Cover photo: Rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, October 11, 2023. Fatima Shbair / AP
- The death toll continues to rise as new massacres of civilians are uncovered. In Israel, the latest report records more than 1,200 dead and more than 2,800 injured, according to the army. According to Israeli soldiers, the Hamas attack resulted in the massacre of more than a hundred civilians in the kibbutz of Kfar Aza, two kilometers from the Gaza Strip. On the Palestinian side, the latest report shows more than 1,055 dead and more than 5,100 injured, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.
- 11 French people were killed in Israel and 17 are missing, including children “probably kidnapped by Hamas.” Elisabeth Borne announced that tolls in the Middle East had just increased. Among the victims are more than 80 foreigners, including at least 22 Americans, 20 Thais, 10 Nepalese, 10 French, 7 Argentinians, 4 Russian-Israelis, 2 Ukrainians, 2 British, 2 Peruvians, 2 Filipinos, 2 Brazilians and 1 Cambodian, 1 Canadian, 1 Spanish and 1 Australian.
- Israeli bombing raids continue in Gaza. The Israeli army said it bombed more than 450 targets in 24 hours. On the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, the Daraj Tufah neighborhood of Gaza City was targeted by 70 attacks and the city of Al-Furqan by 200 attacks. In both cases, the IDF justified these bombings by saying that these locations served as “hubs” for Hamas attacks on Israel. The attacks also targeted infrastructure used by Islamic Jihad.
- Bombings in the Gaza Strip destroyed more than 1,000 homes, Another 560 were severely damaged and rendered uninhabitable, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said, citing Palestinian authorities. According to OCHA More than 260,000 people had to leave their homes.
- The Lebanese Hezbollah claimed responsibility for new shootings on Wednesday from southern Lebanon against Israel, claiming to be acting in response to the deaths of three of its militants killed in Israeli bombings on Monday. The Israeli army, for its part, justified new bombings in southern Lebanon on Wednesday morning as a “response to anti-tank missiles that targeted Israeli soldiers.”
- The “complete siege” of the Gaza Stripannounced by Israel on Monday, three days after the start of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation launched by Hamas against Israel, is “prohibited” by international humanitarian law. The United Nations (UN), the European Union and humanitarian organizations returned calls on Tuesday expressing concern about the situation.
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