Cover photo: Young people walk along a street in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on October 31, 2023, carrying bags full of pieces of cardboard to start a fire. MOHAMMED ABED / AFP
- The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Monday, October 30, that Israel “will not accept[it] no end to hostilities with Hamas after the terrible attacks of October 7th”, like the “United States (…) after the bombing of Pearl Harbor or after the terrorist attack on September 11th”. During a press conference for foreign media, Mr. Netanyahu estimated that the cessation of fire was a concession to Hamas’s “barbarism.” “There is a time of peace and a time of war,” he continued. According to Mr. Netanyahu, the Israeli army is advancing “methodically” in the Gaza Strip. while “The IDF has expanded its land invasion of the Gaza Strip.”
- On the night of Monday to Tuesday, the Palestinian Red Crescent was alarmed by “incessant” strikes around the Al-Quds Hospital. in the north of the Gaza Strip, where civilians have sought refuge to protect themselves from Israeli bombings. Another facility, the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in Gaza, also suffered strikes, according to its director.
- In the Gaza Strip, “conditions for displaced people are increasingly desperate,” the UN reports. Its ability to provide life-saving assistance was “further compromised by the 36-hour communications blackout that affected the entire Gaza Strip,” it said in a statement.
- The Israeli Defense Ministry’s agency that monitors civilian activities in the Palestinian territories (COGAT) said on Tuesday that 39 trucks carrying humanitarian aid arrived in Gaza on Monday. This would bring the total number of trucks entering the enclave since the limited resumption of aid deliveries on October 21 to 156.
- The Israeli army announced that it had released Ori Megidish. A soldier was held hostage in Gaza, on the night of Sunday to Monday, “during IDF ground operations.” On the other hand, the Foreign Ministry announced the death of a German-Israeli woman kidnapped by Hamas, without specifying the circumstances of this discovery. Hamas, for its part, released a video depicting three women as hostages.
- Israeli forces reported attacks on Hezbollah’s infrastructure in Lebanon on the night of Monday to Tuesday. Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati assured that he was doing his best to “prevent Lebanon from entering the war,” ignoring Hezbollah’s intentions.
- According to Hamas, Israeli bombings have killed more than 8,300 people, most of them civilians and almost half children since the beginning of the war. The attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement in Israel on October 7 left more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, dead.
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