Israel-Hamas war live: UN refugee agency says it ‘cannot provide security’ for 600,000 people in Gaza who ‘seek refuge under a UN flag’ – The Guardian

Two people were arrested during a pro-Palestinian sit-in at King’s Cross station in London after the demonstration was banned.

Transport Minister Mark Harper said he had ordered police to stop the demonstration on Friday evening under Section 14a of the Public Order Act 1986.

However, numerous demonstrators could still be seen at the station on social media. A video posted on

Others appear to show the slogan “From River to Sea” being shouted and protesters responding: “Palestine will be free.”

Videos show protesters sitting in the station hall chanting “ceasefire now,” “free, free Palestine,” and “in our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians.”

A banner accusing Israel of genocide can also be seen in some clips.

Updated at 21.21 GMT

Summary of the day so far

In Gaza City and Tel Aviv it is just after 10:30 p.m. Here’s how things stand:

• Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed at least 9,227 Palestinians, including 3,826 children, since October 7. The Hamas-run Ministry of Health announced this on Friday. The Israeli offensive on Gaza was followed by Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel on October 7, which killed 1,400 people.

• The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) said he was “deeply shocked” by reports of attacks on ambulances Evacuation of patients near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. The Hamas government in Gaza said Israeli forces targeted “an ambulance convoy that was transporting the wounded” from Gaza City toward Rafah in the south. Gaza’s Health Ministry said “several citizens were killed and dozens injured.” The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it carried out an airstrike on an ambulance allegedly used by Hamas, adding that “a number of Hamas terrorists” were killed in the attack. It presented no evidence to support its claim.

• Israeli forces have surrounded Gaza City, attacking Hamas infrastructure and destroying tunnels According to the Israeli military, it is used by militants for attacks. The airstrikes continued alongside what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as an intensifying ground offensive in what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the second phase of the war.

• Israel will continue its offensive in Gaza “with full force” and reject any temporary ceasefire This does not include the release of more than 240 hostages held by Hamas, Benjamin Netanyahu said, rejecting US calls for a pause in the fighting. “I have made it clear that we are continuing with full force and that Israel rejects a temporary ceasefire that does not include the release of our hostages,” the Israeli prime minister said on Friday.

• US Secretary of State Antony Blinken flew to Israel on Friday to urge the Israeli prime minister to temporarily stop its military offensive to enable aid deliveries to the area. The top US diplomat put the greatest pressure yet on the Israeli government to rethink its strategy in Gaza. He called for local humanitarian pauses and stressed that Israel cannot achieve long-term security through military means alone.

• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. They say “crimes against humanity” are being committed in Gaza. “There is no concept that can explain or excuse the brutality we have experienced since October 7,” Erdogan said during a summit of Turkish states in the Kazakh capital Astana.

• France reacted with “astonishment” and “incomprehension” after reporting an Israeli airstrike the Institut Français in Gaza and that the Gaza office of the Agence France-Presse news agency (AFP) was also affected. AFP said its office in Gaza City suffered significant damage in an attack on the building on Thursday. No injuries were reported.

• The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah said his powerful militia was engaged in cross-border fighting with Israel and threatened further “realistic escalation.” Hassan Nasrallah did not announce that Hezbollah had fully joined the war between Israel and Hamas, but warned that fighting on the Lebanese-Israeli border would not be limited to the previous levels. Hezbollah should not try to exploit the conflict between Israel and Hamas, the White House said.

• Israeli forces killed six Palestinians in raids across the West Bank on Friday. The Palestinian Health Ministry said this as violence in the occupied territories increased alongside the Gaza war. The Israeli army said its forces would “operate against Hamas” across the West Bank, with operations in Jenin and the northern city of Nablus.

• The first people in a group of around 100 Britons due to leave Gaza on Friday have made the crossing to Egypt. amid concerns about whether individuals in the northern Palestinian territory will make it to the southern Rafah border crossing. As of Friday, there were 127 people on the British list to be evacuated to Egypt since the border crossing opened on Wednesday. Among the Brits who were able to leave Gaza were the in-laws of Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf. Hundreds of British nationals are believed to remain trapped in the Gaza Strip.

• According to the White House, 100 American citizens and family members left the Gaza Strip on Thursday. Another large group of Americans is expected to leave Gaza on Friday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters.

• Doctors and aid workers in Gaza say they have been subjected to a “humanitarian tragedy” by the international community. as they “fight for survival” after nearly four weeks of war between Israel and Hamas.

• Thousands of Palestinian workers from Gaza who were stranded in Israel when war broke out last month have been deported Returns to the war-torn Strip after being expelled by the Israeli government. The U.N. human rights office said it was “deeply concerned” about the deportations.

• Rishi Sunak has described pro-Palestinian protests planned in London on Armistice Day as “provocative and disrespectful”. The British prime minister’s intervention on Friday came as two women pictured at a pro-Palestinian march in London carrying photos of paragliders were charged with terrorism offences.

• The Jewish population in Britain has experienced the worst wave of hate incidents in modern times According to anti-Semitism experts, more than 1,000 cases have been recorded in Israel following the Hamas massacres.

The Hezbollah chief warned that the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas could become a regional conflict.

In a televised address on Friday, Hassan Nasrallah said: “America bears sole responsibility for the ongoing war against Gaza and its people, and Israel is merely an instrument of execution.”

He added: “Whoever wants to prevent a regional war – and this is directed at the Americans – must quickly stop the aggression against Gaza… You Americans know full well that if there is war in the region, your fleet will be useless, too “Not.” Will air combat help? Your interests, your soldiers and your fleet will be the first to pay the price.”

Nasrallah’s address on Friday is his first public statement since the war between Israel and Hamas broke out on October 7.

Agence France-Presse reported that thousands of supporters gathered to hear Nasrallah’s speech in Hezbollah’s stronghold in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

Others gathered elsewhere in Lebanon and the region, including Tehran and Baghdad, Agence France-Presse added.

Updated at 20:18 GMT

Portal has verified a video showing bodies on a road south of Gaza City, currently under a deadly siege by Israel.

The Portal report below follows Israel’s warning to civilians in northern Gaza to evacuate to the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Despite Israel’s evacuation orders, which Human Rights Watch called “alarming,” 70 people – mostly women and children – were killed last month on supposedly “safe routes” designated by Israel. After the bombing of “safe routes,” Palestinians said they were afraid to leave their homes.

Portal reports:

A video in Gaza shared on social media on Friday and confirmed by Portal showed the bodies of at least seven people apparently lying dead on a road south of Gaza City, which is currently under siege by Israeli forces.

Portal located that the video was taken on the Al-Rashid coastal road between Gaza City and Wadi Gaza. Portal could not immediately verify the shooting date but confirmed it had not been shared on social media before Friday. Portal was unable to verify the identity of the person who recorded the video or the identities of those shown.

The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a Portal request for comment on the video.

Video showed some debris and many personal items scattered around people, including at least one child. Bloodstains marked the road.

It was recorded by a man or boy cycling down the street and past the crime scene, talking as he passed and beginning to cry. At one point another person could be seen cycling behind him.

“God, a child. God, women. God, that girl. Please God protect our people. Please look,” the cyclist can be heard saying in Arabic. Israel said late Thursday its troops had encircled Gaza City after cutting off the northern Gaza Strip from the south of the enclave near the Gaza Wadi earlier this week.

Updated at 20:17 GMT

France reacted with “astonishment” and “incomprehension” to Israel’s attack on the French Cultural Institute in Gaza.

“We made public today that the French cultural institute in Gaza was hit a few days ago in a way that caused astonishment and incomprehension and led France to demand explanations from the Israeli authorities,” France’s Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna told Agence on Friday France Press reports.

“[We seek] to understand how a French cultural institution can become the target of an Israeli attack. We are therefore in dialogue with our Israeli partners at various levels,” she added.

She went on to say that Israel has the right to defend itself but must also abide by international humanitarian law.

“That means protecting civilians and taking concrete measures to protect civilians,” she said, adding that UN and media workers also need to be protected.

The World Health Organization, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East, the UN Population Fund and Unicef ​​has released a joint statement on the hardship faced by women and newborns in Gaza amid Israel’s deadly siege.

The organizations said:

According to the Ministry of Health, as of November 3, 2,326 women and 3,760 children were killed in the Gaza Strip, accounting for 67% of all casualties, while thousands more were injured. That means 420 children are killed or injured every day, some of them just a few months old…

There are an estimated 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza, of whom more than 180 give birth every day. 15 percent of them are likely to experience pregnancy or birth complications and require additional medical care…

With 14 hospitals and 45 primary health centers closed, some women are having to give birth in shelters, in their homes, on the streets amid rubble or in overwhelmed health facilities where hygiene is deteriorating and the risk of infections and medical complications is on the rise …

The lives of newborns also hang in the balance. If hospitals run out of fuel, the lives of an estimated 130 premature babies in need of neonatal and intensive care will be at risk as incubators and other medical equipment stop working.

Updated at 19:17 GMT

Two women pictured holding photos of paragliders at a pro-Palestinian march in London have been charged with terrorism offences.

The incident occurred on October 14 in Whitehall during a march following the October 7 attack on Israel, when Hamas fighters crossed the Gaza-Israel border on paragliders.

This was announced by the Crown Prosecution Service Heba Alhayey, 29, and Pauline Ankunda26, was charged with “single counts of carrying or displaying an object, namely a picture depicting a paraglider, in order to create reasonable suspicion that they were supporters of a proscribed organization, namely Hamas, on Saturday, December 11th.” October 14, 2023”.

Both women are from south London. Anti-terrorism investigators renewed calls to locate a third woman who police said was with them and who was also said to be holding up a photo of a paraglider.

After their photos were published last week, the two women turned themselves in at a London police station. The maximum penalty for the offense in the proven case is six months’ imprisonment. Both women were released on bail and are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on November 10.

Updated at 18:59 GMT

Read more about the Israeli military’s attack on an ambulance in the northern Gaza Strip here took responsibility for it.

A statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said:

A Hamas terrorist cell was identified with the help of an ambulance. In response, an IDF aircraft struck and neutralized the Hamas terrorists operating in the ambulance.

We emphasize that this area of ​​Gaza is a war zone. Civilians are repeatedly asked to evacuate south for their own safety.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) had previously claimed that Israeli forces carried out an airstrike on a group of ambulances, one of which belonged to the PRCS.

A PRCS spokesperson, Mohamed Abu Musbah, told Al Jazeera that the entrance to Al-Shifa Hospital was “extremely crowded.” The front yard near the hospital entrance was “full of civilians,” he said.

He told the news agency that the ambulance driver and a PRCS worker who escorted the wounded both “survived” but one of them suffered from shrapnel wounds to the leg.

With them in the vehicle was a female patient who is now in “serious condition and has been returned to Al-Shifa Hospital,” he added.

Updated at 20:20 GMT

On Thursday, Israel’s security cabinet said in a statement that the country was “severing all contact with Gaza.”

It said:

There will be no more Palestinian workers from Gaza.

Before this month, 18,500 married men over the age of 25 had permission from Israeli authorities to enter the country, mainly to work in agriculture and construction. This is part of an Israeli policy aimed at alleviating Gaza’s grinding poverty and creating an economic lifeline for it. It was assumed that Hamas would be unwilling to endanger it.

An unknown number of these workers were caught up in raids across Israel in the days following October 7 and detained under the principle of administrative detention, which allows the arrest of suspects without charge or access to the evidence against them on the grounds that they could break the law in the future.

Many said they had been tortured or otherwise ill-treated in military prisons in recent weeks. The International Committee of the Red Cross said it had repeatedly denied access to the arrested workers, who were being held as “enemy non-combatants.”

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) did not immediately respond to the Guardian’s request for comment on the arrests or allegations of ill-treatment.

Updated at 18.54 GMT

Thousands of Palestinian workers from Gaza who were stranded in Israel when war broke out last month have been deported back to the war-torn Strip after being expelled by the Israeli government.

A Guardian reporter in Rafah, On the southern edge of the strip on Friday morning we saw a steady stream of men of all ages without phones, money or identification entering the area Kerem Shalom Crossing for trade goods after being about 2 km from the Israeli side of the border. Mada Masr, an independent Egyptian news agency, said about 3,200 people had been sent back through the checkpoint controlled by Israel and Egypt.

The U.N. human rights office said it was “deeply concerned” about the deportations. “They will be sent back, we don’t know exactly where, [and whether they] I even have a home to go to,” her spokeswoman Elizabeth Throssell said at a news conference in Geneva. She said it was an incredibly dangerous situation.

The Israeli government has been contacted for comment on the transfer.