Israel war live updates: Reporter breaks down in tears as he discovers his friends in Gaza hospital
A BBC reporter broke down in tears after he and his team discovered friends that had been injured or killed in a hospital in Gaza.
Welcome to today’s live coverage of the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Hamas gunmen killed 1200 people in Israel and took about 150 hostages in their surprise onslaught launched from Gaza on Saturday. Israel has retaliated by raining air and artillery strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza for six days, claiming more than 1400 lives.
Israel has prepared for a possible ground invasion of the Palestinian territory after what has been labelled Israel’s 9/11.
Continue reading for the latest updates. All timestamps are AEDT.
11.12pm - BBC reporter breaks down in tears at hospital in Gaza
A reporter for the BBC fell to his knees in tears while reporting from a hospital in Gaza, saying “I’ve seen things I can’t unsee”.
BBC Arabic reporter Adnan El-Bursh did a walk through of Al Shifa Hospital, Gaza City’s main hospital, when his cameraman spotted a friend named only as Malik who was injured. His whole family had been killed.
Mr El-Bursh, who lives in Gaza, said: “This is my local hospital, inside are my friends, my neighbours. This is my community. Today has been one of the most difficult days in my career. I have seen things that I can never unseen.”
He also interviewed a woman who sat beside the corspes of her dead relatives and a young girl whose home had been destroyed.
“This young girl’s home was destroyed. Her relatives have been killed and she needs help. My daughter is the same age. I want to give her a hug.”
Mr El-Bursh described how “bodies lay everywhere” at the hospital.
Watch the video here.
10:20pm - US Defence Secretary: ‘Hamas worse than ISIS’
US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin has declared the assault on Israeli civilians by Hamas is worse than anything he believes ISIS has undertaken.
Austin met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, stating that “I know ISIS very well, and it’s worse than what I’ve seen with ISIS.”
“It has been a terrible week. We have seen the horrific acts of this terrorist organization. As you know, I was the one who first planned the war on ISIS. So I know ISIS very well, and it‘s worse than what I’ve seen with ISIS,” he said.
Netanyahu has thanked the US for its support through the week, stating it is the responsibility of the “civilised world” to stamp out terrorist organisations.
“Just as the civilized world came together to fight ISIS, the civilized world must come together to help us fight Hamas. I know you stand by us and we appreciate it very much,” he said.
9:40pm - Erin Molan clashes with pro-Palestine activist
Sky News host Erin Molan had a heated argument interviewing prominent Australian writer Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah shortly after news broke of Israel’s 24-hour warning for civilians to evacuate Gaza.
Molan condemned Dr Abdel-Fattah, author of Coming of Age in the War on Terror, for failing to call out Hamas and recognise it as a terrorist organisation, leading to a heated exchange over past atrocities dealt by Israel.
She called out the academic for “defending Hamas in the past”, making reference to an ideas panel she sat on in 2021 with a known Hamas “terrorist”.
Dr Abdel-Fattah said she “does not see Hamas as a terrorist organisation” and repeatedly made reference to the historic “apartheid” being carried out on Palestinian civilians by the state of Israel.
She claimed that the current state of affairs is the culmination of many years of oppression on the Palestinian people, insinuating media hosts are not reporting the bigger picture.
“I have already said I condemn the violence that Hamas perpetrated, and it should be held to account,” she said.
“I don’t see them as a terrorist organisation. What is the purpose of a terrorist label here? “Let’s talk about Israel’s terrorism on Palestinians.
9:15pm - WHO warns complete evacuation is impossible
The World Health Organisation has warned it will not be possible to evacuate severely injured people being treated in hospitals, as the clock ticks down for civilians in war-torn Gaza.
“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 on Friday.
“So moving those people is a death sentence. Asking health workers to do so is beyond cruel.”
The IDF has now publicly conceded it will be impossible to completely evacuate the city within the 24 hour timeframe, but remains adamant Hamas is ultimately responsible for civilians now caught in the crisis.
Hamas has ordered Palestinians in Gaza to ignore Israel’s advice to evacuate as a ground invasion looms.
8:45pm - Protests expected across Arab world after Friday prayers
Thousands of Iraqis are gathering in Baghdad in support of Palestinians in Gaza.
“This rally is aimed at condemning what is happening in occupied Palestine, the bloodletting and the violation of rights,” Abu Kayan, one of the organisers, told AFP.
It’s just one of several rallies planned for today across the Middle East, after senior Hamas and Hezbollah figures called for people to protest following Friday prayers.
Fomer Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal yesterday urged people to “go to squares and open spaces across the Arab and Islamic world” to rally.
Several such gatherings are expected in Lebanon, Tunisia and Jordan today.
Security forces are also braced for unrest at al-Aqsa mosque in occupied East Jerusalem.
6:30pm - Fears grow in Gaza as deadline looms
The Palestinian Red Crescent in Gaza City has warned Israel’s message to evacuate is simply unfeasible inside the 24 hour window provided by the IDF.
Medics in Gaza are reportedly refusing to evacuate hospitals and abandon patients as the region’s strained healthcare system buckles under new casualties.
“What will happen to our patients? We have wounded, we have elderly, we have children who are in hospitals,” a Red Crescent spokesperson said.
“People have no place to go. That’s the point. Hearing bombardments all over the area and asking people to evacuate themselves to another area with this great destruction of the infrastructure and roads and these restrictions of movement, is just something unbelievable.”
6:20pm - Man’s final texts before family murdered by Hamas
An Israeli-American family living in a kibbutz that under attack from Hamas on Saturday had texted their relatives just moments before being killed by terrorists.
“They’re here. They’re burning us. We’re suffocating,” 36-year-old father Johnny Siman Tov wrote to a relative.
He and his wife Tamar Kedem-Simian Tov and their three children aged between two and five, were all killed on Saturday.
Johnny‘s 70-year-old mother Carol Simian Tov was also killed in the attack.
5:20pm - Eerie discovery in deserted Hamas truck
The Times of Israel has revealed images of the contents of a truck used by Hamas fighters in the weekend’s attack on civilians.
An abandoned white Toyota pickup truck with a Gaza license plate was found on Route 232 near western Negev.
Inside the truck, reporters found a homemade bomb, a device to activate it by phone, and other equipment indicating the terrorists’ intent to hide in the area.
The terrorists had backpacks with clothes, shoes, urine collection apparatus, and ammunition.
Nearby, burnt cars containing charred bodies of festival-goers who were shot and burned were discovered.
Further along Route 232, near the Re’im military base, signs of a firefight and the presence of terrorists were found, although their bodies had been removed.
The personal effects of the terrorists were scattered along the road, including a Quran, energy drinks, and a notebook with an image of Elsa from “Frozen” on the cover.
3:40pm - Israel slams UN after evacuation notice
Israel has insisted it has shown goodwill to civilians in Gaza by warning them to evacuate in the next 24 hours, as the nation’s military chief calls for war.
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan, said the IDF was trying to “minimise harm to those not involved” in its military operation against Hamas and accused the UN of failing to stand with them.
“For many years, the UN has turned a blind eye to the arming of Hamas and its use of the civilian population and civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip as a hiding place for its weapons and murder,” Erdan said.
“Now, instead of standing by Israel, whose citizens were slaughtered by Hamas terrorists... it preaches to Israel. It is better for the UN to focus now on returning the hostages, condemning Hamas, and supporting Israel’s right to defend itself.”
3:20pm - ‘Now is the time for war’: Deadline looms for Gaza
Israel’s military chief has declared “now is the time for war” as the IDF amasses tanks near the Gaza Strip ahead of a planned ground invasion.
The United Nations said it had been advised by the Israeli military that some 1.1 million Palestinians in Gaza should relocate to the region’s south within the next 24 hours.
“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.
“The United Nations strongly appeals for any such order, if confirmed, to be rescinded avoiding what could transform what is already a tragedy into a calamitous situation.”
The military has had “all restraints” removed in its mission to destroy the Palestinian militant Hamas group that rules Gaza.
Israel has continued to rain airstrikes down on Gaza following the weekend Hamas offensive, which is now the deadliest by Palestinian militants in its history.
2:50pm - IDF rescues ‘around 250’ hostages from Hamas militants
Gripping new footage released by the IDF has shown the moment troops successfully stormed a military post taken by Hamas.
The Flotilla 13 elite unit was deployed to the area surrounding the Gaza security fence in a joint effort to regain control of the Sufa military post on October 7th. The mission saw “around 250” hostages freed, according to officials.
“60 plus Hamas terrorists were neutralised and 26 were apprehended—including Muhammad Abu A’ ali the Deputy Commander of the Hamas southern Naval Division,” the IDF said.
1:40pm - Horrors of situation in Gaza revealed by doctors
Hospitals in Gaza are at breaking point, multiple reporters from inside the city have said, with patients ‘on the streets’ and no beds left.
“It is not possible, under any circumstances, to continue this work,” said Mohammad Abu Selim, Shifa Hospital’s general director told the Associated Press.
“The patients are now on the streets. The wounded are on the streets. We cannot find a bed for them.”
Doctors are even having to accept that anyone in a critical condition is unlikely to survive, with resources stretched and ambulances unable to travel throughtout the bombed region.
Israeli bombing has also hit the Shati refugee camp, just north of Gaza City, with entire families including infant children wiped out.
12:30pm - Israel dropping nearly as many bombs on Gaza in less than a week than the US did in Afghanistan in a year
Roughly 6,000 bombs have been dropped on the Gaza Strip by the Israeli military since Saturday, which is more than the US used in Afghanistan in a whole year.
The bombing campaign has killed 1,500 Palestinians, according to the Palestinian health authorities. It is understood a third of them are children.
‘Israel is dropping in less than a week what the US was dropping in Afghanistan in a year, in a much smaller, much more densely populated area, where mistakes are going to be magnified,’ Marc Garlasco, a military adviser and a former UN war crimes investigator in Libya, told the Washington Post.
During the most intensive part of the war in Afghanistan, the US dropped 7,423 bombs, with 7,600 being used during the entire war in Libya.
When the US was attacking Islamic State militant in Iraq and Syria, between 2,000 and 5,000 munitions were used in a month.
12pm - Israeli death toll climbs to 1,300
The number of Israelis killed in the Hamas-Israel war now stands at 1,300 - including 222 soldiers, Reuters is reporting, with the majority killed on Saturday. It’s the highest number Israel has seen since the 1973 war, which it fought after a surprise attack from Egypt and Syria.
Meanwhile, Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza has destoyed 752 buildings, including 2,835 housing units, according to the UN, with nearly 1,800 now completely uninhabitable.
Nearly half a million people have been displaced by the bombing campaign in Gaza.
“Heavy Israeli bombardments, from the air, sea and land, have continued almost uninterrupted,” UN huminatarian agency OCHA said.
“Multiple residential buildings in densely populated areas have been targeted and destroyed during the past 24 hours.”
10am — IDF demolishes pizzeria that mocked hostage
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has demolished a pizzeria in the West Bank town of Huwara after it posted an ad online mocking an elderly Israeli woman who was taken hostage by Hamas terrorists.
Outraged settlers began gathering around the shop calling for it to be demolished after the ad spread online, The Times of Israel reports. The IDF arrived at the scene and a decision was made to shut down the pizzeria.
פרו × ×צי×: פיצרייה בחוו×רה מפרסמת כך ×ת הסחורה שלה. pic.twitter.com/NYBoStHYaj
— עמית סגל Amit Segal (@amit_segal) October 12, 2023
Footage online showed an IDF bulldozer demolishing the front of the shop. A military order was signed directing the pizzeria be closed for five months due to its incitement and support for terror activities, according to local media.
The owner of the pizzeria was also detained. The pizzeria has since posted an apology on its Facebook page claiming someone else posted the ad without its knowledge.
“We are against harming men and women and just want to earn a living with dignity and live in peace with everyone,” it said. “We are very sorry to the members of our family and others who were hurt.”
9.45am — ‘The horror’: Israeli collecting corpses near Gaza
Yossi Landau has spent decades collecting corpses in Israel, but he almost reached breaking point recovering the remains of people killed by Gaza militants in the country’s deadliest assault.
Mr Landau woke to the sounds of sirens on Saturday, a moment he had become “used to” as Israelis took shelter from incoming rocket fire.
He has 33 years of experience volunteering for Zaka, an organisation which recovers the bodies of people who suffered unnatural deaths. But as gunfights raged between Palestinian militants and Israeli forces, Mr Landau said he witnessed violence he had never seen before.
“A piece of road that should’ve taken 15 minutes, it took us 11 hours because we went and picked up everyone, put them in a bag,” said the 55-year-old.
After already loading dozens of corpses onto refrigerated trucks, Mr Landau and fellow volunteers reached Be’eri, a kibbutz of around 1200 residents five kilometres from Gaza.
“I felt that I’m falling apart, not only me, my whole crew,” he recalled, after entering the first home and finding a dead woman. “Her stomach was ripped open, a baby was there, still connected with the cord, and stabbed.”
The Zaka volunteer said he saw multiple civilians, including around 20 children, who had their hands tied behind their backs before being shot and torched.
“We saw some victims positioned that they were sexually abused,” he added.
More than 100 people were killed in the kibbutz, while around 270 were left dead at the nearby Supernova music festival.
— AFP
9.15am — Parents mark Noa Argamani’s birthday
The parents of kidnapped Noa Argamani have shared a message on her 26th birthday. Ms Argamani was attending the Supernova music festival when Hamas terrorists attacked and is among the up to 150 hostages being held by the group somewhere in Gaza.
Harrowing footage on social media showed her being taken away on the back of a motorcycle as she screamed, “don’t kill me”, while her boyfriend Avi Natan was held by militants with his hands behind his back.
Later footage appeared to show her drinking water from a bottle in Gaza. Her condition and location are still unknown.
“This beautiful woman is named Noa,” a post shared by Israel’s official X account reads.
“She was taken hostage by Hamas during a music festival. Today is her 26th birthday. Her parents ask that we all wish her a happy birthday with the hope that maybe somehow these messages will reach her. Please share. #HappyBirthdayNoa”
8.50am — Hollywood condemns ‘evil’ of Hamas
Hundreds of Hollywood celebrities signed an open letter on Thursday condemning the “barbaric acts” of Hamas fighters who murdered and abducted Israeli civilians in a shocking weekend assault.
Wonder Woman actress Gal Gadot, an Israeli, was among film and TV stars on the list, which also included Jamie Lee Curtis, Chris Pine, Mayim Bialik, Liev Schreiber, Michael Douglas and Jerry Seinfeld.
“Hamas murdered and kidnapped innocent men, women, and children. They kidnapped and murdered infants and the elderly,” read the open letter, released by Creative Community For Peace.
“This is terrorism. This is evil. There is no justification or rationalisation for Hamas’ actions. These are barbaric acts of terrorism that must be called out by everyone.”
The letter, which was signed by more than 700 people from the world of entertainment, is the first large-scale reaction from the industry, but follows a plethora of social media posts from individuals.
— AFP
8.20am — Women tear down posters of missing children
Palestinian supporters in London have been filmed ripping down posters of Israelis being held hostage by Hamas.
“This is for Palestine!” one of the women says as she tears down the posters with a companion.
“It’s children, it’s innocent people,” the person filming says.
“What about the children in Palestine?” the woman replies.
Another video showed a man and a woman tearing a poster off a light pole.
When confronted by a person filming, the man said he “feels so good” about it.
8am — ‘New front’ depends on Israel’s actions, says Iran
Iran’s foreign minister, whose government supports Hamas and other Middle East militant groups, said on Thursday opening a “new front” against Israel would depend on Israel’s actions in Gaza.
Although Tehran has been a long-term backer of Hamas, Iranian officials have been adamant that the country had no involvement in the militants’ attack against its arch enemy Israel on Saturday.
Nevertheless, the United States fears the opening of a second front on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon if Hezbollah, another heavily armed Islamist group backed by Iran, were to intervene.
“Officials of some countries contact us and ask about the possibility of a new front [against Israel] being opened in the region,” said Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian during a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani.
“We tell them that our clear answer regarding future possibilities is that everything depends on the actions of the Zionist regime in Gaza. Even now, Israel’s crimes continue and no one in the region asks us for permission to open new fronts.”
— AFP
7.50am — France will ‘do everything’ for release of hostages
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday vowed that France would do everything to ensure the release of the dozens of hostages held by Palestinian militant group Hamas after its attack on Israel.
“I want to say that we will do everything to ensure that these hostages, whatever their nationality, are released,” he said in an address to the nation, adding that France would work to this end both with “our partners” and the Israeli authorities.
The French president said that at least 13 French citizens were confirmed to have been killed in the attack by Hamas but 17 more “children and adults” were missing and “without doubt some of them are held hostage”.
“France will never abandon its children,” he said. Around 150 people are believed to be held hostage by Hamas.
— AFP
7.15am — ‘Yes!’: Gut-wrenching reaction to daughter’s death
A father who was separated from his eight-year-old daughter after Hamas terrorists attacked their kibbutz on Saturday has shared his heart-wrenching reaction after finally receiving confirmation she had been killed two days later.
Thomas Hand, originally from Ireland, was separated from his daughter Emily, who had gone to a sleepover at a friend’s house in their kibbutz.
Speaking to CNN, Mr Hand revealed his joy at finding out Emily was dead and not taken hostage — a fate “worse than death”.
“They just said, we found Emily, she’s dead,” he said.
“I went, ‘Yes!’ and smiled, because that is the best news of the possibilities I knew. That was the best possibility that I was hoping for. She was either dead or in Gaza. And if you know anything about what they do to people in Gaza, that is worse than death.
“The way they treat you. They’d have no food, they’d have no water. She’d be in a dark room filled with Christ knows how many people, and terrified every minute, hour, day, and possible years to come. So death was a blessing, an absolute blessing.”
7am — Gazans must ‘remain on their land’: Egypt’s Sisi
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Thursday that Gazans must “stay steadfast and remain on their land”, amid calls for Cairo to allow safe passage for civilians stuck in Gaza.
The Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza is the only passage in and out of the coastal enclave not controlled by Israel.
Egypt is committed to ensuring the delivery “of aid, both medical and humanitarian at this difficult time”, Mr Sisi said, affirming Cairo’s “firm position” of ensuring Palestinians’ “legitimate rights”.
But he stressed, in a speech at a military ceremony, that Gazans must “stay steadfast and remain on their land”.
Egypt, historically a key intermediary between Hamas and Israel, has called for donors to send humanitarian aid bound for Gaza to El Arish airport but has pushed against calls to allow fleeing Palestinians into its land.
In recent days, state-linked media has quoted high-level security sources warning against a mass exodus of Palestinians, who were being “forced to choose between death under Israeli bombing or displacement from their land”.
Egypt has pushed for a diplomatic solution and called for restraint from both sides, while Mr Sisi has asserted his country’s national security was his “primary responsibility”.
On Thursday, he said that Egypt was already hosting “nine million guests, as I call them, from many countries who came to Egypt for security and safety”.
But the case of Gazans “is different”, he said, because their displacement would mean “the elimination of the [Palestinian] cause”.
Egypt was the first Arab state to normalise relations with Israel in 1979, after a six-year war that ended in 1973 with Egypt regaining the Sinai Peninsula from Israeli control.
— AFP
6.40am — ‘Beyond anything we can comprehend’
Visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has expressed his horror after being shown distressing photos of babies killed by Hamas.
Mr Blinken described to reporters what he saw in the photographs shown to him by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“A baby — an infant — riddled with bullets,” he said.
“Soldiers beheaded, young people burnt alive in their cars. For any human being to see this, it’s really beyond almost anything that we can comprehend and digest.
“Images are worth a thousand words. These images, maybe worth a million. The world is seeing new evidence of depravity and the inhumanity of Hamas — depravity and inhumanity directed at babies, at small children, at young adults, at elderly people, at people with disabilities.
“At a basic human level, how anyone cannot be revolted and cannot reject what they’ve seen — and what the world has seen — is beyond me.”
US President Joe Biden too had expressed outrage over the images coming out of Israel.
“I’ve been doing this for a long time,” Mr Biden said at the White House late on Wednesday. “I never really thought that I would see — have confirmed — pictures of terrorists beheading babies.”
A White House spokesperson later clarified that US officials had not confirmed such reports independently. The President had based his comments on the claims from Mr Netanyahu’s spokesman, the spokesperson said.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters that Washington takes “very, very seriously the need to be as factual and certainly truthful as we can possibly be”.
Without confirming the authenticity of the images, he said “it’s obvious what Hamas has proven willing to do to innocent Israeli citizens”. “We all need to be prepared for the fact that there’s going to be additional gruesome images coming out … this is not over,” Mr Kirby said.
Earlier on Thursday, Hamas rejected claims its fighters had killed infants during the cross-border attack it launched on Saturday.
“The world will discover the fake and false Israeli narrative, which disseminates misinformation about alleged atrocities committed by the Palestinian resistance,” Hamas political bureau member Ezzat al-Rishaq said in a statement issued in English.
“Such allegations have never been proven; no evidence has been submitted to support such false claims.”
— AFP
6am — Most horrific act of Israel war confirmed
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has shared distressing photos of babies killed during the slaughter by Hamas terrorists — including a pair completely charred after seemingly being burned while in an embrace.
“Here are some of the photos Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken,” his office said alongside the distressing images.
The gruesome photos showed tiny, mangled bodies and a blurred-out infant in a bloody onesie.
News.com.au has seen the images that are too graphic to publish.
“Warning: These are horrifying photos of babies murdered and burned by the Hamas monsters,” the leader’s office tweeted.
“Hamas is inhuman,” it said. “Hamas is ISIS.”
The disturbing photos came just one day after Mr Netanyahu tweeted out a picture of a child’s bloody bed.
Hamas terrorists slaughtered at least 40 babies and young children — decapitating some of them — at a kibbutz near the Gaza border, Israeli military officials confirmed.
“It’s so macabre that no one wanted to reveal it until they had 100 per cent confirmation,” French journalist Margot Haddat wrote in a translated tweet.
“It is a horror, a massacre. For those asking for the source. They are multiple: Israeli army, internal intelligence service and atrocious images which reached me and which I was able to crosscheck,” she said.
“But the best source remains this: courageous journalists from the foreign press who were able to see / agreed to see with their own eyes the bodies in Kfar Aza.”
Other photos from the scene showed Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers searching through ransacked homes in Kfar Aza, with bloodstains and bullet holes visible on walls and floors.
In one image a rescuer can be seen breaking down in tears standing in the kitchen of a home as he’s comforted by a fellow soldier.
— NY Post
5.40am — US tells Israel: ‘Always by your side’
Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed unwavering US support for Israel in its war on Hamas during a visit Thursday but said the Palestinians also have “legitimate aspirations” not represented by the Islamists.
Hamas gunmen killed 1200 people in Israel and took about 150 hostages in their surprise onslaught launched from Gaza on Saturday.
“You may be strong enough on your own to defend yourself,” Mr Blinken said at a joint press conference in Tel Aviv with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“But as long as America exists, you will never, ever have to. We will always be there by your side.”
Israeli fighter jets and drones flew above Gaza in the relentless bombardment that has levelled entire blocks and destroyed thousands of buildings, while Hamas had now fired more than 5000 rockets at Israel from Gaza, the army said.
— AFP
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