What happened in the last few hours?
These are the main news from the final hours of the conflict between Israel and Hamas until 9:30 p.m. this Sunday, November 5th:
Netanyahu reiterates there will be no ceasefire in Gaza until Hamas releases hostages. “Without the return of our hostages there will be no ceasefire, we say that to both our enemies and our friends. We will continue until we defeat them,” Netanyahu said at the Ramon air base in southern Israel, reiterating the government’s position.
Hezbollah claims it fired several rockets at Israel in retaliation for the Israeli attack that killed four civilians in Lebanon. In a statement, the Lebanese militant faction said its attack was in response to Israel’s “cruel and brutal crime” that killed a woman and three children in southern Lebanon this afternoon. After this attack, Hezbollah announced that there would be “consequences.”
Abbas expresses the need for a ceasefire in Gaza to Blinken at a meeting in Ramallah. The president of the Palestinian Authority (PNA) told the US Secretary of State at a meeting in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank that an immediate ceasefire in Gaza was necessary, his spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said after the meeting. Abbas also insisted to the US diplomatic chief that more humanitarian aid must reach the Gaza Strip, which is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe due to the military offensive and blockade that Israel has imposed on it since October 7 last year . .
Evacuations from Gaza via the Rafah border crossing are suspended following the Israeli bombing of an ambulance convoy. The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt remained closed to foreign passport holders for the second day in a row this Sunday morning, as Gaza authorities decided to suspend evacuation operations in response to an Israeli airstrike on an ambulance convoy, according to rights organizations and local media.
According to Hamas, more than 9,700 people have died in Israeli bombings of Gaza since October 7. Gaza’s Ministry of Health, controlled by Hamas, an organization designated as terrorist by the EU and the United States that has de facto controlled the Strip since 2007, this afternoon increased the number of deaths in the enclave due to Israeli bombings to them has increased to 9,770 since October 7th.
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters try to storm an air base in Turkey where US troops are stationed. Hundreds of people tried to storm the Incirlik air base in southern Turkey, where US troops are stationed, this afternoon during a pro-Palestinian demonstration. Footage of the protests shows police firing tear gas and using water cannons to disperse crowds waving Turkish and Palestinian flags and chanting slogans.