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Israel-Hamas war live: Gaza becoming a ‘graveyard for children’, UN chief says; 10,000 Palestinians killed, says Gaza health ministry
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António Guterres warn ‘no one is safe’ as he repeats call for humanitarian ceasefire; over 4,000 children among the dead in Gaza
* Israel and Hamas at war: what we know on day 31
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/06/israel-and-hamas-at-war-what-we-know-on-day-31
* Israel and Palestine: a complete guide to the crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/03/israel-and-palestine-a-complete-guide-to-the-crisis
LIVE Updated 1m ago
1h ago - About 80 dual nationals and 17 medical evacuees leave Gaza into Egypt - report
2h ago - UN chief says Gaza is becoming a 'graveyard for children'
3h ago - Israel-Hamas war is deadliest ever for UN aid workers, with at least 88 killed
4h ago - IDF: Key Hamas commander killed in targeted airstrike
4h ago - Israel responds to Lebanon rocket attack
4h ago - Summary of the day so far …
6h ago - South Africa: 'We believe nature of Israel's response has become one of collective punishment'
6h ago - Israel welcomes deployment of US nuclear submarine in region as 'deterring, stabilising factor'
6h ago - Blinken: tour has prevented escalation, and US working 'very aggressively' on more humanitarian aid for Gaza
6h ago - Egypt-Gaza Rafah crossing reopens for limited evacuation of foreign nationals
6h ago - Over 10,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza – health ministry
10h ago - Borrell: situation in Middle East is 'outcome of collective political and moral failure'
10h ago - Summary of the day so far …
12h ago - Borne: French death toll from 7 October Hamas attack has risen to 40
12h ago - UK says it is temporarily withdrawing some British embassy staff from Lebanon
14h ago - Israeli military encircles Gaza City
14h ago
Heads of UN agencies call for ‘immediate humanitarian ceasefire’ in rare joint statement
15h ago - Blinken to hold talks in Turkey in next leg of diplomatic tour
16h ago - Jordan airdrops medical supplies to Gaza hospital
16h ago - Opening summary
A Palestinian man in Khan Yunis, on the southern Gaza Strip, as others check the rubble of a building. Photograph: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images
Léonie Chao-Fong (now); Richard Luscombe, Martin Belam and Helen Livingstone (earlier)
Tue 7 Nov 2023 06.08 AEDT
First published on Mon 6 Nov 2023 14.40 AEDT
From 2h ago 04.39 AEDT
UN chief says Gaza is becoming a 'graveyard for children'
Gaza is becoming a graveyard for children, says António Guterres – video
The UN’s secretary general, António Guterres, has warned that “no one is safe” in Gaza as he reiterated his urgent call for a humanitarian ceasefire.
The situation in Gaza is “more than a humanitarian crisis, it is a crisis of humanity”, Guterres said during a briefing at the UN’s headquarters on Monday.
Israeli ground operations and bombardments are hitting civilians, hospitals, refugee camps, mosques, churches and UN facilities including shelters, he said. The protection of civilians “must be paramount”, he said.
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I’m deeply concerned about the clear violations of international humanitarian law that we are witnessing. Let me be clear, no party to an armed conflict is above international humanitarian law.
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He said Gaza was “becoming a graveyard for children” with hundreds of boys and girls reportedly killed or injured every day, he said.
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More journalists have reportedly been killed over a four-week period than in any conflict in at least three decades. More United Nations aid workers have been killed than in any comparable period in the history of our organisation.
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Updated at 05.42 AEDT
44s ago14.16 EST
Patrick Wintour
The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has ended his tour of the Middle East admitting that his efforts to secure a sustained humanitarian pause and greater constraint in Israel’s assault on Gaza was still “a work in progress”.
His comments on Monday followed a meeting with Hakan Fidan, the Turkish foreign minister, in Ankara. He will now head to a meeting of G7 foreign ministers in Japan where he will brief colleagues on the US approach to the crisis, and its impact on western standing.
Over four days of talks, which started in Jerusalem, diplomatic progress appears if anything to have gone into reverse. Blinken was unable to persuade the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Neyanyahu, to adopt a humanitarian pause .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/03/blinken-flies-in-to-israel-to-meet-netanyahu-as-idf-pushes-further-into-gaza-city .. while talks on hostages stalled over the sequencing and length of the pause in hostilities required for their release.
In a further bombardment on Sunday night .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/06/israel-hamas-war-blinken-turkey-gaza-us-submarine-ankara-talks-hakan-fidan , Israel also imposed another temporary communication blackout in Gaza, despite US requests not to do so.
The number of aid trucks crossing the Egyptian border into Gaza .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza at the Rafah crossing went down from 100 on Friday to closer to 30 in the following days.
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24m ago 06.08 AEDT
Israel’s foreign minister, Eli Cohen, has criticised UN chief António Guterres who earlier called .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/06/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-jordan-airdrops-medical-supplies-gaza-blinken-turkey-push-contain-conflict?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with:block-654920118f0832f412179e1c#block-654920118f0832f412179e1c .. for a humanitarian ceasefire and described Gaza as a “graveyard for children”.
“Shame on you,” Cohen posted to social media.
https://twitter.com/elicoh1/status/1721598042858533337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1721598042858533337%7Ctwgr%5E12b5a76d875ce4cab1023017f51005115cabf40d%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2Flive%2F2023%2Fnov%2F06%2Fisrael-hamas-war-live-updates-jordan-airdrops-medical-supplies-gaza-blinken-turkey-push-contain-conflict%3Fpage%3Dwith3Ablock-65490b768f0888d3e2106c3a
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42m ago 05.51 AEDT
More than half a million people in northern Gaza face death by starvation as food supplies run “perilously” low, an international charity has warned.
In a statement on Monday, ActionAid said that a “near-total depletion” of food and water supplies is endangering the lives of civilians trapped in northern Gaza who have barely survived nearly a month of intense bombardment.
Riham Jafari, coordinator of advocacy and communication for ActionAid Palestine, said:
Cases of dehydration and malnutrition are increasing rapidly. Hospitals, which have remained over capacity for weeks on end, can offer no solace to those on the brink of starvation as medical supplies run low, fuel is scarce, and bombs are indiscriminately dropped across Gaza including on the footsteps of hospitals.
1h ago 05.36 AEDT
US President Joe Biden has today spoken with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a White House official said.
The two leaders discussed the potential for tactical pauses in strikes on Gaza during their phone call, according to national security spokesperson John Kirby.
Biden and Netanyahu also discussed the situation in the West Bank, he said.
Updated at 05.45 AEDT
1h ago 05.25 AEDT
Daniel Boffey
Organisers of pro-Palestine marches that have brought hundreds of thousands of people to the streets of London have raised fresh concerns that a major protest planned for Saturday could be banned.
Ben Jamal, the director of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, held a meeting with senior Metropolitan police officers on Monday to finalise details of the route – but there is growing anxiety that the home secretary, Suella Braverman, will intervene.
The protest is scheduled to start at 12.45pm on Saturday 11 November – Remembrance Day – at Hyde Park Corner and end at the US embassy in south-west London, more than a mile from the Cenotaph, where formal remembrance events will be held the next day.
The prime minister’s spokesperson earlier on Monday described the planned event as “provocative” and “disrespectful”.
The marchers are calling for a ceasefire in the war that broke out last month after Hamas killed 1,400 people in Israel and took more than 200 hostages. Thousands of civilians in Gaza have been killed in the Israeli military operation since, according to Gaza’s health authority.
The Met police could apply to the home secretary for a ban under section 13 of the Public Order Act 1986 on the grounds that there is a risk of serious disorder.
“I would say now, there are absolutely no legitimate grounds for doing that,” Jamal said.
Some time ago, we indicated that on the 11th, we would not be going anywhere near [the Cenotaph] … We knew that would be … inappropriate.
Jamal added:
We’ve not had that information [of an imminent ban] from the police. But what I’m aware of is the police are under immense pressure.
1h ago 05.15 AEDT
About 80 dual nationals and 17 medical evacuees leave Gaza into Egypt - report
Dozens of foreign passport holders and some medical evacuees passed through the Rafah crossing from Gaza into Egypt on Monday, Reuters reported, citing Egyptian security sources.
Evacuations resumed following a two-day suspension after an ambulance was hit by an Israeli strike in Gaza on Friday. The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said 15 people were killed and 60 others wounded after Israeli forces targeted a convoy of ambulances transporting injured people. The Israeli military said, without showing evidence, that the vehicle was carrying Hamas militants.
About 80 dual nationals and 17 medical evacuees had left through Rafah by early Monday evening, according to Egyptian security sources.
The Gaza border authority had said earlier .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/06/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-jordan-airdrops-medical-supplies-gaza-blinken-turkey-push-contain-conflict?page=with:block-6548e46d8f08d1827a66d37b#block-6548e46d8f08d1827a66d37b .. that only Egyptians and foreign citizens already on pre-approved lists issued since last Wednesday would be allowed through the crossing.
Egypt had been seeking guarantees for the safety of ambulances used for evacuations, including escorts from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Egyptian security sources said.
The ICRC said it had escorted a four-ambulance convoy of patients from the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City to the Rafah border on Monday.
Updated at 05.31 AEDT
2h ago 04.59 AEDT
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said it is carrying out airstrikes against sites belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
The IDF statement came after it said it had identified about 30 launches from Lebanon towards northern Israel earlier on Monday.
The Israeli army said it was “responding with artillery fire toward the origin of the launches”.
https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1721543182305894536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1721543182305894536%7Ctwgr%5E12b5a76d875ce4cab1023017f51005115cabf40d%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2Flive%2F2023%2Fnov%2F06%2Fisrael-hamas-war-live-updates-jordan-airdrops-medical-supplies-gaza-blinken-turkey-push-contain-conflict%3Fpage%3Dwith3Ablock-65490b768f0888d3e2106c3a
Updated at 05.10 AEDT
2h ago04.46 AEDT
UN chief António Guterres said the humanitarian aid that is coming through the Rafah border crossing is not nearly enough for the 2.7 million people in Gaza.
“The trickle of assistance does not meet the ocean of needs,” he said.
Just over 400 aid trucks have crossed into Gaza in the past two weeks, compared with 500 each day before the conflict, he said. Those trucks that have gone into Gaza have not included fuel, he added.
Without fuel, babies in incubators and patients on life support will die. Water cannot be pumped or purified. Raw sewage could soon start gushing on to the streets, further spreading disease.
Updated at 05.01 AEDT
2h ago04.39 AEDT
UN chief says Gaza is becoming a 'graveyard for children'
Gaza is becoming a graveyard for children, says António Guterres – video
The UN’s secretary general, António Guterres, has warned that “no one is safe” in Gaza as he reiterated his urgent call for a humanitarian ceasefire.
The situation in Gaza is “more than a humanitarian crisis, it is a crisis of humanity”, Guterres said during a briefing at the UN’s headquarters on Monday.
Israeli ground operations and bombardments are hitting civilians, hospitals, refugee camps, mosques, churches and UN facilities including shelters, he said. The protection of civilians “must be paramount”, he said.
" I’m deeply concerned about the clear violations of international humanitarian law that we are witnessing. Let me be clear, no party to an armed conflict is above international humanitarian law.
He said Gaza was “becoming a graveyard for children” with hundreds of boys and girls reportedly killed or injured every day, he said.
" More journalists have reportedly been killed over a four-week period than in any conflict in at least three decades. More United Nations aid workers have been killed than in any comparable period in the history of our organisation.
Updated at 05.42 AEDT
3h ago 04.07 AEDT
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has said its ambulances are being impeded by road closures around al-Quds hospital in Gaza City.
The closure of roads is affecting the organisation’s ability to reach the wounded, it said.
https://twitter.com/PalestineRCS/status/1721546220059992394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1721546220059992394%7Ctwgr%5E12b5a76d875ce4cab1023017f51005115cabf40d%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2Flive%2F2023%2Fnov%2F06%2Fisrael-hamas-war-live-updates-jordan-airdrops-medical-supplies-gaza-blinken-turkey-push-contain-conflict%3Fpage%3Dwith3Ablock-65490b768f0888d3e2106c3a
Updated at 04.21 AEDT
3h ago 03.46 AEDT
Here are some of the latest images we have received over the news wires from Gaza.
People flee following Israeli air strikes on a neighbourhood in the al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, Photograph: Yasser Qudih/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinians gather at the site of Israeli strikes on houses in Al-Maghazi refugee camp in Deir Al Balah, Gaza. Photograph: Reuters
Palestinians evacuating to the southern Gaza Strip. Photograph: Haitham Imad/EPA
Destruction and chaos caused by Israeli attacks on Al-Maghazi refugee camp in Deir Al Balah, Gaza. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Anadolu/Getty Images
3h ago 03.38 AEDT
Ireland’s prime minister, Leo Varadkar, has said he does not regret describing Israel’s actions in Gaza as “something more approaching revenge”.
The Irish taoiseach, speaking to journalists during a visit to South Korea last week, said:
" I strongly believe that ... Israel has the right to defend itself, has the right to go after Hamas, that they cannot do this again.
But he added:
" What I’m seeing unfolding at the moment isn’t just self defence. It looks, resembles something more approaching revenge. That’s not where we should be. And I don’t think that’s how Israel will guarantee future freedom and future security.
On Monday, Varadkar was asked whether he believed the comment had hampered diplomatic relations with Israel over the exit of Irish citizens from Gaza.
He replied that he did not believe that it had, PA news agency reported.
Asked if he regretted using the word revenge, he replied: “I don’t, no.” He later added:
" When the tánaiste [Micheál Martin] and I take the positions that we do, we do so because we think it’s the right thing.
Ultimately, this is about civilians. Israeli civilians who died and were injured, and also Palestinians who are now experiencing a very difficult situation.
We’ve always taken a view since day one that we condemn Hamas’ attack unequivocally, no excuse for it whatsoever.
Israel has a right to defend itself, but it has to do so in a way that’s proportionate and in line with humanitarian law.
Updated at 03.47 AEDT
3h ago03.24 AEDT
Lisa O'Carroll
Belgium’s prime minister, Alexander De Croo, has said that “what is happening in Gaza today is no longer proportionate”.
He stressed the Belgian government’s condemnation of the 7 October massacre by Hamas and Israel’s right to defend itself.
But he said in Brussels:
" If one bombs an entire refugee camp with the intention of eliminating one terrorist, then I don’t think that is proportionate anymore. Something like that is a bridge too far.
De Croo added it was “completely logical” that “a solution” was sought for Hamas, but “the question is how the solution should be found” during political dialogue, a pause in the fighting and the release of all hostages.
Several Belgian media reported him as saying:
" Our country does not take sides. What we do choose is an end to violence and thousands of civilian victims.
Updated at 03.36 AEDT
3h ago03.18 AEDT
Israel-Hamas war is deadliest ever for UN aid workers, with at least 88 killed
Kaamil Ahmed
The deaths of scores of aid workers in airstrikes on Gaza over the past month has made the conflict the deadliest ever for UN workers.
At least 88 people .. https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/statement-principals-inter-agency-standing-committee-iasc-israel-and-occupied#:~:text=However%2C%20the%20horrific%20killings%20of,children%20and%20over%202%2C400%20women. .. who worked for the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, have been killed since 7 October. Forty-seven of its buildings have been damaged.
Separately, at least 150 health workers have been killed in Gaza – 16 while on duty – and 18 emergency-service workers for Gaza’s civil defence, according to the UN .. https://ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-reported-impact-day-29?_gl=1*jy437r*_ga*MTI0Njc1ODM1MS4xNjgwNjk4OTgx*_ga_E60ZNX2F68*MTY5OTI2MzkxNC4xMjMuMS4xNjk5MjYzOTMwLjQ0LjAuMA.. . More than 100 health facilities have been damaged.
UN agency leaders called on Sunday for an immediate ceasefire and humanitarian access to the territory. They called for both Israel and Hamas to respect international law.
In a joint statement, signatories including the UN human rights commissioner, Volker Turk; Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization; and the UN aid chief, Martin Griffiths, said:
" It’s been 30 days. Enough is enough. This must stop now.
Civilians and the infrastructure they rely on – including hospitals, shelters and schools – must be protected. More aid – food, water, medicine and of course fuel – must enter Gaza safely, swiftly and at the scale needed, and must reach people in need, especially women and children, wherever they are.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/06/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-jordan-airdrops-medical-supplies-gaza-blinken-turkey-push-contain-conflict?page=with:block-65490b768f0888d3e2106c3a
"How Netanyahu's Hamas policy came back to haunt him — and Israel
"Ehud Barak blames Binyamin Netanyahu for “the greatest failure in Israel’s history”
Israel says it kills second Hamas commander in refugee camp, first evacuees leave Gaza
See also: Vengeance Is Not a Policy" "
António Guterres warn ‘no one is safe’ as he repeats call for humanitarian ceasefire; over 4,000 children among the dead in Gaza
* Israel and Hamas at war: what we know on day 31
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/06/israel-and-hamas-at-war-what-we-know-on-day-31
* Israel and Palestine: a complete guide to the crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/03/israel-and-palestine-a-complete-guide-to-the-crisis
LIVE Updated 1m ago
1h ago - About 80 dual nationals and 17 medical evacuees leave Gaza into Egypt - report
2h ago - UN chief says Gaza is becoming a 'graveyard for children'
3h ago - Israel-Hamas war is deadliest ever for UN aid workers, with at least 88 killed
4h ago - IDF: Key Hamas commander killed in targeted airstrike
4h ago - Israel responds to Lebanon rocket attack
4h ago - Summary of the day so far …
6h ago - South Africa: 'We believe nature of Israel's response has become one of collective punishment'
6h ago - Israel welcomes deployment of US nuclear submarine in region as 'deterring, stabilising factor'
6h ago - Blinken: tour has prevented escalation, and US working 'very aggressively' on more humanitarian aid for Gaza
6h ago - Egypt-Gaza Rafah crossing reopens for limited evacuation of foreign nationals
6h ago - Over 10,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza – health ministry
10h ago - Borrell: situation in Middle East is 'outcome of collective political and moral failure'
10h ago - Summary of the day so far …
12h ago - Borne: French death toll from 7 October Hamas attack has risen to 40
12h ago - UK says it is temporarily withdrawing some British embassy staff from Lebanon
14h ago - Israeli military encircles Gaza City
14h ago
Heads of UN agencies call for ‘immediate humanitarian ceasefire’ in rare joint statement
15h ago - Blinken to hold talks in Turkey in next leg of diplomatic tour
16h ago - Jordan airdrops medical supplies to Gaza hospital
16h ago - Opening summary
A Palestinian man in Khan Yunis, on the southern Gaza Strip, as others check the rubble of a building. Photograph: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images
Léonie Chao-Fong (now); Richard Luscombe, Martin Belam and Helen Livingstone (earlier)
Tue 7 Nov 2023 06.08 AEDT
First published on Mon 6 Nov 2023 14.40 AEDT
From 2h ago 04.39 AEDT
UN chief says Gaza is becoming a 'graveyard for children'
Gaza is becoming a graveyard for children, says António Guterres – video
The UN’s secretary general, António Guterres, has warned that “no one is safe” in Gaza as he reiterated his urgent call for a humanitarian ceasefire.
The situation in Gaza is “more than a humanitarian crisis, it is a crisis of humanity”, Guterres said during a briefing at the UN’s headquarters on Monday.
Israeli ground operations and bombardments are hitting civilians, hospitals, refugee camps, mosques, churches and UN facilities including shelters, he said. The protection of civilians “must be paramount”, he said.
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I’m deeply concerned about the clear violations of international humanitarian law that we are witnessing. Let me be clear, no party to an armed conflict is above international humanitarian law.
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He said Gaza was “becoming a graveyard for children” with hundreds of boys and girls reportedly killed or injured every day, he said.
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More journalists have reportedly been killed over a four-week period than in any conflict in at least three decades. More United Nations aid workers have been killed than in any comparable period in the history of our organisation.
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Updated at 05.42 AEDT
44s ago14.16 EST
Patrick Wintour
The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has ended his tour of the Middle East admitting that his efforts to secure a sustained humanitarian pause and greater constraint in Israel’s assault on Gaza was still “a work in progress”.
His comments on Monday followed a meeting with Hakan Fidan, the Turkish foreign minister, in Ankara. He will now head to a meeting of G7 foreign ministers in Japan where he will brief colleagues on the US approach to the crisis, and its impact on western standing.
Over four days of talks, which started in Jerusalem, diplomatic progress appears if anything to have gone into reverse. Blinken was unable to persuade the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Neyanyahu, to adopt a humanitarian pause .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/03/blinken-flies-in-to-israel-to-meet-netanyahu-as-idf-pushes-further-into-gaza-city .. while talks on hostages stalled over the sequencing and length of the pause in hostilities required for their release.
In a further bombardment on Sunday night .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/06/israel-hamas-war-blinken-turkey-gaza-us-submarine-ankara-talks-hakan-fidan , Israel also imposed another temporary communication blackout in Gaza, despite US requests not to do so.
The number of aid trucks crossing the Egyptian border into Gaza .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza at the Rafah crossing went down from 100 on Friday to closer to 30 in the following days.
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24m ago 06.08 AEDT
Israel’s foreign minister, Eli Cohen, has criticised UN chief António Guterres who earlier called .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/06/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-jordan-airdrops-medical-supplies-gaza-blinken-turkey-push-contain-conflict?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with:block-654920118f0832f412179e1c#block-654920118f0832f412179e1c .. for a humanitarian ceasefire and described Gaza as a “graveyard for children”.
“Shame on you,” Cohen posted to social media.
https://twitter.com/elicoh1/status/1721598042858533337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1721598042858533337%7Ctwgr%5E12b5a76d875ce4cab1023017f51005115cabf40d%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2Flive%2F2023%2Fnov%2F06%2Fisrael-hamas-war-live-updates-jordan-airdrops-medical-supplies-gaza-blinken-turkey-push-contain-conflict%3Fpage%3Dwith3Ablock-65490b768f0888d3e2106c3a
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42m ago 05.51 AEDT
More than half a million people in northern Gaza face death by starvation as food supplies run “perilously” low, an international charity has warned.
In a statement on Monday, ActionAid said that a “near-total depletion” of food and water supplies is endangering the lives of civilians trapped in northern Gaza who have barely survived nearly a month of intense bombardment.
Riham Jafari, coordinator of advocacy and communication for ActionAid Palestine, said:
Cases of dehydration and malnutrition are increasing rapidly. Hospitals, which have remained over capacity for weeks on end, can offer no solace to those on the brink of starvation as medical supplies run low, fuel is scarce, and bombs are indiscriminately dropped across Gaza including on the footsteps of hospitals.
1h ago 05.36 AEDT
US President Joe Biden has today spoken with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a White House official said.
The two leaders discussed the potential for tactical pauses in strikes on Gaza during their phone call, according to national security spokesperson John Kirby.
Biden and Netanyahu also discussed the situation in the West Bank, he said.
Updated at 05.45 AEDT
1h ago 05.25 AEDT
Daniel Boffey
Organisers of pro-Palestine marches that have brought hundreds of thousands of people to the streets of London have raised fresh concerns that a major protest planned for Saturday could be banned.
Ben Jamal, the director of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, held a meeting with senior Metropolitan police officers on Monday to finalise details of the route – but there is growing anxiety that the home secretary, Suella Braverman, will intervene.
The protest is scheduled to start at 12.45pm on Saturday 11 November – Remembrance Day – at Hyde Park Corner and end at the US embassy in south-west London, more than a mile from the Cenotaph, where formal remembrance events will be held the next day.
The prime minister’s spokesperson earlier on Monday described the planned event as “provocative” and “disrespectful”.
The marchers are calling for a ceasefire in the war that broke out last month after Hamas killed 1,400 people in Israel and took more than 200 hostages. Thousands of civilians in Gaza have been killed in the Israeli military operation since, according to Gaza’s health authority.
The Met police could apply to the home secretary for a ban under section 13 of the Public Order Act 1986 on the grounds that there is a risk of serious disorder.
“I would say now, there are absolutely no legitimate grounds for doing that,” Jamal said.
Some time ago, we indicated that on the 11th, we would not be going anywhere near [the Cenotaph] … We knew that would be … inappropriate.
Jamal added:
We’ve not had that information [of an imminent ban] from the police. But what I’m aware of is the police are under immense pressure.
1h ago 05.15 AEDT
About 80 dual nationals and 17 medical evacuees leave Gaza into Egypt - report
Dozens of foreign passport holders and some medical evacuees passed through the Rafah crossing from Gaza into Egypt on Monday, Reuters reported, citing Egyptian security sources.
Evacuations resumed following a two-day suspension after an ambulance was hit by an Israeli strike in Gaza on Friday. The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said 15 people were killed and 60 others wounded after Israeli forces targeted a convoy of ambulances transporting injured people. The Israeli military said, without showing evidence, that the vehicle was carrying Hamas militants.
About 80 dual nationals and 17 medical evacuees had left through Rafah by early Monday evening, according to Egyptian security sources.
The Gaza border authority had said earlier .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/06/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-jordan-airdrops-medical-supplies-gaza-blinken-turkey-push-contain-conflict?page=with:block-6548e46d8f08d1827a66d37b#block-6548e46d8f08d1827a66d37b .. that only Egyptians and foreign citizens already on pre-approved lists issued since last Wednesday would be allowed through the crossing.
Egypt had been seeking guarantees for the safety of ambulances used for evacuations, including escorts from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Egyptian security sources said.
The ICRC said it had escorted a four-ambulance convoy of patients from the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City to the Rafah border on Monday.
Updated at 05.31 AEDT
2h ago 04.59 AEDT
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said it is carrying out airstrikes against sites belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
The IDF statement came after it said it had identified about 30 launches from Lebanon towards northern Israel earlier on Monday.
The Israeli army said it was “responding with artillery fire toward the origin of the launches”.
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Updated at 05.10 AEDT
2h ago04.46 AEDT
UN chief António Guterres said the humanitarian aid that is coming through the Rafah border crossing is not nearly enough for the 2.7 million people in Gaza.
“The trickle of assistance does not meet the ocean of needs,” he said.
Just over 400 aid trucks have crossed into Gaza in the past two weeks, compared with 500 each day before the conflict, he said. Those trucks that have gone into Gaza have not included fuel, he added.
Without fuel, babies in incubators and patients on life support will die. Water cannot be pumped or purified. Raw sewage could soon start gushing on to the streets, further spreading disease.
Updated at 05.01 AEDT
2h ago04.39 AEDT
UN chief says Gaza is becoming a 'graveyard for children'
Gaza is becoming a graveyard for children, says António Guterres – video
The UN’s secretary general, António Guterres, has warned that “no one is safe” in Gaza as he reiterated his urgent call for a humanitarian ceasefire.
The situation in Gaza is “more than a humanitarian crisis, it is a crisis of humanity”, Guterres said during a briefing at the UN’s headquarters on Monday.
Israeli ground operations and bombardments are hitting civilians, hospitals, refugee camps, mosques, churches and UN facilities including shelters, he said. The protection of civilians “must be paramount”, he said.
" I’m deeply concerned about the clear violations of international humanitarian law that we are witnessing. Let me be clear, no party to an armed conflict is above international humanitarian law.
He said Gaza was “becoming a graveyard for children” with hundreds of boys and girls reportedly killed or injured every day, he said.
" More journalists have reportedly been killed over a four-week period than in any conflict in at least three decades. More United Nations aid workers have been killed than in any comparable period in the history of our organisation.
Updated at 05.42 AEDT
3h ago 04.07 AEDT
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has said its ambulances are being impeded by road closures around al-Quds hospital in Gaza City.
The closure of roads is affecting the organisation’s ability to reach the wounded, it said.
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Updated at 04.21 AEDT
3h ago 03.46 AEDT
Here are some of the latest images we have received over the news wires from Gaza.
People flee following Israeli air strikes on a neighbourhood in the al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, Photograph: Yasser Qudih/AFP/Getty Images
Palestinians gather at the site of Israeli strikes on houses in Al-Maghazi refugee camp in Deir Al Balah, Gaza. Photograph: Reuters
Palestinians evacuating to the southern Gaza Strip. Photograph: Haitham Imad/EPA
Destruction and chaos caused by Israeli attacks on Al-Maghazi refugee camp in Deir Al Balah, Gaza. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Anadolu/Getty Images
3h ago 03.38 AEDT
Ireland’s prime minister, Leo Varadkar, has said he does not regret describing Israel’s actions in Gaza as “something more approaching revenge”.
The Irish taoiseach, speaking to journalists during a visit to South Korea last week, said:
" I strongly believe that ... Israel has the right to defend itself, has the right to go after Hamas, that they cannot do this again.
But he added:
" What I’m seeing unfolding at the moment isn’t just self defence. It looks, resembles something more approaching revenge. That’s not where we should be. And I don’t think that’s how Israel will guarantee future freedom and future security.
On Monday, Varadkar was asked whether he believed the comment had hampered diplomatic relations with Israel over the exit of Irish citizens from Gaza.
He replied that he did not believe that it had, PA news agency reported.
Asked if he regretted using the word revenge, he replied: “I don’t, no.” He later added:
" When the tánaiste [Micheál Martin] and I take the positions that we do, we do so because we think it’s the right thing.
Ultimately, this is about civilians. Israeli civilians who died and were injured, and also Palestinians who are now experiencing a very difficult situation.
We’ve always taken a view since day one that we condemn Hamas’ attack unequivocally, no excuse for it whatsoever.
Israel has a right to defend itself, but it has to do so in a way that’s proportionate and in line with humanitarian law.
Updated at 03.47 AEDT
3h ago03.24 AEDT
Lisa O'Carroll
Belgium’s prime minister, Alexander De Croo, has said that “what is happening in Gaza today is no longer proportionate”.
He stressed the Belgian government’s condemnation of the 7 October massacre by Hamas and Israel’s right to defend itself.
But he said in Brussels:
" If one bombs an entire refugee camp with the intention of eliminating one terrorist, then I don’t think that is proportionate anymore. Something like that is a bridge too far.
De Croo added it was “completely logical” that “a solution” was sought for Hamas, but “the question is how the solution should be found” during political dialogue, a pause in the fighting and the release of all hostages.
Several Belgian media reported him as saying:
" Our country does not take sides. What we do choose is an end to violence and thousands of civilian victims.
Updated at 03.36 AEDT
3h ago03.18 AEDT
Israel-Hamas war is deadliest ever for UN aid workers, with at least 88 killed
Kaamil Ahmed
The deaths of scores of aid workers in airstrikes on Gaza over the past month has made the conflict the deadliest ever for UN workers.
At least 88 people .. https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/statement-principals-inter-agency-standing-committee-iasc-israel-and-occupied#:~:text=However%2C%20the%20horrific%20killings%20of,children%20and%20over%202%2C400%20women. .. who worked for the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, have been killed since 7 October. Forty-seven of its buildings have been damaged.
Separately, at least 150 health workers have been killed in Gaza – 16 while on duty – and 18 emergency-service workers for Gaza’s civil defence, according to the UN .. https://ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-reported-impact-day-29?_gl=1*jy437r*_ga*MTI0Njc1ODM1MS4xNjgwNjk4OTgx*_ga_E60ZNX2F68*MTY5OTI2MzkxNC4xMjMuMS4xNjk5MjYzOTMwLjQ0LjAuMA.. . More than 100 health facilities have been damaged.
UN agency leaders called on Sunday for an immediate ceasefire and humanitarian access to the territory. They called for both Israel and Hamas to respect international law.
In a joint statement, signatories including the UN human rights commissioner, Volker Turk; Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization; and the UN aid chief, Martin Griffiths, said:
" It’s been 30 days. Enough is enough. This must stop now.
Civilians and the infrastructure they rely on – including hospitals, shelters and schools – must be protected. More aid – food, water, medicine and of course fuel – must enter Gaza safely, swiftly and at the scale needed, and must reach people in need, especially women and children, wherever they are.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/06/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-jordan-airdrops-medical-supplies-gaza-blinken-turkey-push-contain-conflict?page=with:block-65490b768f0888d3e2106c3a
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