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Israel-Hamas War Live: Israel has been bombarding Gaza since Hamas’ October 7 attack
Israel-Hamas War Live Updates:
As the war between Israel and Hamas continued to rage, Hamas-run health ministry said that more than 30 people were killed in an Israeli attack on a camp in central Gaza late Saturday.
“More than 30 martyrs arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the massacre committed by the occupation in Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip,” the news agency AFP quoted health ministry spokesperson Ashraf Al-Qudra as saying.
Israel has vowed to “crush” Hamas for its October 7 attack on communities and military outposts near the Gaza border, which it says killed more than 1,400 people.
More than 240 Israeli and foreign hostages were also abducted during the cross-border surprise attack.
In Gaza, over 9,400 people, mostly women and children, have been reportedly killed in Israeli strikes.
Here are the live updates on the Israel-Hamas war:
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The health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip said Sunday at least 9,770 people had been killed in the Palestinian territory since war with Israel erupted last month.
The ministry said at least 4,800 children were among those killed since Israel began striking the Gaza Strip in retaliation to the October 7 attacks carried out by Hamas militants in southern Israel that Israeli officials say killed over 1,400, most of them civilians.
Pope Francis called for an end to Israel-Hamas war and urged the released of hostages and humanitarian aid for Gaza. He described the situation as “very serious”.
“I continue to think about the serious situation in Palestine and in Israel where many people have lost their lives,” he said.
“I beg you in the name of God to stop, cease fire,” he said.
Evacuations of injured Gazans and foreign passport holders through the Rafah crossing to Egypt have been suspended since Saturday, two Egyptian security sources and a medical source told Reuters.
One of the security sources and the medical source said the evacuations were suspended after an Israeli strike on Friday on an ambulance in Gaza being used to transport injured people.
France’s Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna called Sunday for an “immediate” humanitarian pause in the Israel-Hamas war as casualties climb in the besieged Gaza Strip, whose population is living on dwindling supplies.
“An immediate, durable and observed humanitarian truce is absolutely necessary and must be able to lead to a ceasefire,” Colonna told reporters during a visit to Qatar.
Three Palestinians were killed Sunday by Israeli forces in the West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, as violence flares in the occupied territory since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.
Two men, aged 22 and 20, were killed “in an attack by Israeli occupation forces on Abu Dis”, a suburb of annexed east Jerusalem separated by the Israeli wall encircling the West Bank, the Ramallah-based ministry said.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a high-security surprise visit to the Israeli-occupied West Bank Sunday, meeting with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, according to photographs released by the Palestinian Authority.
The top US diplomat met with Abbas in Ramallah as global concern grows over rising violence in the occupied territory in tandem with the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza since October 7.
The Israeli army today said its forces had “struck over 2,500 terror targets” since ground troops entered Gaza late last month.
“IDF (army) troops are continuing to eliminate terrorists in close-quarters combat” and to direct aircraft to hit Hamas targets, the army said, including a “military compound” hit overnight.
“During the combined activities of ground, air and naval forces in the Gaza Strip, over 2,500 terror targets have been struck,” the military added.
On X (formerly Twitter), the IDF also said that their forces continue to operate against Hamas’ leadership and infrastructure in northern Gaza.
“They are strong. They are determined. They are prepared. They know what they are fighting for.” -RAdm. Daniel Hagari, IDF Spokesperson
Our forces continue to operate against Hamas’ leadership and infrastructure in northern Gaza. pic.twitter.com/CGdtrbxbmd
– Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) November 5, 2023
Arab leaders have publicly pressed US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to secure an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
The top US diplomat, however, has pushed back as he stood next to his Jordanian and Egyptian counterparts at a press conference on Saturday, saying a ceasefire would only let Hamas regroup.
He met the Saudi, Qatari, Emirati, Egyptian and Jordanian foreign ministers in Amman.
Iran’s first vice president Mohammad Mokhber on Saturday called Israeli actions in Gaza “a war crime”.
“We need to end this immediately and provide more humanitarian assistance to Gaza,” he said.
Former US President Barack Obama has said that the Israel-Gaza conflict is the “century-old stuff” that has now come to the fore and blamed social media for amplifying the divisions.
He condemned the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel but underlined the sufferings of the civilians in Palestine.
In an interview conducted by his former staffers for their podcast, Pod Save America, the former US President said, “I look at this, and I think back, ‘What could I have done during my presidency to move this forward, as hard as I tried?’ ‘But there’s a part of me that’s still saying, ‘Well, was there something else I could have done?”
“What Hamas did was horrific, and there’s no justification for it,” he said, adding, “And what is also true is that the occupation and what’s happening to Palestinians is unbearable.”
Gaza health officials said on Saturday more than 9,400 Palestinians — mostly women and children — have been killed so far in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
Palestinian news agency WAFA today said that the Israeli military attacked a Gaza refugee camp and killed 51 people, mostly women and children.
WAFA said the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip had been hit by an Israeli bombardment on Saturday night.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Saturday said that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is “horrific”.
Renewing his appeals for a humanitarian ceasefire and the immediate release of all hostages, he urged “all those with influence” to ensure respect for the rules of war, end the “suffering” and avoid a spillover of the conflict.
The humanitarian situation in Gaza is horrific.
I renew my appeals for a humanitarian ceasefire and the immediate release of all hostages.
All those with influence must exert it to ensure respect for the rules of war, end the suffering and avoid a spillover of the conflict. pic.twitter.com/9r8jUwlDvJ
– António Guterres (@antonioguterres) November 4, 2023
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) today said that they uncovered multiple access points to Hamas’ “terror tunnels” during their “operational activity” in Northern Gaza.
“While Hamas obstructs their civilians from getting to safety in southern Gaza, Hamas hides within their intricate network of terror tunnels. IDF troops uncovered multiple access points during operational activity in Northern Gaza,” the IDF said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, and shared a small clip of the Israeli troops assessing the tunnels.
While Hamas obstructs their civilians from getting to safety in southern Gaza, Hamas hides within their intricate network of terror tunnels.
IDF troops uncovered multiple access points during operational activity in Northern Gaza. pic.twitter.com/vovapYD4Xn
– Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) November 5, 2023
The Israeli military says soldiers from its Yahalom special combat engineering unit have been working with other forces to locate and destroy Hamas’ vast web of tunnels, which are hundreds of kilometers long and up to 80 meters deep.
Gaza’s Hamas government has suspended the evacuation of foreign passport holders to Egypt on Saturday after Israel refused to allow some wounded Palestinians to be evacuated to Egyptian hospitals, AFP reported citing a border official.
“No foreign passport holder will be able to leave the Gaza Strip until wounded people who need to be evacuated from hospitals in north Gaza are transported through the Rafah crossing to Egypt,” AFP quoted the official as saying.
In Israel’s commercial hub Tel Aviv, several thousand people protested, including relatives and friends of some of the hostages, chanting: “Bring them home now”.
Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters rallied in London, Paris and Berlin on Saturday calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
In London, Police estimated that about 30,000 attended the rally at the Trafalgar Square, while French authorities said 19,000 people demonstrated in Paris, while the CGT communist-led trade union put the numbers at 60,000.
German police estimated the crowd at 17,000 in Dusseldorf and 9,000 in the capital Berlin.
Hamas-run health ministry said that more than 30 people were killed in an Israeli attack on a camp in central Gaza late Saturday.
“More than 30 martyrs arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the massacre committed by the occupation in Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip,” the news agency AFP quoted health ministry spokesperson Ashraf Al-Qudra as saying.
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