The war sparked by the bloody October 7 attack by Hamas in Israel, whose army has since retaliated by shelling the Gaza Strip controlled by the Palestinian Islamist movement, entered its 19th day on Wednesday.
Follow the latest developments in real time here:
7:09 am | Hamas’ health ministry reports 6,546 deaths since the start of the armed conflict
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6:31 am | According to the United Nations, Gaza has experienced “16 years of anti-development.”
The Gaza Strip has experienced “16 years of anti-development,” the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development said on Wednesday, ruling that the economic consequences of the war between Israel and Hamas were “impossible to define.”
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5:55am | Erdogan cancels all travel plans to Israel
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Wednesday that he would “cancel” all his travel plans to Israel despite the recent rapprochement between the two countries.
“We were planning to go to Israel, but that was canceled. We won’t go.”
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5:09 am | Coalition against Hamas: French opposition parties divided
French opposition parties were divided on Wednesday over President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to form an international coalition against Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip.
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5:00 am | After his visit to Israel, Macron will meet Sissi in Cairo
French President Emmanuel Macron will continue his trip to Cairo on Wednesday to prevent military escalation after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 and restart the “peace process” to create a Palestinian state.
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4:37 am | More than 100 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since the Gaza war began
More than a hundred Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank in Israeli army operations that began there with the outbreak of war in Gaza on October 7, the Palestinian Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
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4:30am | Lebanon: Meeting between Hezbollah leader and leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad
The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah met with leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad to discuss ways to support those Palestinian movements in their war with Israel, the pro-Iranian group said on Wednesday.
1h36 | Gaza: Hamas government reports 80 dead in Israeli attacks overnight
The Hamas government announced that at least 80 people were killed in Israeli strikes in various areas of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday night.
Hundreds were also injured in these attacks, the Palestinian territory government’s media office said in a statement. Thousands of people have died, the vast majority of them civilians, since Israel’s bombing campaign began following the Islamist Hamas’ deadly attacks on its territory on October 7.