Israel war live updates: Hamas claims hostage killed in Israeli airstrike
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An unconfirmed video from Al Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, claimed to show an Israeli female hostage killed in an Israeli airstrike, according to CNN.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the woman’s family is aware of the video’s existence after an army representative had visited the family to inform them.
“Hamas continues to use psychological terror and acts inhumanely, through videos and photos of the hostages, as it has done in the past,” the IDF statement said.
According to CNN, the video shared on social media appeared to show the woman talking into the camera as she read a short statement, where she revealed she was 19 years old and gave details of her hometown, ID and parents.
The video then showed an image of what appeared to be the woman’s body, killed in an airstrike.
At this year the woman’s death and the video have not been independently verified or confirmed.
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GAZA ON BRINK ON COMMUNICATIONS BLACKOUT
Palestinian telecommuncations minister Ishaq Sidr said the Gaza Strip is facing an “imminent, complete halt of communications and internet services by Thursday”.
Sidr noted the blackout was due to the lack of fuel supplies and that it would impede the ongoing humanitarian crisis.
“Any interruption may cause the inability to direct [humanitarian] crews to distress sites, which means the loss of many lives, and deliberately depriving our people in Gaza of their right to communicate, especially in light of the displacement and continuous bombing,” Sidr said.
He said it was a “violation of international law and basic human rights.”
AUSTRALIANS SPLIT ON CONFLICT
In Australia, a Roy Morgan snap poll taken on the weekend found 51 per cent of Australians say Israeli soldiers should withdraw from Gaza, while 49 per cent say they should not.
Of the 1650 respondents who supported withdrawal, the disproportionate impact on Palestinian civilians being killed and maimed and emerging humanitarian crisis was cited. The no side said Israel would not be safe if Hamas was not defeated.
“There is a clear gender split on the question with a large majority of women (64 per cent) saying Israel should withdraw their armed forces immediately from Gaza compared to only 41 per cent of men,” the poll concluded.
A majority of respondents in NSW and Victoria supported withdrawal, WA and South Australia said no and Queensland was split.
IDF CLAIMS HOSTAGES HIDDEN IN CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
The Israel Defense Force (IDF) claims it has evidence some of the 240 hostages being held by Hamas have been hidden in a children’s hospital in Gaza as troops surround another medical facility in the embattled enclave.
The IDF said it had found “signs” that hostages might have been at Al-Rantisi children’s hospital in Gaza City, including a makeshift kitchen and toilet and a motorbike with bullet holes suspected of having been used to transport the hostages.
Soldiers had also identified what might have been a Hamas “command centre” with an armoury of weapons including grenades, suicide vests and other explosives stored in the hospital’s basement.
“Hamas took all this area under its control and conducted its war against Israelis from this hospital,” IDF chief spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said.
But he added Hamas fighters were now in Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital about which heavy gun battles have been taking place.
It is below this 500-bed hospital that Israel claims is the epicentre of Hamas’ network of tunnels and command centres from where their terror assaults are co-ordinated.
Israeli tanks were positioned outside the gates of the sprawling facility.
According to a United Nations official, about 650 patients, 500 healthcare workers and an estimated 2500 displaced people remain in the compound with no safe passage yet agreed.
Hamas has claimed allegations it has been using hospitals as “false and misleading propaganda.”
“We have never used civilians as human shields because it goes against our religion, morality and principles,” spokesman Ghazi Hamad said.
DOCTORS REFUSE TO LEAVE GAZA PATIENTS
Doctors at Al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza have refused a mandatory evacuation order of the hospital from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) over fears that nearly 700 at-risk patients will die if left behind.
The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said all hospitals in northern Gaza had stopped functioning due to a combination of fuel shortages and the ongoing fighting.
At Al-Shifa hospital – the largest in Gaza – the death toll since the centre ran out of fuel on Saturday rose to 34, with the deaths of 27 intensive care patients and seven babies, the ministry said.
“The problem is not the doctors, it’s the patients. And if they are left behind, they will die, and if they are transferred they will die on the way, this is the problem, we are talking about 700 patients,” director general Dr. Al-Bursh told CNN Monday.
“There has been no response until now by the doctors, but some of the displaced people and families have already been leaving.”
Several thousand people have been sheltering in the hospital compound, according to doctors in the hospital.
Dr Al-Bursh said the evacuation order is not co-ordinated with any international humanitarian agencies, such as the International Red Cross and raises concerns about the safety and feasibility of transferring such a large number of patients, many of whom are in critical condition and will die in transport.
Al-Shifa hospital’s director said premature babies were being wrapped in foil and placed next to hot water in a desperate effort to keep them alive.
Staff were fighting to keep the newborns alive after oxygen supplies ran out.
“I was with them a while ago. They are now exposed, because we have taken them out of the incubators. We wrap them in foil and put hot water next to them so that we can warm them,” the hospital director, Dr. Muhammad Abu Salmiya, said.
More than 13,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli strikes, with nearly half being children, according to UN special rapporteur for Palestinian Human Rights Francesca Albanese.
The UN children’s fund (UNICEF) says 700,000 children in Gaza have been “forced to leave everything behind” amid relentless Israeli bombardment while at least 102 United Nations staff members have been killed.
PALESTINIANS TOO EASILY ‘BLAMED AND SMEARED’: FRANCESCA ALBANESE
United Nations Special Rapporteur for Palestinian Human Rights Francesca Albanese has admitted the toughest part of her job is the exposure to the “endless suffering” of the Palestinian people.
Speaking at the National Press Club address on Tuesday, Ms Albanese said that her address had been planned for 16 months to deliver the findings of three of her recent reports on the rights of self-determination, arbitrary deprivation of liberty and children.
“I’m so happy to speak to journalists because you have a great deal of homework to do in this respect,” Ms Albanese said to the applause from the people in the room, including journalists and people working in Australia’s national parliament.
“For those who are not familiar with it, my mandate entails monitoring and reporting to the United Nations on violations of international law committed in the Palestinian territory that Israel occupies.
“This position is honorary, though very demanding, as you can see, and this is a position that I am proud to serve as the eighth and first woman in the 30-year history of this mandate.”
“The toughest part of this is being exposed to endless suffering, where people are too easily killed, blamed and smeared.”
US RIGHTS GROUP SUES BIDEN
A New York civil liberties group is suing US President Joe Biden for allegedly failing in his duty under international and US laws to prevent Israel committing genocide in Gaza.
The complaint by Center for Constitutional Rights’ (CCR) is on behalf of several Palestinian groups and individuals alleges that Israel’s actions, including “mass killings”, the targeting of civilian infrastructure and forced expulsions, amount to genocide.
The CCR said that the 1948 international convention against genocide requires the US and other countries to use their power and influence to stop the killing.
“As Israel’s closest ally and strongest supporter, being its biggest provider of military assistance by a large margin and with Israel being the largest cumulative recipient of US foreign assistance since World War II, the United States has the means available to have a deterrent effect on Israeli officials now pursuing genocidal acts against the Palestinian people in Gaza,” the complaint argued.
The lawsuit, which was filed in the federal court in California, asks the court to bar the US from providing weapons, money and diplomatic support to Israel. It also seeks a declaration that Mr Biden, the Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin are required “to take all measures within their power to prevent Israel’s commission of genocidal acts against the Palestinian people of Gaza”.
MORE MASS PRO-PALESTINE PROTESTS PLANNED IN LONDON
Policing mass pro-Palestine protests every weekend in England until Christmas is unsustainable and removes officers away from neighbourhood duties, the Metropolitan Police Federation has warned amid mass protests planned for Wednesday and Saturday.
The Federation, which represents patrolling police officers, said resources were available but the same officers were getting their leave repeatedly cancelled to police the protests.
On Armistice Day on Saturday, more than 300,000 demonstrators took to the streets of London to protest against the continuing conflict in Gaza culminating in clashes with police and more than 150 arrests. In the biggest pro-Palestinian march to date, thousands of people made their way from London’s Marble Arch to the US embassy in Nine Elms, south London.
The Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, which has organised the protests, is planning an emergency rally for Palestine on Wednesday when MPs will likely vote on whether to call for a ceasefire in the Middle East and with a London rally planned for Saturday and a national march scheduled for Saturday November 25.
Chairman of the Met Police Federation, Rick Prior, said the combined impact of large pro-Palestinian protests at weekends and in the week would drain resources. “We have got the resources but to do it week in week out is not sustainable.
It’ll be the same officers who are getting their leave cancelled every weekend,” he said. “They are being taken away from their communities, neighbourhood policing, whatever that it is that they do on a day-to-day normal job outside of public order policing.”
Mr Prior said officers were being lured away from specialist roles to help police the demonstrations. “Officers from the professional standards department are coming out on weekends but in doing that, it means that they are abstracted from their day job during the week,” he said. “It effectively means they are working one less day a week on misconduct cases, which obviously will end up being an issue.”
HUNDREDS OF JEWISH PROTESTERS BLOCK ISRAELI CONSULATE
Hundreds of Jewish peace activists and their allies have gathered at a major train station in downtown Chicago during morning rush hour as they blocked the entrance to the Israeli consulate and demanding the US support an Israel ceasefire.
Organisers said they travelled to Chicago from Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Illinois for the demonstration at the Israeli consulate in Chicago, which is in a building connected a major commuter rail station.
Over 100 protesters who had blocked escalators leading to the consulate were arrested for misdemeanour trespassing and escorted out of the building, according to Ben Lorber, who helped organise the protest led by Chicago chapters of Jewish Voice for Peace, IfNotNow, and Never Again Action.
The Chicago rally is unique from the previous Jewish Voice demonstrations because in the Midwest, “progressive Jewish communities are far smaller and separated by distance,” according to an emailed press release from organisers.
“We will not let a genocide happen in our name,” Clara Belitz of IfNotNow Chicago said during an Instagram livestream of the protest. “Our Jewish values compel us to speak out.”
IfNotNow describes itself as a movement of American Jews organising to end US support of “the Israeli government’s apartheid system.”
Rabbis and US Congress members have also reiterated their calls for a ceasefire during a news conference on the steps of the US Capitol.
UN SAYS SCHOOL AND STAFF BUILDING ‘DIRECTLY HIT’ BY STRIKES
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has said that one of its schools in northern Gaza and a building designated as a residence for UN international staff in the Rafah area were directly hit by Israeli strikes.
The agency said in its daily update that the UN international staff present in Rafah had left the building 90 minutes before the strike, and that no casualties were reported. The strike “is yet another indication that nowhere is safe in Gaza”, it said.
The UN agency said the coordinates of the building and of all its facilities across the Gaza Strip were shared twice, including just days ago, with parties to the conflict.
UNRWA also said it had received “extremely concerning” reports that Israeli Security Forces (ISF) had entered one UNRWA school and two UNRWA health centres in the Gaza Strip with tanks and used them for military operations.
BIDEN SAYS Al-SHIFA HOSPITAL ‘MUST BE PROTECTED’
US President Joe Biden has urged Israel to protect Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital as heavy fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas rages around the complex.
“It’s my hope and expectation that there will be less intrusive action relative to the hospital,” Biden told reporters in the Oval Office when asked if he had expressed concerns to Israel on the issue.
“The hospital must be protected.” said Mr Biden, adding that he was “in contact with the Israelis” on the matter.
He said that a deal for the “release of prisoners” was still being negotiated with the help of The Gulf state of Qatar.
A surgeon with Doctors Without Borders, the medical charity group, said that hundreds of people were stranded in the Al-Shifa hospital complex enduring “inhuman” conditions.
Israel argues that its Hamas enemies built their military headquarters under the Al-Shifa hospital — a charge Hamas denies — while UN agencies and doctors in the facility warned that a lack of generator fuel was claiming lives, including those of infants.
HOSPITAL’S SOLE POWER GENERATOR STOPS WORKING
The only power generator at Al-Amal hospital in southern Gaza has stopped working, putting the lives of 90 patients at risk, the Palestine Red Crescent Society says.
In a statement posted to social media, the society said those at risk included 25 patients in the medical rehabilitation section “who now face the risk of death at any moment”.
It said the hospital is relying on a “very small” generator and that the remaining fuel is expected to run out within the 24 hours.
FUEL SHORTAGE TO HALT GAZA AID WORK IN 48 HOURS
The UN’s Palestinian refugee agency has warned its operations in Gaza would shut down within two days due to fuel shortages as fighting rages between Israel and Hamas.
“The humanitarian operation in Gaza will grind to a halt in the next 48 hours as no fuel is allowed to enter Gaza,” UNRWA’s Gaza chief Thomas White wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday.
“No fuel has entered Gaza since October 7,” he wrote.
Aid agencies have repeatedly raised the alarm about the lack of fuel – used to power vital services such as hospitals which rely on generators, and for purifying and pumping drinking water.
Speaking to reporters, White said negotiations to refill fuel reservoirs “have stalled” and were waiting for a decision from “the highest levels of the Israeli government”.
White said trucking contractors transporting drinking water and other supplies from the Rafah border crossing with Egypt were now running on empty.
ISRAEL RAIDS GAZA STRIP
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said ground troops continue to find Hamas weaponry and infrastructure during raids in the Gaza Strip, including inside schools, mosques, and the homes of terror operatives, according to The Times of Israel.
Military operating on the outskirts of the al-Shati camp located Hamas infrastructure in Al-Quds University, and a cache of explosives inside the Abu Bakr mosque, the IDF said.
It said that troops seized dozens of weapons, military equipment, and Hamas battle plans.
Another brigade raided the home of a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative in the Beit Hanoun area, and found a weapons cache, including some in a child’s bedroom.
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The Israeli military’s Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee also posted to X (formerly Twitter) on the new weaponry found.
“Forces of the 401st armoured brigade continue to conduct raids on the outskirts of al-Shati camp, focusing on terrorist infrastructure located in major authoritarian institutions among the civilian population, including schools, universities, mosques and the homes of subversive elements,” he wrote.
“Hamas infrastructure was deliberately established inside civilian buildings, such as al-Quds university and the Abu Bakr mosque, where forces found extensive explosive materials, which contained flammable materials and numerous explosive devices. During the activity, forces confiscated dozens of weapons, combat equipment, and operational plans affiliated with the Hamas terrorist organisation.
“The forces also entered the house of an official of Islamic Jihad, where they found many weapons inside his house. In another operation, forces found in a civilian area in the town of Beit Hanoun a tunnel opening, intelligence materials belonging to terrorist organisations, and combat weapons.”
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THREE-YEAR-OLD AMERICAN AMONG HOSTAGES: BIDEN
A three-year-old American whose parents were killed on October 7 is among those still being held hostage by Hamas terrorists, according to President Biden.
Mr Biden referred to the child, who was not identified, in a Sunday call to Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani to offer thanks for help releasing earlier hostages as well as “the urgent ongoing efforts to secure additional releases,” the White House said.
The president “condemned unequivocally the holding of hostages by Hamas, including many young children, one of whom is a 3-year old American citizen toddler, whose parents were killed by Hamas on October 7th,” the White House said of the call.
HAMAS ‘EMBEDDED’ AT HOSPITALS
The Israel Defence Force said it killed a cell of 21 terrorists “embedded within a group of civilians” that launched a rocket-propelled grenade attack from the entrance of Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City.
It comes as leaders from the European Union formally condemned Hamas for using hospitals and civilians as “human shields”, which is forbidden by the Geneva Conventions and is a war crime under the International Criminal Court.
Fighting over Al-Quds and Al Shifa has drawn the focus of international coverage of Israel’s counteroffensive into the Gaza Strip as Hamas uses the civilian buildings as a hub for both its military operations and a propaganda war against Israel.
The IDF said troops with the 188th Armored Brigade were attacked with RPGs and gunfire from the entrance of the Al-Quds, Gaza’s second-largest hospital, and released surveillance footage showing what it said were Hamas terrorists firing before slinking back into a crowd of civilians.
“After the terrorists fired RPGs, they returned to hide in the hospital,” the IDF said in a statement.
“This incident is another example of Hamas’s continued abuse of civilian structures, including hospitals, to carry out attacks.”
PALESTINE ASKS EU, UN TO PARACHUTE AID INTO GAZA
Palestinian prime minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has called on the European Union and the United Nations to “parachute aid” into the Gaza Strip, which has been devastated by fighting between Israel and Hamas.
“I call on the United Nations and the European Union to parachute aid into the Gaza Strip, especially the north,” he said, referring to the area where fighting is most intense.
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said it has no fuel to fill its trucks in Gaza and will not be able to facilitate aid deliveries through the Rafah crossing.
Thomas White, a director of UNRWA, told a press briefing that the agency had about 80 trucks in its fleet that have been transporting aid through the Rafah crossing, which connects Egypt to Gaza.
“We have no fuel to put in these trucks. We will not be receiving aid from Egypt tomorrow,” White told journalists.
TURKISH SHIP CARRYING FIELD HOSPITAL DOCKS NEAR GAZA
A Turkish vessel carrying materials for field hospitals has arrived in Egypt’s port of El Arish near the Rafah border crossing with the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, a port official said.
It is the first such aid vessel to arrive in Egypt since war broke out on October 7.
A Turkish health official told AFP that the vessel was carrying “materials, generators, ambulances to establish eight field hospitals”.
The Turkish official added that Ankara had requested Cairo’s approval to build the field hospitals in El Arish, which lies about 40km from the Rafah border – the only crossing to Gaza not controlled by Israel.
“We received the green light from Egyptian authorities. We will set up these hospitals to the areas shown by the Egyptian authorities,” the official said.
The delivery comes as Hamas government officials said all hospitals in northern Gaza were “out of service” amid fuel shortages as a result of fighting with Israeli forces.
The Hamas government’s deputy health minister Youssef Abu Rish said the death toll inside Al-Shifa rose to 27 adult intensive care patients and seven babies since the weekend as the facility suffered fuel shortages.
PM SAYS PENNY WONG DIDN’T CALL FOR CEASEFIRE
PM Anthony Albanese said Foreign Minister Penny Wong did not call for a ceasefire in the Middle East during an interview with the ABC.
“The transcript of yesterday’s interview shows that she did not say that,” Mr Albanese said.
Senator Wong was recorded as saying in the interview, “We need steps towards a ceasefire because we know that Hamas – it cannot be one‑sided – we know that Hamas is still holding hostages and we know that a ceasefire must be agreed between the parties.
“But we can also say that Israel should do everything it can to observe international humanitarian law. We have seen a harrowing number of civilians, including children, killed. This has to end. And we are particularly concerned with what is happening with medical facilities.”
When questioned by Greens leader Adam Bandt “how many more children must die before Labor will join France and most of the world in calling for a ceasefire”, Albanese said his government wanted humanitarian pauses as a necessary first step.
“We have said very clearly that Israel does have a right to defend itself. We have also said that the way that it does matters. And we must distinguish between Hamas and Palestinian citizens,” the PM said.
“I have said very clearly that every Israeli and every Palestinian life matters. Everyone, every child, every baby, every innocent civilian.”
‘DIRE’: THOUSANDS TRAPPED IN SHUT-DOWN HOSPITAL
Israel has offered Palestinian hospitals 300 litres of fuel – enough to power generators for 30 minutes – but has vowed to maintain its blockade of Gaza as it intensifies its assault on Hamas terrorists.
Nineteen out of Gaza’s 36 hospitals have been forced to close with no power or medicines, prompting the limited offer, while the international community planned emergency aid through air drops to help trapped Palestinian civilians in the besieged enclave.
Israel has said it would not allow further assistance as it suspected Hamas was using civilians and hospitals as human shields and gifted fuel and medicines for their own war effort.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed the largest hospital in Gaza, the al-Shifa complex, has shut its doors, despite further bombings seeing civilian casualties being brought to their gates.
Hundreds of patients were trapped and thousands of people sought shelter around the hospital as Israeli troops and Hamas fighters battled nearby.
The facility has said it could barely treat the patients it had as its limited power was hampering treatments; three newborn babies reportedly have died in recent days.
The WHO managed to speak to Shifa staff, who described a “dire and perilous” situation with constant gunfire and bombing exacerbating the already critical circumstances.
“Tragically, the number of patient fatalities has increased significantly,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, adding that Shifa was “not functioning as a hospital anymore”.
“The world cannot stand silent while hospitals, which should be safe havens, are transformed into scenes of death, devastation, and despair,” he said.
Israel has said the hospitals needed to be evacuated as they suspected Hamas had operational command centres and tunnels below them where they suspect some of the hostages snatched on October 7 were being held.
ISRAEL CLAIMS EVACUATION ‘BLOCKED’ BY HAMAS
The Israel Defense Force said it had offered to evacuate newborn babies and had placed 300 litres of fuel at Shifa’s entrance on the weekend but the gesture had been “blocked” by Hamas.
Hamas denied it refused the fuel and said the hospital was under the authority of Gaza’s Health Ministry, not them, and added the amount of fuel that had been offered was “not enough to operate the (hospital’s) generators for more than half an hour.”
The International Red Cross confirmed Gaza’s second largest hospital, Al-Quds, was also out of service, with staff struggling to care for those already there with little medicine, food and water.
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan backed the Israeli claim and said Hamas was using hospitals and other civilian facilities to house fighters and weapons.
“The United States does not want to see firefights in hospitals where innocent people, patients receiving medical care, are caught in the crossfire, and we’ve had active consultations with the Israeli Defense Forces on this,” Mr Sullivan said.
Jordan had made a second air drop of goods to its hospital in Gaza while a convoy of trucks with aid was allowed to cross from Egypt into the southern part of Gaza but the goods have reportedly been unable to move further north into the enclave due to intense fighting.
20 MEMBERS OF HAMAS ARRESTED
Twenty members of Hamas were arrested by Israeli troops “in the heart of the Gaza Strip” to be questioned in Israel, the Times of Israel reported.
“The interrogations of the terror operatives will be used to obtain up-to-date intelligence from the ground and to aid with the continuation of the ground manoeuvre and the fighting efforts,” the Israel Security Agency said.
The threat of the conflict engulfing the rest of the region continued to linger with the US conducting two air strikes on locations in eastern Syria, involving Iranian-backed rebel groups, including a weapons storage site.
Israel has also reported an escalation to its north with Hezbollah launching a barrage of attacks on civilian Israeli targets including a power plant, from bases in Lebanon. The IDF retaliated, firing rockets 40km into Lebanese territory.
– with AFP
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