⚡️⚡️⚡️ISRAEL-GAZA LATEST:
Updated: Nov. 7, 2023 at 10:45 PM EST

▪️Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) are encircling Gaza City and operating inside it.

▪️Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, also said the IDF are operating in the heart of Gaza City and “tightening the chokehold” around the city.

▪️Joe Biden urged Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to a three-day pause in fighting to allow progress in releasing some of the hostages held by Hamas.

▪️The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said a humanitarian convoy carrying lifesaving medical supplies came under fire in Gaza City on Tuesday.

▪️Netanyahu said Israel may consider “tactical little pauses” in fighting to allow the entry of aid or the exit of hostages from the Gaza Strip.

▪️A drone attack on Tuesday targeted a military base at Arbil airport in Iraqi Kurdistan that hosts troops from the US-led anti-jihadist coalition, officials said.

▪️The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has arrived in Japan for a meeting of G7 foreign ministers expected to be dominated by the Israel-Hamas war.

▪️The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza has claimed that 10,328 Palestinians have been killed within the Gaza Strip by Israeli military actions since 7 October. The number, it says, includes 4,237 children.

▪️Israel fell silent on Tuesday, observing a minute’s silence to mark one month since the Hamas attacks that killed 1,400 and injured many more.

▪️The US does not believe Israel should reoccupy Gaza, the White House said following Netanyahu’s comments that Israel will “have the overall security responsibility” in Gaza for an “indefinite period” after the war ends.

▪️At least 89 people who worked for the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, have been killed since 7 October.

▪️Civilians are Gaza are “drinking water from a swimming pool” and children are “crying for lack of bread”, the international humanitarian organisation Care said as it urged an immediate ceasefire in the Palestinian territory.

▪️The Kremlin called on Tuesday for “humanitarian pauses” in Israel’s military operation in the Gaza Strip, and it described the humanitarian situation there as “catastrophic”.

▪️Turkey’s parliament has removed Coca-Cola and Nestlé products from its restaurants over their alleged support for Israel, according to a parliament statement and a source who named the two companies to Reuters.

▪️At least 500 people, most of them foreigners or dual nationals and their dependents, were evacuated from Gaza through the Rafah border crossing on Tuesday.

▪️A World Health Organization spokesperson said that more than 160 healthcare workers had died on duty in Gaza and called for a lifting of restrictions on medical aid, saying some doctors were performing operations, including amputations, without anaesthetic.

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⚡️The Israel Defense Forces says that in the last few hours, troops are engaged in “fierce battles against Hamas terrorists deep in the Gaza Strip.”

The military says ground and air forces hit several Hamas positions and anti-tank guided missile squads.

According to the IDF, troops have killed dozens of terrorists amid the fighting today, as well as seizing weapons.

The IDF shares new footage showing troops operating in Gaza, as well as some of the recent strikes.

⚡️⚡️⚡️ISRAEL-GAZA LATEST:
Updated: Oct. 24, 2023 at 9:40 PM EDT

▪️Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, has called on UN secretary-general, Antonio Guterres, to resign after his remarks earlier today saying the “appalling attacks” by Hamas inside Israel on 7 October cannot justify the “collective punishment of the Palestinian people”.

▪️Child casualties in Gaza are a “growing stain on our collective conscience”, the UN’s children’s organisation has said, calling for an immediate ceasefire and for all crossings into Gaza to be opened to allow aid in.

▪️The Health ministry in Gaza reported that hundreds of people have been killed in the past day by Israel air strikes, Associated Press reports.

▪️Middle East situation 'more dire by the hour' – UN chief.

▪️The Israel Defence Force said early Wednesday its fighter jets had struck military infrastructure and mortar launchers belonging to the Syrian army in response to rocket launches from Syria a day earlier.

▪️US secretary of state Antony Blinken said on Tuesday countries should still send humanitarian aid to Palestine, adding that Palestinian civilians “must be protected”.

▪️The credit assessor S&P Global has lowered Israel’s credit outlook from ‘stable’ to ‘negative’, Bloomberg News reports.

▪️Delta airlines said on Tuesday that they will temporarily halt all flights to Israel through 15 November, Reuters reports.

▪️The foreign minister of Jordan criticized Israel as appearing to be above international law when it comes to the Gaza conflict, Reuters reported.

▪️US officials are developing a contingent plan to evacuate Americans from the Middle East in case conflict spreads to the broader region amid fighting in Gaza, Associated Press reports.

▪️Joe Biden has had a phone call with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, about the crisis in the Middle East, the White House has said.

▪️The Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said the military was “ready and determined” for the next stage in the war and was awaiting political instruction.

▪️Netanyahu said Hamas must be destroyed and warned that the war may take some time. He said that after it was finished, nobody would live “under Hamas tyranny”.

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