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- Palestinians in Gaza continue to suffer as the only power plant remains out of service due to a lack of fuel.
- Rallies in support of Palestinians take place in the US, Ireland, South Africa, Chile, Philippines.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promises to “destroy” Hamas following its surprise attack.
- Global and regional leaders continue efforts to end the ongoing escalation of the Israel-Hamas war.
- Israeli forces continue pounding the Gaza Strip, killing some 1,200 Palestinians. The death toll in Israel also climbed to 1,200 people.
Israeli attack kills 15 people in Jabaliya: Reports
We are getting reports from multiple media outlets in Palestine that an Israeli air raid on a residential building in northern Gaza has killed at least 15 people.
The attack in the city of Jabaliya at dawn also wounded dozens of others, according to the Palestinian Wafa news agency.
We’ll get you more information on this soon.
Trump: Israel and PM Netanyahu unprepared for Hamas attack
Former US President Donald Trump, who is seeking to return to the White House in 2024, has criticised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his handling of the deadly Hamas crisis.
“He was not prepared. He was not prepared, and Israel was not prepared. And under Trump, they wouldn’t have had to be prepared,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News.
He added that Netanyahu “has been hurt very badly” due to the attack.
Trump is the current frontrunner for the 2024 Republican race.
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18 bodies pulled from rubble in Gaza’s Khan Younis: Report
Emergency workers in Gaza have pulled the bodies of 18 people from the rubble of two shattered houses in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, according to the Palestinian WAFA news agency.
The dead included nine children and two women, the news agency reports.
Here’s a recap of the latest developments on the ground
It’s past 7am Thursday local time in the Palestinian territories and Israel (04:00 GMT) – the sixth day of the Israel-Gaza war.
If you are joining us just now, here’s a recap of the latest developments on the ground:
- The Palestinian Ministry of Health says the death toll in Gaza has risen to 1,200, while the number of injuries has reached about 5,600. The number of people killed in Israel has also reached 1,200, with more than 3,000 injured.
- The UN says that 338,934 Palestinians have been displaced in Gaza, as Israel’s devastating bombing raids continued overnight.
- Former Human Rights Watch chief Kenneth Roth says “indiscriminate and disproportionate attack” on Palestinian civilians could constitute “a war crime“.
- White House backtracks on US President Joe Biden’s claim that he saw pictures of beheaded children.
- Hamas’s Qassam Brigades has released a video appearing to show the release of a female hostage and two children.
- United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says “life-saving supplies”, such as food, fuel and water, “must be allowed into Gaza”.
China envoy expected to speak to Israeli officials soon: Report
China’s special envoy on Middle East issues, Zhai Jun, is expected to have a telephone conversation with Israeli officials on Thursday, Bloomberg News reports.
The news outlet is citing comments by Israel’s ambassador to China, Irit Ben-Abba.
China has previously worked on Israel-Palestine issues and has engaged officials from Israel and the Palestinian Authority – which governs in the occupied West Bank – as well as the Arab League and European Union to discuss a two-state solution and recognition for Palestine at the UN.
‘How Israeli Apartheid Destroyed My Hometown’
In this deeply personal documentary, AJ+’s Dena Takruri spends a day in Hebron retracing the footsteps of her father, who was born and raised in the occupied West Bank.
Takruri speaks to Palestinians who are subjected to daily harassment from the Israeli military and settlers.
During her visit, she is guided through the city by former Israeli soldiers, who tell her why their conscience is now forcing them to speak out against the occupation.
Pro-Palestine rallies in Chile, Ireland, Philippines, S Africa and US
Rallies in support of the Palestinian cause have taken place across the world.
In the US, there were marches in dozens of towns and cities, with one of the biggest held in Chicago.
Hundreds also turned out in Chile’s capital Santiago – which has the largest Palestinian community outside of the Middle East. In South Africa, protesters compared the 75-year illegal occupation of Palestine to the injustice of apartheid.
Here are some scenes from those rallies:
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Clashes reported in West Bank’s Jenin and Qalqilya
Clashes have erupted once again between Palestinians and Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank cities of Jenin and Qalqilya.
In a video footage obtained by Al Jazeera Arabic, a ball of fire was seen raging next to a building, while loud sounds of explosions and gunfire were heard in the background.
Another video clip showed a group of Israeli soldiers rushing towards a building in the city of Qalqilya. According to Al Jazeera Arabic, the soldiers were carrying out a raid in the city’s Jaidi neighbourhood.
Thailand reports 21st Thai death from Hamas attack
Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin announced that another citizen from his country has died, bringing the total number to 21 Thailand nationals killed following the Hamas attack in Israel.
In a statement posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, Srettha extended his condolences to the family of the latest victim, while saying that the government is doing its best to evacuate all Thai nationals “as fast and safe as possible”.
He added that the first group of 15 Thai nationals was expected to arrive in the country sometime soon.
How Israel made Gaza the world’s biggest prison
Often described as the world’s largest prison, most of the world only pays attention to Gaza when it fires rockets at Israel. It is a tiny territory with no control of its own borders or airspace. Most of its residents are refugees from just across the border with Israel, who have almost no chance of ever leaving.
AJ+ takes a closer look at Gaza, and how its more than two million residents live in an incredibly desperate situation.
Listen: ‘As Israel unifies, Gaza pays the price’
The new Israeli unity government is a sign of how the Hamas offensive has brought together a fractured political scene.
It put a stop to weekly antigovernment protests that threatened to topple a government among the most radical in its history, and for Israelis, it has prompted grief, outrage and an unrestrained military response.
Now, Israel’s military is preparing a record 300,000 army reservists for a ground war in Gaza.
But anger over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s failure to protect its citizens remains. So as the country prepares for more conflict, where will that anger go?
Listen to The Take’s latest podcast episode here.
Gaza death toll rises to 1,200: Health Ministry
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza has reported in the last half hour that the death toll from the Israeli air raids has risen to 1,200.
The ministry also reported that about 5,600 other people have been wounded in the attacks.
Hospitals across Gaza are already facing an overcapacity due to the mounting casualties.
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Israel pounds al-Sabra, al-Karama and Khan Younis
by Tareq Abu Azzoum in Gaza
Israeli air raids are continuing inside Gaza at this moment. This time, the attacks are concentrated on the al-Sabra neighbourhood in central Gaza, the city of Khan Younis in the south, as well as western parts of the Strip.
The al-Karama neighbourhood, which was attacked earlier, has also been hit in the past hours.
Residents know there is no safe place inside the Gaza Strip. Every place could be hit, even shelters affiliated with the United Nations.
Watch: Israel dumps Palestinian workers from Gaza in West Bank
Many Palestinians from Gaza have long worked in Israel, travelling across the Beit Hanoun (also known as Erez) crossing every day, and earning more money than they would for the equivalent job in Gaza.
But on Saturday, Israeli police told their employers to take them to checkpoints, from where they were taken to the occupied West Bank, far from their homes, and with no way to get back.
Some said that they had been attacked by Israeli police after they were picked up.
Now, they’re stuck at a Palestinian Authority facility in Ramallah, unable to return home – even as some of them have lost family members in the Israeli bombing of Gaza.
‘Discussions under way’ for safe passage of US nationals in Gaza: Report
Discussions are under way between the US, Egyptian and Israeli officials for the safe passage of American citizens living in the Gaza Strip, according to a social media post by a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter.
Vivian Salama of WSJ quoted an unnamed US State Department official as saying that the affected US nationals are looking to leave through the southern Rafah crossing into Egypt.
“About 500-600 American citizens live in Gaza, some of whom are looking for safe passage, [including] via the Rafah crossing to Egypt, a senior state [department] official said,” Salama wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Earlier, Israel issued an advisory, telling residents of Gaza that those who are able to leave, should do so through the Rafah crossing.
How will Israel’s new war cabinet work?
by Hoda Abdel Hamid in West Jerusalem
The war cabinet is a body within this new emergency unity government and consists of the prime minister, his defence minister, and opposition leader Benny Gantz. You have to bear in mind that Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant already have the right to take any decisions pertaining to the war without consulting the government and the Knesset – that is, after Israel triggered a law that gives them the right to do so.
But having this war cabinet will take away accusations against Netanyahu that he is going at it alone, that he’s making his own decisions, and that he doesn’t have people who have extensive military experience within his ruling coalition. Gantz was a former defence minister and a former chief of staff of the Israeli military and has dealt with Gaza before.
So all of that gives legitimacy to Netanyahu and helps him in this difficult task ahead.
Now, this war cabinet has full control over the operations of the military.
The stated goal of the military is to eliminate Hamas’s military capability. There has been no talk of the civilian arm of Hamas.
And so, for example, if the war cabinet wants to broaden the scope of this war, then it will have to consult the wider emergency unity government, which consists of members of Netanyahu’s ruling coalition plus five members of Gantz’s National Unity Party.
If, for instance, there is a new front that opens in the north of the country, along the border with Lebanon, the war cabinet will decide the path ahead, but it will consult with the rest of the broader emergency government.
White House backtracks on Biden claim he saw pictures of beheaded children: Report
A spokesperson for the White House has told The Washington Post that US President Joe Biden has not seen pictures of Hamas fighters beheading children in southern Israel.
The reversal came after Biden told Jewish leaders at the White House: “I never really thought that I would see, have confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children.”
“A White House spokesperson later clarified that US officials and the president have not seen pictures or confirmed such reports independently,” The Post reported. “The president based his comments about the alleged atrocities in the claims from Netanyahu’s spokesman and media reports from Israel, according to the White House.”
The claim has been widely spread and featured on the front pages of Western newspapers, but, when approached for comment, the Israeli army has said that it could not confirm the reports.
Duterte says Israel should turn Gaza into ‘world’s biggest cemetery’
Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “crush” Hamas and turn Gaza into the “world’s biggest cemetery”.
Duterte – who has a reputation for being a populist – was reacting to reports that two Filipinos working in Israel were killed in Saturday’s attack by Hamas.
He said that if it were up to him, he would order everyone to leave Gaza in 48 hours. “If not, well, I’m putting you on notice. I will level it to the ground so that there will be no more Gaza. No more Gaza to fight for,” he said in a mix of Filipino and English in a TV commentary.
During his presidency from 2016 to 2022, Duterte oversaw “a war on drugs” that left thousands of people dead and prompted an International Criminal Court probe.
On one occasion, he also appeared to compare himself with Adolf Hitler, saying he would be “happy to slaughter” millions of drug addicts just like Nazi Germany killed three million Jews.
Israel’s dehumanising language towards Palestinians
Israeli politicians have used dehumanising language towards Palestinians long before the most recent conflict with Hamas and the bombardment of Gaza.
But any semblance of restraint is now gone. Al Jazeera takes a closer look at this video:
More than 338,000 displaced in Gaza: UN
The UN is now saying that 338,934 people have been displaced in Gaza, as Israel’s devastating bombing raids continue.
Conditions in the densely populated enclave, where more than two million people live, are increasingly desperate, and the Palestinians in Gaza have nowhere to go.
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Israel violating humanitarian law in Gaza: Ex-HRW chief
Israel’s decision to deprive Palestinian civilians living in Gaza of access to basic needs violates international law, former Human Rights Watch chief Kenneth Roth said.
“In the realm of humanitarian necessities, the Israeli government has imposed a siege on all of Gaza,” Roth said in an interview with Al Jazeera.
Roth, who now teaches at Princeton University, added that the atrocities committed by the Hamas armed group against Israeli civilians do not justify the “revenge” and “collective punishment” against Palestinian civilians.
“A basic premise of international humanitarian law is that war crimes by one side never justify war crimes by the other. There’s an independent obligation by both sides to respect the laws of war.
“It increasingly does look like the Israel military is proceeding without adequate care to spare civilians. And that kind of indiscriminate and disproportionate attack … is in itself a war crime.”
Food, fuel and water ‘must be allowed into Gaza’: UN chief
Hamas denies claims it beheaded children, assaulted women
Hamas has dismissed media reports that its fighters have beheaded children and assaulted women as “baseless”, branding the allegations as an Israeli attempt to “cover up the heinous crimes of the occupation”.
This is what Ezzat Al Rishq, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, had to say:
“Some Western media outlets continue to spread Zionist slander and lies about our Palestinian people and their resistance, which falsely and slanderously promoted allegations that members of the Palestinian resistance beheaded children and assaulted women, without any evidence to support their lies and claims.
“We in the Hamas movement strongly condemn these ‘baseless’ allegations.”
Germany approves Israel’s use of two combat drones in attacks on Gaza
Germany has given the green light for Israel to use two of its Heron TP combat drones in attacks on the Gaza Strip, the German news agency DPA reports.
The German Ministry of Defence announced on Wednesday evening that it approved an Israeli request to use the unmanned aerial vehicles in its war against Hamas.
Germany’s armed forces, the Bundeswehr, currently leases five of the drones from the Israeli arms manufacturer which builds them. Two of the drones are in Israel, where German soldiers are being trained in their operation.
German news magazine Der Spiegel reported that Israel has suspended the training of the German pilots while the drones are redeployed and 16 trainee pilots are to return to Germany over the weekend.
Mass casualties in Gaza after Israeli air raids: Health Ministry
At least 51 people were killed and another 281 injured in the last hour, after a series of Israeli air raids hit several areas of Gaza, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
The ministry said the strikes hit Sabra, Al Zaytoun, Al Nafaq and Tal Al Hawa.
A separate report said Gaza’s Khan Younis was also hit by air strikes.
Search and rescue operations are reportedly under way.
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Israeli forces fire on car with Hamas fighters near Gaza
By Mohammed Jamjoom in Ashdod, Israel
Things have calmed down quite a bit in the past hour where we are in southern Israel, from earlier on Wednesday when there was a massive barrage of rockets fired from Gaza towards Ashkelon, hitting a hospital there.
There were rocket sirens in several southern Israeli communities near Gaza in the early hours, including in Kibbutz Nir Am. We also heard from the Israeli military that they discovered a car with at least three Hamas fighters near that area. An Israeli tank reportedly fired upon that vehicle and thwarted that security threat.
We are trying to get more information on what happened there.
In addition to the rockets, the Israeli army and media are reporting more infiltrations by Hamas fighters in places like Zikim, which is several kilometres from Gaza.
The situation remains volatile and fluid, and things can change minute to minute.
Israel’s unity government is not complete
By Hoda Abdel Hamid in West Jerusalem
The emergency unity government in Israel was expected because this war has pushed these politicians – at least for now – to put all of their divisions aside and try to steer their country out of this crisis as safely as possible. It is something that will certainly bode well with the wider Israeli public, but it’s a unity that is not complete.
Benny Gantz is the head of the National Unity Party, which is the second opposition party and holds 12 seats in the Knesset. Former Prime Minister Yair Lapid leads a bigger opposition party in the Knesset, and it has not yet joined this emergency unity government.
Both Netanyahu and Gantz have said that the door is open should Lapid decide to join this cabinet.
Lapid has been very silent over the past couple of days. He hasn’t made any comment after this announcement. A lot of people here think that he hasn’t made up his mind yet on joining, but he certainly won’t oppose the creation of the emergency unity government.
Political unity is something that is elusive in this country on any other day. Politicians are constantly at each other’s throats. This country has seen five elections in the span of four years and still hasn’t found a way forward.
But all of this has stopped now, while this war is ongoing, while Israel deals with the situation in Gaza and faces more pressing questions of whether to go ahead with a ground offensive, and what to do on the northern border should things escalate there, and what to do should Palestinians in the West Bank decide to go out into the streets, and what to do if there is unrest inside Israel itself, in the so-called ‘mixed’ cities.
Israeli air raids reported in Gaza’s Beit Lahiya and Jabaliya
We are getting reports in the last half hour of more Israeli air raids in the northern Gaza Strip.
Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting that a house was hit in the town of Beit Lahiya. A separate attack hit a building in the Jabaliya refugee camp.
There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Saudi Arabia’s MBS and Iran’s Raisi call for protection of civilians
More on the first call held between Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and de facto leader Mohammed bin Salman and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.
The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) has said that MBS and Raisi discussed the situation in Gaza, and agreed that efforts should be made to cooperate with the international community and regional parties “to stop the ongoing escalation … stop targeting civilians in any way and taking the lives of innocent people, and the need to take into account the principles of international law”.
The SPA added that MBS “expressed a firm position towards supporting the Palestinian cause”.
Iran is a major backer of Hamas, while Saudi Arabia had appeared to be getting closer to a normalisation deal with Israel before the outbreak of the current conflict.
Tehran and Riyadh have long been regional rivals, but have restored diplomatic relations this year in a surprise move that was brokered by China.
Israel vows to continue attacks after reported release of captives: Report
Israel will continue its air raids on the Gaza Strip, despite reports in the last few hours of the release of an Israeli woman and her two children from captivity, an Israeli army spokesman said.
Al Jazeera Arabic quoted the spokesman as dismissing the report as an effort by Palestinian armed groups “to change the truth” about what is happening on the ground.
Earlier, the Qassam Brigades published a video claiming the release of the three captives. The group also denied allegations that it beheaded children and assaulted women.
Israel’s emergency unity government: Gantz in, Lapid out – for now
One of the main leaders of the opposition, Benny Gantz, joined an Israeli emergency unity government with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, demonstrating a united front against Hamas.
Gantz, a former defence minister and army general, adds some much-needed military experience to Netanyahu’s government – previously more known for the membership of several far-right ministers.
However, Yair Lapid, the leader of Israel’s opposition, has not yet joined the unity government – with reports that he has insisted that those far-right ministers be removed.
Gaza’s only power plant remains out of service
Israel continues to refuse to supply fuel, food and other essential supplies to the blockaded Gaza Strip.
International law experts say this move represents a clear violation of international humanitarian law.
On Wednesday, the Gaza Strip’s only power station stopped functioning after running out of fuel, leaving 2.3 million people without electricity as well as hospitals and other facilities that deliver essential services.
Catch up on our coverage
- Gaza’s only power plant is out of service due to a lack of fuel amid the continuing Israeli bombardment and siege.
- Medical workers in the enclave have issued an SOS, with doctors warning limited generator capacity will soon run out.
- Beyond those injured in Israeli attacks, at least 100 newborn infants and 1,100 dialysis patients currently rely on medical machines in Gaza.
- At least five Palestinians have been killed and nine wounded by Israeli soldiers and settler violence in the occupied West Bank today.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition party leader Benny Gantz have promised to “destroy” Hamas.
- Claims that paragliders had entered northern Israel via Lebanon, and widespread sheltering alerts, were false, according to the Israeli army.
Welcome to our live coverage
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.
Our team will be bringing you all of the updates as the conflict enters its sixth day.
Israel has continued to bombard Gaza. The prospect of a ground invasion of the coastal enclave looms as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promises to “destroy” Hamas.
Read all of the updates from October 10 – the fifth day of the war – here.
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