The health ministry in the Gaza Strip said 178 Palestinians have been killed since this morning as a result of Israeli airstrikes.
Most of those are children and women, the ministry said in its latest update on Friday. It added that 589 people have been injured.
The Guardian cannot verify these figures.
The International Monetary Fund has announced it will revise its economic outlook for the Middle East and North Africa region due to the continuing Israel-Hamas war.
The conflict would have wide-ranging consequences for “both people and economies” in the region, although the extent of the impact remains “highly uncertain”, IMF staff wrote in a blog post on Friday.
A large-scale conflict would constitute a major economic challenge for the region.
The post also called on the international community to act to prevent a further escalation, Agence France-Presse reports.
In the event of a large-scale conflict, “what is certain is that forecasts for the most directly exposed economies will be downgraded and that policies to buffer economies against shocks and preserve stability will be critical”, the IMF post added.
It did not say if the revisions would be released ahead of its next outlook publication, which is due in January.
Syrian air defences repelled an Israeli rocket attack against targets in the vicinity of Damascus early on Saturday, Syrian state media reported, adding that defences shot down most of the missiles.
The report, citing a military source, said the attack came from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights.
It said there were only material damages, Reuters reported.
Israeli shelling killed three people in south Lebanon on Friday, Lebanon’s state news agency reported, as the collapse of a Israel-Hamas truce prompted a resumption of hostilities at the frontier.
The number rose after two people were earlier reported killed.
The Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah, a Hamas ally, later said two of those killed were its fighters. It also said it had carried out several attacks on Israeli military positions at the border in support Palestinians in Gaza, Reuters reports.
The Israeli army said its artillery struck sources of fire from Lebanon and that air defences had intercepted two launches. The army also said it struck a “terrorist cell”.
Sirens warning of possible incoming rockets sounded in several towns in northern Israel, sending residents running for shelter.
Lebanon’s state news agency reported that two people were killed by Israeli shelling in the Lebanese border town of Houla, and one person was killed in the village of Jebbayn.
It’s 2am in Gaza City and Tel Aviv. Here’s a recap of the latest developments:
Israel’s military pounded the Gaza Strip on Friday after the end of a seven-day truce. Israel launched more than 200 strikes across the Gaza Strip on Friday, including in the densely populated south, where many civilians have fled. Khan Younis, which was previously attacked less heavily than the north of Gaza, was almost bombed from the air immediately after the truce broke down. Israel has signaled that it is preparing to launch a ground assault into southern Gaza in a significant escalation of the war. Gaza’s health ministry said 178 civilians had been killed since the ceasefire ended.
Israel’s military has set out its plan for the “next stage of the war”: dividing Gaza into dozens of numbered “evacuation areas”, a core part of the military’s plan to gradually take control of the southern part of the strip. Under the plan, people in certain numbered districts of Gaza will be told to evacuate before bombing begins, although how much time they will get is not clear. Leaflets were dropped in parts of Khan Younis, where Israel believes Hamas’s leadership is based, warning citizens to evacuate further south to Rafah.
Humanitarian groups said the Israeli warnings would be insufficient because civilians in Gaza were running out of places to evacuate to. Palestinians risked being forced completely out of the territory, they said. Homes in Khan Younis were among the targets struck on Friday hours after the truce expired, and residents were given little, if any, time to flee.
No humanitarian aid has been allowed into Gaza on Friday, including fuel, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has said. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said Israeli forces told organisations operating at the Rafah crossing that the entry of aid trucks is prohibited “until further notice”. A spokesperson for the crossing said the entrance of trucks carrying much-needed aid, fuel and cooking gas from Egypt into the Gaza Strip had stopped because of Israeli bombardment.
The resumption of hostilities came as the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, appeared to brush aside US calls to pursue a more restrained military campaign. Netanyahu said his country’s forces were now “charging forward” and that the plan was for a total military victory. In a difficult meeting on Thursday, US secretary of state Antony Blinken clashed with the Israeli cabinet and insisted the level of civilian casualties had to be reduced in any resumed assault and that Israel had to share its long-term objectives for Gaza with moderate Arab states.
The families of hostages being held in Gaza have said they are terrified about the safety of their loved ones after the end of the ceasefire. The relatives of some of the remaining 126 Israeli hostages have said they are grappling with feeling joy for those who have been released, while being worried sick for loved ones left behind.
The UN said it deeply regretted the resumption of deadly hostilities in the Gaza Strip, calling the situation “catastrophic”. The body also said it was concerned by suggestions Israel could seek to expand its military offensive inside the Palestinian territory. The UN’s human rights chief, Volker Türk, urged efforts to be redoubled to try to bring about a ceasefire on humanitarian and human rights grounds.
Israel has said it will not renew visa for a top UN official who helps oversee humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank, a UN spokesperson said. Israel’s foreign ministry last month accused Lynn Hastings, the UN’s deputy special coordinator for the Middle East peace process and UN humanitarian coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory, of failing to be impartial and objective.
Rishi Sunak has described the breakdown of the truce as “deeply disappointing” and issued renewed calls for “sustained humanitarian pauses” in Gaza as he held talks with Israel’s president and the leaders of Egypt, Qatar and Jordan on the sidelines of the Cop28 summit on Friday.
Two people were killed during Israeli shelling in southern Lebanon on Friday, according to reports, as the end of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas prompted a resumption of hostilities at the border. Hezbollah said it had carried out several attacks on Israeli military positions at the border.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have blamed for what it called was a deliberate attack last month on a convoy that was trying to evacuate people out of Gaza City. In a report that cites several witnesses from the organisation, MSF said “all elements point to the responsibility of the Israeli army for this attack.”
Israel’s military was aware of Hamas’ plan to launch an attack on Israeli soil more than a year before the bloody 7 October terror attack, according to a New York Times report. The document was reportedly circulated widely among Israeli military and intelligence officials, who dismissed the plan as being of a scale and ambition that was beyond Hamas’s capabilities.
The Biden administration has informed Israel that Washington will impose visa bans in the next few weeks on Israeli extremist settlers engaged in violence against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, a senior state department official said, in the first sign that the US is prepared to publicly distance itself from some of the Israeli government’s actions.
A protester with a Palestinian flag self-immolated on Friday outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta, US, injuring a security guard who attempted to intervene, authorities said.
The UN aid chief, Martin Griffiths, has said “hopes were dashed” in a matter of hours after the truce between Israel and Hamas came to an end on Friday morning.
In a statement, Griffiths said during seven days of the ceasefire, hostages were released, families were reunited, more patients received medical care, and the volume of aid into Gaza increased. But, he said:
Today, in a matter of hours, scores were reportedly killed and injured. Families were told to evacuate, again. Hopes were dashed.
Almost two months into the fighting, the children, women and men of Gaza are all terrified. They have nowhere safe to go and very little to survive on. They live surrounded by disease, destruction and death.
He urged a humanitarian ceasefire to maintain aid deliveries into Gaza and to allow the remaining hostages to be released. “We need the fighting to stop” he said.
The past week offered us a glimpse of what can happen when the guns fall silent. The situation in Khan Younis today is a shocking reminder of what happens when they don’t.
A Democratic congressman says his home was vandalized on Thursday night by “people advocating for a ceasefire in Israel and Gaza”.
Adam Smith, a US House member from Washington state, called the vandalism to his home in the city of Bellevue “sadly reflective of the coarsening of the political discourse in our country, and is completely unwarranted, unnecessary, and harmful to our political system”.
Smith, the ranking Democrat on the House armed services committee, has not joined calls from some in his party for a ceasefire and was part of a group that sent a letter to Joe Biden applauding the president’s support for Israel.
Smith said he and his staff have often met with groups across the political spectrum, including pro-Palestinian activists. And he said he was still willing to meet with those groups “in a productive and peaceful way”.
“The extremism on both the left and right side of our political spectrum is a threat to a healthy, functioning democracy and has been condoned for far too long,” Smith said in a statement.
The simple truth is that extremism on both sides is degrading to our political system and must be rooted out for our democracy to be able to persist.
Pramila Jayapal, also a Democratic House member from Washington state, wrote on X that vandalizing someone’s home “crosses the line”.
“As an activist before coming to Congress, as a member of Congress who’s been violently targeted at my home, I firmly believe everyone should be able to feel safe in their homes,” Jayapal said.
Let’s find smart, non-violent ways to air our differences & respect the boundaries of home & family.
US and Israeli officials believe that Hamas continues to hold several civilian women as hostages in Gaza, according to a report.
The women are believed to be in their 20s and 30s and many of them were kidnapped from the Nova music festival, CNN reported, citing sources.
The report says that Hamas has insisted during negotiations on Thursday and in the hours after fighting resumed that it did not have any more non-military female hostages to release. The militant group claimed some of the remaining women were considered part of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), it said.
IDF spokesperson Rear Adm Daniel Hagari has said there are 17 women and children among the 136 hostages.
As we reported earlier, the White House has also cast doubt on Hamas claims to have run out of female and child hostages. National security spokesperson John Kirby, at a briefing on Friday, said:
We think it’s more than plausible that they have more women and children that do and should qualify for an exchange.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have said that “all elements” of an attack on one of its convoys while evacuating from Gaza City earlier this month “point to the Israeli military as responsible.”
Two people were killed when an MSF evacuation convoy came under fire in Gaza City on 18 November, in what the organisation said immediately appeared to be a deliberate attack.
In an earlier statement, MSF said the convoy of five cars, all clearly marked with MSF identification and composing of 137 people, including 65 children, was trying to evacuate its Palestinian staff members and their families to southern Gaza. It said that the evacuation convoy was not allowed to cross a checkpoint near Wadi Gaza, and that it was attacked as it returned to the MSF premises.
The organisation released a new statement on Friday saying that “two weeks later, after collecting the testimonies of MSF staff who were present in the convoy that day, all elements point to the responsibility of the Israeli army for this attack.”
It said it has requested a formal explanation from Israeli authorities and called for an independent investigation into the incident.
Israeli defence sources say they expect a southern campaign to take longer than the north, running into January or longer, although timescales in war can be hard to predict.
But while it may proceed gradually, and avoid a certain number of civilian casualties if the evacuations go ahead as planned, it will inevitably leave more and more people pushed south around Rafah.
“Where can people move to?” asked Jason Lee, Palestine country director for Save the Children.
Will they end up pushed next to the Mediterranean, and in the sea?
It raises the grim prospect of fighting running through December, perhaps punctuated by pauses to allow more hostage releases, and risks increasing tensions between Israel and the international community, in particular with the US.
Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, said on Thursday that Israel must “minimise further casualties of innocent Palestinians” in future military operations and “avoid further significant displacement of civilians inside of Gaza”.
But it is hard to see how both goals can be achieved, even on Israel’s revised area-by-area strategy, given Israel’s overarching objective to eliminate Hamas as a military and political force in the Gaza Strip.
And for all the emphasis on civilian evacuations, Israel said it struck 200 targets on Friday, including in Khan Younis and Rafah. In practice, its new military strategy does not yet look much different.
A UN spokesperson has confirmed that Lynn Hastings will be replaced as the body’s official helping to oversee humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank.
As we reported earlier, UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said Israeli authorities had informed the body that they would not renew Hastings’ visa.
He has since told Al Jazeera that she will be replaced, adding:
We need to make sure that there’s agreement and everybody is OK with the people that we send.
He added that Israel’s attacks against Hastings, who has been the UN’s deputy special coordinator for the Middle East peace process and the humanitarian coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory for three years, were “unacceptable”.
A protester is in critical condition after setting themselves on fire outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta, US police have said.
Police believe the person, whom they did not identify, was carrying out “an act of extreme political protest”, police chief Darin Schierbaum said on Friday.
A security guard who attempted to intervene was also injured, authorities said.
Israel has said it will not renew visa for a top UN official who helps oversee humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank, a UN spokesperson said.
Lynn Hastings, a Canadian-born UN official, has served as the body’s deputy special coordinator for the Middle East peace process and UN humanitarian coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory for nearly three years.
UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told reporters on Friday:
We’ve been informed by the Israeli authorities that they would not renew the visa of Ms Hastings past the due date at some point later this month.
Israel’s foreign ministry last month accused Hastings in a social media post of failing to be impartial and objective.
“You’ve seen some very public attacks on Twitter against her which were utterly unacceptable,” Dujarric said, adding that personal attacks on UN staff “is unacceptable and puts people’s lives at risks”.
He stressed that the UN’s secretary general, António Guterres, has full confidence in Hastings.
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has said it is “beyond concerned” that no humanitarian aid has been allowed into Gaza today, including fuel.
UNRWA commissioner general Philippe Lazzarini warned of “very sad days ahead” for the people of Gaza in a social media post. He wrote:
The pause has come to an end. Israeli Forces resumed military operations, many will be displaced including seeking refuge in already crowded UNRWA shelters.
As we reported earlier, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society has also said Israeli forces have been blocking aid from entering the Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing.
It said Israel had informed all organizations operating at the crossing that the entry of aid trucks into Gaza “is prohibited, starting from today until further notice”.
A spokesperson for the Rafah border crossing earlier today said the entrance of trucks carrying much-needed aid, fuel and cooking gas from Egypt into the Gaza Strip has stopped because of the resumption of the Israeli bombardment.
The White House’s national security spokesperson, John Kirby, said Israel had blocked trucks from crossing into Gaza on Friday, but that it would now allow some aid to enter at the request of the US government.
It’s 10.45pm in Gaza City and Tel Aviv. Here’s a recap of the latest developments:
Israel’s military pounded the Gaza Strip on Friday after the end of a seven-day truce. Israel launched more than 200 strikes across the Gaza Strip on Friday, including in the densely populated south, where many civilians have fled. Khan Younis, which was previously attacked less heavily than the north of Gaza, was almost bombed from the air immediately after the truce broke down. Israel has signaled that it is preparing to launch a ground assault into southern Gaza in a significant escalation of the war. Gaza’s health ministry said 178 civilians had been killed since the ceasefire ended.
Israel’s military has set out its plan for the “next stage of the war”: dividing Gaza into dozens of numbered “evacuation areas”, a core part of the military’s plan to gradually take control of the southern part of the strip. Under the plan, people in certain numbered districts of Gaza will be told to evacuate before bombing begins, although how much time they will get is not clear. Leaflets were dropped in parts of Khan Younis, where Israel believes Hamas’s leadership is based, warning citizens to evacuate further south to Rafah.
Humanitarian groups said the Israeli warnings would be insufficient because civilians in Gaza were running out of places to evacuate to. Palestinians risked being forced completely out of the territory, they said. Homes in Khan Younis were among the targets struck on Friday hours after the truce expired, and residents were given little, if any, time to flee.
The resumption of hostilities came as the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, appeared to brush aside US calls to pursue a more restrained military campaign. Netanyahu said his country’s forces were now “charging forward” and that the plan was for a total military victory. In a difficult meeting on Thursday, US secretary of state Antony Blinken clashed with the Israeli cabinet over its military tactics, levels of international support and plans for future governance in Gaza. Blinken insisted the level of civilian casualties had to be reduced in any resumed assault and that Israel had to share its long-term objectives for Gaza with moderate Arab states.
Israel has blocked aid from entering the Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing on Friday, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has said. It said Israeli forces told organisations operating at the border that the entry of aid trucks is prohibited “until further notice”, adding that the move “exacerbates the suffering of citizens” of Gaza. A spokesperson for the Rafah border crossing said the entrance of trucks carrying much-needed aid, fuel and cooking gas from Egypt into the Gaza Strip has stopped because of the resumption of the Israeli bombardment.
The families of hostages being held in Gaza have said they are terrified about the safety of their loved ones after the end of the ceasefire. The relatives of some of the remaining 126 Israeli hostages have said they are grappling with feeling joy for those who have been released, while being worried sick for loved ones left behind.
The UN said it deeply regretted the resumption of deadly hostilities in the Gaza Strip, calling the situation “catastrophic”. The body also said it was concerned by suggestions Israel could seek to expand its military offensive inside the Palestinian territory. The UN’s human rights chief, Volker Türk, urged efforts to be redoubled to try to bring about a ceasefire on humanitarian and human rights grounds.
Rishi Sunak has described the breakdown of the truce as “deeply disappointing” and issued renewed calls for “sustained humanitarian pauses” in Gaza as he held talks with Israel’s president and the leaders of Egypt, Qatar and Jordan on the sidelines of the Cop28 summit on Friday.
Two people were killed during Israeli shelling in southern Lebanon on Friday, according to reports, as the end of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas prompted a resumption of hostilities at the border. Hezbollah said it had carried out several attacks on Israeli military positions at the border.
Turkey’s Anadolu state news agency said a reporter who worked as a cameraman in Gaza was killed by Israeli airstrikes on Friday. Montaser Al-Sawaf, a freelance cameraman, was killed along with his brother and other family members, the outlet said. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said earlier on Friday that at least 57 journalists and media workers had died since the start of the war.
Israel’s military was aware of Hamas’ plan to launch an attack on Israeli soil more than a year before the bloody 7 October terror attack, according to a New York Times report. The document was reportedly circulated widely among Israeli military and intelligence officials, who dismissed the plan as being of a scale and ambition that was beyond Hamas’s capabilities.
The Biden administration has informed Israel that Washington will impose visa bans in the next few weeks on Israeli extremist settlers engaged in violence against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, a senior state department official said, in the first sign that the US is prepared to publicly distance itself from some of the Israeli government’s actions
The families of hostages being held in Gaza have said they are terrified about the safety of their loved ones after the end of a seven-day ceasefire.
The relatives of some of the remaining 126 Israeli hostages have said they are grappling with feeling joy for those who have been released, while being worried sick for loved ones left behind.
Shahar Mor Zahiro, whose uncle Avraham Munder, 78, was abducted from the Nir Oz kibbutz on 7 October, said:
I’m sad and worried. The return of the fighting, violence and escalation makes me feel scared. Every time a bomb falls near my uncle, we know he can hear it and we are afraid for his life.
Zahiro’s family are among many who were separated during the Hamas attack. Avraham’s wife, Ruti Munder, 78, their daughter, Keren, and grandson, Ohad Munder-Zichri, nine, were abducted separately and freed on the first day of the ceasefire.
The family has been speaking to other recently freed hostages in an effort to find out the fate of Avraham, who is frail and plagued by health problems.
Zahiro, 52, said it was a “comfort” to discover that Avraham was being held with other people from Nir Oz, including Nili Margalit, a 41-year-old nurse who tended to the captives before her release on Thursday.
“She took care of them, but now they’re left alone, so the situation has got worse in many aspects,” Zahiro said.
Time is not on their side. The hostages don’t have their usual medications and they live in inhumane conditions.
Israel has blocked aid from entering the Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has said.
In a series of posts on social media, the PRCS said Israeli forces had informed all organizations operating at the crossing that the entry of aid trucks into Gaza “is prohibited, starting from today until further notice”, adding:
This decision exacerbates the suffering of citizens and increases the challenges facing humanitarian and relief organizations in alleviating the hardships of citizens and displaced persons due to the ongoing aggression on the #Gaza Strip.
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