AGI – Exactly one month after Hamas’s bloody attack on Israel, the Jewish state’s war against the Islamist movement has claimed eleven thousand lives, one unprecedented humanitarian disaster and it shows no signs of a turning point or even a future perspective. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resisted calls for a ceasefire and also warned that Israel would take over the security of Palestinian territory after the war ends.
In the Hamas-controlled enclave, health authorities are updating a list of victims that appears increasingly dramatic with one massacre after another: According to the latest figures, 10,022 Palestinians have died, most of them women and minors. The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres said Gaza would become ‘a children’s cemetery’ But the UN Security Council cannot find a way out.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army advances into the heart of the enclave. After Gaza City was surrounded, troops from the north and south have advanced into the city in the last few hours. Hamas, which along with Hezbollah continues to fire rockets against Israel, does not appear to have the strength to resist the advancing tank columns.
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Children under the rubble in Gaza
The army said its ground operations in Gaza, protected from attacks from the air and sea, had made significant progress: the aim was to increase pressure on Hamas strongholds, including the Al-Hamas refugee camp. Shati, also known as Beach Camp, along the coast of Gaza City; And Dismantling its control centers and tunnels.
Israel continues to carry out airstrikes across the Strip, including in the south. According to Palestinian sources, in the last few hours there have been explosions in Khan Younis, south of Gaza, and an attack in Rafah, the place where they are seeking refuge. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled the north after Israel ordered the evacuation of Gaza City, leaving 20 people dead. Palestinian news agencies also reported that Israeli soldiers entered the occupied West Bank towns of Jenin and Tulkarem.
Violence in the West Bank has increased sharply since Hamas launched the Oct. 7 attack that left 1,400 people dead and more than 240 missing and dragged into the enclave. Netanyahu himself reiterated yesterday that a Gaza ceasefire depends on the release of all Israelis held hostage by Hamas, although he raised the possibility that Israel might allow “tactical pauses” on humanitarian grounds. In these hours, the G7 foreign ministers are starting a meeting in Tokyo at which a joint request for a humanitarian pause in the troubled G7 summit could emerge.
“Someone? Please! Can anyone answer?”
An Israeli police officer prayed for signs of life while searching for survivors after the Oct. 7 massacre at the Nova Music Festival.
All he heard was silence.
All he saw were lifeless bodies. pic.twitter.com/cpI4R5bqLB— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) November 7, 2023
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7:25 a.m. Hamas attack in Rafah claimed 20 lives – Emergency services in Gaza, the Hamas-ruled Palestinian enclave, have announced that about twenty people were killed in an Israeli attack in Rafah, the southern town of the Strip where Palestinians fleeing Gaza City are gathering.
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