At least 6,546 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli bombardments, including 2,704 children, as Israel escalates air strikes across besieged Gaza on the 19th day of conflict.
Israel's military intensified its bombing of southern Gaza overnight, amid international calls for a pause in fighting to let aid into the Palestinian enclave and prevent many more deaths. / Photo: AFPOfficials in Gaza have dismissed as a"lie" Israeli claims of tanks of fuel being held by Hamas in the blockaded enclave.
Here is a closer look at challenges that Israeli army could face if it decides to launch ground incursion into Gaza 👇United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was"shocked" by what he called"misrepresentations" of his remarks a day earlier on Hamas that infuriated Israel.
It termed the Gaza conflict as a “genocide led by the US and the West against disarmed people under blockade.”"As a party that bases its principles on fairness and justice, we cannot sit idly by as Palestinians face collective punishment, said a letter signed by the councillors. During a high-level debate at the UN Security Council over the situation in the Middle East, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Munir Akram said that his country condemns terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.
"Against a backdrop of heightened political tensions, deepening dependency on the occupying power and a stalled peace process, the Palestinian economy continued to operate below potential in 2022 as other persistent challenges intensified," it said. Qatar's top diplomat Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said the two governments - both Western allies -"reaffirm our complete rejection of responding to the crisis with double standards when it comes to human life".
"Humanitarian pauses - which are temporary, which are limited in scope - can be an operational tool, and obviously that is something we could consider, and have been discussing," Sunak's spokesperson said.Israel will consider whether to approve all entry requests submitted by UN employees, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority reported.
But the United States has called for pauses to allow aid to enter Gaza, while Russia wants a humanitarian ceasefire.The Israeli army prohibited access to an area of 1,000 metres inside Gaza near Israel’s perimeter fence. He also said that all parties in Palestine-Israel should take their fingers off the trigger, and declare a ceasefire immediately."We had a project to go to Israel, but it was cancelled, we will not go," Erdogan told ruling party politicians in parliament.Israel's indiscriminate attacks on Palestine's besieged Gaza have killed 6,546 people since the beginning of the conflict, the Health Ministry in the enclave has said.
The bakery"used to provide tens of thousands of the camp residents and the displaced people with bread," he further added. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said more than one-third of hospitals in Gaza and nearly two-thirds of primary health care clinics had shut due to damage or lack of fuel.UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, warned in a post on messaging platform X that it would halt operations in Gaza night because of the lack of fuel.
The three groups are part of the"axis of resistance" -- Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian and other Iran-backed armed groups opposed to Israel. While putting the direct cost of the war at around 1 billion shekels a day to Israel, Smotrich said in an Army Radio broadcast that he did not yet have an assessment of the indirect costs on an economy partly paralysed by the mass mobilisation of military reservists and extensive Palestinian rocket salvoes.
Australia sent a Boeing C-17 aircraft and an air refueller plane that has the capacity to carry passengers, taking the total to three, Defence Minister Richard Marles said. "What we are seeing is the prospect for more significant escalation against US forces and personnel across the region in the very near term coming from Iranian proxy forces and ultimately from Iran," he said during a Pentagon briefing.
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