12:22 p.m
Local sources, Rafah border crossing opened for foreigners
Even today, the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt is still open for the departure of foreigners, binationalists and the wounded from the Gaza Strip. Local sources reported this to Ansa. Transit for humanitarian aid is also possible.
10:45 a.m
Israel: Hamas terrorists strike near Al-Quds Hospital
The army attacked “Hamas terrorists housed in a building near Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City.” The military spokesman said this, referring to Hamas’s accusations that Israel bombed the facility. The spokesman explained that “the attack was carried out from the air and there were explosions at a nearby ammunition depot.” According to the same source, the army announced that it had also captured a Hamas stronghold in northern Gaza. “Inside, he concluded, rocket launchers, weapons and intelligence material were found.”
10:22 a.m
Italian warships off the coast of Gaza
Italy has stationed the two frigates Margottini and Fasan off the coast of Gaza and Lebanon. After the joint NATO operation, the Italian Navy sent its two warships together with the two American aircraft carriers Eisenhower and Gerald Ford to guard the Mediterranean area facing Israel. The two Italian frigates are capable of transporting helicopters and complement the presence of Revel’s multi-purpose ocean patrol vessel Thaon, which was already deployed last week. In addition, 1,300 Italian soldiers are stationed in Lebanon as part of the UN peacekeeping missions (Unifil).
08:13
Hamas, 14 dead in Israeli strikes in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip
The Hamas Health Ministry told Haaretz that at least 14 people were killed in Israeli strikes in Rafah, southern Gaza, overnight. At the same time, the Palestinian Red Crescent, citing media, reported an Israeli airstrike near the al-Quds hospital in Gaza City.
08:06
A Palestinian was killed in clashes in the West Bank
A Palestinian was killed in clashes with the Israeli army in the village of Sair near Hebron in the West Bank. This was reported by medical sources, citing the Wafa agency, who identified the man as Saad Nimr Al-Faroukh (24 years old). The clashes occurred during an army operation that arrived in the village to map the home of a 16-year-old Palestinian boy who was responsible for an attack in Jerusalem’s Old City in recent months that killed an Israeli policewoman. Mapping a house serves the purpose of destroying it.
06:08
Netanyahu: We will assume security responsibility in Gaza
– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on ABC News that his country will have “overall responsibility for the security” of the Gaza Strip “indefinitely” once the war with Hamas ends. “Because we’ve seen what happens when we don’t have it. If we do not bear this security responsibility, we will see the explosion of Hamas terror on a scale we cannot imagine,” he said.
06:07
Netanyahu: No ceasefire without the release of hostages
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu He again rejected the idea of a ceasefire Gaza Strip without the release of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas. “Without the release of our hostages, there will be no ceasefire, no general ceasefire in Gaza,” he said in an interview with ABC News. “As for the little breaks – an hour here, an hour there – we already had them,” Netanyahu added. “I assume that we will control the circumstances so that goods and humanitarian supplies can arrive or our hostages, individual hostages, can leave the country,” the Israeli prime minister said of the small tactical pauses.
01:21
US diplomatic disagreement over policy towards Israel
US State Department officials sharply criticized the Biden administration’s handling of the war between Israel and Hamas in a dissent obtained by Politico, arguing that the US should be prepared to publicly criticize the Israelis, among other things. The message, writes Politico, suggests a growing loss of confidence among U.S. diplomats in President Joe Biden’s approach to the Middle East crisis and reflects the feelings of many of them, particularly at middle and lower levels. If such internal disagreements deepen, it could become more difficult for the White House to shape policy for the region. The memo contains two central demands: that the United States support a ceasefire and that it balance its private and public messages toward Israel, including expressing criticism of Israeli military tactics and the treatment of Palestinians, which the United States generally prefers to address privately want to keep.
01:19
China to the UN: ceasefire necessary
“We urgently need a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. The Security Council must act.” This was said by Chinese UN Ambassador Zhang Jun, rotating president of the CDS, at the end of the closed consultations together with Emirati Ambassador Lana Zaki Nusseibeh. The two countries called for the meeting “to express deep concern about Israel’s ongoing attacks on refugee camps, schools, hospitals, UN facilities and other civilian facilities in Gaza.” “Discussions on the draft resolution continue and we continue to try to narrow the differences between council members,” Nusseibeh said.
01:19
France at the UN: humanitarian ceasefire
“Given the seriousness of the humanitarian situation, we call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, which must lead to a ceasefire and access to aid,” said French UN Ambassador Nicolas de Riviere after two hours of closed-door consultations in the Security Council. “Given the urgency, France is organizing a humanitarian conference for the people of Gaza on November 9th,” he added: “Israel has the right to defend itself by respecting humanitarian laws.” We must protect the civilian population and for this we need a humanitarian ceasefire, humanitarian pauses, whatever you want to call them, and that has to happen now.”