Today
Thursday, November 2, 2023
11:55
A NEW REVIEW
The Palestinian Hamas Ministry of Health announced that 9,061 people, including 3,760 children, have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the war with Israel began.
According to the ministry, the deaths registered since October 7th also include 2,326 women. According to the same source, at least 32,000 people were injured in the bombings.
11:42
A FUNDRAISER
Saudi Arabia has announced the start of a fundraising campaign for Palestinians in Gaza.
According to public broadcaster Al-Ekhbariya, King Salman donated 30 million riyals (about $8 million), while the country’s crown prince and de facto ruler, Mohammed bin Salman, donated 20 million riyals.
The campaign “is part of the kingdom’s historic role of standing alongside the Palestinian people in the various crises and trials they have endured,” said Abdallah al-Rabeeah, head of the Center for Humanitarian Aid and Development. Relief from King Salman, quoted by the official Saudi Press Agency.
11:32
Two Palestinians and one Israeli killed
Two Palestinians and an Israeli were killed in violence in several areas of the occupied West Bank on Thursday, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry and Israeli emergency services.
The West Bank, the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, has been hit by an intensification of violence since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, sparked by the Islamist movement’s bloody attack on Israelis on October 7.
11:27
242 hostages
During his daily press conference, the Israeli army spokesman confirmed the nightly clashes between Israeli soldiers and Hamas militants on the night of Wednesday and Thursday. Daniel Hagari said that “242 people” were still being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
On Tuesday there were 240 people. In addition, the army has counted the deaths of 332 Israeli soldiers since the war began on October 7.
11:09
ISRAELI SHOOTING
According to Lebanese official media, the Lebanese army has found the bodies of two shepherds killed by Israeli fire. This brings the total number of deaths in the south of the country since the start of the war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas to 66.
The border area in southern Lebanon is the scene of daily exchanges of fire between the Israeli army on the one hand and the Lebanese Hezbollah and its allies, which support Hamas, on the other.
The two shepherds, aged 20 and 22, were reported missing on Wednesday while grazing their flock near the border village of Wazzani. “They were found dead after the occupation forces opened fire in their direction,” the official National News Agency (ANI) said.
11:05
Evacuated BINATIONALS
A new group of dual nationals left the Gaza Strip for Egypt on Thursday through the Rafah border crossing, which has been open since Wednesday to allow foreign passport holders to leave Palestinian territories bombed by Israel.
Wael Abou Mohssen, spokesman for the administration of the Palestinian part of the terminal, said in a statement that on Thursday morning, two out of a total of “100 travelers of foreign nationality” crossed the border crossing towards Egypt, while 400 people and 60 war wounded reported during the day departure.
10:52
International
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10:47
INJURED AND evacuated FOREIGNERS
“400 people with foreign passports are expected to cross today (Thursday), as well as 60 injured,” an Egyptian official told AFP at the Rafah border crossing, the only one not controlled by Israel, saying those numbers fluctuate could.
Hicham Adwan, director of the border crossing on the Palestinian side, said that around a hundred injured people and 400 foreigners and dual nationals were expected to cross the border post on Thursday.
The day before, 76 Palestinians in ambulances and more than 300 foreigners and dual nationals were evacuated through the Rafah border crossing, a first since the start of the war.
09:35
POSTPONEMENT OF THE BAGHDAD CONFERENCE
The third edition of the Baghdad conference on regional stability, co-organized by France and scheduled to take place at the end of November with Emmanuel Macron, has been postponed “indefinitely due to events in the Middle East,” an Iraqi official said Thursday.
This “Baghdad 2023 Conference on Economic Integration and Regional Stability” has been “postponed indefinitely due to regional events and in particular the events in Palestine,” Farhad Alaaldin, an adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Chia al-Soudani, confirmed information from the French daily Le Figaro.
09:15
THE IMPORTANCE OF TESTIMONY
“It is important to testify to show why Israel is fighting,” stressed Israeli Ambassador to France Raphaël Morav on LCI, referring to the videos of the October 7 attacks that the Israeli government sent to certain MPs. “It is important for journalists and policymakers to understand the magnitude of what happened 24 days ago,” he added.
🔴Is there a risk of a conflict igniting? 🗣️ “It is important to testify to show why Israel is fighting,” said @MoravRaphael in the broadcast of the images @mchantrait pic.twitter.com/olTuiENfg7 — LCI (@LCI) November 2, 2023
09:05
195 DEATHS
The Hamas government announced Thursday that 195 people were killed in two Israeli bombings on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Jabaliya camp, the largest in the Gaza Strip.
“The number of victims of the first and second massacres in Jabaliya exceeds a thousand martyrs and wounded. We recorded 195 martyrs, 120 missing under the rubble and 777 wounded,” the Hamas government press service said in a statement. This assessment could not immediately be verified.
08:56
AN “ESSENTIAL ROLE”
“Qatar plays an essential role because it is an interlocutor for Hamas (…) The question now is whether Hamas is sincere in its statements and its intentions to release hostages? “We have the feeling that Hamas is trying to buy time,” said Israel’s ambassador to France, Raphaël Morav, on LCI.
🔴 Qatar’s role in the negotiations 🗣️ “It’s important because the leaders of Hamas are in Qatar,” explains @MoravRaphael, who doubts the “sincerity” of the Islamist movement @mchantrait pic.twitter.com/nXXdO1qnGa – LCI (@ LCI ) November 2, 2023
08:46
A “WRONG JUDGMENT”
“Any civilian loss is regrettable (…), but sending the victims back to back without taking into account the context is a false judgment,” said Raphaël Morav on LCI.
“We cannot compare Hamas, which deliberately attacks victims, with the Israeli army, which does not attack civilians, and when this happens, it is involuntary, as part of the defense of our country,” he said. Israeli Ambassador to France.
🔴 Jabaliya bombings: war crimes? 🗣️ “Any civilian loss is regrettable, but sending victims back to back without considering the context is a false judgment,” says @MoravRaphael @mchantrait pic.twitter.com/YctRJ8kQh8 — LCI (@LCI) November 2 2023
08:40
A PHASE OF INTENSIFICATION
“We are in a phase of intensification of activities on the ground,” Raphaël Morav, Israeli ambassador to France, told LCI. “As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, this will be a long and difficult operation,” he added.
08:29
ONE “FINAL CALL”
Mohammed Abu Selmeya, director of Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, the largest in the region, made a “final objection to the shutdown of the main generator” due to a lack of fuel. “If this generator stops, the next announcement will be the deaths of babies in incubators, the deaths of patients on ventilators, the deaths of patients in intensive care and in operating rooms.”
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a Turkish-funded cancer hospital is out of service due to fuel shortages and damage from airstrikes in the neighborhood.
08:21
Evacuations
Egypt will help evacuate “around 7,000” foreigners and dual nationals from the Gaza Strip, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
In a meeting with foreign diplomats, Deputy Foreign Minister Ismail Khairat said Egypt was preparing to “facilitate the reception and evacuation of foreign citizens from Gaza through the Rafah crossing,” adding that there were “around 7,000” and “more than 60”. Nationalities.
08:17
NEGOTIATIONS
A delegation from Bangkok met with Hamas leaders in Iran over the 22 Thais taken hostage by the Islamist movement, who were waiting for the “right moment” to be released, one of the negotiators said.
“They assured me they were taking care of her but didn’t tell me about a release date. They are waiting for the right moment,” Areepen Uttarasin told reporters on Wednesday when asked about the October 26 meeting in Tehran.
Areepen Uttarasin leads the group of three negotiators, all from Thailand’s large Muslim community, appointed by National Assembly Speaker Wan Muhamad Noor Matha.
08:12
NIGHT FIGHTS
The Israeli army said on Thursday it had killed “dozens” of fighters overnight after “terror cells fired anti-tank missiles, detonated explosive devices and threw grenades” in the northern Gaza Strip.
“The soldiers attacked the terrorists with the help of artillery and tanks while conducting an air strike from a helicopter and a missile attack from a boat,” the army said in a statement.
08:10
International
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08:09
RAFAH TERMINAL REOPENED
While 76 injured Palestinians and 335 foreigners and dual nationals were evacuated from Gaza to Egypt on Wednesday, the Rafah border crossing will reopen this Thursday, according to an Egyptian security source.
08:06
Hello everyone
Welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the situation in the Middle East. We are on the 27th day of the conflict.