An Israeli military helicopter is seen above a helipad at a hospital following a mass-infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, southern Israel October 7, 2023.
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Macron calls Hamas a terrorist organization that, in a 'criminal and cynical way', is 'exposing the people of Gaza'. France has also ordered local authorities to ban all pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
Palestinian health ministry says Gaza death toll has risen to 1,572 with a further 7,262 wounded.
United Nations says it has received an order from the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) saying that “the entire population of Gaza north of Wadi Gaza should relocate to southern Gaza within the next 24 hours,” Reuters reported.
“The United Nations considers it impossible for such a movement to take place without devastating humanitarian consequences,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement.
IDF has issued an official statement ordering all civilians in Gaza City to evacuate to the area south of Wadi Gaza for 'their own safety and protection'
"The IDF calls for the Evacuation of all Civilians of Gaza City from their Homes, Southwards for their own Safety and Protection and move to the Area South of the Wadi Gaza, as shown on the Map.
The Hamas Terrorist Organization waged a War against the State of Israel and Gaza City is an Area where Military Operations take place. This Evacuation is for your own Safety. You will be able to Return to Gaza City only when another announcement permitting it is made. Do not approach the Area of the Security Fence with the State of Israel.
Hamas Terrorists are hiding in Gaza City inside Tunnels underneath Houses and inside Buildings populated with Innocent Gazan Civilians. Civilians of Gaza City, Evacuate South for your own Safety and the Safety of your Families and distance yourself from Hamas Terrorists who are using you as Human Shields.
In the following days, the IDF will continue to Significantly Operate in Gaza City and make Extensive Efforts to avoid Harming Civilians.”
“There is only one solution. Intifada Revolution": University of Washington students in Seattle
The Israeli air force has dropped 6,000 bombs on Gaza since Saturday, it said late on Thursday
UN agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) relocates its opeartions, staff, South
'Our aim is to take all of Hamas’s military abilities and strip them away,' IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus
Israeli Air Force puts an update on X, says it struck 750 military targets overnight
Families in Israel hold funeral ceremonies at Mount Herzl for people killed during the Hamas attack.
In a call with Chinese envoy to Middle east, Israel expresses 'deep disappointment' with China over its lack of condemnation of Hamas’s weekend attack.
“The ambassador expressed Israel’s deep disappointment with Chinese announcements and statements about the recent events in the south, where there was no clear and unequivocal condemnation of the terrible massacre committed by the terrorist organization Hamas against innocent civilians and the abduction of dozens of them to Gaza,” Reuters reports the statement said.
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has landed in Israel for high level discussions
Hamas armed wing Al Qassam Brigades claim that Israel’s heavy bombardment of the Gaza Strip killed 13 hostages in past 24 hours. It says they were killed in various locations. There is no confirmation from Israel yet
Spectator Index reports that an Israeli embassy staffer has been stabbed in Beijing
Reports incoming on mass protests in Baghdad and Tehran in support of Hamas
Gaza residents begin moving South following Israel Military's appeal to evacuate from north of Wadi Gaza
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian discussed volatile situation with leader of Hezbollah amid concerns of latter joining war against Israel, reports AP
Chaos continues as Hamas called on Palestinians in Gaza to stay put despite Israel's evacuation orders
Tamil Nadu Health Minister M A Subramanian welcomes 16 residents of state in Chennai that were evacuated from Israel under India's 'operation Ajay'
Watch live as Israeli artillery maintains positions near Gaza
Egypt sends troops to reinforce its border with Gaza, AP reports
WHO calls for reversal of Israel's evacuation orders to 1.1 million Palestinians in Gaza, says it amounts to 'death sentence' for vulnerable patients
“There are severely ill people whose injuries mean their only chances of survival is being on life support, such as mechanical ventilators,” WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic said, Reuters reported. Director general of WHO also made similar appeals on X.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola land in Israel
UN Palestinian Refugee Agency terms Gaza evacuation orders 'horrendous', says enclave becoming a 'hellhole'
The United Nations Palestinian refugee agency on Friday described Israel's call to move more than 1 million civilians in northern Gaza in 24 hours as "horrendous" and said the enclave was rapidly becoming a "hellhole".
"The call from the Israelis Forces to move more than 1 million civilians living in northern Gaza within 24 hours is horrendous," Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), said in a statement.
"The scale and speed of the unfolding humanitarian crisis is bone-chilling. Gaza is fast becoming a hell hole and is on the brink of collapse."
Palestinians flee their houses heading toward the southern part of Gaza Strip after Israel's call for more than 1 million civilians in northern Gaza to move south within 24 hours, amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza City October 13, 2023.
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Jordan disperses pro-Palestinian protesters heading to border with West Bank
Jordanian riot police on Friday forcibly dispersed hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters trying to reach a border zone with the Israeli-occupied West Bank as thousands held anti-Israel demonstrations across the country, witnesses said.
Jordan is worried that a regional widening of violence arising from the war between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza could have repercussions for itself given that a large percentage of its population are Palestinians.
Jordan lost the West Bank including East Jerusalem to Israel in the 1967 Middle East war and the Palestinian territory was seeing a rise in violence between Palestinians and the Israeli military and settlers even before the Gaza conflict erupted.
Jordanians gather in a rally to express solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, in Amman, Jordan, October 13, 2023.
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'I know ISIS very well, and it's worse than what I've seen with ISIS,' says US Defense Secretary Austin on Hamas' attack, after meeting Netanyahu
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, and said in reference to the Hamas attack, "I know ISIS very well, and it's worse than what I've seen with ISIS."
'Path ahead long, but we will win,' says Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.
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Ready to send more military aid to Israel, says US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Friday that the Pentagon was ready to deploy more military aid to Israel as Israeli forces prepare for a likely invasion of Gaza in response to a devastating attack by militant group Hamas.
Austin said that munitions, air defence capabilities and other equipment and resources were "rapidly flowing" to Washington's closest Middle Eastern ally. Israel has vowed to crush Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement that rules Gaza.
"The U.S. Department of Defense stands fully ready to deploy additional assets if necessary," Austin told a news conference in Tel Aviv with his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (L) with his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant (R).
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Turkish President Erdogan says Israel must allow humanitarian aid through Egypt's Rafah crossing
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Israel needed to allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip through Egypt's Rafah crossing after the first plane carrying Turkish aid arrived in Egypt.
In a speech in Istanbul, Erdogan said that Turkey will continue sending aid to Gaza in cooperation with Egypt and that Turkish authorities were continuing contacts to free hostages and find a solution to the crisis.
A Palestinian walks amid the rubble of a building destroyed in Israeli strikes, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip October 9, 2023.
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1,799 Palestinians killed and 6,388 wounded in Israeli strikes, says Gaza Health Ministry
A Palestinian sits on the rubble of a building destroyed in Israeli strikes, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip October 9, 2023.
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Parliament President Roberta Metsola visited Kfar Azza insouthern Israel, at the border with Gaza
“Hamas are terrorists. They don’t represent the aspirations of the Palestinian people, they hinder it," says European Parliament President Roberta Metsola
Israel sounds infiltration alarm in village near Lebanon border
The Israeli military warned residents of a village near the Lebanese border on Friday to hole up at home and lock doors and windows, saying a suspected armed infiltration was under way and that it was responding with artillery fire into Lebanon.
The alert took place in Hanita, 500 metres (yards) from the border and opposite the Lebanese community of Aalma El-Chaeb.
The military statement said there had been an explosion at the adjacent border fence, which was lightly damaged.
Israeli military denies allegation it's using white phosphorus in Gaza
The Israeli military said on Friday it has made no use of white phosphorus in its Gaza war this week, in an apparent denial of a Human Rights Watch report.
"The current accusation made against the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) regarding the use of white phosphorus in Gaza is unequivocally false," it said in a statement.
Death toll in West bank rises to 11 on Friday, Palestinian Health Ministry says
Putin says Israel suffered cruel attack but its response is cruel too
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Israel was replying to an attack of unprecedented cruelty by using cruel methods of its own.
"Israel is replying on a large scale and also with quite cruel methods," Putin said during a visit to Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan.
He said that "even in the United States" scenarios for Gaza were being discussed that were comparable to the siege of the Soviet city of Leningrad (now St Petersburg) by Nazi Germany in World War Two.
"In my view it is unacceptable," Putin said. "More than 2 million people live there. Far from all of them support Hamas by the way, far from all. But all of them have to suffer, including women and children. Of course it's hard for anyone to agree with this."
Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Second batch of Indian passengers to board flight from Tel Aviv tonight under 'Operation Ajay'
Indian passengers waiting at Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion airport.
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Egypt warns against Israeli call for Gaza residents to move south
Palestinians flee their houses heading toward the southern part of the Gaza Strip after Israel's call for more than 1 million civilians in northern Gaza to move south within 24 hours, amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza City on October 13, 2023.
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Palestinian pro-Hamas Shehab news agency on Friday said 17 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza Strip
Israeli military says it has carried out small raids into Gaza Strip, reports AP
Israeli military says it has carried out small raids into Gaza Strip, reports AP
Israel set to cut off internet connectivity in Gaza from tomorrow
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Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah has been killed in southern Lebanon
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Politico reports that Israel's ground invasion into Gaza is now 'imminent', according to two Israeli officials.
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An IDF UAV is currently striking terrorist targets belonging to Hezbollah in Lebanon
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