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In a statement, the Municipality of Gaza (MoG) has expressed its profound concerns over the halt of the essential services, top of which is water supply, in light of the depletion of fuel. Hereby, the Municipality of Gaza earnestly communicates the following: • MoG expresses its grievance over the failures recorded by the United Nations…
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Palestinian human rights groups have refused to meet the International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan. The groups accused him of favouring Israeli accusations of human rights abuses over longstanding Palestinian charges. Mr Khan has been visiting Israel and the occupied West Bank following a request by a group representing families of victims of the 7…
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Israel will seek a “security envelope” with special zones and arrangements preventing Hamas from being positioned on its border once the war is over, an official has said. Mark Regev, a special adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Israel can “never again” allow Hamas to carry out an attack on its people. “Israel will…
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Overnight, Israel has said it will allow two truckloads of fuel per day into Gaza, following pressure from the US and concern from the UN. “We will increase the capacity of the humanitarian convoys and trucks as long as there is a need,” Colonel Elad Goren from COGAT, the defence ministry agency that coordinates administrative…
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The Israel Defence Forces says two more of its soldiers have been killed fighting in Gaza. This brings the total number of those killed in operations inside the strip to 44. The IDF named the soldiers as commando brigade members Major Isachar Natan, 28, and Staff Sergeant Itay Shoham, 21. A member of the Oketz…
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We’re now hearing from senior adviser to Prime Minister Netanyahu, Mark Regev, who is talking with Kay Burley about the fuel situation at al Shifa hospital. “We delivered fuel two days ago,” he says. “The Israeli army approached the hospital and [left], I think it was 300 metres from the hospital, a supply of fuel…
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Dr. Mohammed Ghneim has not left his hospital in Gaza City in four weeks. He can’t remember the last time he slept or ate, and his blue scrubs are stained in the blood of patients who’ve died in his arms. His voice cracks under the weight of the horrors he’s seen: fetuses pulled from the…
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The final resolution issued by the joint Arab and Islamic summit in Riyadh demands the end of what it describes as Israel’s aggression against Gaza, as well as “war crimes and barbaric, brutal and inhumane massacres.” “We condemn the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip, the war crimes and the barbaric, brutal and inhumane massacres…
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Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah gave his second speech since the Hamas-Israel war started via video link from an undisclosed location Saturday, in which he addressed the situation in Gaza and clashes on the Lebanon-Israel border. Nasrallah called the situation unfolding in Gaza “big, exceptional and dangerous in this region and the world,” adding that…
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Late last night we brought you news that US forces had struck a weapons storage facility in eastern Syria used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and affiliated groups. The White House has provided an update, saying the strikes aimed to deter Iranian-backed separatists from targeting American personnel in the region. “We know that…
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At 10.30am in Washington, White House spokesman John Kirby announced what he was claiming to be a significant moment in the negotiations for a pause in fighting. “We understand that Israel will begin to implement four-hour pauses in areas of northern Gaza each day, with an announcement to be made three hours beforehand and we…
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Israeli defence minister suggests pauses won’t curb offensive More now on the mixed messages surrounding humanitarian pauses in Gaza. If you’re just joining us, the White House said Israel had agreed to new, daily, four-hour humanitarian pauses. But as Sky News correspondent Mark Stone outlined in our 18.48 post, the IDF’s spokesperson offered a slightly different interpretation.…
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The World Health Organisation has said that surgeries, including amputations, are being performed in Gaza without anaesthesia due to critically low supplies. The WHO is one of a number of organizations to call for more aid to enter the enclave, and for “humanitarian pauses” to allow the worst injured out of the enclave. A spokesperson also…
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Hamas spokesman Osama Hamdan now turns to the wider international crisis. “We are warning all parties, if they want to do something to our people… our great Palestinian people will not accept it,” he says. The US has “dirty plans”, he says, before adding the people of Gaza will not keep silent if Washington continues…
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Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli forces shot at their car in the West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry has said. Another was wounded in the incident in the city of Tulkarm, according to the ministry. Violence in the West Bank has intensified since Hamas’s attack on Israel on 7 October. At least 132 Palestinians,…
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The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate on Saturday warned of Israeli “massacres” against reporters in the Gaza Strip amid internet and communication blackouts. “More than 24 journalists and dozens of their families were already killed and dozens of journalists’ homes and media institutions destroyed,” it said in a statement. These attacks “are part of a systematic policy…
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