Contains upsetting scenes
#BBCNews - #Israel - #Gaza : The devastating effects of war on Gaza's children
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67339988
#BBCNews - The writers who reached out across the divide
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67335042
#Israel #Gaza
#BBCNews - South African divisions exposed by #Israel - #Hamas conflict
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-67257862
#BBCNews - #Israel - #Gaza war: 'I couldn't believe it was possible to kidnap an 85-year-old woman'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67336608
#BBCNews - #Hamas leader refuses to acknowledge killing of civilians in #Israel
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67321241
#BBCNews - #Israeli archaeologists help find remains of #Hamas attack victims
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67343928
Acc to RSF 41 journalists killed in the #Israel - #Gaza war
https://rsf.org/en/israelpalestine-war-41-journalists-more-one-day-killed-first-month-israel-palestine-war
#JournalismIsNotACrime
On #CNN 's Anderson Cooper, Emily #Callahan , a nurse/manager with #MSF talks about what she witnessed in #Gaza for the last month
https://youtu.be/lZC8Zj27g-8?feature=shared
'I’m calling from Israeli intelligence. We have the order to bomb. You have two hours'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67327079
#Israel #Gaza
#BBCNews - #Hamas #hostages : #Israeli mothers recall their children being kidnapped by Hamas
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67353034
Mohamed Shaheen films bombing aftermath in al-Zahra
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67328400
#BBCNews - Jewish students at UK universities 'deeply anxious', union warns
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67350003
BBC News - Imran Hussain: Shadow minister quits Labour front bench over Gaza
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67353019
#Thailand 's foreign ministry says the remains of seven nationals killed in #Hamas ' attack in #Israel will arrive in Bangkok on Thursday.
34 Thais were killed during or since the attack on 7 October. Another 24 Thai people are among the captives held by Hamas.
Thail officials say they have been in talks with Qatar, Iran and Eygpt authorities to negotiate their release.
Thailand provides almost all the foreign farm labour in Israel, more here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-67191203
#BBCNews - 'We walked into a wasteland' - BBC's Jeremy Bowen in #Gaza with #Israeli forces
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67362960
Wrap of the day:
Israel says 50,000 Palestinians left the Gaza City area today, after its military opened up the main road to southern Gaza
A military spokesperson said people were fleeing because "Hamas has lost control of the north"
For weeks, Israel has told people in the north of Gaza to head south, saying it is safer, though Hamas-run authorities have reported air strikes today in both the north and south
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The head of the UN says the number of civilians killed in Gaza shows something is "clearly wrong" with Israel's military operation
Meanwhile, the UN’s human rights commissioner accuses both Israel and Hamas of war crimes
Israel began striking Gaza after the Hamas attacks on 7 October, which saw 1,400 people killed and more than 240 taken hostage
More than 10,500 people have been killed in Gaza according to the Hamas-run health ministry, including more than 4,300 children
A convoy carrying emergency medical supplies and medicine have reached the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, in a joint effort between the UN and WHO
It is the 2nd delivery of vital aid to the hospital since the conflict between Hamas and Israel escalated, acc to UNRWA
But they say the quantity of supplies "are far from sufficient to respond to the immense needs in the Gaza Strip".
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The medical conditions at Al-Shifa are "disastrous", the statement added.
UNRWA and WHO again called for fuel to be delivered to humanitarian agencies in the Gaza Strip.
"Without fuel, hospitals and other essential facilities such as desalination plants and bakeries cannot operate, and more people will most certainly die as a result," they said.
V AFP:
Yemen's Houthi rebel movement shot down an American MQ-9 Reaper drone, a senior US official said.
"A US military MQ-9 remotely-piloted aircraft was shot down off the coast of Yemen by Houthi forces," the official is quoted.
The rebels have been fighting a war against a government backed by a Saudi-led coalition since 2015.
The #BBC has spoken to the mothers of some of the children being held hostage in Gaza.
Renana Jacob was not at home when Hamas's 7 October attack began, and rang her sons Yagel, 12, and Or, 16.
She told us: "The last thing I heard my youngest boy saying to me a month ago… he was begging for them not to take him.
"He said 'I'm too young. Please don't take me. I'm too young'."
They are believed to be among the 242 people Israel says are being held hostage inside Gaza.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67353034
Both sides in the conflict in @Gaza and #Israel have committed war crimes, the UN high commissioner for human rights has said.
Speaking on Wednesday at the Rafah border crossing, Volker Türk said: The atrocities that were perpetrated by Palestinian armed groups on the 7th of October were heinous, brutal and shocking, they were war crimes as is the continued holding of hostages.”
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"The collective punishment by Israel of Palestinian civilians amounts also to war crimes, as does the unlawful forceable evacuation of civilians. Domestic bombardments by Israel has killed, maimed and injured in particular women and children."
Türk described the bombardment of the Gaza Strip as putting "an unbearable toll on human lives, on civilians".
‘No anaesthesia, painkillers’
New mothers in a hospital in southern Gaza speak of giving birth amid war and the fears they have for their babies' futures.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-67364296?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=654c7cd42ea49e2bc009a3dd%26%E2%80%98No%20anaesthesia%2C%20painkillers%E2%80%99%3A%20Giving%20birth%20in%20Gaza%262023-11-09T06%3A31%3A50.145Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:91f85760-ba86-4456-a405-136dbf0f1df2&pinned_post_asset_id=654c7cd42ea49e2bc009a3dd&pinned_post_type=share
The head of the ICRC in Gaza has told the BBC one of its aid convoys was hit, leaving one of their truck drivers within “centimetres” of death.
“the conditions are not conducive for humanitarians to work right now, let alone to live in,” William Schomburg, who was also a part of the aid convoy, said
“We need a basic level of safety and supplies" he noted, adding that hospitals remain low on fuel, while the search for potable drinking water has become a day to day challenge.
The second in command of Hezbollah says Israel's killing of civilians in Gaza risks causing a wider war in the Middle East.
The Shia Islamist group - classed as a terrorist organisation by the UK, US and the Arab League - is the largest political and military force in Lebanon.
Speaking in Beirut, Sheikh Naim Qassem told the BBC’s Orla Guerin that "very serious and very dangerous developments could occur in the region, and no-one would be able to stop the repercussions"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-67349605
Some 80 countries and intnl orgs will meet in Paris to discuss ways of getting humanitarian aid to Gaza.
The French govt is hosting the conference - which will look at restoring the supply of water, fuel and electricity in Gaza, while ensuring aid is not diverted to Hamas.
Israel will be not be represented and the United States is only sending a low-level team. French officials have said Israel is being kept informed of developments.
acc to Geneva Conventions and intnl law military forces cannot deliberately attack civilians and the wounded must be cared for, incl injured soldiers who have rights as prisoners of war.
Hostage taking is prohibited and considered a war crime.
countries engaged in conflict "may not deport or forcibly transfer the civilian population… unless the security of the civilians involved or imperative military reasons so demand”, known as an act of displacement.
IDF have posted that its soldiers have taken over a Hamas outpost in Jabalia. They said it took "10 hours of fighting, during which they eliminated terrorists, captured many weapons, uncovered terrorist tunnel shafts, including a shaft located near a kindergarten and leading to an extensive underground route".
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It comes as the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that Israeli planes had bombed and destroyed a house in Jabalia refugee camp with people trapped under rubble. It also said dozens were wounded in Gaza City.
The BBC has not been able to verify the reports. Israel’s military earlier said Hamas had lost control of northern Gaza and its troops have advanced into Gaza City.
#BBCNews - London #Gaza rally: #Braverman accuses #Met of bias over Gaza marches
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67364745
The US says that Israel will begin to implement four-hour military pauses in areas of northern Gaza each day to allow civilians to flee
White House spokesman John Kirby says the move represents a "significant first step"
Earlier the Israeli military said "there are tactical, local pauses for humanitarian aid for Gazan civilians" and made clear "there is no ceasefire"
The Islamic Jihad group in Gaza has released a video of two Israeli hostages - an elderly woman and a boy
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There has been fighting between Israel and Hamas close to the Al Quds hospital in Gaza City
The BBC correspondent in the Gaza Strip reports "a real gun battle" in the area
Israel began striking Gaza after the Hamas attacks on 7 October, which saw 1300 people acc to Israeli press (1194 confirmed - identified, many remain unidentified) killed, more than 200 taken hostage
More than 10,800 people have been killed in Gaza, acc to the Hamas-run health ministry, including more than 4,400 children
Nour Swirki is a journalist who had to leave her home in Gaza City with her husband, mother, sister and two children - excerpts from her msg to BBC:
“I pray to God if something happened to any of us it would be happening to all of us, so no one is left behind, no one is left alone... [The kids] keep expressing their feelings of fear. In the night they sleep beside me, and my son Jamal he hugs me every day, every single moment... and says to me, 'I love you, I love you'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001s5fh?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Ecologist tracks birds of prey to find Israeli dead
#Jenin raid: 14 Palestinians killed in clashes in West Bank city
Fights in bread lines, despair in shelters: War threatens to unravel Gaza’s close-knit society
‘The Phone Doesn’t Stop’: Overwhelming Demands For A Cease-Fire Catch Democrats Off Guard
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/calls-for-congress-ceasefire-gaza-israel_n_654d4d0ce4b0373d70b16b0f
Death toll in Gaza likely ‘higher than is being reported’: US official
https://thehill.com/policy/international/4301551-gaza-deaths-likely-higher-than-cited-us-official/
Hardly surprising we may not easily find ;/ recover bodies buried under rubble.
