There is no safe place in Gaza right now, a senior UN official said Friday, adding that even “a UN flag” cannot provide any safety to civilians…
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The Palestine Red Crescent Society said more than a dozen people were killed in the attack. The ambulances had departed the hospital and were bound for the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, the PRCS said, but turned around due to rubble blocking the road. The camp is located in the evacuation zone where Israel's military had urged Palestinian civilians in Gaza to seek refuge as it focused its military offensive in the northern areas. Despite such appeals, Israel has continued its bombardment across Gaza, saying it is targeting Hamas fighters and assets everywhere in the besieged enclave. It has accused Hamas of using civilians as human shields.
To date, it's estimated that more than 9,200 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza, which is run by Hamas. Israel in an update Sunday said that over 1,400 people had been killed — the majority in the Hamas terror attack on Oct. 7.Twenty-one Palestinians from one family were killed in Israeli strikes targeting Gaza overnight, the Health Ministry in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip said on Sunday.
Asked in an interview with Radio Kol Berama whether an atomic bomb should be dropped on the Gaza Strip, Israel's Heritage minister Amichai Eliyahu, a far-right politician of theHe also reportedly stated that humanitarian aid to the population should be restricted, saying"we wouldn't hand the Nazis humanitarian aid. There is no such thing as uninvolved civilians in Gaza."
Palestinian news agency WAFA said 51 Palestinians, mostly women and children, were killed and scores wounded in an Israeli bombardment of Gaza's Maghazi camp on Saturday night. Erdogan made the remarks a day before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was due to arrive in Ankara forits criticism of Israel as the humanitarian crisis in Gaza has intensified, supports a two-state solution and hosts members of Hamas, which it does not view as a terrorist organization, unlike the United States, Britain and others in the West.
The escalating bombardment comes as Israel's military said it had encircled Gaza City, the initial target of its offensive to crush Hamas. President Joe Biden suggested Saturday there have been some advances in U.S. attempts to persuade Israel to pause military strikes on Gaza for humanitarian reasons.
"Now!" the crowd chanted repeatedly, calling for hostages to be freed without delay after nearly a month in captivity. Many held pictures of the hostages, including photos of children and older people. In Washington D.C., and New York, tens of thousands of protesters also joined together, some calling on the U.S. government to stop sending military aid to Israel and demanding a ceasefire. And for the fourth weekend in a row, major cities in Europe saw droves of protesters who also called for an end to the war.
Thousands of Israelis are protesting outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's official residence in central Jerusalem, calling on the Israeli leader to resign in the wake of the bloody Oct. 7 Hamas rampage that sparked the latest Israel-Hamas war. "Where were you in Kfar Azza," chanted the protesters, referring to one of the Israeli border communities that was overrun by Hamas.
Directly addressing Blinken, Safadi said in his opening remarks that the U.S. has a leading role to play in"ending this catastrophe." Secretary of State Antony Blinken will include Turkey in his trip to the Middle East, as relations between the country and and Israel deteriorate. Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati flew to Cairo on Saturday for talks with President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt, after his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the Jordanian capital of Amman.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gives a press conference during the NATO Summit in Vilnius on July 12, 2023. Speaking to reporters in the Jordanian capital Amman, he said that those distributing aid in Gaza had not reported aid being diverted since trucks resumed crossing the Egypt-controlled Rafah gate on Oct. 21 after diplomatic wrangling to resume the flow.
A rising number of bakeries have also stopped operating due to fuel and water shortages, as well as airstrike damage.Civilians wait in front of a partially collapsed, still operational bakehouse in Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir al Balah, Gaza on November 04, 2023. The bakehouse, which is the only bakehouse in the camp, hit by Israeli forces.
The WFP has warned that widespread food insecurity across Gaza was quickly becoming a serious crisis. The home is located in a narrow alley in the refugee camp, which has become a crowded neighborhood of Gaza City over the generations. Haniyeh, a former aide to Hamas' founder, Ahmed Yassin, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in 2004, has been in exile since 2019.
Israel's military said it had launched an airstrike on"an ambulance that was identified by forces as being used by a Hamas terrorist cell in close proximity to their position in the battle zone".British foreign minister James Cleverly has urged Iran to use its influence with groups in the Middle East region to prevent an escalation of Israel's conflict with Hamas.
Israel continues to reject U.S. calls for a pause in the fighting to allow more aid into Gaza, saying there would be no temporary cease-fire until an estimated 240 hostages held by militant group Hamas are released. "Let's be very clear, there is no place that is safe in Gaza right now," Thomas White, the director of UNRWA affairs, said on Friday, describing the enclave as"a scene of death and destruction."A view of destroyed area after the Israeli attacks on the Nasirat Refugee Camp that continues on its 28th day in Gaza City, Gaza on November 3, 2023.
UNRWA has itself lost 72 staff members during the conflict. White believed this marked the highest loss ever of UN staff in conflict.from the Gaza Strip back to the besieged territory, Palestinian authorities said, capping what many described as harrowing weeks trapped in legal limbo since their detention when theThousands of Palestinian workers deported by Israel return to the Gaza Strip in Rafah, Gaza on November 03, 2023.
The humanitarian group Palestine Red Crescent Society said it received 47 humanitarian aid trucks Friday from the Egyptian Red Crescent across the Rafah border crossing.
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