‘History will judge us all’: WHO chief urges humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has urged all parties involved to agree to a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and “work toward a lasting peace”.
Posting to social media, the WHO director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said 10,000 people had been killed over the course of a month of “intense bombardment” in Gaza, more than 4,000 of them children, adding:
How long will this human catastrophe last?
He reiterated his call for a humanitarian ceasefire and the immediate release of hostages held in Gaza, adding:
History will judge us all by what we do to end this tragedy.
It has been a month of intense bombardment in #Gaza.
10,000 people have died. Over 4,000 of them were children.
How long will this human catastrophe last?
We urge all parties to agree to a humanitarian ceasefire and work toward lasting peace. We again call for the immediate…
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) November 7, 2023
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It has been a month of intense bombardment in #Gaza.
10,000 people have died. Over 4,000 of them were children.
How long will this human catastrophe last?
We urge all parties to agree to a humanitarian ceasefire and work toward lasting peace. We again call for the immediate…
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) November 7, 2023
On Monday, Tedros joined the heads of several major UN bodies in a united call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. “Enough is enough. This must stop now,” a joint statement said.
An entire population is besieged and under attack, denied access to the essentials for survival, bombed in their homes, shelters, hospitals and places of worship. This is unacceptable.
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“Every day, you think it is the worst day and then the next day is worse,” Christian Lindmeier told journalists in Geneva on Tuesday, quoting a colleague in Gaza.
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He noted Gaza’s health ministry figures that show that an average of 160 children are killed every day in the territory and the total death toll has passed 10,000. The WHO is also mourning the 16 health workers who have been killed while on duty, he said.
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What is needed now is “the political will to at least grant a humanitarian pause and access to alleviate the suffering of the civilian population as well as the hostages in Gaza”, he said.
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Nothing justifies the horror being endured by civilians in Gaza.
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The WHO spokesperson reiterated the UN’s calls for “unhindered, safe and secure access” for some 500 trucks of aid a day, not only across the border but also “all the way through to the patients in the hospitals” where he said surgeries including amputations were being performed without anaesthesia.
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Hundreds of truckloads of aid are waiting for access at the Egypt-Gaza border and humanitarians on the ground in Gaza are on standby to facilitate the distribution of relief items, he said, adding:
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Access, access, access is necessary.
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In Israel, people are “frightened, traumatised and anguished for their loved ones”, he said, calling on Hamas to release the hostages. Many of those held captive need urgent medical attention, he stressed.
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The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has urged all parties involved to agree to a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and “work toward a lasting peace”.
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Posting to social media, the WHO director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said 10,000 people had been killed over the course of a month of “intense bombardment” in Gaza, more than 4,000 of them children, adding:
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How long will this human catastrophe last?
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He reiterated his call for a humanitarian ceasefire and the immediate release of hostages held in Gaza, adding:
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History will judge us all by what we do to end this tragedy.
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It has been a month of intense bombardment in #Gaza.
10,000 people have died. Over 4,000 of them were children.
How long will this human catastrophe last?
We urge all parties to agree to a humanitarian ceasefire and work toward lasting peace. We again call for the immediate…
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) November 7, 2023
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On Monday, Tedros joined the heads of several major UN bodies in a united call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. “Enough is enough. This must stop now,” a joint statement said.
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An entire population is besieged and under attack, denied access to the essentials for survival, bombed in their homes, shelters, hospitals and places of worship. This is unacceptable.
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It is 5pm in Gaza City and in Tel Aviv. Here are today’s headlines from the Israel-Hamas war:
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Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel may 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. 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.”
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On Tuesday a moment’s silence was held in Israel to mark 30 days since the Hamas attack on Israel in which 1,400 people were killed. Vigils have been held around the world. In Jerusalem on Monday night a vigil was held with a candle lit for each victim and relatives of the dead gathered at Jerusalem’s Western Wall to mark a month of mourning.
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Israel’s military 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 military operations. Israeli forces on Monday said they had severed northern Gaza from the rest of the besieged territory.
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The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza has claimed that 10,328 Palestinians have been killed within the Gaza Strip by Israeli military actions since 7 October. The number, it says, includes 4,237 children. The number of people wounded has been increased 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.
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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.
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More than half a million people in northern Gaza face death by starvation as food supplies run “perilously” low, an international charity has warned. Riham Jafari, the coordinator of advocacy and communication for ActionAid Palestine, said: “Cases of dehydration and malnutrition are increasing rapidly.” UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, has described the situation in Gaza as a “tragedy of colossal proportions”. A World Health Organization spokesperson said on Tuesday that more than 160 healthcare workers had died while on duty in Gaza.
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The Israel Defence Forces military spokesperson Daniel Hagari has said that on Tuesday Israel again fired into Lebanon in response to an attack. The IDF also claimed it intercepted “a suspicious aerial target” near the blue-line which marks the UN-drawn boundary between Israel and Lebanon.
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A Hezbollah lawmaker said on Tuesday that the Lebanese militant group would respond “double” to any Israeli attacks on civilians after a strike at the weekend that killed three children and their grandmother in south Lebanon.
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The Foreign Press Association has issued a statement criticising the Israeli military for harassing reporters while they are working in the occupied West Bank.
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The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has arrived in Japan for a meeting of G7 foreign ministers expected to be dominated by the Israel-Hamas war.
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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 would continue contacts with Israel, Egypt and the Palestinians to help ensure that humanitarian supplies could be delivered into Gaza, the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told a regular briefing. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has killed nearly 22,000 civilians, according to UN figures.
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The British government has said it is to hold an emergency committee to consider the impact of the Israel-Hamas conflict in the UK. The prime minister’s official spokesperson said it would address important issues around “community cohesion”.
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Turkey’s parliament has removed Coca-Cola and Nestlé products from its restaurants over their alleged support for Israel, according to a parliament statement and a source who named the two companies to Reuters.
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That is it from me, Martin Belam, for today. I will be back with you tomorrow. Léonie Chao-Fong will be here shortly to take you through the next few hours of our live coverage.
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The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza has claimed that 10,328 Palestinians have been killed within the Gaza Strip by Israeli military actions since 7 October. The number, it says, includes 4,237 children.
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The number of people wounded has been increased to 25,965, according to the health ministry spokesperson Dr Ashraf al-Qudra.
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In the statement, the health ministry also said that it appealed for international intervention to prevent the bombing of hospitals. Al-Qudra also claimed that Israel had turned the evacuation corridors it had announced into traps for the displaced.
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The Israeli military has repeatedly called for Gazan residents to move to the south of the territory, while continuing to bombard the southern cities of Rafah and Khan Younis.
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It has not been possible for journalists to independently verify the casualty figures being issued in Gaza.
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It has just gone noon in Gaza City and in Tel Aviv. Here are the latest headlines:
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Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel may 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. 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.”
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Israel’s military 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 military operations. Israeli forces said they had severed northern Gaza from the rest of the besieged territory and pounded it with intense airstrikes on Monday.
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On Tuesday a moment’s silence was held in Israel to mark 30 days since the Hamas attack on Israel in which 1,400 people were killed. In Jerusalem on Monday night a vigil had been held with a candle lit for each victim. Relatives of the dead gathered at Jerusalem’s Wailing Wall to mark a month of mourning.
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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,” Türk said in a statement.
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The UN secretary general, António Guterres, said the protection of civilians “must be paramount” in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, warning that the Gaza Strip was becoming “a graveyard for children”. Israel’s foreign minister, Eli Cohen, responded by saying: “Shame on you.”
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More than 10,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli military action in Gaza in response to the 7 October attacks, according to figures released by the health authority in the territory. The total number of deaths now stands at 10,022, including 4,104 children. The number of casualties in Gaza has not been independently verified.
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The Israel Defence Forces military spokesperson Daniel Hagari has said that on Tuesday Israel has again fired into Lebanon in response to an attack.
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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.
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The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has arrived in Japan for a meeting of Group of Seven foreign ministers expected to be dominated by the Israel-Hamas war.
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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, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told a regular briefing. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has killed nearly 22,000 civilians, according to UN figures.
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Russia’s foreign ministry said 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. Spokesperson Maria Zakharova said “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.
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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.
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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.
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The prime minister suggested Israel would have a role to play for an “indefinite period.”
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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Asked about Netanyahu’s comments, US national security council spokesperson John Kirby said:
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What we support is that Hamas can’t be in control of Gaza any more.
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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.
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Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the Israel-Hamas war with me, Helen Livingstone.
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Israel may govern Gaza for an “indefinite period”, after the war ends, Benjamin Netanyahu has suggested.
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Asked in an interview with the ABC who should govern the territory after the war ends, the Israeli prime minister said suggested Israel could have “the overall security responsibility” for an “indefinite period.”
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“Because we’ve seen what happens when we don’t have it,” Netanyahu said. “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.”
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US President Joe Biden had previously said it would be a “mistake” for Israel to occupy Gaza, while last month Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant said one key objective of the military campaign was to sever “Israel’s responsibility for life in the Gaza Strip”.
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Meanwhile, Israel is marking one month since the 7 October attack on Israel by Hamas, in which 1,400 people were killed.
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In other key developments:
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In Jerusalem, Israelis held a vigil to mark 30 days since the Hamas attack on Israel in which 1,400 people were killed, with a candle lit for each victim. Relatives of the dead gathered at Jerusalem’s Wailing Wall where army chief cantor Shai Abramson gave a prayer for the departed, modified to include a blessing for security forces.
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More than 10,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli military action in Gaza in response to the 7 October attacks, according to figures released by the health authority in the territory. The total number of deaths now stands at 10,022, including 4,104 children. The number of casualties in Gaza has not been independently verified.
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Israeli forces said they had severed northern Gaza from the rest of the besieged territory and pounded it with intense airstrikes on Monday, setting the stage for an expected push into the dense confines of Gaza City and an even bloodier phase of the month-old war.
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The UN secretary general, António Guterres, said the protection of civilians “must be paramount” in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, warning that the Gaza Strip was becoming “a graveyard for children”. Israel’s foreign minister, Eli Cohen, responded by saying: “Shame on you.”
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More than half a million people in northern Gaza face death by starvation as food supplies run “perilously” low, an international charity has warned. Riham Jafari, coordinator of advocacy and communication for ActionAid Palestine, said “Cases of dehydration and malnutrition are increasing rapidly.”
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Fuel reserves for generators powering the al-Quds hospital in Gaza City are at a critical level and will run out within 48 hours, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a tweet. The head of al-Awda Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip also told Al Jazeera that it could completely shut down by Wednesday night due to the lack of fuel.
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The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, ended his tour of the Middle East admitting that his efforts to secure a sustained humanitarian pause and greater constraint in Israel’s assault on Gaza was still “a work in progress”.
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US state department employees have signed a dissent memo arguing that the Biden administration should be willing to publicly criticise the Israeli government, according to a report. The memo, obtained by Politico, suggests a growing loss of confidence among in US diplomats in President Joe Biden’s approach to the Middle East crisis, the outlet writes.
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The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has said it is carrying out airstrikes against sites belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. The IDF said it had identified about 30 launches from Lebanon towards northern Israel earlier on Monday, and that it was “responding with artillery fire toward the origin of the launches”.
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Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they launched a fresh drone attack against Israel which they claimed temporarily halted activity at Israeli military bases and airports. A Houthi military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, said on social media that Yemeni armed forces “launched a batch of drones during the past hours at various sensitive targets of the Israeli enemy in the occupied territories”.
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The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces on Monday in the West Bank city of Tulkarm has risen to four, the Palestinian health ministry said. Previous reports said three people were killed and a fourth injured during an exchange with Israeli forces in the occupied territory.
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Netanyahu has once again rejected the idea of a ceasefire in Gaza unless hostages are released, but suggested a series of “tactical little pauses” may be possible. In an interview with ABC News, Netanyahu said: “There’ll be no ceasefire, general ceasefire, in Gaza without the release of our hostages. As far as tactical little pauses, an hour here, an hour there. We’ve had them before, I suppose.”
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A Hamas commander believed to be among those who ordered the 7 October attacks in Israel was killed in an airstrike, according to reports. The reports named him as Wael Asefa, commander of Hamas’s Deir al-Balah battalion of the group’s central camps brigade.
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About 80 dual nationals and 17 medical evacuees had left Gaza to Egypt through the Rafah crossing by early Monday evening, Reuters reported, citing Egyptian security sources, after evacuations were suspended for two days after an ambulance was hit by an Israeli strike in Gaza on Friday.
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The European Commission’s president, Ursula von der Leyen, said the EU was increasing its humanitarian aid to Gaza by another €25m, bringing total aid to €100m ($107m / £86.5m).
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South Africa is recalling diplomats from Israel to assess its relationship with the country, its foreign minister has said, saying that Israel was involved in the “collective punishment” of Palestinians.
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The UK’s Labour party has issued its most direct criticism of the Israeli government since the Hamas attacks on 7 October, criticising the remarks of rightwing Israeli ministers over the West Bank and saying they have been responsible for “unacceptable and offensive rhetoric about Palestinians”.
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Organisers of pro-Palestine marches that have brought hundreds of thousands of people to the streets of London have raised fresh concerns that a major protest planned for Saturday could be banned.
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Key events
‘Nothing justifies the horror being endured’ in Gaza, says WHO
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 in Geneva on Tuesday, quoting a colleague in Gaza.
He noted Gaza’s health ministry figures that show that an average of 160 children are killed every day in the territory and the total death toll has passed 10,000. The WHO is also mourning the 16 health workers who have been killed while on duty, he said.
What is needed now is “the political will to at least grant a humanitarian pause and access to alleviate the suffering of the civilian population as well as the hostages in Gaza”, he said.
Nothing justifies the horror being endured by civilians in Gaza.
The WHO spokesperson reiterated the UN’s calls for “unhindered, safe and secure access” for some 500 trucks of aid a day, not only across the border but also “all the way through to the patients in the hospitals” where he said surgeries including amputations were being performed without anaesthesia.
Hundreds of truckloads of aid are waiting for access at the Egypt-Gaza border and humanitarians on the ground in Gaza are on standby to facilitate the distribution of relief items, he said, adding:
Access, access, access is necessary.
In Israel, people are “frightened, traumatised and anguished for their loved ones”, he said, calling on Hamas to release the hostages. Many of those held captive need urgent medical attention, he stressed.
At least 320 foreign nationals and dependents, 100 Egyptians, and 262 Jordanians were evacuated from Gaza through the Rafah border crossing today, Reuters reported, citing an Egyptian security source and Jordan’s foreign ministry.
However, only four injured Gazans were allowed through the crossing into Egypt, according to a medical source.
Evacuations through the Rafah crossing resumed on Monday after it was closed on Saturday and Sunday following an Israeli strike on an ambulance in Gaza.
The German government has decided to release €91m (£79m) for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) after a review launched in response to the Hamas attacks on Israel.
On 8 October, Germany suspended its development aid to the Palestinian territories pending a review.
The review had not yet been fully completed “due to the fragile situation in the region”, the development ministry said on Tuesday.
But it said the review focused on continuing support for UNRWA, and “as a first partial result” it had decided to release €71m already earmarked for the UN agency and to add €20m in new funding.
The UNRWA activities funded by Germany would focus on the permanent provision of drinking water as well as hygiene and sanitation in emergency shelters for internally displaced people in Gaza, the ministry said.
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 in an Israeli bombing that targeted his house located near the fishermen’s port west of Gaza City”, WAFA news agency reported.
He was killed along with 42 members of his family, including his sons and brothers, it said.
The Hamas-run news press service in the Gaza Strip said the bombardment took place overnight between Sunday and Monday but his body had only been found in the rubble on Tuesday.
Abu Hasira is one of at least 37 journalists killed since 7 October, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Those figures include 32 Palestinians, four Israelis, and one Lebanese citizen.
Andrew Sparrow
Rishi Sunak has been updating the House of Commons on the situation in the Middle East.
The UK prime minister started by talking about Israel and Gaza, stressing the UK’s support for Israel’s right to defend himself.
He said more than 100 Britons had now left Gaza.
And he said the government would “not stand for the hatred and antisemitism we have seen on our streets”. He went on:
It sickens me to think that British Jews are looking over their shoulder in this country, that children are going to school covering up their school badges for fear of attack.
This government will do whatever it takes to keep the Jewish community safe.
For more live updates from the UK, do follow our UK politics live blog here.
The British Army is “posturing” itself for the prospect of a “non-combatant evacuation operation” in the Middle East in the event the Israel-Hamas conflict expands, the UK’s chief of the general staff has said.
Gen Sir Patrick Sanders, appearing before parliament’s defence select committee, was asked about the readiness of the armed services and the steps taken in light of the fighting, the PA Media news agency reported. He said:
I don’t think it’s likely that we are going to find ourselves drawn into combat or conflict in the region, or certainly we would seek to avert that.
He added:
At the moment, the role we’re playing is a combination of exploiting the network we have, so for example we have our special operations forces, the rangers, in Lebanon.
They have been there for many years and they have built up a very close relationship with Lebanese armed forces and through that, that provides an insight and influence on to Lebanese decision-making and seeing things from the other side of the northern border which clearly concerns Israel.
Discussing “contingency” options, he said:
Clearly there is a prospect, if the conflict does expand, of a non-combatant evacuation operation in some parts of that region. We’re posturing ourselves for that.
The first group of Canadian nationals has been evacuated out of Gaza through the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, according Canada’s international development minister, Ahmed Hussen.
He told reporters on Tuesday:
They are now safe and sound in Egypt and we’re very, very happy.
An approved evacuation list from Gaza’s border authority included about 80 people connected to Canada who had been granted permission to cross into Egypt, the Canadian Press reported.
‘History will judge us all’: WHO chief urges humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has urged all parties involved to agree to a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and “work toward a lasting peace”.
Posting to social media, the WHO director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said 10,000 people had been killed over the course of a month of “intense bombardment” in Gaza, more than 4,000 of them children, adding:
How long will this human catastrophe last?
He reiterated his call for a humanitarian ceasefire and the immediate release of hostages held in Gaza, adding:
History will judge us all by what we do to end this tragedy.
It has been a month of intense bombardment in #Gaza.
10,000 people have died. Over 4,000 of them were children.
How long will this human catastrophe last?
We urge all parties to agree to a humanitarian ceasefire and work toward lasting peace. We again call for the immediate…
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) November 7, 2023
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It has been a month of intense bombardment in #Gaza.
10,000 people have died. Over 4,000 of them were children.
How long will this human catastrophe last?
We urge all parties to agree to a humanitarian ceasefire and work toward lasting peace. We again call for the immediate…
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) November 7, 2023
On Monday, Tedros joined the heads of several major UN bodies in a united call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. “Enough is enough. This must stop now,” a joint statement said.
An entire population is besieged and under attack, denied access to the essentials for survival, bombed in their homes, shelters, hospitals and places of worship. This is unacceptable.
More than 100 French nationals and their dependents have been evacuated from Gaza through the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, according to the French foreign ministry.
“Two groups of French nationals, officials and rights holders were able to leave” on Monday and Tuesday and were now “in safety in Egypt”, the ministry said in a statement, Agence France-Presse reported.
The departures “bring the number of exits organised by France to more than 100 people”, the ministry said, adding:
In the coming days, we will continue our efforts so that all our countrymen, our officials and their families who want to leave Gaza are able to do so.
Hundreds of foreign passport holders were seen waiting for evacuation at the Rafah crossing on Tuesday, the agency reported.
The UK government is set to hold an emergency response meeting on the impact of the Israel-Hamas war in the UK.
Britain’s deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, will chair a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee “to coordinate the government’s response to the situation in Israel and Gaza”, a No 10 spokesperson said. They added:
It will look at a wide range of areas but it’s obviously particularly focused on the impact of the terrorist attack on the UK domestically and how we can address some of the importance around community cohesion particularly.
The meeting comes amid concerns from ministers about pro-Palestinian marches planned for Armistice Day, as well as a huge rise in antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents in Britain.
Hello, it’s Léonie Chao-Fong in Washington taking over the live blog. You can reach me at leonie.chao-fong@theguardian.com.
Summary of the day so far …
It is 5pm in Gaza City and in Tel Aviv. Here are today’s headlines from the Israel-Hamas war:
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Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel may 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. 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.”
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On Tuesday a moment’s silence was held in Israel to mark 30 days since the Hamas attack on Israel in which 1,400 people were killed. Vigils have been held around the world. In Jerusalem on Monday night a vigil was held with a candle lit for each victim and relatives of the dead gathered at Jerusalem’s Western Wall to mark a month of mourning.
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Israel’s military 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 military operations. Israeli forces on Monday said they had severed northern Gaza from the rest of the besieged territory.
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The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza has claimed that 10,328 Palestinians have been killed within the Gaza Strip by Israeli military actions since 7 October. The number, it says, includes 4,237 children. The number of people wounded has been increased 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.
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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.
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More than half a million people in northern Gaza face death by starvation as food supplies run “perilously” low, an international charity has warned. Riham Jafari, the coordinator of advocacy and communication for ActionAid Palestine, said: “Cases of dehydration and malnutrition are increasing rapidly.” UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, has described the situation in Gaza as a “tragedy of colossal proportions”. A World Health Organization spokesperson said on Tuesday that more than 160 healthcare workers had died while on duty in Gaza.
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The Israel Defence Forces military spokesperson Daniel Hagari has said that on Tuesday Israel again fired into Lebanon in response to an attack. The IDF also claimed it intercepted “a suspicious aerial target” near the blue-line which marks the UN-drawn boundary between Israel and Lebanon.
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A Hezbollah lawmaker said on Tuesday that the Lebanese militant group would respond “double” to any Israeli attacks on civilians after a strike at the weekend that killed three children and their grandmother in south Lebanon.
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The Foreign Press Association has issued a statement criticising the Israeli military for harassing reporters while they are working in the occupied West Bank.
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The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has arrived in Japan for a meeting of G7 foreign ministers expected to be dominated by the Israel-Hamas war.
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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 would continue contacts with Israel, Egypt and the Palestinians to help ensure that humanitarian supplies could be delivered into Gaza, the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told a regular briefing. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has killed nearly 22,000 civilians, according to UN figures.
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The British government has said it is to hold an emergency committee to consider the impact of the Israel-Hamas conflict in the UK. The prime minister’s official spokesperson said it would address important issues around “community cohesion”.
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Turkey’s parliament has removed Coca-Cola and Nestlé products from its restaurants over their alleged support for Israel, according to a parliament statement and a source who named the two companies to Reuters.
That is it from me, Martin Belam, for today. I will be back with you tomorrow. Léonie Chao-Fong will be here shortly to take you through the next few hours of our live coverage.
Here are some of the latest images sent over the news wires from Gaza and Israel.
Reuters reports from the south of the Gaza Strip on the impact of an Israeli airstrike on Khan Younis, which is within the area that Israel has ordered civilians to evacuate to.
Its reporter witnessed a man carrying the lifeless body of a tiny child, dressed in what looked like pink pyjamas, from the flattened ruin of a home, and saw a young girl who had survived, but who was trapped by a slab of concrete that had fallen on her legs.
“I swear we are waiting for death. It will be better than living. We are waiting for death at each moment. It’s a suspended death,” a middle-aged resident of Khan Younis, who gave his name as Abu Jihad, told Reuters.
At Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Reuters witnessed a row of corpses wrapped in white shrouds that had been placed on the ground outside the door. From the length of the bodies, it was clear that some of the dead were adults and some were children.
After a time, a group of men including medical staff in surgical scrubs and plastic aprons knelt down to pray alongside the bodies.
The Jerusalem Post has quoted the commander of the IDF’s southern command as saying that Israel is striking at the heart of Hamas’s capabilities.
It quotes Yaron Finkelman saying: “For the first time in recent decades, the IDF is fighting deep in the heart of Gaza City, the heart of terrorism. This is a complex and difficult war and, sadly, there are costs.”
The British government has said it is to hold an emergency committee to consider the impact of the Israel-Hamas conflict in the UK.
The prime minister’s official spokesperson, who in the UK traditionally speaks on the record but remains anonymous, said “it will look a wide range of areas but it’s obviously particularly focused on the impact of the terrorist attack on the UK domestically” and how to address important issues around “community cohesion”.
A row has been brewing in the UK over plans for a pro-Palestinian march through London on Saturday 11 November, which is scheduled to take place after an 11am silence is observed for Armistice Day.
PA Media reports that the prime minister’s official spokesperson said that prime minister Rishi Sunak considered the scheduling of the march “provocative and disrespectful”.
Pro-Palestinian marches have been taking place every Saturday in London since the latest escalation in the conflict began. London’s Metropolitan police has advised organisers to cancel the one scheduled for Saturday 11 November.
The Foreign Press Association has issued a statement criticising the Israeli military for harassing reporters while they are working in the occupied West Bank.
In the statement, it writes:
The Foreign Press Association is alarmed by several incidents in which reporters on assignment in the West Bank were harassed by soldiers. We call on the Israeli army to ensure the safety of reporters and to facilitate and not impede the access of GPO accredited journalists working in the area.
In a series of incidents, reporters were stopped at checkpoints, barred from crossing despite showing their press cards, and harassed and threatened by settlers, some of whom wore army uniforms. These incidents have taken place despite repeated pleas to the army spokesperson for assistance during the current Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. The media outlets include: CNN, Germany’s ARD, Austrian ORF team, Netherland’s NOS team and an Al Jazeera team.
The military spokesperson’s office has made promises to ensure the safety of journalists. While we welcome such pledges, we urge the military to turn those words into action.
As well as issues gaining access to the occupied West Bank, journalists have repeatedly been prevented from reporting on the Israeli war against Hamas within Gaza by communications blackouts imposed on the Gaza Strip by Israel.
A Hezbollah lawmaker said on Tuesday that the Lebanese militant group would respond “double” to any Israeli attacks on civilians after a strike that killed three children and their grandmother in south Lebanon.
“The resistance will respond double to any aggression that targets civilians,” Reuters reports Ali Fayyad said at the funeral of the four Lebanese people killed in the south on Sunday.
At the funeral, the family cried over four coffins draped in the flags of Lebanon and of a local scouts organisation. A banner of the three girls, who were aged between 10 and 14, said they were martyrs and featured the emblem of Hezbollah.
Lebanese authorities claim an Israeli strike hit the car the family was travelling in on Sunday. Israel’s military claim its troops engaged a vehicle in Lebanon which was “identified as a suspected transport for terrorists” and it was looking into reports there were civilians inside.
Israel and anti-Israeli forces have repeatedly exchanged fire over the blue-line that marks the UN-drawn boundary between the two countries since the Hamas attack inside southern Israel on 7 October.
Lebanese security officials say more than 60 Hezbollah fighters and ten civilians have been killed in the skirmishes across the blue line, with at least seven Israeli soldiers and one civilian having been killed on the Israeli side.
Death toll in Gaza rises to 10,328 Palestinians, including 4,237 children – health ministry
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza has claimed that 10,328 Palestinians have been killed within the Gaza Strip by Israeli military actions since 7 October. The number, it says, includes 4,237 children.
The number of people wounded has been increased to 25,965, according to the health ministry spokesperson Dr Ashraf al-Qudra.
In the statement, the health ministry also said that it appealed for international intervention to prevent the bombing of hospitals. Al-Qudra also claimed that Israel had turned the evacuation corridors it had announced into traps for the displaced.
The Israeli military has repeatedly called for Gazan residents to move to the south of the territory, while continuing to bombard the southern cities of Rafah and Khan Younis.
It has not been possible for journalists to independently verify the casualty figures being issued in Gaza.
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