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According to the IDF, a building next to Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza was hit
Israeli forces said they attacked a building next to Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City, describing in a statement that it housed “terrorists.”
“The attack resulted in significant secondary explosions, indicating the presence of a Hamas weapons depot in a civilian area,” the IDF statement said.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) wrote in a post on the social media site “in a state of fear and panic, especially among the children.”
Palestinians who have left their homes seek refuge at Al-Quds Hospital as Israeli attacks continue on the 25th day in Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City, Gaza, October 31, 2023. (Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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In a separate earlier statement, the PRCS accused the IDF of attacking the area near the hospital on Monday evening, saying that “(Israel) attacked the area around Al-Quds Hospital in the Gaza Strip with two rockets, about 50 Meters from the hospital.” Gate.”
The IDF says it has repeatedly warned Gaza City residents to move south for their safety, although Israeli airstrikes also continue in the southern half of the enclave.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, more than 60% of hospitals and medical facilities in the Gaza Strip are currently out of service.
— Natasha Turak
An hour ago
The death toll in the Israel-Hamas conflict is rising
EDITOR’S NOTE – Graphic Content: This post contains an image depicting death in Gaza.
At least 10,328 people have been killed and 25,956 injured since the Palestinian militant group Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack and Israel’s retaliatory campaign in the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry in the Hamas-controlled enclave.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Image depicts graphic content) Relatives of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on the 30th day of the conflict mourn after being moved from the Nasser Hospital mortuary to a cemetery in Khan Yunis, Gaza, in November were brought and buried there on May 5, 2023.
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During the same period, at least 155 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank.
According to the Israeli government, over 1,400 people have been killed and more than 7,198 injured in Israel since the Israel-Hamas conflict began in early October.
— Ruxandra Iordache
An hour ago
The IDF’s four-hour evacuation window for encircled Gaza City residents is ending
Israel Defense Forces announced a four-hour evacuation window for Gaza City residents as the Israeli military continues its campaign against so-called Hamas strongholds.
Palestinians fleeing Gaza City toward southern areas drive on a road November 7, 2023, amid ongoing fighting between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.
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Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s spokesman for Arab media, wrote in a Google-translated post on the social media site human shields used, Today the IDF will again allow passage on Salah al-Din Street between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. For your safety, take the next opportunity to move south beyond Wadi Gaza.”
This four-hour window has now expired.
Palestinians fleeing Gaza City toward southern areas drive on a road November 7, 2023, amid ongoing fighting between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.
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Residents fleeing Gaza City, home to about 30% of the blockaded enclave’s 2.3 million people, said they passed tanks that appeared ready to storm the city, according to Portal. CNBC was unable to verify the report.
Israeli forces continued to bomb sites in southern Gaza, despite urging residents to flee south for safety.
— Natasha Turak
An hour ago
According to the UN aid agency, 66 people were killed while seeking refuge in its shelters
In the past month of conflict, 66 people were killed and 540 injured while seeking shelter in 50 facilities run by the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). UNRWA announced this on social media.
“People seeking protection @U.N Flag – Looking for safety in @UNRWA Schools – were killed in locations that should be protected under international humanitarian law,” the agency said.
CNBC could not independently verify developments on the ground.
Many of the UNRWA-run schools in the Palestinian territories have been converted into refugee shelters amid ongoing bombardment and severe population displacement from northern Gaza.
The Israeli military says it is only targeting the military positions or operations of the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
— Ruxandra Iordache
2 hours ago
More than 100 foreigners and four injured Palestinians enter Egypt from Gaza
Palestinians, including foreign passport holders, wait at the Rafah border crossing after evacuations were suspended following an Israeli attack on an ambulance in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, November 5, 2023.
Ibraheem Abu Mustafa | Portal
According to an Egyptian border official quoted by CNN, more than 100 foreigners left the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and entered Egypt through the Rafah border crossing.
The total number of foreign passport holders evacuated from the besieged Gaza Strip to date was 114, the official said, with four more wounded Palestinians allowed to enter Egypt for medical treatment. At least 30 more injured Palestinians are expected to enter the country on Tuesday, the official added.
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry said earlier in the day it would help evacuate about 7,000 foreigners from Gaza. When Israel bombed the Gaza Strip from the air, around 600 American citizens and thousands more foreigners from around 60 different countries were trapped in the besieged enclave.
— Natasha Turak
3 hours ago
Blinken: This is an important moment for the G7 to address the Israel crisis
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to the media about his meetings with Turkish counterparts amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas before departing from Ankara-Esenboga Airport in Ankara, Turkey, November 6, 2023.
Jonathan Ernst | Portal
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the G7 foreign ministerial talks, scheduled to take place in Tokyo on November 7 and 8, would be an important moment for the coalition to rally and address the conflict in the Gaza Strip.
“This is also a very important moment for the G7 to come together in the face of this crisis and speak, as we do, with a clear voice,” Blinken said, according to a statement. He spoke to Japanese Foreign Minister Kamikawa Youko shortly after talks with Prime Minister Kishida Fumio.
“We appreciate the U.S. diplomatic efforts in the recent situation between Israel and Palestine,” Kamikawa said. “You have our fullest support.”
Representatives of the G7 – which includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as the European Union – are meeting in Tokyo for talks expected to address the growing crisis in Israel and the Gaza Strip.
Blinken arrived in Japan fresh from another turbulent trip through the Middle East to ease tensions.
— Ruxandra Iordache
3 hours ago
Israeli military attacks Hezbollah position
An Israeli tank attacked a “terrorist unit” in Lebanese territory that attempted to fire an anti-tank missile into Israeli territory, an Israel Defense Forces spokesman said said on social mediaaccording to a Google translation.
IDF troops also attacked a position of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah “to eliminate a threat,” IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said.
CNBC could not independently verify the developments.
Hezbollah and the IDF have been exchanging fire since the early days of the Israel-Hamas war, with Lebanese militants expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people. The IDF claims it limits its offensives against Hezbollah to defensive and retaliatory strikes.
— Ruxandra Iordache
6 hours ago
Israeli minister urges condemnation of anti-Semitism after Paul Kessler’s death
Israeli War Minister Benny Gantz called on the international community to “unambiguously and proactively condemn terrorism and anti-Semitism” following the death of Jewish-American Paul Kessler during a clash at dueling pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian rallies.
Kessler, 69, “was in a physical altercation with counter-protesters” in California, US, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement, according to NBC News. He fell backwards during the conflict and died on Monday.
“The murder of the Jewish-American Paul Kessler should be a clear warning signal for the entire world,” said Gantz said on social media. “Israel today stands at the forefront of the global fight against the murderous anti-Semitic ideology behind the Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7th.”
Since the Hamas terrorist attacks on October 7 and Israel’s subsequent retaliatory siege of the Gaza Strip, attacks on Jewish people and anti-Semitic sentiment have increased worldwide.
— Ruxandra Iordache
5 hours ago
UN human rights chief begins Middle East tour
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk.
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk began a five-day visit to the Middle East to engage with government officials, civil society and UN staff on the regional human rights situation amid the Israel-Hamas war.
He is in Cairo on Tuesday to meet Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry. On Wednesday he will visit the Rafah border crossing – the only land route into the Gaza Strip that is not controlled by Israel and is the overland route for aid supplies to the enclave.
“It has been a whole month of carnage, incessant suffering, bloodshed, destruction, outrage and despair,” Turk said in an emailed statement. “Human rights violations are the cause of this escalation and human rights play a central role in finding a way out of this maelstrom of pain.”
He will travel to Amman, Jordan, on Thursday.
— Ruxandra Iordache
6 hours ago
United Arab Emirates builds field hospital in Gaza Strip
The United Arab Emirates will build a 150-bed capacity field hospital in the Gaza Strip to provide vital medical treatment to the Palestinian population, the country’s state news agency said late Monday.
Five planes carrying supplies and equipment for the medical facility took off from Abu Dhabi and will unload their cargo at al-Arish airport in Egypt before being transported to the Gaza Strip, likely by truck via the Rafah border crossing.
Volunteers help pack supplies for the Gaza Strip at a donation center set up by the Emirates Red Crescent in Dubai on October 21, 2023.
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The UAE had previously announced $20 million in emergency assistance to the Palestinian people, as well as an initiative to bring about 1,000 Palestinian children from the Gaza Strip along with their families to the UAE for medical treatment.
Abu Dhabi has supported the cause of the Palestinian people in the past, but notably normalized relations with Israel in 2020 through the US-brokered Abraham Accords.
— Ruxandra Iordache
6 hours ago
Israeli forces said they had seized control of a Hamas stronghold
Israeli forces have taken control of a Hamas military stronghold in the northern Gaza Strip, the military said in a daily Telegram update on the past day’s events.
An image taken from southern Israel along the Gaza Strip border shows Israeli army vehicles crossing the border into Gaza on November 6, 2023, amid ongoing fighting between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
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The IDF added that there were anti-tank missiles and launchers, weapons and reconnaissance materials on site at the site.
In addition to claiming it damaged other Hamas weapons and infrastructure, the IDF said it also targeted a cell of 10 operatives from the Palestinian militant group and separately located a number of Hamas operatives “located in one “Barricaded the building next to Al-Quds Hospital” and planned to launch an attack on the armed forces from there.”
CNBC could not independently confirm these reports.
The IDF, which says it is conducting its air and ground campaign in the Gaza Strip to eliminate Hamas’s military capabilities, has previously accused the group of using the Palestinian people as shields and taking cover in or under civilian shelters and medical treatment sites seek.
— Ruxandra Iordache
6 hours ago
The Israeli military says it has killed a top Hamas commander
Israeli forces said they killed Wael Asefa, the commander of the Deir al-Balah battalion of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, who is believed to have been involved in the Oct. 7 terror and kidnapping attack.
CNBC could not independently verify the report.
The IDF has repeatedly stated that the official goal of its campaign in Gaza is the complete demilitarization of Hamas and the killing of its commanders.
— Ruxandra Iordache
10 hours ago
Jordan is open to “all options” as the Gaza conflict worsens
Jordan said on Monday it was leaving “all options” open as it responded to Israel’s failure to distinguish between military and civilian targets in the increasing bombardment and invasion of the Gaza Strip.
Prime Minister Aktuell al Khasawneh did not specify what steps Jordan would take after the country recalled its ambassador to Israel in protest at Israel’s offensive in Gaza following a cross-border attack by Hamas on October 7.
Jordan also announced last week that Israel’s ambassador, who left Amman shortly after the Hamas attack, would not be allowed to return, effectively declaring him persona non grata.
“All options are on the table for Jordan in dealing with Israeli aggression against Gaza and its impact,” Khasawneh, whose country signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994, told state media.
—Portal
11 hours ago
Netanyahu said there would be no ceasefire until the Israeli hostages were released
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reiterated that there will be no ceasefire in Gaza until Hamas agrees to release Israeli hostages.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz (not pictured) at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 28, 2023.
Abir Sultan | Portal
“Without the release of our hostages, there would be no ceasefire, no general ceasefire in Gaza,” he said in an exclusive interview with David Muir, host of ABC News’ “World News Tonight.”
Asked whether there would be a humanitarian pause in the event of the release of hostages, Netanyahu said: “There will be a ceasefire for this purpose. We are waiting for that to happen. That hasn’t happened yet.”
Hamas militants are currently holding around 240 hostages they kidnapped on October 7 and brought to the Palestinian enclave. Israel has launched an air campaign and a ground offensive to drive out the militants who rule Gaza.
On the question of who should govern Gaza after the end of the war, the prime minister said: “Those who do not want to continue the path of Hamas.” He added that Israel must assume security responsibility in Gaza “indefinitely” to ensure that the Hamas cannot carry out any further large-scale terrorist attacks.
– Joanna Tan
14 hours ago
Jewish Voice for Peace holds a sit-down demonstration in front of the Statue of Liberty
Jewish Voice for Peace activists staged a sit-in in front of the Statue of Liberty. The group has occupied prominent locations in New York City and called for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Jewish Voice for Peace activists occupy the base of the Statue of Liberty on November 6, 2023 in New York City.
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Jewish Voice for Peace activists occupy the base of the Statue of Liberty on November 6, 2023 in New York City.
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Jewish Voice for Peace activists occupy the base of the Statue of Liberty on November 6, 2023 in New York City.
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Jewish Voice for Peace activists occupy the base of the Statue of Liberty on November 6, 2023 in New York City.
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15 hours ago
NBC News’ inside look at Israel’s efforts to hunt down and destroy Hamas’ tunnel network
A fighter from Izz al-Din al-Qassam stands in front of a tunnel during a display of weapons, rockets and heavy equipment for Hamas’ military wing in Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip, during commemoration of the 2014 war that lasted 51 days between Gaza and Israel.
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NBC News’ Raf Sanchez was given rare access with Israeli forces to the extensive network of tunnels beneath the northern Gaza Strip.
“We are conducting a major operation to seize as many tunnels as possible, examine them and of course close them,” IDF Lt. Col. Ariel Gonen told NBC News. “The tunnels are underneath hospitals and everything else. We see that they are under schools and under mosques,” he added.
Read the full story on NBC News.
– Amanda Macias
7 hours ago