Israel may govern Gaza for an “indefinite period”, after the war ends, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has suggested in an interview with the US’ ABC News.
Noting that US President Joe Biden had previously said it would be a “mistake” for Israel to occupy Gaza, interviewer David Muir asked Netanyahu who should govern the territory when the fighting ends.
The prime minister suggested Israel would have a role to play for an “indefinite period.”
Those who don’t want to continue the way of Hamas … It certainly is not – I think Israel will, for an indefinite period will have the overall security responsibility because we’ve seen what happens when we don’t have it. When we don’t have that security responsibility, what we have is the eruption of Hamas terror on a scale that we couldn’t imagine.
Last month, Israel defence minister Yoav Gallant said one key objective of Israel’s military campaign was to sever “Israel’s responsibility for life in the Gaza Strip” and establish a “new security reality for the citizens of Israel.”
The US has also suggested the Palestinian Authority, which administers the West Bank, could take charge in Gaza while others have suggested a consortium of Arab states could take responsibility.
Asked about Netanyahu’s comments, US national security council spokesperson John Kirby said:
What we support is that Hamas can’t be in control of Gaza any more.
We are having conversations with our Israeli counterparts about what governance in Gaza should look like post-conflict and I don’t believe that any solutions have been settled upon one way or the other.
The Israel Defence Forces military spokesperson Daniel Hagari has said that Israel has again fired into Lebanon in response to an attack. He wrote:
A short time ago, an IDF tank attacked a terrorist squad in Lebanese territory that tried to launch an anti-tank missile towards Israeli territory near the Shatula area. Also, earlier today IDF forces attacked a position of the terrorist organisation Hezbollah, in order to remove a threat.
The Kremlin called on Tuesday for “humanitarian pauses” in Israel’s military operation in the Gaza Strip, and it described the humanitarian situation there as “catastrophic”.
Russia will continue contacts with Israel, Egypt and the Palestinians to help ensure that humanitarian supplies can be delivered into Gaza, Reuters reports that the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told a regular briefing.
In its latest bulletin, the UN has recorded just under 22,000 civilian casualties, including 7,481 killed, in areas of Ukraine controlled by the Kyiv government since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. You can follow our live coverage of the Ukraine-Russia war here.
The IDF has reported that sirens are sounding in Ashkelon in southern Israel. Ashkelon has come under repeated rocket fire from Gaza during the last month.
Israel’s military has said that it has again opened a corridor for people to travel from the north of Gaza to the south.
On its Arabic language channel, it wrote:
Residents of Gaza, join the many who are heading to the south of Wadi Gaza at this hour. I would like to inform you that although Hamas continues to undermine the ongoing humanitarian efforts on your behalf and uses you as human shields, today the IDF will once again allow passage on the Salah al-Din Road between 10am and 2pm. For your safety, take this next opportunity to move south beyond Wadi Gaza. Many of you are doing this at this hour, as you can see in the attached photos that were taken a short while ago. If you care about yourself and your loved ones, head south according to our instructions. Rest assured that Hamas leaders have already taken care of defending themselves.
It is currently approaching 11.30am in Gaza, meaning residents have about two and a half hours left to move.
Despite the repeated calls for Gazan residents to move south for safety, Israel has continued to bombard cities like Rafah and Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip.
The UN high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, began a five-day visit to the Middle East on Tuesday to engage with government officials and civil society on the human rights violations taking place amid Israel’s escalation in Gaza.
“It has been one full month of carnage, of incessant suffering, bloodshed, destruction, outrage and despair,” Reuters reports Türk said in a statement. “Human rights violations are at the root of this escalation and human rights play a central role in finding a way out of this vortex of pain.”
Türk is in Cairo on Tuesday and will visit Rafah, located on the border with Gaza, on Wednesday, before he travels to the Jordanian capital of Amman on Thursday, his office said.
Israel is currently marking a month since the 7 October Hamas attacks with a moment of silence.
Haaretz reports that a Palestinian woman has been shot this morning in the occupied West Bank after allegedly approaching Israeli forces with a knife and a Hamas flag.
It reports the woman approached the Qalandia checkpoint into Jerusalem, “and advanced towards security guards”.
The report continues that security forces responded by shooting her, and that she has been arrested and is receiving medical attention.
In the UK, the justice secretary, Alex Chalk, has been appearing in a series of interviews on radio and television which is known as the “morning media round”, where the government puts up a minister to answer any questions put to them by broadcasters.
PA Media reports that Chalk said: “We think there are three British hostages who are there [in Gaza].”
Chalk also commented on a controversy that has been brewing in the UK, on the proposals for a pro-Palestinian march on Saturday 11 November in London. It would take place on the same day that the country marks the end of the first world war at 11am, known in the UK as Armistice Day.
The Metropolitan police force in London have advised that the protest, calling for a ceasefire in Israel and Gaza, be cancelled, a request that is widely expected to be ignored. Chalk said:
Of course, there is the right to protest, which is important, but also concerns about public safety. We think that it’s wise advice. We think it takes account of all the competing considerations and that it should be followed.
The home secretary, Suella Braverman – the equivalent of an interior minister – has previously described pro-Palestinian marches in the UK as “hate marches”. Chalk echoed her words, saying: “The home secretary is absolutely correct when she says that there is hate on these marches.”
UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, has described on social media the situation in Gaza as a “tragedy of colossal proportions”.
It writes:
For one month, people across Gaza Strip have been denied aid, killed and bombed out of their homes. Daily struggles to find bread and water. Blackouts cut people off from loved ones and the rest of the world. This is forced displacement and humanitarian tragedy of colossal proportions.
Here is the video clip of Benjamin Netanyahu saying on US television that Israel “for an indefinite period will have the overall security responsibility” for Gaza.
In the clip, Netanyahu also reiterates Israel’s position that there can be no overall ceasefire with Hamas until it has released all of the hostages it seized from Israel on 7 October.
Israeli leaders have been commenting about the death in California of Paul Kessler, which Ventura County sheriff’s department says it hasn’t ruled out being a hate crime. Kessler died Monday at a hospital a day after he reportedly was battered after a confrontation between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Thousand Oaks, north-west of Los Angeles.
Describing it as a murder, the war cabinet minister Benny Gantz posted to social media to say:
The murder of Jewish-American Paul Kessler should serve as a stark warning sign to the whole world. Israel stands today at the forefront of the global fight against the murderous antisemitic ideology behind the Hamas terror attacks of 7 October. I call on world leaders and the international community to be unequivocal and proactive in their condemnation of terror and antisemitism.
The Israeli opposition leader, Yair Lapid, said:
Paul Kessler was killed in Los Angeles because he was a Jew. It is not because of Gaza, it is because of antisemitism. This is what happens when protesters glorify Hamas and call to “globalise the intifada.” They don’t love Palestinians, they hate Jews.
Reuters spoke to a man rescued from the rubble of a house in Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip who said Israel would be “taught a very tough lesson”.
The news agency quotes him saying: “This is the bravery of the so-called Israel, they show their might and power against civilians, babies inside, kids inside, and elderly.” He gave his name as Ahmed Ayesh.
Palestinian health officials said 11 people had been killed in the strike on Khan Younis, which is inside the area where the Israeli military have told the Gazan population to evacuate to.
Eylon Levy, the Israeli government spokesperson, has posted to social media some images of people working to identify human remains from the destruction caused by Hamas fighters inside Israel on 7 October. In the accompanying message, he writes:
On 7 October, Hamas incinerated its victims so badly that the IDF has recruited archaeologists to sift through the rubble and find human remains. They’ve found “certain evidence” of the remains of ten people.
The Hamas attack on 7 October killed at least 1,400 people. The death toll of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since Israel began its campaign against Hamas now stands, according to the health ministry there, at more than 10,000. It has not been possible for journalists to independently verify the casualty claim from Gaza.
Israel’s military has issued its latest operational update, in which it claims to have captured a Hamas military stronghold and detonated a Hamas weapons depot “in a civilian area” adjacent to al-Quds hospital. Israel has repeatedly claimed that Hamas is using hospital buildings to carry out operations.
In a statement posted to Telegram, the Israeli military said:
Over the past day, IDF troops secured a military stronghold belonging to the Hamas terrorist organisation in the northern Gaza Strip. Anti-tank missiles and launchers, weapons, and various intelligence materials were located in the compound by the troops.
In coordination with soldiers on the ground, an IDF fighter jet struck a cell of approximately ten terrorists. Following this, IDF ground troops identified an anti-tank missile cell operating in their vicinity. The troops directed an IDF aircraft that struck the terrorist cell.
Dozens of Hamas mortar shell launchers were also struck overnight.
In addition, IDF naval forces struck with precise ammunition strategic targets belonging to the Hamas terrorist organisation, including posts containing technological assets.
Furthermore, IDF troops located a number of Hamas terrorists who barricaded themselves in a building adjacent to the al-Quds Hospital, and planned to carry out an attack on the forces from there. IDF soldiers directed an aircraft to strike the Hamas terrorists. The attack led to significant secondary explosions which indicate the presence of a Hamas weapons depot in a civilian area.
The claims have not been independently verified.
Russia’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday that a statement by an Israeli junior minister who appeared to voice openness to the idea of Israel carrying out a nuclear strike on Gaza had raised many questions, Reuters reports.
The heritage minister Amihai Eliyahu, part of Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government, made the remarks in a radio interview, and has been suspended from the Israeli cabinet.
In comments also carried by Tass, the foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on the Soloviev Live TV channel:
This raised a huge number of questions. Question number one – it turns out that we are hearing an official statement about the presence of nuclear weapons? Accordingly, the next questions that everyone has are – where are the international organisations, where is the IAEA, where are the inspectors?
Israel has never conducted a public nuclear test or stated in public that it has possession of nuclear weapons. However, international observers believe it has a stockpile of 80-90 warheads.
Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel would consider “tactical little pauses” in fighting to allow the entry of aid or the exit of hostages from the Gaza Strip, but he again rejected calls for a ceasefire, as Israel marked a month since Hamas’s deadly attacks killed 1,400 people.
When asked who should govern the territory after fighting ends, the Israeli prime minister told ABC news in an interview broadcast on Monday night: “Israel will for an indefinite period … have the overall security responsibility [in Gaza] because we’ve seen what happens when we don’t have that security responsibility.”
Having encircled the densely populated Gaza City in the north of the enclave, where the Hamas Islamist group is based, Israel’s military said it had taken a militant compound and was set to attack fighters hiding in underground tunnels.
Read our full report on the latest news from the Israel-Hamas conflict here:
Fresh pictures have been coming in from Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, where the Israeli military has been carrying out airstrikes.
The Los Angeles chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations has expressed grief over the death of a 69-year-old Jewish man during an altercation between opposing protesters in the city of Thousand Oaks on Monday (which we reported here).
In a statement, the body’s executive director, Hussam Ayloush, said it was “deeply saddened by this tragic and shocking loss” and said its thoughts were with his family and the Jewish community.
Ayloush also urged the public to wait for the results of the police investigation into the death before drawing any conclusions.
We join local Jewish leaders in calling on all individuals to refrain from jumping to conclusions, sensationalizing such a tragedy for political gains, or spreading rumors that could unnecessarily escalate tensions that are already at an all-time high …
While we strongly support the right of political debate, CAIR-LA and the Muslim community stand with the Jewish community in rejecting any and all violence, antisemitism, Islamophobia, or incitement of hatred.
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