amid fears that the battle, which has left hundreds lifeless, may spill over to different nations.
The two leaders didn’t maintain a press convention after the assembly.
On social media nevertheless, von der Leyen mentioned the talks included Israel’s army offensive towards Gaza in response to the October 7 assaults by Hamas, which controls the Palestinian territory.
Jordan is amongst nations within the area fearing a mass exodus from Gaza.
4:25pm: Mexico is not going to break relations with Israel, says president
Mexico is not going to break diplomatic relations with Israel over the battle in Gaza, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador mentioned on Tuesday, urging political leaders to work for a peaceable resolution to the dispute.
Lopez Obrador was talking at an everyday authorities press convention.
4:15pm: First group of Canadians evacuated from Gaza into Egypt
The first group of Canadians has been evacuated out of the Gaza enclave via the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen mentioned on Tuesday.
“They are now safe and sound in Egypt and we’re very, very happy,” he advised reporters.
3:41pm: More than 100 French nationals evacuated from Gaza
More than 100 French nationals and their dependents have been evacuated from the Gaza Strip via the Rafah border crossing to Egypt, the overseas ministry in Paris mentioned on Tuesday.
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“Two groups of French nationals, officials and rights holders were able to leave” on Monday and Tuesday from Gaza and are actually “in safety in Egypt”, the ministry mentioned in an announcement.
The departures “bring the number of exits organised by France to more than 100 people”, it added.
3:28pm: UK to carry emergency response assembly on influence of Israel-Hamas struggle on communities
The British authorities will maintain an emergency response assembly on the influence of the Israel-Hamas struggle on neighborhood cohesion in Britain on Tuesday, amid issues from ministers about pro-Palestinian protests deliberate for the Armistice Day weekend.
“The deputy prime minister will chair a Cobra (emergency response meeting) to coordinate the government’s response to the situation in Israel and Gaza,” Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s spokesperson mentioned.
“It will look at a wide range of areas but it’s obviously particularly focused on the impact of the terrorist attack on the UK domestically and how we can address some of the importance around community cohesion particularly.”
2:31pm: Blinken thanks Japanese minister for denouncing Hamas’s assaults on Israel
Top US diplomat Antony Blinken mentioned the state of affairs in Gaza together with his Japanese counterpart on Tuesday, together with the necessity to enhance humanitarian help, the State Department mentioned.
“The secretary thanked Foreign Minister Kamikawa for denouncing Hamas’s attacks on Israel and offering condolences for the American citizens who lost their lives,” the division mentioned in an announcement.
Blinken was in Tokyo for a Group of Seven assembly. Japan has taken a cautious strategy to the disaster, resisting strain to fall according to the pro-Israel stance of its closest ally, the United States, officers and analysts say.
2:20pm: Israel asks civilians once more to go away Gaza City earlier than lauching floor assault
Israel gave civilians nonetheless trapped inside encircled Gaza City a four-hour window to go away on Tuesday, and residents escaping town mentioned they handed tanks in place to storm it.
Israel says its forces have surrounded Gaza City, house to a 3rd of Gaza’s 2.3 million folks, and are poised to assault it quickly of their marketing campaign to annihilate the Hamas militants who assault Israel precisely a month in the past.
In among the first direct feedback on Israel’s plans for the way forward for Gaza after the struggle, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu mentioned Israel would tackle safety accountability for the territory for an indefinite interval as soon as it defeats the militants which have managed it for the previous 16 years.
2:05pm: Israeli strike kills Palestinian reporter in Gaza, news company says
A Palestinian journalist was killed in an Israeli air strike within the Gaza Strip and one other was wounded, the official Palestinian news company reviews.
Mohammad Abu Hasira is the most recent amongst dozens of journalists killed within the month-long battle that started with Hamas’s October 7 assault on southern Israel.
He “was killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted his house located near the fishermen’s port west of Gaza City,” mentioned the WAFA news company, the place he labored.
WAFA reported that Abu Hasira “and 42 members of his family, including his sons and brothers” have been killed within the strike.
1:45pm: Gaza well being ministry says loss of life toll has risen to 10,328
At least 10,328 Palestinians, together with 4,237 kids, have been killed in a month of Israeli bombardment, the well being ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza has mentioned.
In the previous, the ministry’s figures have been corroborated by UN businesses. But worldwide organisations are not in a position to present impartial verification.
1:34pm: Author of e-book ‘Underground Warfare’ discusses Hamas’s ‘immense’ tunnel community
An creator whose e-book has change into a reference for these attempting to know Hamas’s tunnel community and its influence on the present struggle has advised FRANCE 24 that Israel should finally enter the tunnels to make sure their destruction. Daphne Richemond-Barak began her e-book “Underground Warfare” 10 years in the past, when one of many first massive Hamas tunnels into Israel was found. Her e-book paperwork using tunnels in lots of conflicts, together with in Vietnam and even World War I. She spoke to Stuart Norval, the host of FRANCE 24’s Perspective.
12:15pm: WHO says over 160 healthcare staff killed in Gaza
More than 160 healthcare staff have died on obligation in Gaza because the begin of the battle, a spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO) has advised a press briefing, calling for the lifting of restrictions on medical help.
“Over 160 of the healthcare workers have died on duty while taking care of those injured and diseased,” Christian Lindmeier advised reporters, including that some docs have been performing operations, together with amputations, with out anaesthetic.
“These are the people keeping the health system going through the dedication they have somehow found a way to keep some level of service going,” Lindmeier mentioned.
11:25am: UN rights chief decries ‘vortex of ache’ on Mideast go to
The UN rights chief is visiting the Middle East amid rising concern over Israel’s army escalation in Gaza, his workplace has mentioned.
Volker Turk has begun a five-day go to to the area in Egypt and is planning to go to the Rafah crossing to Gaza on Wednesday. His workplace mentioned he’ll go to Amman, Jordan on Thursday and has additionally sought entry to Israel, the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
“It has been one full month of carnage, of incessant suffering, bloodshed, destruction, outrage and despair,” Turk was quoted as saying. “Human rights violations are at the root of this escalation and human rights play a central role in finding a way out of this vortex of pain.”
10:50am: UAE to arrange 150-bed area hospital in Gaza
The United Arab Emirates will arrange a area hospital within the Gaza Strip, official media mentioned after the variety of folks killed in Israeli bombardments surpassed 10,000.
Five plane flew out of Abu Dhabi for Arish in northern Egypt carrying tools and provides for the 150-bed facility, WAM news company mentioned late on Monday.
An official contacted by AFP mentioned there was no fast data on how the tools will likely be transferred to Gaza, the place there is just one operational border crossing, at Rafah close to Arish.
10:15am: Israel observes minute of silence a month after Hamas assaults
Israelis have noticed a minute of silence to mark a month because the lethal rampage by Hamas militants that triggered the present struggle between Israel and the Islamist militant group.
The nation’s worst-ever terrorist assaults, the October 7 killings claimed 1,400 lives, in line with Israeli officers, together with total households slain inside their houses and younger folks killed at a music pageant.
9:15am: Russia says Israeli minister’s nuclear comment raises ‘big variety of questions’
A comment by an Israeli junior minister who appeared to specific openness to the thought of Israel finishing up a nuclear strike on Gaza raises a “huge number of questions”, the Russian overseas ministry has mentioned.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday suspended Heritage Minister Amihay Eliyahu from cupboard conferences after his controversial comment sparked outrage around the globe.
Asked in a radio interview a few hypothetical nuclear possibility, Eliyahu, from a far-right social gathering within the coalition authorities, replied: “That’s one way.”
Maria Zakharova, Russia’s overseas ministry spokeswoman, mentioned the principle difficulty was that Israel appeared to have admitted that it had nuclear weapons – one thing it has by no means publicly acknowledged.
“Question number one – it turns out that we are hearing official statements about the presence of nuclear weapons?” Zakharova mentioned in remarks carried by the RIA news company. If so, she added, then the place are the worldwide nuclear inspectors?
8:35am: A month on, Israeli hostage households wait in agony for phrase of family members taken by Hamas
A month has handed since Hamas unleashed a day of lethal terror on Israel, storming out of the Gaza Strip and brutally murdering 1,400 folks in southern Israel, principally civilians, and taking greater than 240 hostage.
The occasions of October 7 led to a devastating struggle in Gaza, which has claimed hundreds of civilian lives. They have additionally left an indelible mark on Israeli society.
People throughout the nation are nonetheless in shock, none extra so than these nonetheless ready desperately for news of their family members held hostage inside Gaza.
Our senior correspondent Catherine Norris Trent despatched this report.
7:25am: ‘How can I presumably give start right here?’: Pregnant ladies undergo ordeal in Gaza
Before the most recent escalation in violence between Israel and Hamas, pregnant ladies within the Gaza Strip may have well being check-ups, get recommendation on vitamin and put together their houses for the arrival of their infants.
Today, hundreds live in shelters the place there’s not sufficient meals or clear water, and so they dread the prospect of giving start on the ground with no physician or midwife to assist.
More than 150 births happen day by day within the densely populated sliver of land, which is house to some 50,000 pregnant ladies, in line with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
Among them is Shorouq, who’s seven months pregnant along with her first baby and is at present residing in a shelter in Khan Younis, within the south of Gaza.
“How can I possibly give birth here?” she asks. “There’s no access to healthcare and hygiene. Giving birth in this shelter would be a catastrophe for me.”
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6:45am: US police probe loss of life of Jewish man after duelling protests
A Jewish man in California has died after getting right into a confrontation throughout duelling protests over the Israel-Hamas struggle, authorities mentioned.
Paul Kessler, 69, died at a hospital on Monday, a day after he was struck throughout pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrations at an intersection in Thousand Oaks, a suburb northwest of Los Angeles, authorities mentioned.
Witnesses mentioned Kessler was concerned in a “physical altercation” with a number of counter-protesters, fell backward and struck his head on the bottom, in line with an announcement from the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department.
No arrests have been made and particulars of the confrontation haven’t been instantly launched, though the Sheriff’s Department has scheduled a news convention for Tuesday morning.
3:10am: UN Security Council fails to agree on Israel-Hamas struggle decision
The UN Security Council met behind closed doorways late on Monday. The 15-member physique remains to be attempting to agree a decision on the struggle between Israel and Hamas after failing 4 instances in two weeks to take motion.
The key impediment is whether or not to name for a ceasefire or humanitarian pauses to permit help entry in Gaza.
When requested if there have been any talks on the United Nations but about what may occur in Gaza as soon as the preventing stops, Deputy US Ambassador to the UN Robert Wood advised reporters: “Obviously there is concern about what happens the day after, but we’re not at that point.”
1:52am: Israel open to ‘little pauses’ in Gaza preventing, Netanyahu says
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has mentioned Israel would take into account “tactical little pauses” in Gaza preventing to facilitate the entry of humanitarian help or permit the exit of hostages held by Hamas militants.
Earlier, Netanyahu confirmed there could be no “general ceasefire” in Gaza till hostages have been launched by Hamas.
“There will be no ceasefire – general ceasefire – in Gaza, without the release of our hostages,” he mentioned in a tv interview with ABC News.
1:30am: Netanyahu says Israel will take ‘total safety accountability’ of Gaza after struggle
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has mentioned his nation will take “overall security responsibility” of the Gaza Strip for an indefinite interval after its struggle with Hamas.
“Israel will, for an indefinite period, will have the overall security responsibility,” he mentioned in a tv interview with ABC News. “When we don’t have that security responsibility, what we have is the eruption of Hamas terror on a scale that we couldn’t imagine.”
Key developments from Monday, November 6:
In a televised handle on Monday, UN chief Antonio Guterres mentioned a ceasefire turns into “more urgent with every passing hour” as Israeli forces pounded the Hamas-held Gaza Strip after encircling the enclave’s major metropolis on Sunday.
Hamas militants fired 16 rockets from Lebanon in direction of northern Israel, the Palestinian group’s armed wing introduced, saying they focused areas south of the coastal metropolis of Haifa.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapped up a gruelling Middle East diplomatic tour in Turkey after solely restricted success in efforts to forge a regional consensus on how greatest to ease civilian struggling in Gaza.
Jordan mentioned on Monday it was leaving “all options” open in its response to what it known as Israel’s failure to discriminate between army and civilian targets in its intensifying bombardment and invasion of the Gaza Strip.
Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide mentioned on Monday Oslo was exploring methods to revive a diplomatic channel between Israel and the Palestinians to discover a political resolution to their decades-long battle.
Read our weblog to see how yesterday’s occasions unfolded.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)
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