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PremiumIsrael Hamas War LIVE Updates: A spokesperson from the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), James Elder, warned of the risk of infant deaths due to dehydration, with water output at 5% of normal levels, Reuters reported.
About 940 children are reported missing in Gaza, he said, with some thought to be stuck beneath the rubble.
"So child deaths due to dehydration, particularly infant deaths due to dehydration, are a growing threat," he said, adding that children were getting sick from drinking salty water.
At least 50 bodies were recovered from the rubble after an Israeli airstrike on the Jabalia refugee camp completely destroyed the shelter.
Meanwhile, Gaza’s interior ministry reported the Jabalia refugee camp has been “completely destroyed" by Israeli bombardment.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken will head back to Israel on Friday and also visit other countries in the region.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Hamas is part of an axis of evil Iran has formed.
Meanwhile, Israel's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan characterized Hamas as a group with intentions similar to that of the ‘Nazis’ and emphasized that the organization does not appear to seek a resolution to the conflict.
Erdan said that Hamas is interested in the annihilation of the Jewish people.
Israel's armed forces have reported conducting operations that targeted over 600 militant sites in recent days, as they escalate their ground actions in the region.
This comes at a critical juncture in the conflict, with Palestinian civilians facing severe shortages of essential supplies such as fuel, food, and safe drinking water, as the conflict enters its fourth week.
More than 8,300 people have been killed — 66% of them women and children – and tens of thousands injured, according to the latest figures from Gaza’s Ministry of Health.
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Bolivia's government severed diplomatic relations with Israel on Tuesday, accusing the country of carrying out “crimes against humanity" and calling for an end to the Israeli military offensive against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.
Bolivian officials cited the number of Palestinian casualties in Gaza that have resulted from the latest Israel-Hamas war, but made no mention of the Hamas attack on Israel at the start of the conflict.
"Bolivia decided to break diplomatic relations with the state of Israel in repudiation and condemnation of the aggressive and disproportionate Israeli military offensive taking place in the Gaza Strip," Freddy Mamani, Bolivia’s deputy foreign minister, said at a news conference. (AP)
Top US diplomat Antony Blinken will begin a new Middle East trip this week, a spokesperson announced Tuesday, as President Joe Biden seeks "urgent mechanisms" to reduce regional tensions over the Israel-Hamas war.
"Secretary Blinken will travel to Israel on Friday for meetings with members of the Israeli government, and then will make other stops in the region," State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said, without further details. (AFP)
Craig Mokhiber, a top-ranking official of the United Nations (UN), has resigned as he called for the dismantling of the “deeply racist, settler-colonial project" while citing “genocide" of the Palestinian civilians as Israel continues to batter Gaza. Craig Mokhiber, Director of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in New York, sent his “last official communication" to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, detailing how the UN “failed" in its duty.
Craig Mokhiber also alleged that the United States, United Kingdom and much of Europe were “wholly complicit in the horrific assault" and that the UN has failed to prevent the genocide of civilians. Read the complete story here.
Amid the Israel-Gaza war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called the United Nations General Assembly resolution a 'humanitarian truce' deeply flawed.
As reported by ANI, while answering on India's abstention in the UN vote as it did not condemn the Hamas attacks, Netanyahu said, “I think that resolution was deeply flawed and I am sorry to say that even many of our friends did not even... insist that there could be a flaw or a powerful condemnation of the horrors that were committed here...that there are horrors that no civilised country, including your country and so many others would tolerate." Read the complete story here.
The Israel-Gaza war has entered its 26th. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is all set to visit war-torn Israel on Friday. The United States and other countries are looking at "a variety of possible permutations" for the future of the Gaza Strip if Hamas militants are removed from control. Read the top 10 updates here.
Bolivia's government said on Tuesday it had broken diplomatic ties with Israel due to its attacks on the Gaza Strip, while neighbours Colombia and Chile recalled their ambassadors to the Middle Eastern nation for consultations.
The three South American countries lambasted Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip and condemned the deaths of Palestinian citizens.
Bolivia "decided to break diplomatic relations with the Israeli state in repudiation and condemnation of the aggressive and disproportionate Israeli military offensive taking place in the Gaza Strip," Deputy Foreign Minister Freddy Mamani said at a press conference. (Reuters)
"On the phone today, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and I expressed our support for Israel’s right to defend itself, in accordance with international law – and we agreed on the need for urgent access to life-saving humanitarian aid for Palestinian civilians," said Canadian PM Justin Trudeau.
"We also reiterated our call for the immediate and unconditional release of those being held hostage by Hamas. We’ll remain in contact and continue to respond to pressing challenges around the world together," he noted.
Israel-Gaza war: In what is being considered the biggest massacre of the ongoing war between Benjamin Netanyahu's Israel and Hamas fighters from Gaza, at least 50 bodies were recovered from rubble after an Israeli airstrike on Jabalia refugee camp completely destroyed the shelter.
Gaza’s interior ministry reported the Jabalia refugee camp has been “completely destroyed" by Israeli bombardment.
“These buildings house hundreds of citizens. The occupation’s air force destroyed this district with six US-made bombs. It is the latest massacre caused by Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip," spokesman Iyad al-Bazum told reporters outside of a hospital in Khan Younis.
Notably, Israel struck 300 targets during its fourth night of land operations in northern Gaza. Read the complete story here.
Amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, the United States is sending additional troops to the US Central Command region, which covers the Middle East and parts of Africa, Pentagon press secretary Brigadier General Patrick Ryder said on Tuesday (local time).
Ryder said that these troops will provide capabilities, explosive ordnance disposal, communications and other support enablers for forces already in the region. He said that additional US troops are not going to Israel. (ANI)
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said that he is "deeply alarmed" by the intensification of the conflict between Israel and Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in Gaza. He asserted that "international humanitarian law is not an a la carte menu and cannot be applied selectively."
"International humanitarian law establishes clear rules that cannot be ignored. It is not an a la carte menu and cannot be applied selectively. All parties must abide by it, including the principles of distinction, proportionality, and precaution," Guterres said in a statement. (ANI)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will head back to Israel on Friday, and also visit other countries in the region.
Dozens were reported killed and wounded at a Gaza refugee camp. Health officials in the Hamas-controlled territory said the Jabaliya camp was hit by a series of Israeli airstrikes. Israel’s military said it targeted Hamas infrastructure in the area and killed a senior leader of the group. It also said two soldiers were killed in fighting in northern Gaza. Hamas said it would release a number of foreign captives within days. (Bloomberg)
The foreign ministries of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia have condemned Israel's strikes in Jabaliya in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, in which Hamas, in an unverified claim, said some 50 Palestinians were killed, The Times of Israel reported.
The statement of three nations comes after the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said that it has killed the commander of Hamas's Central Jabaliya Battalion, Ibrahim Biari, in a strike on the Jabalya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, CNN reported.
Egypt has called the airstrikes "inhumane" and a "blatant violation of international law." It warned of the consequences of "indiscriminate attacks on civilians in and around hospitals, where they seek refuge." Furthermore, Egypt urged the international community to intervene to stop Israeli attacks and to provide humanitarian aid to the residents of Gaza. (ANI)
Amid reports of biggest massacre by Israeli bombardment, news of another target of Israeli bombing today has been al-Shati refugee camp along the coast of Gaza City.
At least 10 people were killed in the attack, which hit a house in the camp, local sources told the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
Gaza’s civil defence director reports the Jabalia refugee camp has been “completely destroyed" by Israeli bombardment.
“These buildings house hundreds of citizens. The occupation’s air force destroyed this district with six US-made bombs. It is the latest massacre caused by Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip," Ahmad al-Kahlout told reporters outside of a hospital in Khan Younis.
“The international community must act immediately to stop Israel before it is too late."
It is not immediately clear how many people have been killed or wounded in the bombing.
Israeli troops have been pushing deeper into Gaza – driving tanks and armoured bulldozers through the rubble of shattered buildings, scouring for Hamas fighters and tunnels, Al Jazeera reports
According to an Al Jazeera report, Israel’s ambassador in Geneva, Meirav Eilon Shahar, says his country never categorically rejected issuing visas to UN officials.
“We have not said categorically that we are not giving visas… We understand their [UN] need to be there," Shahar said.
A humanitarian agreement is urgently needed to help people in the Gaza Strip, Canada says, despite abstaining on a UN resolution calling for a “humanitarian truce" last week.
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly called for a “temporary pause in hostilities" in the war to allow more aid to get into Gaza on Monday.
“The humanitarian situation facing the Palestinian people, facing Palestinian women and children, is dire," she said.
As many as 400 Canadians are “trapped" in Gaza, Joly said
A United Nations spokesperson Elizabeth Throssell has said in Geneva that targeting hospitals “would amount to a violation of international humanitarian law".
Answering another query on claims about Hamas using hospitals as human shields, she said “medical units must be protected" regardless of the Palestinian group’s actions.
World Health Organization official Christian Lindmeier echoed Throssell’s remarks, saying: “Health facilities should never be a target."
The Israel Defence Forces spokesperson Daniel Hagari has claimed that Israel intercepted a missile from the Red Sea direction. On social media he wrote:
A surface-to-surface missile that was launched into the territory of the state of Israel from the Red Sea area was successfully intercepted by the “Arrow" long-range defence system.
The detection systems of the air force followed the trajectory of the missile and it is intercepted at the most appropriate operational time and location.
Also, IDF planes were launched in the morning following an aerial threat detected in the Red Sea area and intercepted hostile targets flying in the area.
All the threats were intercepted outside the territory of the state of Israel. No intrusion into Israeli territory was detected.
The chairman of Israel’s Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem derided Israel’s ambassador to the UN for putting on a yellow Star of David patch during his address to the Security Council.
“The yellow patch symbolises the helplessness of the Jewish people when it was at the mercy of others," Dani Dayan posted on X, adding it “belittles both the victims of the Holocaust and the State of Israel".
Ambassador Gilad Erdan donned the patch at a meeting on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, where more than 8,500 people have been killed in Israeli bombing.
At least 8,525 Palestinians, including 3,542 children, have been killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry has claimed. The health ministry spokesperson, Ashraf al-Qudra, said 130 healthcare staff had been killed and 15 hospitals were now out of service along with 32 healthcare centres.
The UNICEF says at least 940 children has been reported missing in Gaza, adding infant dehydration is a growing threat with only five percent of normal water output.
“Gaza has become a graveyard of children," UNICEF spokesperson James Elder told a UN press briefing in Geneva.
Elder reiterated the UN children agency’s call for an immediate ceasefire and humanitarian access to supplies for the enclave.
Hamas’s armed wing says it attacked those tanks that were advancing in northwest Gaza while also eliminating an “Israeli force" inside a building.
Amid the country's ongoing war with Hamas, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called the United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for a 'humanitarian truce' deeply flawed.
On being asked about India's abstention in the UN vote as it did not condemn the Hamas attacks, Netanyahu responded by saying, "I think that resolution was deeply flawed and I am sorry to say that even many of our friends did not even... insist that there could be a flaw or a powerful condemnation of the horrors that were committed here...that there are horrors that no civilised country, including your country and so many others would tolerate..."
"...So I hope we don't see a repeat of any of these kinds of resolutions," he added.
Israeli forces are moving slowly in their ground offensive in Gaza in part to keep open the possibility of drawing Hamas militants to negotiate the release of more than 200 hostages, military specialists consulted by Reuters said.
The relative caution with which Israeli troops have taken and secured slices of territory in the first days of sustained ground incursions in Gaza stands in contrast to the past three weeks of unrelenting air strikes on the Mediterranean enclave, as well as to Israel's previous land offensives there. (Reuters)
Israel Defence Forces (IDF) spokesperson Jonathan Conricus has said that the military is committed and determined to get all of the 238 Israeli hostages out of the Gaza strip.
In a video sharing an operational update, Conricus said, " We are committed and determined to get all of the 238 Israeli hostages out of Gaza."
Conricus further spoke about the troops being stationed on the ground and added that they are expanding their activities in Gaza.
"We are expanding our activities in Gaza. We have conducted a few raids in the last few days...we have expanded those now and Israeli troops are now there in various parts of Northern Gaza. We have heavily armoured vehicles entering into the Gaza strip with ....with lots of intelligence," Conricus said. (ANI)
Kuwait's crown prince Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Sabah said on Tuesday that his country condemns Israeli "aggression" on Gaza and called for a ceasefire.
Al-Sabah was addressing the parliament on behalf of the Emir in the opening of the parliament's regular second session. (Reuters)
Amid the country's ongoing war with Hamas, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called the United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for a 'humanitarian truce' deeply flawed.
On being asked about India's abstention in the UN vote as it did not condemn the Hamas attacks, Netanyahu responded by saying, "I think that resolution was deeply flawed and I am sorry to say that even many of our friends did not even... insist that there could be a flaw or a powerful condemnation of the horrors that were committed here...that there are horrors that no civilised country, including your country and so many others would tolerate..."
"...So I hope we don't see a repeat of any of these kinds of resolutions," he added. (ANI)
Air raid sirens went off in the area of the Red Sea city of Eilat on Tuesday and Israel's military said it downed an approaching "aerial target".
After an initial warning of a possible "hostile aircraft intrusion", which sent residents of the popular tourist resort running for shelter, the military said its "systems identified an aerial target approaching Israeli territory". (Reuters)
Kuwait condemns Israeli aggression on Gaza, and calls for a ceasefire, says Kuwait's crown prince. (Reuters)
Israeli ground forces attacked Hamas militants and infrastructure on Tuesday in northern Gaza, which the military said some 800,000 people have fled since the war began more than three weeks ago, even as warplanes continued to strike from end to end of the sealed-off territory.
Buoyed by the first successful rescue of a captive held by Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected calls for a cease-fire and again vowed to crush the militant group's ability to govern Gaza or threaten Israel following its bloody Oct. 7 rampage, which ignited the war. (AP)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said a ceasefire in Israel's war against Hamas "will not happen", as the UN warned not enough aid was coming in to meet “unprecedented humanitarian needs". The Israel-Gaza war has entered its 25th day today. Read the complete story here.
Two armed drones targeted Iraq’s Ain al-Asad airbase, which hosts U.S forces and other international forces in western Iraq, a security source and a government source told Reuters on Tuesday.
The attack in the early hours of Tuesday, did not cause casualties or damage, the sources said.
There has been an increase in attacks on U.S. forces since the conflict in Israel broke out on Oct. 7 and Iraqi armed groups aligned with Iran threatened to target U.S. interests with missiles and drones if Washington intervened to support Israel against Hamas in Gaza. (Reuters)
Air raid sirens went off in the area of the Red Sea city of Eilat on Tuesday, and Israel's military said the alert concerned a possible hostile aircraft intrusion.
The military offered no further detail. (Reuters)
Israel said on Tuesday its forces attacked Hamas gunmen inside the Islamists' vast tunnel network beneath Gaza, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed calls for a halt to fighting to ease the Palestinian enclave's humanitarian crisis.
The tunnels are a key objective for Israel as it expands ground operations inside Gaza to wipe out the ruling Hamas movement following its gun rampage three weeks ago that Israeli authorities say killed over 1,400 people.
"Over the last day, combined IDF combat forces struck approximately 300 targets, including anti-tank missile and rocket launch posts below shafts, as well as military compounds inside underground tunnels belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization," the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement. (Reuters)
The Committee to Protect Journalists confirmed that 31 journalists have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war since October 7, The Times of Israel reported.
These 31 journalists included 26 Palestinian, 4 Israeli and 1 Lebanese journalist.
Moreover, eight journalists were reported injured, whereas, nine were reported missing or detained, reported The Times of Israel.
The journalists have been facing continued attacks, arrests, threats, censorship and killings of family members, reported The Times of Israel citing the report of the Committee to Protect Journalists. (ANI)
Israel's ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan while addressing the UN Security Council meeting on the Israel-Hamas war termed the Hamas militant group attack equivalent to the Holocaust and wore a 'yellow Star of David' that read ‘Never Again,’ reported AP.
He declared that all Jews including him would wear a Yellow star until the world condemns the atrocities inflicted on Jews by Hamas militant group. He said, “Just like my grandparents and the grandparents of millions of Jews, from now on, my team and I will wear Yellow stars. We will wear this star until you wake up and condemn the atrocities of Hamas," reported The Times of Israel.
According to a US official, the US urged Israel to restore communications in Gaza. IDF launched the first stage of its ground incursion in Gaza following which communications were shut off on October 27 night, the Washington Post reported. Read the complete story here.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed calls for him to resign over security failures in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and ruled out a cease-fire with the militant group as the army intensifies ground operations in Gaza.
A top Israeli official said aid flows to Gaza are poised to increase as concern mounts over the humanitarian situation. Authorities in Hamas-run Gaza said the death toll since the war erupted has surpassed 8,300. (Bloomberg)
As the ground operations continue in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Defence Force on Tuesday demolished a home owned by a Hamas official in the West Bank, The Times of Israel reported.
The home was owned by Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri, in the town of 'Arura, near Ramallah.
The IDF Central Command Head Major General Yehuda Fox signed the demolition order on October 27, according to The Times of Israel. (ANI)
Israeli fighter jets conducted airstrikes in Lebanon, targeting various infrastructure including weapons used by Hezbollah as informed by the Israeli military in a statement on X.
Thailand's foreign minister begins an urgent visit to Qatar and Egypt on Tuesday for talks on the fate of 22 Thais taken hostage by Hamas in its attack on Israel.
Israeli authorities say more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, were killed in an attack on Israel launched by Hamas on October 7 from the Gaza Strip.
In response, the Israeli military has pounded Gaza, where the Hamas-controlled health ministry says more than 8,300 have been killed -- over 3,000 of them children. (AFP)
Israel's United Nations ambassador displayed a yellow star on his chest Monday as he addressed the Security Council, provocatively pledging to wear the badge until members of the body condemn Hamas "atrocities."
"Some of you have learned nothing in the past 80 years. Some of you have forgotten why this body was established," envoy Gilad Erdan said, as he denounced the Security Council for "staying silent" over the unprecedented deadly attacks by Hamas Palestinian militants against Israel on October 7.
The deeply divided 15-member council has not adopted a single resolution on the three-week-long war between Israel and Hamas.
"So, I will remind you. From this day on, each time you look at me you will remember what staying silent in the face of evil means," the ambassador said. (AFP)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu categorically ruled out a ceasefire in Israel's war against Hamas Monday, as ground forces pushed into Gaza and freed one hostage.
"Calls for a ceasefire are calls for Israel to surrender to Hamas, to surrender to terrorism," Netanyahu said, slapping aside demands from UN agencies for a truce.
"This will not happen," the premier told foreign media, vowing Israel would "fight until this battle is won". (AFP)
The Israel-Hamas war is spilling into Syria, fueled by growing instability, violence and a lack of progress toward a political solution to its 12-year conflict, the United Nations special envoy for the country said Monday.
Geir Pedersen told the Security Council that, on top of violence from the Syrian conflict, the Syrian people now face “a terrifying prospect of a potential wider escalation" following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and the ongoing retaliatory military action.
“Spillover into Syria is not just a risk; it has already begun," the U.N. envoy for Syria said. (AP)
Israeli ground forces pushed deeper into Gaza on Monday, advancing in tanks and other armoured vehicles on the territory’s main city and freeing a soldier held captive by Hamas militants. The Israeli prime minister rejected calls for a cease-fire as airstrikes landed near hospitals where thousands of Palestinians are sheltering beside the wounded.
The military said a soldier captured during Hamas' brutal Oct. 7 incursion was rescued in Gaza — the first rescue since the weekslong war began. Military officials provided few details but said in a statement that Pvt. Ori Megidish, 19, was “doing well" and had met with her family. (AP)
German-Israeli woman, Shani Louk, 23, who was taken hostage by Hamas in Gaza following the October 7 assault has been confirmed dead, her family said Monday, according to The Times of Israel.
Louk attended a rave party close to the Gaza border when Hamas terrorists attacked and killed about 260 people.
"Unfortunately we received the news yesterday that my daughter is no longer alive," Louk's mother Ricarda told the German outlet RTL. Louk's family was informed of her death overnight. (ANI)
Israeli ground forces pushed deeper into Gaza on Monday, advancing in tanks and other armoured vehicles on the territory’s main city and freeing a soldier held captive by Hamas militants.
The Israeli prime minister rejected calls for a cease-fire as airstrikes landed near hospitals where thousands of Palestinians are sheltering beside the wounded.
The military said a soldier captured during Hamas' brutal Oct. 7 incursion was rescued in Gaza — the first rescue since the weekslong war began. Military officials provided few details but said in a statement that Pvt. Ori Megidish, 19, was “doing well" and had met with her family. (AP)
An Israeli government ministry has drafted a wartime proposal to transfer the Gaza Strip's 2.3 million people to Egypt's Sinai peninsula, drawing condemnation from the Palestinians and worsening tensions with Cairo.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office played down the report compiled by the Intelligence Ministry as a hypothetical exercise — a “concept paper." But its conclusions deepened long-standing Egyptian fears that Israel wants to make Gaza into Egypt's problem, and revived for Palestinians memories of their greatest trauma — the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of people who fled or were forced from their homes during the fighting surrounding Israel's creation in 1948. (AP)
Hamas on Monday released a video it said showed three women from the more than 230 people Israel says were abducted by militants and taken to Gaza during the October 7 attacks.
The Palestinian Islamist group referred to the women in the 76-second video as "Zionist detainees" but it was not immediately possible to verify their identities.
Sitting on plastic chairs against a white tile wall, one of the women urges Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree a prisoner exchange for the release of all captives.
Speaking in Hebrew, she becomes very agitated and starts shouting, almost screaming by the end, as the other two sitting either side of her remain silent.
-AFP
