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12:12AM
Preparations for ground invasion can also snatch days: US ex-overall
A extinct US security co-ordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority says an Israeli ground invasion of the Gaza Strip is perhaps days away, even though he conceded it can also be ‘‘hours away’’.
Retired US lieutenant overall Imprint Schwarz instructed the BBC an Israeli ground invasion into Gaza was as soon as unlikely to be drawing discontinuance thanks to the stage of preparation required for such an operation.
The Israeli military’s last preparations are presumably “just a few days away, if no longer hours away”, he acknowledged.
An operation into Gaza equivalent to the one being planned would snatch “several weeks, but I imagine it’s going to be months”, as the acknowledged purpose of wiping out Hamas’s military capabilities would snatch that long, Mr Schwarz acknowledged.
11:49PM
Third repatriation flight carrying Britons departs Israel
A third Authorities-facilitated flight has now departed Israel carrying Britons, the Foreign Space of work has confirmed.
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly acknowledged: “The UK is committed to supporting British nationals in Israel and Gaza following this brutal terror assault by Hamas.
“The security of all British nationals is our priority and we flee each person to continue to take a look at our recommendation and register their presence so we can accumulate in contact.”
10:38PM
US working to make certain that water, meals, medication for civilians, says Biden
The US is working with the UN to “to make certain that harmless civilians have accumulate entry to to water, meals, and hospital treatment”, Joe Biden instructed Benjamin Netanyahu.
The mobile phone name between the leaders got right here as Israel seemed poised for a ground offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza, the place an Israeli blockade had decrease off overall necessities to the crowded enclave.
“President Biden affirmed his enhance for all efforts to offer protection to civilians,” the White Apartment acknowledged in an announcement about the mobile phone name between the leaders, which did no longer specifically level out Gaza.
10:29PM
Peep: South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa pledges enhance for Palestinians
10:22PM
US defence chief discusses adhering to laws of war with Israeli counterpart
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin stressed out the importance of adhering to the laws of war as the oldsters of gaza face a humanitarian crisis.
“Right via the name he discussed the importance of adhering to the laws of war, including civilian protection duties, and addressing the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza whereas Israel continues its operations to revive security,” the Pentagon acknowledged in an announcement.
10:04PM
‘Israeli strike hits Syrian airport’
An Israeli airstrike centered the airport of Syria’s authorities-held city of Aleppo, a war monitor acknowledged, days after a identical strike hit Aleppo and Damascus airports.
“An Israeli air strike coming from the route of the sea struck Aleppo airport,” Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, instructed AFP.
9:40PM
Biden reiterates US enhance for Israel in name with Netanyahu, urges protection for civilians
Joe Biden reiterated unwavering US enhance for Israel in a name on Saturday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the White Apartment acknowledged.
“President Biden discussed with Prime Minister Netanyahu U.S. coordination with the United Countries, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and others within the place to make certain that harmless civilians have accumulate entry to to water, meals, and hospital treatment,” the White Apartment acknowledged in an announcement.
“President Biden affirmed his enhance for all efforts to offer protection to civilians.”
9:19PM
Latest photos from the war in Israel and Gaza
9:14PM
Israel’s forces ‘at stout readiness’ to initiate ground invasion
Israel’s forces are at stout readiness to initiate a ground invasion within the north of Gaza, Israel’s military spokesman has acknowledged.
His feedback note those of the Israeli Defence Forces which acknowledged the navy was as soon as preparing to “expand the offensive” with a “joint and coordinated assault from the air, sea and land.”
Israel has drafted a command 360,000 reservists in its response to Hamas’s terrorist assault closing week.
Earlier, Benjamin Netanyahu instructed Israeli troopers on the Gaza Strip that “the following stage is coming”.
The IDF acknowledged: “In latest days, the tools required for wrestle had been transferred to the assembly areas, and at this stage the different units of the Technological and Logistics Directorate are working to full the qualification of the tools and equipping them with developed wrestle manner, as wanted.”
8:44PM
‘Israel strikes abet after taking pictures from Syria units off sirens’
Israel shelled Syria on Saturday after air raid sirens sounded in settlements on the annexed Golan Heights, the navy acknowledged, amid its war on Gaza.
“Following the initial command referring to sirens sounded within the communities of Avnei Eitan and Alma, IDF (Israeli) artillery is for the time being striking the starting place of the taking pictures in Syria,” an navy assertion acknowledged.
8:37PM
Israel prepares to assault Hamas ‘by land, air and sea’
Benjamin Netanyahu announces ‘the following stage is coming’ as ground offensive in Gaza is drawing discontinuance, writes Nataliya Vasilyeva and Edward Malnick
Israel is preparing an assault on Hamas “from the air, sea and land”, as Benjamin Netanyahu declared that “the following stage is coming”.
The Israeli prime minister signalled that a ground offensive in Gaza was as soon as drawing discontinuance as he visited troopers discontinuance to the border on Saturday.
A video confirmed Mr Netanyahu, clad in military physique armour, asking Israeli troops: “You ready for the following stage? The subsequent stage is coming.”
Almost at the moment afterwards, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) acknowledged it was as soon as preparing for a “significant ground operation” within the Gaza Strip as phase of a “wide quantity of offensive operational plans”, including a “joint and co-ordinated assault from the air, sea and land”.
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8:10PM
Lebanon’s Hezbollah says fighter killed by Israel fire
Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah neighborhood acknowledged one amongst its opponents in south Lebanon was as soon as killed on Saturday by Israeli fire, as immoral-border tensions upward push over Israel’s war with Hezbollah’s Palestinian ally Hamas.
Hezbollah and other Palestinian factions in Lebanon have exchanged immoral-border fire with Israel since Hamas’s surprise October 7 assault from Gaza ignited a war that has killed bigger than 1,300 folks in Israel.
7:55PM
Peep: Netanyahu visits Israeli troopers sooner than ground invasion
7:39PM
Two German flights to clutch affords to Israel, bring citizens abet
Two German air power planes will fly to Israel with affords and produce abet German citizens who are making an are trying to switch away the nation, a spokesperson for the defence ministry acknowledged on Saturday, including the planes weren’t phase of a military evacuation.
The air power did no longer giving details on what number of Germans would be flown out but acknowledged the A400M planes had been expected to land at Germany’s Wunstorf air snide at 3 am and 4:30 am Sunday morning, respectively.
7:18PM
Foreigners killed, abducted or missing in Hamas assault
Rankings of foreigners had been killed, wounded or taken hostage in Hamas’s assault on Israel closing week, which left bigger than 1,300 unimaginative in Israel.
Gaza Strip effectively being authorities have reported that bigger than 2,200 folks had been killed in retaliatory Israeli strikes.
In line with an AFP depend, bigger than 140 foreigners had been confirmed unimaginative by their nationwide authorities, a lot of whom also held Israeli nationality.
6:53PM
Pictured: Son of Turkish chief joins command for Palestine in Istanbul
6:36PM
US advises its citizens in Gaza to switch nearer to Egypt’s Rafah crossing
The US authorities has instructed its citizens in Gaza to switch south in direction of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt to be ready for its in all probability reopening amid the humanitarian crisis within the coastal enclave after a Hamas assault in Israel drew Israeli military retaliation.
Washington labored with Egypt, Israel and Qatar to take a look at out to initiate the Rafah crossing for limited hours on Saturday afternoon to permit Palestinian-American citizens to switch away, a senior Sing Department legitimate instructed journalists travelling with US Secretary of Sing Antony Blinken.
But it was as soon as unclear whether Palestinian Islamist neighborhood Hamas, which controls Gaza, would permit accumulate entry to to the crossing, or whether any US citizens had been able to exit, the legitimate acknowledged later. It was as soon as no longer today acknowledged whether the US would execute yet another are trying to accumulate Rafah opened on Sunday.
6:21PM
The Israeli navy faces uncharted warfare in Gaza
As the IDF gears up for a ground invasion, Hamas is deploying drones and other threats, increasing unprecedented challenges for either side, writes Edmund Bower
As the generals of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) ready their troops for the first ground invasion of Gaza in almost a decade, they will have one ask on their minds: what don’t we know?
The Israeli military fought a bloody war in Gaza in 2014, losing 73 troopers over a seven week-confict that saw bigger than 2,000 Palestinians killed, and the Shin Bet intelligence provider has a nuanced working out of the place Hamas’ military bases lie.
But military know-how has developed swiftly within the years since and analysts screen that the troopers coming into the strip can also face original threats, original traps and original techniques of war.
Unlike in outdated bouts with Israel, Hamas presides over what John Spencer, chair of city warfare look at on the Contemporary Battle Institute at Westpoint, calls “a sorrowful man’s air power”.
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6:12PM
Louvre Museum and Versailles Palace evacuated after bomb threats with France on alert
The Louvre Museum in Paris and Versailles Palace evacuated visitors and workers Saturday after receiving bomb threats, police acknowledged.
The French authorities started deploying 7,000 troops to expand security round the nation after a fatal college stabbing by a suspected Islamic extremist.
The evacuations of two of the arena’s most-visited vacationer sites come amid heightened vigilance round France following Friday’s college assault, and world tensions linked to the war between Israel and Hamas. President Emmanuel Macron’s authorities is petrified about fallout from the war in France.
5:56PM
A Reuters videographer killed in southern Lebanon by Israeli shelling is laid to rest
A Reuters videographer killed in Israeli shelling of southern Lebanon was as soon as laid to rest in his hometown Saturday in a funeral procession attended by a total lot of folks.
Draped in a Lebanese flag, Issam Abdallah’s physique was as soon as carried on a stretcher via the streets of the southern town of Khiam, from his household’s residence to the local cemetery.
Dozens of journalists and Lebanese lawmakers attended the funeral.
Abdallah was as soon as killed Friday evening advance the village of Alma al-Shaab in south Lebanon when an Israeli shell landed on a gathering of global journalists overlaying alternate of fire alongside the border between Israeli troops and members of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah neighborhood.
5:32PM
‘Next stage is coming’, Netanyahu tells Israeli troopers
Benjamin Netanyahu instructed Israeli troopers that “the following stage is coming”, sooner than an expected ground offensive of Gaza.
The Israeli prime minister was as soon as visiting troopers outside the Gaza Strip when he requested them if they had been ready for the following stage in Israel’s acknowledged purpose to crush Hamas.
Centrist opposition chief Benny Gantz has acknowledged Israel was as soon as ready to “wipe this ingredient called Hamas off the face of the Earth”, following a brutal assault by the terrorist neighborhood closing week.
On Saturday, Iran’s foreign minister warned that Hizbollah has eventualities “designed” and “ready” if Israel does no longer finish its assaults on Gaza and that “their finger is on the trigger to shoot.”
5:00PM
Palestinians will no longer spin away Gaza, says Hamas chief
Palestinians will no longer spin away Gaza or the West Bank and migrate to Egypt, acknowledged Ismail Haniyeh, the chief of Hamas.
“Our decision is to dwell in our land,” Haniyeh added, whereas addressing Egypt in that phase of a televised speech.
4:45PM
Pictured: Netanyahu meets opponents on the Gaza strip sooner than an expected ground invasion
4:39PM
‘Saudi pauses talks on normalisation with Israel’
Saudi Arabia has suspended talks on presumably normalising ties with Israel, a source instructed AFP on Saturday, amid the war raging between Israel and the Palestinian militant neighborhood Hamas.
Hamas launched a natty-scale assault on Israel on October 7 which killed 1,300 folks, sparking a retaliatory bombing advertising campaign that has killed no longer decrease than 2,215 within the Gaza Strip sooner than a skill Israeli ground invasion of the territory.
“Saudi Arabia has determined to finish dialogue on in all probability normalisation and has instructed US officials,” a source familiar with the discussions instructed AFP.
4:07PM
Hizbollah ‘have their fingers on the trigger to shoot’, says Iran
Iran’s foreign minister has warned from Beirut that Hizbollah has eventualities “designed” and “ready” if Israel does no longer finish its assaults on Gaza and that “their finger is on the trigger to shoot.”
“I do know about the eventualities that Hizbollah has build in build,” Hossein Amirabdollahian instructed journalists. “Any step the resistance (Hizbollah) will snatch will trigger a titanic earthquake within the Zionist entity.”
“I are making an are trying to warn the war criminals and folks that enhance this entity earlier than it’s too late to finish the crimes against civilians in Gaza, attributable to it will be too late in just a few hours,” he added.
He acknowledged that he will be contacting UN officials within the Heart East attributable to “there could be still an opportunity to work on an initiative (to full the war) but it will be too late day after today to come.”
4:02PM
‘Most practical regard’ for Gaza humanitarian problem wanted, says Germany
Germany’s foreign minister acknowledged Saturday that Israel’s war against Hamas desires to be implemented with the supreme fancy the humanitarian situation in Gaza, so that the struggling of the population does no longer foment additional hate.
“Within the fight against Hamas, best in all probability regard desires to be placed on the humanitarian situation of harmless females, children and men,” foreign minister Annalena Baerbock instructed journalists after talks in Cairo with her Egyptian counterpart.
3:37PM
Peep: Tanks mass round Gaza sooner than expected ground invasion
3:21PM
Washington Post verifies video showing Israeli strike on civilian convoy
The Washington Post says it has verified a video of an Israeli strike on a convoy of civilians making an are trying to flee north Gaza.
The graphic video, which has been geolocated, reveals bodies, including several small children, lying within the motorway amid burning vehicles.
The strike was as soon as phase of a wave of assaults that killed dozens and injured bigger than 200 folks fleeing northern Gaza, in conserving with the Palestinian Ministry of Effectively being in Gaza.
It followed an characterize by Israel for northern Gaza’s 1.1 million residents to switch away the dwelling within 24 hours sooner than an expected ground invasion.
3:03PM
Roundup of the main tales to this level
Thanks for following our dwell weblog to this level. My title is George Styllis and I will be taking on from my colleague Abbie Cheeseman until late this evening.
Listed below are among the day’s main tales:
- Hundreds of folks protested in enhance of Palestine in London on the present time
- Iran’s foreign minister has warned that Hizbollah’s “finger is on the trigger to shoot” if Israel does no longer abet down
- The Israeli military acknowledged it had considered a “significant circulation” of Palestinian civilians heading south, a day after ordering Gaza City residents to flit
- Israel is acting in accordance with global laws, an IDF spokesperson has insisted to the BBC
- Clinical doctors Without Borders says hospitals are going via a chaotic situation within the north of the Gaza Strip the place Israeli forces have ordered an evacuation
2:47PM
Graphic: The Washington Post verifies the Israeli strike on Palestinians evacuating the day gone by
2:40PM
Experiences suggest Egypt can also no longer let foreigners in until they will send again into Gaza
We reported earlier on the present time that Egypt and Israel had come to a deal to permit foreigners and dual-nationals out of Gaza via the Rafah crossing on the present time. Sky News Arabia is now reporting that Cairo has blocked the switch until an agreement is made to permit again into Gaza.
The Telegraph can no longer today verify the news. Better than 500 American citizens – no longer including any hostages taken by Hamas – are regarded as stuck within the Gaza Strip, which could also bring power from the US to proper their initiate.
2:33PM
Israel says its acting within global laws
Israel is acting in accordance with global laws, an IDF spokesperson has insisted to the BBC, following accusations that the forcible evacuation of folks from northern Gaza quantities to a war crime.
Richard Hecht was as soon as responding to feedback from Jan Egeland, a extinct diplomat who was as soon as fervent with the Oslo Accords and facilitated talks between the Palestinians and Israel, and now runs the Norwegian Refugee Council.
“We’re no longer striking folks in vans,” Hecht acknowledged on BBC News. “We’re telling folks to switch south. Hamas can also switch them if they cared about them – it’s their responsibility.”
He also instructed that fleeing Gazans preserve with relatives or snatch a tent, announcing that he’s sure they will “secure locations to preserve”.
The UN has warned determined Gazans against slumbering within the streets attributable to the extent of air strikes. There are no longer any bomb shelters within the Gaza Strip.
Hecht added: “We will no longer lose our humanity. We’re no longer them – we are no longer them.”
2:02PM
Hizbollah hits Israeli positions in disputed territory, it says
Hizbollah has build out an announcement announcing that it has attacked 5 Israeli positions within the disputed Shebaa Farms.
The assertion acknowledged that they implemented the assault at 3:15pm (13:15 UK time) the use of guided missiles and mortar shells.
The IDF build out an announcement announcing that it is striking the “starting place of the launches” in response.
1:56PM
Peep: Palestinian supporters march in command against Israel in London
1:26PM
Pictured: The funeral of slain Lebanese journalist Issam Abdullah, killed in an Israeli strike on journalists the day gone by
Maher Nazeh, a Reuters journalist who was as soon as one amongst the six injured acknowledged that they had been filming missile fire coming from the route of Israel when one struck Abdallah as he was as soon as sitting on a low stone wall advance the remainder of the neighborhood. Seconds later, yet another missile hit the automobile being dilapidated by the neighborhood, setting it aflame.
The Associated Press and Al Jazeera, who also had journalists injured within the assault, acknowledged the shells had been Israeli.
The Lebanese Army also acknowledged that Abdallah was as soon as killed by an Israeli missile strike.
1:25PM
The execute up of tanks grows round Gaza for the expected ground incursion
1:22PM
France deploys 7,000 troops and closes Louvre after trainer stabbed in act of ‘Islamist terrorism’
France will mobilise as much as 7,000 troopers to expand security after a trainer was as soon as killed and three others wounded in an assault that Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, described as “Islamist terrorism”.
The nation was as soon as moved to its best in all probability terrorism alert, triggering extra security deployments after a French literature trainer, Dominique Bernard, was as soon as killed whereas making an are trying to “offer protection to” pupils at lycée Gambetta-Carnot in Arras.
Paris’s Louvre museum closed on Saturday for “security reasons”. Museum workers allegedly instructed visitors that they’d obtained a bomb chance.
In line with the French press, as much as fifteen,000 visitors needed to be evacuated.
It was as soon as no longer today clear if the incident was as soon as connected to the contemporary battle between Israel and Hamas.
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1:06PM
Pictured: London’s Palestinian solidarity march
12:53PM
Warnings of skill for infectious disease outbreak in Al Shifa hospital in northern Gaza Strip
Ghassan Abu Sittah, a British-Palestinian doctor in Gaza has warned of the possibility of an infectious disease outbreak in Al Shifa hospital has the conditions develop more dire by the day.
“Shifa hospital is overwhelmed with internally displaced families. There are folks slumbering on the bottom in each single build even within the hospital. The crowding is going to consequence in an infectious disease outbreak. The docs have introduced their families into the hospital for security,” he posted on X.
12:42PM
Moscow’s deputy foreign minister hopes to meet Hamas
Russia has renewed its offer to mediate the battle between Israel and Hamas, with the deputy foreign minister on the present time announcing that he hopes to meet the Hamas management in Doha subsequent week to barter the initiate of hostages.
Russia’s RIA Novosti news company reported Mikhail Bogdanov as announcing: “If they’re willing, we continuously are in favour of contact. Especially on this situation (the assembly) would be purposeful for solving purposeful considerations, including the freeing of hostages.”
12:25PM
Egypt erects ‘fast’ concrete blast partitions on Rafah crossing to finish Palestinian exodus
Egypt has erected “fast” blast partitions on its side of the Rafah crossing – which has been closed for days thanks to Israeli air strikes – two Egyptian officials have instructed AP, to support a ways flung from a mass exodus of Palestinians fleeing.
🔴 Breaking: Egypt locations concrete limitations in entrance of its Rafah border crossing gate
Egypt closed the motorway linking the Egyptian and Palestinian terminals on the Rafah border crossing on Friday night, inserting concrete limitations in entrance of the gate to the Egyptian terminal,… pic.twitter.com/bANeuJrdMk
— Mada Masr مدى مصر (@MadaMasr) October 14, 2023
It is no longer today clear how this will have an impact on reported plans to permit foreigners to switch away Gaza on the present time.
12:15PM
Peep: How the first week of war unfolded, in conserving with The Telegraph
12:08PM
Lebanon to submit a formal complaint to UN over Israel’s deliberate killing of Issam Abdullah
Lebanon will submit a formal complaint to the UN security council over Israel’s “deliberate killing” of journalist Issam Abdullah the day gone by.
Moral after 5pm the day gone by Israel without lengthen hit a neighborhood of journalists who had been reporting from the south of Lebanon, eyewitnesses, the injured and dwell streamed footage screen.
They had been all clearly marked as press and had been in a sequence they deemed proper to movie from, a ways from the place an alternate of fire between Israel and Hizbollah was as soon as going down.
One strike hit Issam’s sincere position whereas yet another hit an Al Jazeera car.
Lebanon’s state media carried the news of the complaint and called it a “crime against freedom of idea and the click, human rights, and global humanitarian laws.”
Israel acknowledged that it is investigating the incident, did no longer snatch responsibility for it but acknowledged it was as soon as “very sorry” for the loss of life of Abdullah. Six other journalists had been injured, some still hospitalised with excessive injuries.
11:53AM
Pictured: Rocket injury in southern Israel
11:34AM
IDF colonel claims ‘there isn’t any humanitarian crisis in Gaza’
A Colonel within the Israeli Defence Forces has claimed that “there isn’t any humanitarian crisis in Gaza” as hospitals command that they’re overwhelmed, the UN experiences that there isn’t any smooth appealing water and electricity has been decrease by Israel.
“Israel maintains contact with global organisations, nice correct kind duties,” Colonel Moshe Tetro, head of Israel’s Gaza Coordination & Liaison Administration persevered.
World organisations had been calling for a humanitarian corridor to be opened as the crisis inner blockaded Gaza reaches “life or loss of life,” as the UN build it this morning.
11:26AM
‘At time of writing the hospital is still standing’
Clinical doctors Without Borders (MSF) has shared an substitute on the chaotic situation that hospitals are going via within the north of the Gaza Strip, the place Israeli forces have ordered an evacuation – in all probability as a precursor to a ground invasion – however the place docs utter it is an impossibility.
Final night MSF acknowledged that Israel had given Al Awda Hospital lawful two hours to evacuate as their workers had been still treating patients.
“We unequivocally condemn this action, the persevered indiscriminate bloodshed and assaults on effectively being care in Gaza,” they acknowledged. The Israelis then delayed it until 6am this morning, they updated.
“At time of writing the hospital is still standing, they updated 20 minutes within the past, waiting for an air strike against it.
“After spending phase of the night within the motorway with bombs landing in discontinuance proximity, we keep in mind that some medical workers and all patients had been able to switch…however the situation stays extremely difficult and chaotic.”
Under we now have reported testimonies from other docs who have explained how no longer doable it is to evacuate folks from hospitals – no longer most bewitching lawful thanks to the dearth of beds in hospitals within the south – but attributable to many would die en route.
11:17AM
Pictured: Israeli air strikes in Khan Yunis
11:16AM
All of the northern Gaza Strip has six hours to switch away
The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) has ordered civilians north of Wadi Gaza to switch south between 10am and 4pm local time, claiming they will have the ability to fabricate so “without harm.”
The IDF first instructed civilians to flit to the south of the Gaza Strip the day gone by, as preparations for a ground incursion ramped up. They later bombed a motorway being dilapidated by evacuees in conserving with the Palestinian effectively being ministry, geolocated videos and footage from hospitals within the aftermath, killing no longer decrease than 70 and injuring bigger than 200.
Hospitals within the north of the Gaza Strip – essentially the most densely populated – have acknowledged they will no longer evacuate. Some civilians acknowledged they merely haven’t got every other build to switch.
Hospitals within the dwelling have warned they will no longer have the ability to evacuate attributable to critically-in sorrowful health patients can no longer be moved.
“It’s in actuality a brand original Nakba right here and even it’s worse than the first one,” acknowledged Yusuf Abu Rish, the head of Shifa hospital in northern Gaza. “For the evacuation of Shifa, it is one thing no longer doable. No one can evacuate Shifa hospital… Many of the instances are unstable and if we are making an are trying to switch them, even if there are extra beds, in other hospitals, which is no longer appropriate, they [patients] will die attributable to they’re unable to be transported.”
11:02AM
Better than 120 hostages inner Gaza, IDF says
The IDF has confirmed that there are no longer decrease than 120 hostages – each civilian and military – being held by Hamas inner Gaza, a spokesperson instructed journalists.
They’ve been accomplishing “tiny” and “contained” raids over the previous 24 hours, essentially to hunt for hostages and to clutch out someone who approached the border, the spokesperson persevered.
10:59AM
IDF claims to have killed Ali Qadi, commander in Hamas’ elite Nukhba forces
The IDF has claimed that it has killed Ali Qadi, a company commander in Hamas’ elite Nukhba forces who they acknowledged “led the phobia assault in Israeli communities advance the Gaza Strip closing weekend.”
The assertion from the IDF added that he had been “apprehended following the kidnapping and abolish of Israeli civilians” in 2005 “and was as soon as released as phase of the Gilad Shalit prisoner alternate.”
כלי טיס של חיל-אוויר, בהכוונה מודיעינית של שב”כ ואמ”ן, חיסלו את עלי קאצ’י, מפקד בכוח הנח’בה של ארגון הטרור חמאס, שהוביל מתקפת טרור ביישובי עוטף עזה בסוף השבוע האחרון. בשנת 2005 עלי נעצר בעקבות חטיפה ורצח של ישראלים והוחזר כחלק מעסקת גלעד שליט. pic.twitter.com/BpfqdxEUeT
— Israeli Air Power (@IAFsite) October 14, 2023
10:37AM
Rescue efforts in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip
10:36AM
Foreigners can spin away Gaza Strip on the present time, Egypt and Israel agree
Egypt and Israel have agreed to let foreigners and dual nationals spin away the Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing on Saturday as Israel carries out strikes against Hamas, a US legitimate instructed AP.
The 2 agreed to support the sole crossing from Gaza to Egypt initiate from 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm, a US legitimate accompanying Antony Blinken in Saudi instructed AFP.
There are an estimated 500-600 Palestinian-American citizens in Gaza, a lot of whom are in contact with US officials, in conserving with the Washington Post.
10:31AM
An again worker within the north of Gaza describes the horror
“I’m lucky that I in actuality have a generator and that I will pump water from my water tanks,” acknowledged Mahmoud Shalabi, a programme manager at Clinical Attend for Palestinians (MAP). “This morning I went outside to aquire bread for my household. All of the bakeries are closed, even the ones that are closed there are a lot of folks waiting outside for them… I went to the ATM to take a look at out and accumulate some money however the monetary institution had been partly destroyed attributable to the bombardment. So we can’t withdraw money.”
“Final night was as soon as horrific, bombardments had been in each single build, each minute and of all styles: artillery, shells, air raids, you title it – gun powder was as soon as in each single build and we had been breathing it carefully.”
Shalabi lives in Beit Lahia and will not be always evacuating the north despite the warnings from the IDF. “It can also be the closing message I send,” he acknowledged in a converse screen. “I’m no longer leaving my residence. I’m no longer going to be a refugee again… I will die standing, my existence on this land is itself a execute of resistance.”
Every other MAP colleague’s residence had been bombed, he acknowledged, and the scene at Al Shifa hospital that was as soon as relayed to him was as soon as “horrific”.
“It is stout of internally displaced folks, the nurses come they sometimes finish the bleeding and utter wait for a health care provider,” he relayed. “He wasn’t able to bring somebody to even give them painkillers.”
The again worker acknowledged that attributable to ambulances are being centered, folks for the time being are transporting unimaginative bodies with their have vehicles.
To die, he concluded, would be more merciful at this level than being injured thanks to the collapsing hospital map.
10:10AM
Pictured: BBC Broadcasting Apartment after red paint was as soon as dilapidated on the entrance overnight
9:57AM
324 killed and 1000+ wounded in Israeli air strikes over previous 24 hours
Gaza’s effectively being ministry has acknowledged that 324 folks had been killed in Israeli airstrikes within the previous 24 hours with bigger than 1,000 folks injured.
9:13AM
Airplane with medical affords lands in Egypt, WHO chief says
A aircraft carrying medical affords has landed in Egypt, the place it will wait until a humanitarian crossing is opened, the head of the World Effectively being Organisation has acknowledged.
“We’re ready to deploy the affords as shortly as humanitarian accumulate entry to via the crossing is established,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus posted on X.
The aircraft has landed in Al Arish, Egypt, advance the Rafah crossing.
The Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing is “non-purposeful” after Israeli air strikes pounded it this week.
9:07AM
Israel says it is ‘taking a search into’ loss of life of Reuters journalist
In a briefing with journalists, IDF spokesperson Richard Hecht acknowledged that they had been “taking a search into” the reality that an Israeli shell hit a neighborhood of journalists the day gone by evening, killing one and injuring six others.
“We have visuals and we’re doing immoral-examination,” he acknowledged, including that they had been “very sorry” about the loss of life of Issam Abdullah, without confirming that it was as soon as an Israeli strike that hit them.
Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister Najib Mikati condemned the Israeli shelling against the journalists.
8:44AM
Israel is pushing the Heart East to the ‘abyss’ of a brand original battle, Jordan says
Jordanian foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, has acknowledged that Israel’s switch to impose original displacement on Palestinians is pushing the place to the “abyss” of latest battle.
8:37AM
1,300 constructions in Gaza destroyed, UN says
In a separate substitute the UN has acknowledged that bigger than 1,300 constructions in Gaza had been destroyed by Israeli air strikes over the previous week.
Better than 5,500 housing units within those constructions had been destroyed and with regards to 3,750 more homes had been so badly broken they’re uninhabitable.
8:15AM
Most folks in Gaza left without appealing water, UN says
In line with an substitute within the dark closing night, most folk in Gaza no longer have accumulate entry to to smooth appealing water, the UN has acknowledged.
“Most folks haven’t got any accumulate entry to to smooth appealing water after offer via the water network and the operation of water desalination/purification vegetation got right here to a finish,” the substitute learn. “As a closing resort, folks are appealing brackish water from agricultural wells, triggering excessive considerations about the spread of waterborne ailments.”
8:09AM
More Palestinians killed in West Bank this week than any monthly total since records started
We reported earlier that the Palestinian Effectively being Ministry has confirmed the deaths of 16 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces and settlers within the West Bank this week, as the arena’s consideration specializes in Gaza.
This brings the full replacement of West Bank Palestinians killed since Oct. 7, when Hamas waged its brutal assault on Israel to 51.
In line with statistics from UN OCHA, who started recording in 2005, this week’s deaths on my own are better than any monthly figures they’ve ever recorded.
7:43AM
IDF claims to have killed militants that infiltrated from Lebanon
The IDF says it has “identified a terrorist cell” that attempted to infiltrate the Lebanese border into Israel.
“An IDF UAV centered the terrorist cell and killed a replacement of the terrorists,” it claimed in an announcement.
There was as soon as no level out of the incident in Hizbollah-affiliated media.
A week into the battle the Lebanese border with Israel is heating up, with fears rising that an Israeli ground incursion can also power Hizbollah to behave.
7:22AM
Tributes pour in for Issam Abdullah, the Reuters cameraman killed by an Israeli shell in Lebanon
Abbie Cheeseman right here, taking on the dwell weblog from Lebanon – the place closing night we tragically misplaced a member of the Beirut press corps in an Israeli strike. Tributes to Issam Abdullah had been pouring in.
Issam was as soon as the sweetest colleague. He let me snatch a kitten I was as soon as nursing on assignment as soon as, and made it a bed in his helmet. But he continuously reminded me, each time I obtained careless: “Our procedure is to duvet the news, no longer develop into it”. I’m so sorry this took build to you my dear Issam. RIP. pic.twitter.com/IhsmLWC5xL
— Erika Solomon (@ErikaSolomon) October 13, 2023
7:01AM
Entering the age of darkness?
As in 1914, this week’s assaults have the facility to reshape the arena – we desires to be cautious that the worst classes of historical previous are no longer repeated, Peter Frankopan says in a special essay.
Learn more: The Hamas Apocalypse has crafted a New World Relate
6:31AM
‘Significant circulation’ south of Palestinians
The Israeli military acknowledged on Saturday it had considered a “significant circulation” south of Palestinian civilians, a day after ordering Gaza City residents to flit.
Israel has build the Hamas-speed Gaza Strip, residence to 2.3 million Palestinians, under siege and bombarded it with unprecedented air strikes. Gaza authorities utter 1,900 folks have died.
On Friday, bigger than a million residents of northern Gaza obtained a peep from Israel to flit south within 24 hours, a time limit that handed at 5am (3am BST).
“We have considered a significant circulation of Palestinian civilians in direction of the south,” Israeli military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus instructed a video briefing earlier.
He did no longer level out the time limit and did no longer snatch questions.
5:45AM
Pictured: Pro-Palestine command in New York on Friday
5:24AM
Israel: ‘Regrettable’ that media outlets are specializing in us
Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus hit abet at claims Israel can also be focusing on or brushing off the security of Palestinians in Gaza.
He acknowledged: “Palestinian civilians in Gaza are no longer our enemies. We don’t assess them as such and we don’t purpose them as such.
“It is extremely unhappy and regrettable that so many media outlets are specializing in our actions in build of striking the responsibility on the entity that governs the Gaza Strip, and that is Hamas.
“They are the ones who initiated this war. They are the ones who centered our civilians”.
He also confirmed that bigger than 120 Israeli civilians are being held captive by Hamas.
UPDATE: As of this time, the IDF has confirmed that over 120 civilians are being held captive in Gaza by the Hamas terrorist organization. pic.twitter.com/AT75iC8TmY
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 14, 2023
5:19AM
Our troopers are ready – IDF
A spokesperson for the Israeli military has criticised Hamas for telling citizens of Gaza to preserve build, accusing the neighborhood of the use of “civilians as their human shields”.
On Friday Israel ordered bigger than a million folks in north Gaza to switch within 24 hours for his or her “security”.
Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus, in a briefing on X – beforehand acknowledged as Twitter – acknowledged the Israel Defence Forces are “are no longer making an are trying to abolish or bother any civilians”.
He acknowledged Israeli troopers had been taking positions round the Gaza Strip over the previous few days and are “preparing themselves for no topic purpose they will accumulate, no topic job”.
Lt Col Conricus added: “The finish state of this war is that we will dismantle Hamas and its military capabilities, and fundamentally substitute the situation, so that Hamas never again has the ability to inflict any injury on Israeli civilians or troopers.”
5:14AM
EU: Evacuation characterize is ‘fully no longer doable’
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell acknowledged on Saturday that a thought by Israel to evacuate bigger than a million folks out of northern Gaza in a single day was as soon as “fully no longer doable to implement”.
Israel warned residents within the dwelling to evacuate earlier than an expected ground offensive against Hamas in retaliation for the deadliest assault in Israel’s historical previous.
“I’m announcing that, representing the legitimate position of the European Union, [the evacuation plan] is fully, fully no longer doable to implement,” Mr Borrell instructed a press convention in Beijing on the closing day of a three-day diplomatic visit to China.
“To mediate that that you can perhaps well also switch a million folks in 24 hours in a situation delight in Gaza can most bewitching be a humanitarian crisis,” he added.
4:22AM
Trainer tells Jewish students to stand in a nook
A Stanford University lecturer ordered his Jewish students to stand in a nook and instructed them “right here’s what Israel does to Palestine”, in conserving with experiences.
The instructor is known to have acknowledged “most bewitching” six million Jews had been killed within the Holocaust and labelled students as “colonisers” or “colonised” looking on their heritage.
He also claimed the Hamas massacre of a total lot of Israelis was as soon as “legitimate” and described the terrorists as “freedom opponents”, in conserving with The Ahead, an American newspaper geared in direction of a Jewish viewers.
Learn more: Trainer tells Jewish students to stand in a nook, lawful as ‘Israel does to the Palestinians’
3:47AM
Russia calls for ceasefire at UN
Russia’s ambassador to the United Countries called for a “humanitarian finish-fire” within the Gaza Strip and Israel on Friday, whereas blaming the United States for the battle.
The Russian draft decision, provided to the Security Council and considered by AFP, calls for an “fast” ceasefire and the right kind initiate of all hostages, and “strongly condemns all violence and hostilities directed against civilians and all acts of terrorism.”
The doc did no longer specifically title Hamas.
“We’re convinced that the Security Council ought to act to place an finish to the bloodshed and restart peace negotiations with a peep to establishing a Palestinian state as it was as soon as supposed to fabricate so long within the past,” Russian ambassador Vassily Nebenzia acknowledged after the closed-door assembly of the Security Council on Friday.
3:22AM
Sixteen folks killed within the West Bank
The Palestinian Effectively being Ministry reported 16 Palestinians had been killed on Friday within the occupied West Bank, bringing to 51 the full replacement of West Bank Palestinians killed since Hamas waged its brutal assault on Israel closing Saturday.
The UN says assaults by Israeli settlers have surged there since the Hamas assault.
Palestinian demonstrators clashed with Israeli forces in Nablus on Friday.
2:26AM
Authorities constitution flight leaves Israel
A Authorities constitution flight left Israel on Friday night with more expected to take a look at within the upcoming days.
In line with FlightRadar24, a Royal Air Power A400M left from Tel Aviv to Cyprus lawful after 10pm on Friday.
The Ministry of Defence and The Foreign, Commonwealth and Vogue Space of work (FCDO) did no longer confirm the A400M flight was as soon as the constitution flight.
A Foreign Space of work assertion acknowledged: “A UK Authorities constitution flight has now left Israel (October 13), with additional flights expected to switch away within the upcoming days whereas commercial alternatives are limited.”
1:50AM
Hamas execute Al-Qaeda search ‘pure’, says Biden
Joe Biden acknowledged his name with members of the family of the 14 missing American citizens, some of whom are presumed held hostage by Hamas, was as soon as “gut wrenching”.
He vowed to fabricate all he can also to search out them, announcing “we’re no longer going to finish until we bring them residence.”
He added of Hamas: “These guys execute Al-Qaeda search pure. They’re pure contaminated.”
1:43AM
How Israel targets the Hamas tunnels
Hamas has spent 20 years constructing a labyrinth of deep, defensive tunnels to withstand any ground assault by Israeli troops, Ben Farmer and Nataliya Vasilyeva write.
The intensive network is believed to be as noteworthy as 100ft (30m) beneath the bottom in some locations and makes up a central phase of defences the terrorist neighborhood has spent years preparing.
Tunnel entrances are hidden within the bottom ground of homes, mosques and schools, whereas the territory’s narrow streets and alleyways are expected to had been laid with booby traps and homemade bombs in preparation for any Israeli assault.
1:39AM
Prime tales
Fair morning and welcome to our protection of day 8 of the crisis in Gaza.
Right here’s a abstract of the tip tales:
- Israel has despatched the first elite troops into Gaza with its defence minister warning of a “protracted, great” ground offensive to permanently execute Hamas
- Yoav Audacious acknowledged his defence forces would snatch Hamas “out of Gaza and out of the Earth”
- Israel gave 1.1 million folks 24 hours to switch away northern Gaza earlier than it would initiate an offensive
- The IDF acknowledged on Friday night it was as soon as already engaged in an “intensive assault” on Gaza after it pounded bigger than 750 targets from the air
- Lloyd Austin, the US defence secretary, expressed his nation’s “iron-clad” enhance for Israel on a visit to the nation
- Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, who held talks with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president in Jordan on Friday, entreated Israel to support a ways flung from civilian deaths
- The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby, called for a humanitarian corridor, as Rishi Sunak called on Israel to “offer protection to traditional Palestinians”
- The Israeli military action caused titanic legitimate-Palestinian protests within the Arab world, including in Baghdad
- Hizbollah, the Lebanese militant neighborhood, acknowledged it was as soon as “ready” and would “make a contribution” in direction of the fight with Israel
- Iran’s foreign minister warned of “original fronts” opening against Israel if its “war crimes” in Gaza continue
- The Metropolitan Police acknowledged there had been a “huge” expand in anti-Semitic incidents in London since the battle started
- Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, acknowledged police had stepped up patrols within the capital
- Palestinian sympathisers also tore down posters of Israeli hostages build up by their relatives in London