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PremiumIsrael-Hamas War Highlights: Hamas fighters on Saturday fired more than 5,000 rockets from the Gaza Strip toward Israel. The death toll in this war has taken the lives of at least 2,100 people on both sides and wounded several others, setting off air raid sirens across the country and raising the likelihood of a new round of heavy fighting.
Israel has declared a complete seizure of Gaza imposing a complete blockade on the strip, as Palestinians brace for 'living another Nakba’. Now, a senior official informed that the Hamas group is ready for discussions over truce talks with Israel.
Catch all the updates on the Israel-Hamas War here.
According to Guardian report, Number of US citizens killed in Israel has risen to 22, a State department spokesperson said.
The number of US confirmed to have been killed is up from 14 on Tuesday.
EAM Jaishankar on wedmesday took to X too announce the launching of Operation Ajay to bring back Indian nationals from war-torn Israel.
"Launching #OperationAjay to facilitate the return from Israel of our citizens who wish to return.
Special charter flights and other arrangements being put in place.
Fully committed to the safety and well-being of our nationals abroad." EAM Jaishankar wrote
Israel’s energy minister, Israel Katz, confirmed the country is blocking water, electricity and fuel from entering Gaza, warning that Israel will “continue to tighten the siege until the Hamas threat…is removed".
In a post to X, Katz wrote, "For years we supplied Gaza with electricity, water and fuel. Instead of saying thank you, they sent thousands of human animals to slaughter, murder, rape and kidnap babies, women and the elderly.
That’s why we decided to stop the flow of water, electricity and fuel and now their local power station has collapsed and there is no electricity in Gaza."
The United States is watching developments on the Lebanon-Israel border closely and does not want to see the conflict widened or expanded, White House national security spokesman John Kirby said on Wednesday.
"We have seen rocket fire coming from southern Lebanon ... into northern Israel. We obviously are watching this with great concern. We don't want to see this conflict widened or expanded," Kirby said in an interview with MSNBC.
He said he does not believe it is in Israel's interest to have a second front to fight and defend.
-Reuters
The United States is continuing to monitor the situation in Israel, US President Joe Biden said, adding that he had spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier on Wednesday, the fourth call between the two leaders in recent days.
The Arab League chief on Wednesday called for an immediate cease-fire in the war between Israel and the Palestinian militants in Gaza.
Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the secretary general of the Cairo-based organization, warned about “serious possibilities" of further escalation and an expansion of fighting, in an apparent reference to the Lebanese Hezbollah militant groups.
“No one wanted such kind of escalation ... I completely refuse any violence against civilians without equivocation," he said.
Aboul Gheit’s comments came at the opening of an emergency meeting an emergency meeting of the Arab foreign ministers in the Egyptian capital on the Israel-Gaza war.
-AP
Britain's King Charles is appalled by the "barbaric acts of terrorism" in Israel, a Buckingham Palace spokesperson said on Wednesday, following attacks by the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
"This is a situation his majesty is extremely concerned about, and he has asked to be kept actively updated," the spokesperson said. "His thoughts and prayers are with all of those suffering, particularly those who have lost loved ones, but also those actively involved as we speak."
-Reuters
Residents of North Israel have been asked to take shelter by the Israeli Defense Forces saying ‘hostile aircraft intrusion in northern Israel’.
According to AL Jazeera, at least 15 paragliders have crossed the border, allegedly from Lebanon into Israel.
Residents in that area, along the border with Lebanon, have been told to go into shelters. If that is the case, that would be a repeat of what happened a few days ago when paragliders flew across that fence from Gaza.
At least 1,100 Palestinians, including 326 children, have been killed since Saturday, Gaza’s health ministry said.
The total number of people injured stands at 5,339.
A previous update from the Gaza health ministry on Wednesday morning put the death toll at 1,055 Palestinians and 5,184 wounded.
As Gaza faces darkness without electricity, as the only power plant shuts down owing to lack of fuel, doctors in the bombarded city told Al Jazeera that there are currently 100 newborn babies relying on medical equipment currently in Gaza.
The doctor has said that there are power generators that they could only provide power to the hospitals “maximum a few days".
The doctor also said there were about 1,100 patients who rely on dialysis machines for survival in Gaza, saying the Israeli siege amounts to “mass killing".
As Israel kept bombing Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a political rival announced an emergency government for the duration of the conflict.
The veteran right-wing leader was joined by the centrist Benny Gantz, a former defence minister, in the government and war cabinet as both put aside bitter political divisions that have roiled the country and sparked mass protests.
Their joint announcement came after Israeli soldiers sweeping battle-torn southern towns said they had found 1,200 victims five days after the Islamist militants' onslaught, the worst attack in Israel's 75-year history.
British Airways is suspending flights to Tel Aviv, a spokesperson said, after the airline returned a flight bound to the Israeli city back to London on Wednesday due to security concerns.
-Reuters
-The only power plant in Gaza shut down owing to lack of fuel, threatening to stretch over-capacity medical facilities even further.
-UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees, says Israeli attacks have killed nine UN staffers since Saturday.
-The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza has begun rationing and directing its limited power to emergency services to save as many injured people as possible.
-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition party leader Benny Gantz have agreed to form an emergency government.
-Health officials in the Israeli city of Ashkelon say a hospital had been hit, but there were no casualties.
UK’s foreign secretary, James Cleverly, was visiting the town of Ofakim in southern Israel when sirens went off warning of incoming Hamas rocket fire.
Cleverly was seen running for cover into a building in a video clip shared by the Israeli government on social media.
Israel-Hamas War LIVE Updates: As per the Times of Israel , National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has agreed to the proposal of establishing a unity coalition. Earlier, Itamar Ben Gvir was not very excited about the idea.
Israel-Hamas War LIVE Updates: As per a report by The Guardian, Israel Defence Forces have killed 3 Palestinians near Nablus, a city in the occupied West Bank. The report added that around 11 Palestinians are injured in the incident.
According to Guardian report, former Israeli minister of defense, Benny Gantz, a key member of the opposition, has agreed to form an emergency government.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sought expansion of the government to include politicians in the opposition.
This idea of an “emergency national government" would be to unify a country with deep domestic political fractures during a crisis.
After sirens were blared in central and north Israel, Times of Israel reported that rockets were fired in Tev Aviv twice within an hour. Rockets were also fired upon Holon, Bat Yam and Rishon Lezion, for the second time in under an hour.
Palestinians in the Gaza strip has been living in an open prison owing to a long-lasting blockade, which in turn had triggered a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. However, the last five days have been different, they have been worse.
Israel's complete seize' of Gaza, the blockade, no power, no water, no food supply, no medical supply and on top of all of that, continuous bombardment, has put Gaza residents into a catastrophic situation fighting for survival.
All supplies are running out since there are no open emergency or humanitarian corridors for any kind of aid to enter the Gaza Strip. The people are trapped in a cage with no access to help from the outside.
The United States will hold talks, brokering an aid corridor for civilians in Gaza as Israel’s air force continued to pound the territory. The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, was due to arrive in Israel on Thursday to discuss support in the war.
There have been pleas from humanitarian groups and EU officials for the creation of corridors to allow aid into Gaza and warnings that hospitals overwhelmed with wounded people were running out of supplies.
Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly on Wednesday said that three Canadians were killed in the Hamas weekend attack on Israel. Joly also mentioned that three more Canadian nationals are unaccounted for.
Joly told a press conference that more than 4,700 Canadian citizens and permanent resident in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank had registered with the government. She did not immediately say how many wanted to be
According to Al Jazeera report citing security officials in the know, Egypt is discussing plans to provide aid to Gaza under limited ceasefire.
Egypt has discussed plans with the United States and other countries to provide humanitarian aid through its border with the Gaza Strip under a limited ceasefire.
The aid would pass through the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, the sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Wednesday that providing support to Ukraine and Israel are "absolute top priorities" for the United States and she expects bipartisan support despite political upheaval in Congress.
Military and economic support for Ukraine "along with resources for Israel are our absolute top priorities for the Biden administration," Yellen said.
"We've made that completely clear to Congress, and we believe there is substantial bipartisan support," she said at a press conference on the sidelines of IMF-World Bank meetings in Marrakesh, Morocco.
"We'll leave it to members of Congress to figure out how to move forward on this when a speaker is in place, and I can't tell you precisely what the timetable is for getting this done," Yellen added.
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Russia's chief Vladimir Putin, who waged a war against easy RUeopean neighbors Ukraine, last year, has coomented on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
According to a Reuters report, Putin said the conflict could not be resolved without addressing issues such as the establishment of a Palestinian state.
He accused the US on Wednesday of sidestepping an established process of settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and of trying to take matters into its own hands without resolving the fundamental issues.
“Part of the lands that the Palestinians consider and have always considered part of the original Palestinian lands is occupied by Israel at different times and in different ways. Mainly, of course, with the help of military force," Tass quotes Putin saying.
The Al-Qassam Brigades have announced that they are targeting Ben Gurion airport, as part of the ongoing war between Hamas fighters and Benjamin Netanyahu government.
Hamas military wing the Al-Qassam Brigades has announced it is targeting Israel’s Ben Gurion airport with rockets in response to Israel’s targeting of civilians.
Rocket warning sirens sound across central Israel as Gaza terrorists appear to fire a massive barrage of longer-range projectiles, Times of Israel.
Among the cities targeted are Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Holon and Rehovot, the report says
According to Times of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and National Unity party leader Benny Gantz are finalizing details of an agreement to form a “national emergency government" amid the ongoing war with Hamas and hostilities on the northern border, Hebrew media reports.
Netanyahu and Gantz met earlier today at IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv to discuss how this government will function, after several days of disagreement.
News media outlet Al Jazeera has reported that Isarel airstrikes has been targeting first responders assisting civilians. The information was confirmed by a representative from Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
“We are suffering … and the world is not moving a finger. This is an SOS to the whole world… you must help us," he told reporters after it was announced that Gaza’s sole power plant has run out of fuel
According to Times of Israel, the local elections in Israel, which includes local municipal and regional councils polls have been delayed due to the ongoing war. The Interior ministry in Israel announced that the elections will be delayed by at least three months due to the war.
The last time elections were delayed was during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
According to Guardian report, the only power station in Gaza has stopped working.
Earlier, authorities said the plant had 10 to 12 hours left of fuel.
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, those will also be lacking in fuel.
The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza says it has begun rationing and directing the limited power of generators in order to continue with emergency and sensitive services and save as many injured people as they can.
James Cleverly, the British foreign secretary, has travelled to Israel to show solidarity with the Israeli people, the UK foreign office has said.
The British top diplomat’s visit comes as the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced he would also arrive in Israel on Thursday.
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees has taken to microblogging site X to inform that nine of ithe agency's staffers have been killed in retaliatory Israeli airstrikes on Gaza since Saturday, with several killed late yesterday.
“The protection of civilians is paramount, including in times of conflict," says Juliette Touma, director of communications of the agency, known as UNRWA. “They should be protected in accordance with the laws of war."
According to reports, the power plant in Gaza is slated to completely run out of fuel in the next couple of hours. This comes even as 2.3million Palestinians scour for a ‘safe’ shelter amid relentless bombarding from Israel.
The Palestinian civilians have been caught in the crossfire between Benjamin Netanyahu government and the Hamas fighters. Israel, that had already clokcaded the Gaza strip, later announced that food, electricity, water to the Gaza strip would be cut off.
While Palestinians, already bogged by extreme;y pocerty, declining financial status, have been left clamouring for life, amid ‘war crime’ ricket strikes and a decade long war
Representative Office of India to the State of Palestine, Rammallah issues emergency helpline for Indian diaspora.
Emergency Helpline:
Jawwal: 0592-916-418
WhatsApp:+970-592916418
The Ministry of External Affairs issued an advisory which said, “In view of the ongoing developments in Israel and Palestine, a 24-hour Control Room set up in the Ministry of External Affairs to monitor the situation & provide information & assistance."
The advisory provided contact details for Indians stuck in Israel and Palestine. The contact details of the control room are
-1800118797 (Toll free)
+91-11 23012113
+91-11-23014104
+91-11-23017905
+919968291988
Email id: situationroom@mea.gov.in.
Embassy of India in Tel Aviv has set up a 24-hour emergency helpline -
+972-35226748
+972-543278392
Email Id: cons1.telaviv@mea.gov.in "
According to Palestine health ministry, the death toll in Gaza has gone up to to 1,055 while 5,184 people have been wounded.
Meanwhile, more than 1,200 people have been killed in Israel since Saturday and over 3,000 wounded.
Foreign media personnels were taken around by Israeli defense forces where dozens of bodies of Israeli civilians and Hamas fighters were found among burned-out houses, scattered furniture and torched cars on the grounds of Kfar Aza in southern Israel, just off the fence with the besieged Gaza Strip, reports Al Jazeera
Seventeen British nationals including children are dead or missing in Israel after attacks by Palestinian militant group Hamas, the BBC reported on Wednesday, citing an official source
Gaza’s power authority says its sole power plant will run out of fuel within hours, leaving the territory without electricity after Israel cut off supplies.
Israel said it would cut off all electricity to the territory after Hamas’ bloody rampage over the weekend.
All of Gaza’s crossings are closed, making it impossible to bring in fuel for the power plant or the generators on which residents and hospitals have long relied.
The power authority said Wednesday that the plant would shut down in the afternoon.
Aircraft struck the Islamic University of Gaza on Wednesday, Israel Defense Forces said. According to Israel, the university was being used as a Hamas training camp for military intelligence operatives, as well as for the development and production of weapons. The IDF also says Hamas used university conferences to raise funds for terrorism, and that the university maintained close ties with the senior leadership of Hamas.
Israeli Military sounds sirens in North, warns of possible incoming aerial threats from Lebanon or Syria, as reported by Reuters.
Hezbollah 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.
Cathay Pacific Temporarily Suspends Flights Between Hong Kong And Tel Aviv
Israel said an anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon hit one of its military posts, in yet another attack on its northern border as it builds troops near Gaza in preparation for a possible ground attack on the territory.
A woman stands near a bullet-riddled wall in Zahajra, near the border with Israel, in southern Lebanon October 10, 2023.
Israeli tanks are positioned near Israel's border with Lebanon, in northern Israel, October 10, 2023.
The Dutch government on Wednesday warned its citizens against all travel to the south of Lebanon due to the armed conflict with Israel.
The government said no one should travel to or in the region stretching south from the Litani river to the border of Israel.
Pope Francis on Wednesday called on militant Islamist group Hamas to release all hostages captured during its weekend attack on Israel, while expressing grave concerns about the "total" Israeli siege imposed on Gaza.
"I pray for those families who saw a feast day turn into a day of mourning, and I ask that the hostages be immediately released," he said during his weekly audience.
Israel intensified air strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza into a fifth day following the surprise attack by militants that left at least 1,200 Israelis dead.
Some 900 have been killed in Gaza in reprisal attacks launched by Israel Defense Forces, which said its warplanes hit more than 450 targets in the last 24 hours. The first plane carrying advanced American ammunition arrived in Israel overnight, after US President Joe Biden vowed to provide full military and intelligence support.
