Cover photo: Displaced Palestinians collect humanitarian aid packages at a United Nations-run center in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on October 28, 2023. MOHAMMED ABED / AFP
- The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Monday, October 30, that Israel “will not accept a cessation of hostilities with Hamas.” after the terrible attacks of October 7th”, like the “United States (…) after the bombing of Pearl Harbor or after the terrorist attack on September 11th”. During a press conference for foreign media, Mr. Netanyahu estimated that the cessation of fire was a concession to Hamas’s “barbarism.” “There is a time of peace and a time of war,” he continued.
- According to Mr. Netanyahu, the Israeli army is advancing “methodically” in the Gaza Strip. “The IDF has expanded its land invasion of the Gaza Strip, it is doing so in measured and very forceful steps and is proceeding methodically,” he said at the opening of his cabinet meeting.
- In the Gaza Strip, “conditions for displaced people are increasingly desperate,” the UN reports. Its ability to provide life-saving assistance “continued to be compromised by the 36-hour communications disruption that affected the entire Gaza Strip, including humanitarian organizations, from October 27 into the early hours of October 29,” it states in a press release.
- The current system of aid to the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing is “doomed to fail,” the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned on Monday (UNRWA) and condemned the “collective punishment” imposed by Israel. On Sunday, 33 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip via the Rafah border crossing on the border with Egypt, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said. Since the limited resumption of aid deliveries on October 21, a total of 117 aid trucks have been able to enter the enclave.
- The Israeli army says it has released a soldier held hostage in Gaza. On the night of Sunday to Monday, “soldier Ori Megidish was released during IDF ground operations,” the Hebrew state forces said on Telegram. Hamas, for its part, released a video depicting three women as hostages. On the other hand, the Israeli Foreign Ministry announced the death of a German-Israeli woman kidnapped by Hamas, without specifying the circumstances of this discovery.
- Israeli UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan hung a yellow star on his chest during a Security Council meeting on Monday. He assured that he would wear it “with pride” as long as the council did not condemn “the atrocities” of Hamas.
- Israeli forces reported attacks on Hezbollah’s infrastructure in Lebanon on the night of Monday to Tuesday. Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati assured that he was doing his best to “prevent Lebanon from entering the war,” ignoring Hezbollah’s intentions.
- Several dozen men stormed the tarmac and terminal at Makhachkala Airport on Sunday evening. Capital of the predominantly Muslim Russian republic of Dagestan, to the announcement that a plane from Israel was scheduled to land there. According to Dagestan’s Ministry of Health, at least ten people were injured, two of whom were in “critical condition.” The USA denounced a “pogrom”.
- According to Hamas, Israeli bombings have killed more than 8,300 people, most of them civilians and almost half children since the beginning of the war. The attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement in Israel on October 7 left more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, dead.
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