Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) are encircling Gaza City and operating inside it. In a televised statement on Tuesday, Netanyahu said there would be no ceasefire before hostages were released and urged people in Gaza to move south “because Israel will not stop”.
Netanyahu said Israel may consider “tactical little pauses” in fighting to allow the entry of aid or the exit of hostages from the Gaza Strip and said it may govern the territory indefinitely. 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.”
The US does not believe Israel should reoccupy Gaza, the White House said following Netanyahu’s comments. National security spokesperson John Kirby added on Tuesday that “Hamas cannot be part of the equation” about who will administer Gaza.
Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, also said the IDF were operating in the heart of Gaza City and “tightening the chokehold” around it. In a televised statement on Tuesday, Gallant rejected any humanitarian pauses without the return of hostages.
Israel has claimed to kill the senior weapon maker of Hamas, Mohsen Abu Zina. The IDF described him as “an expert in developing strategic weapons and rockets used by Hamas terrorists”.
Eylon Levy, an Israeli government spokesperson, told Sky News in the UK on Wednesday that only 100,000 civilians remained in northern Gaza out of the population of 1.1 million.
Jonathan Conricus, who is acting as a spokesperson for the Israeli military during the conflict, has described the Hamas leadership inside and outside of Gaza as “dead men walking”. He said “The directive is definitely to kill or capture … all the leaders of Hamas. Those who planned, facilitated, and executed the murderous 7 October massacre in Israel. We’ve said so clearly. All of them are dead men walking. And it’s only a matter of time inside Gaza and outside of Gaza, until these Hamas leaders will either be captured or killed by Israel.”
Joe Biden urged Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to a three-day pause in fighting to allow progress in releasing some of the hostages held by Hamas, according to a Axios report, citing two US and Israeli officials. The US president and Israeli prime minister spoke in a call on Monday. In a readout of the call, the White House said the two leaders “discussed the possibility of tactical pauses”.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said a humanitarian convoy carrying lifesaving medical supplies came under fire in Gaza City on Tuesday. The convoy of five trucks and two Red Cross vehicles was carrying supplies to health facilities, including to Al-Quds hospital, when it was hit, an ICRC statement said. The ICRC did not specify who had fired at its convoy or from what direction the fire came. The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) accused Israeli forces of targeting the convoy.
The remains of seven Thai nationals killed in Israel are expected to arrive in Bangkok on Thursday afternoon, Thailand’s foreign ministry has said.
At least 10,328 Palestinians – including 4,237 children – have been killed within the Gaza Strip by Israeli military actions since 7 October, the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said on Tuesday. The number of people wounded has risen to 25,965, according to the health ministry spokesperson Dr Ashraf al-Qudra. It has not been possible for journalists to independently verify the casualty figures being issued in Gaza. The bodies of many Palestinians are also thought to remain under the rubble of destroyed buildings.
A Palestinian journalist has been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza and another was wounded, the official Palestinian news agency reported. Mohammad Abu Hasira was killed along with 42 members of his family “in an Israeli bombing that targeted his house located near the fishermens’ port west of Gaza City”, the Wafa news agency reported.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said one of its staff members in Gaza was killed along with his family in northern Gaza. Mohammed Al Ahel had been a laboratory technician for the organisation for two years and was at his home in the Al-Shati refugee camp when the area was bombed and his building collapsed on Monday, MSF said.
At least 89 people who worked for the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, have been killed since 7 October. A World Health Organization spokesperson said on Tuesday that more than 160 healthcare workers had died while on duty in Gaza. It makes the conflict the deadliest ever for UN workers.
The level of death and suffering in the Israel-Palestine crisis is “hard to fathom”, a World Health Organization spokesperson (WHO) has said. “Every day, you think it is the worst day and then the next day is worse,” Christian Lindmeier told journalists on Tuesday. “Nothing justifies the horror being endured by civilians in Gaza.”
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 groups on 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,” Türk said in a statement.
At least 500 people, most of them foreigners or dual nationals and their dependents, were evacuated from Gaza through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt on Tuesday. A dozen Palestinian children who have cancer were allowed to leave Gaza on Tuesday for treatment in Egypt. In total, more than 400 US citizens, lawful permanent residents and other eligible people have been evacuated from Gaza, and more than 100 French nationals and their dependents have crossed the Rafah border.
The Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, has defied calls for a ban on a pro-Palestinian march through London on Armistice Day. Scotland Yard does not believe it has grounds to support a ban on the planned pro-Palestine demonstration, the Guardian has learned.
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