Israel - Palestinian militants launch massive attack, 7 Oct 2023 #10
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IDF has repeatedly said, release the hostages, for a ceasefire."Arab and Muslim leaders call for immediate end to Gaza war.
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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, gathered Arab and Muslim leaders for the summit as the kingdom has sought to exert its influence to press the United States and Israel for an end to hostilities in Gaza.
Dozens of leaders including:
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi,
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan,
Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad,
who was welcomed back into the Arab League earlier this year, attended the meeting.
Prince Mohammed said the kingdom affirms its
'condemnation and categorical rejection of this barbaric war against our brothers in Palestine'."
Arab and Muslim leaders call for immediate end to Gaza war
Saudi Arabia and Muslim countries called on Saturday for an immediate end to military operations in Gaza, declaring at a joint Islamic-Arab summit in Riyadh that Israel bears responsibility for "crimes" against Palestinians.www.reuters.com
Why is are they not seeking and end, by seeking to locate and return the hostages?
All these meetings, everyone flying here and there, lined up for media photos in their finery. Just pick up the phone, call your Hamas friends and get back our hostages!!!!
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There are alternate explanations for preterm infant mortality.4h ago
Two premature babies die at Gaza hospital - reports
Two premature babies have died due to power cuts at Dar al-Shifa hospital, Physicians for Human Rights Israel said on Saturday.
“As a result of the lack of electricity, we can report that the neonatal intensive care unit has stopped working. Two premature infants have died, and there is a real risk to the lives of 37 other premature infants” at Al-Shifa hospital, the group said, citing doctors at the hospital, Agence France-Presse reports.
“The hospital is besieged, with no option to bring in the corpses and injured people sprawled outside. There is no movement in or out of the hospital,” the group continued, adding: “The picture we are now seeing at Shifa is no longer of a humanitarian catastrophe – it is a collective death sentence.”
Gaza is currently grappling with a fuel shortage as no fuel has been allowed into the strip in more than five weeks amid Israel’s deadly siege. As a result, numerous hospitals and clinics relying on generators have been forced to shut down, leaving thousands of patients in precarious medical conditions.
Agence France-Presse reports that heavy gunfire and explosions were heard throughout Saturday from its live camera, situated a few hundred metres from the hospital.
Israel-Hamas war: UN calls Gaza fighting ‘reprehensible’ – as it happened
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If Hamas wants to discuss the failure to thrive of 2 preterm infants, they should post their preterm infant mortality rates of 2/39 compared to global statistics of preterm infant mortality rates. Is 2/39 unusual. I have doubts.
I don't think the hostages will be released for temporary ceasefire.
IMO these poor people are kept for "special purpose".
A few exchanged for something important for Hamas.
Another few for something or someone.
Etc, etc...
These people were captured for a reason.
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Unfortunately, you may be right. Hamas leaders are diabolical, but clever. Very clever. And powerful. Very powerful.
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Good interview with Manar Al-Sharif, a Syrian peace activist who spent four years in Gaza and now tries to share what life is like in the Gaza Strip under Hamas rule-
Here is a Forbes article on Al-Sharif as well-
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Here is a Forbes article on Al-Sharif as well-
Life In Gaza: A Syrian Woman’s Experiences With Hamas And Her Work To Improve Israeli/Palestinian Relations
Manar Al-Sharif moved to Gaza to attend college. But instead, she ended up an activist, working to improve life for Palestinians in Gaza and bridge the gap between Israelis and Palestinians.
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I think Hamas leaders are getting really scared because the IDF is closing in, so their propaganda machine is in overdrive accusing the IDF is killing babies, blowing up hospitals ... how long before Hamas accuses the IDF of raping dead people?
That is, Hamas wants restless young adults around the world to protest, and to put pressure on the IDF to stop efforts to release hostages and eliminate Hamas terrorists.
Always true to their beliefs
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I wonder about the hats.
What fur are they made of?
I preferred Alfie Solomon's semi-version.
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Gaza’s border authority announced on Saturday that the Rafah land crossing into Egypt would reopen on Sunday for foreign passport holders and dependents.
Reuters reports:
The crossing between Gaza and Egypt’s Sinai peninsula is the only entry into the strip not controlled by Israel, and has been crucial for aid trucks and evacuees, who number in the thousands.
Evacuations from the Gaza Strip into Egypt, including for Palestinians needing urgent medical treatment, were suspended on Friday, Egyptian and Palestinian sources said, due to problems transporting medical evacuees from northern Gaza.
The border would begin operating at 9 am local time (0700 GMT) for foreigners and medical evacuees, Egyptian sources said.
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Gaza’s border authority announced on Saturday that the Rafah land crossing into Egypt would reopen on Sunday for foreign passport holders and dependents.
Reuters reports:
The crossing between Gaza and Egypt’s Sinai peninsula is the only entry into the strip not controlled by Israel, and has been crucial for aid trucks and evacuees, who number in the thousands.
Evacuations from the Gaza Strip into Egypt, including for Palestinians needing urgent medical treatment, were suspended on Friday, Egyptian and Palestinian sources said, due to problems transporting medical evacuees from northern Gaza.
The border would begin operating at 9 am local time (0700 GMT) for foreigners and medical evacuees, Egyptian sources said.
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Here is Agence France-Presse’s report on the thousands of Palestinians trapped inside Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital amid deadly Israeli strikes:
Thousands of displaced Palestinians looked to Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, as a safe haven, but with Israeli strikes intensifying and the fighting reaching the gates of the compound, there seems nowhere for them to escape.
Ahmed al-Shawa, who sought refuge in the hospital, said he was afraid he would be “cut down by shrapnel,” if he stepped outside.
“The situation is very, very dangerous,” the 18-year-old from Gaza City said as the sound of explosions echoed in the background.
Crowds of people have crammed into the corridors of Al-Shifa to escape the fighting in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, adding to the overwhelming number of war casualties at the hospital.
The facility was hit repeatedly overnight in a new round of strikes that knocked out the power for several hours, its director said.
The outage had resulted in the death of two premature babies, the NGO Physicians for Human Rights Israel said, citing doctors inside the hospital.
Many of the displaced were afraid to leave the hospital, with medics including from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) saying they saw people being shot at as they attempted to flee the hospital.
“We are being killed here, please do something,” a nurse from MSF pleaded from inside the hospital’s basement, where he and his family were sheltering.
“The shelling is so close, my kids are crying and screaming in fear,” MSF cited the nurse as saying in a text message.
The Israeli military said “there is no shooting at the hospital” but acknowledged troops were engaged in clashes with Hamas militants around the complex.
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Here is Agence France-Presse’s report on the thousands of Palestinians trapped inside Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital amid deadly Israeli strikes:
Thousands of displaced Palestinians looked to Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, as a safe haven, but with Israeli strikes intensifying and the fighting reaching the gates of the compound, there seems nowhere for them to escape.
Ahmed al-Shawa, who sought refuge in the hospital, said he was afraid he would be “cut down by shrapnel,” if he stepped outside.
“The situation is very, very dangerous,” the 18-year-old from Gaza City said as the sound of explosions echoed in the background.
Crowds of people have crammed into the corridors of Al-Shifa to escape the fighting in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, adding to the overwhelming number of war casualties at the hospital.
The facility was hit repeatedly overnight in a new round of strikes that knocked out the power for several hours, its director said.
The outage had resulted in the death of two premature babies, the NGO Physicians for Human Rights Israel said, citing doctors inside the hospital.
Many of the displaced were afraid to leave the hospital, with medics including from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) saying they saw people being shot at as they attempted to flee the hospital.
“We are being killed here, please do something,” a nurse from MSF pleaded from inside the hospital’s basement, where he and his family were sheltering.
“The shelling is so close, my kids are crying and screaming in fear,” MSF cited the nurse as saying in a text message.
The Israeli military said “there is no shooting at the hospital” but acknowledged troops were engaged in clashes with Hamas militants around the complex.
Israel-Hamas war: UN calls Gaza fighting ‘reprehensible’ – as it happened
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Médecins Sans Frontières reports that medical staff in Gaza have become so overwhelmed by the amount of incoming patients that the surgical board used to keep track of upcoming surgeries has been erased and replaced with the following words:
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Médecins Sans Frontières reports that medical staff in Gaza have become so overwhelmed by the amount of incoming patients that the surgical board used to keep track of upcoming surgeries has been erased and replaced with the following words:
Israel-Hamas war: UN calls Gaza fighting ‘reprehensible’ – as it happened
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The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said that over 100 of its colleagues have been killed in Gaza and repeated its calls for international cooperation on a political solution to halt the ongoing bloodshed in Gaza.
In an address on Saturday at the Saudi-hosted Arab-Islamic summit on the Gaza, UNRWA commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini said:
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The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said that over 100 of its colleagues have been killed in Gaza and repeated its calls for international cooperation on a political solution to halt the ongoing bloodshed in Gaza.
In an address on Saturday at the Saudi-hosted Arab-Islamic summit on the Gaza, UNRWA commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini said:
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I do understand why Hamas is holding hostages, prisoners of war. I grew up, living everyday, worried and praying for our dear friends son. He was a POW, his family and wife worked everyday to secure his return.
Israel didn't start this, but they will finish it. I pray for the families and hostages everyday and the pain, agony, worried they suffer.
Moo...
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Operations at the Rafah land crossing will resume Sunday for the departure of foreign passport holders, the General Authority for Crossings and Borders in Gaza said in a statement Saturday.
Only people whose names are specifically included on a list that was released November 1 will be permitted to travel through the Rafah crossing, the authority emphasized.
The Rafah crossing failed to open Friday for foreign nationals wishing to leave Gaza, highlighting once again the frustrations facing diplomats looking to get their nationals out of the strip.
One diplomatic source in Egypt described the process as “long, non-transparent and arduous.”
Remember: Rafah is the only Gazan border crossing that isn’t controlled by Israel, which shut its crossings with the territory following Hamas’ October 7 attack. It has emerged as a crucial location as the humanitarian situation in the territory worsens.
For the first few weeks of the Israel-Gaza war, the Rafah crossing remained shut – leaving Palestinians and other people stranded in the strip with no way out of the enclave.
But it was partially opened late last month to allow a small number of aid trucks into Gaza, and has briefly reopened at times in November to allow safe passage to a limited amount of injured Palestinians and foreign nationals.
CNN's Abbas Al Lawati, Mohammed Abdelbary and Rob Picheta contributed reporting to this post.
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More foreign nationals will be allowed to leave Gaza through Rafah crossing Sunday, officials say
From Ibrahim Dahman and Hamdi AlkhshaliOperations at the Rafah land crossing will resume Sunday for the departure of foreign passport holders, the General Authority for Crossings and Borders in Gaza said in a statement Saturday.
Only people whose names are specifically included on a list that was released November 1 will be permitted to travel through the Rafah crossing, the authority emphasized.
The Rafah crossing failed to open Friday for foreign nationals wishing to leave Gaza, highlighting once again the frustrations facing diplomats looking to get their nationals out of the strip.
One diplomatic source in Egypt described the process as “long, non-transparent and arduous.”
Remember: Rafah is the only Gazan border crossing that isn’t controlled by Israel, which shut its crossings with the territory following Hamas’ October 7 attack. It has emerged as a crucial location as the humanitarian situation in the territory worsens.
For the first few weeks of the Israel-Gaza war, the Rafah crossing remained shut – leaving Palestinians and other people stranded in the strip with no way out of the enclave.
But it was partially opened late last month to allow a small number of aid trucks into Gaza, and has briefly reopened at times in November to allow safe passage to a limited amount of injured Palestinians and foreign nationals.
CNN's Abbas Al Lawati, Mohammed Abdelbary and Rob Picheta contributed reporting to this post.
November 11, 2023 Israel-Hamas war
The Hamas-run health ministry says Israel laid siege to Gaza's largest hospital Saturday. The IDF denies the claim, but acknowledged heavy fighting in the area.
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The Palestine Red Crescent Society received 53 aid trucks packed with vital supplies —including food, water, relief items, medical equipment and medications, but no fuel — the group said Saturday.
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53 aid trucks enter Gaza Saturday, Palestine Red Crescent says
From CNN's Abeer Salman and Hamdi AlkhshaliThe Palestine Red Crescent Society received 53 aid trucks packed with vital supplies —including food, water, relief items, medical equipment and medications, but no fuel — the group said Saturday.
November 11, 2023 Israel-Hamas war
The Hamas-run health ministry says Israel laid siege to Gaza's largest hospital Saturday. The IDF denies the claim, but acknowledged heavy fighting in the area.
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Hostilities around Al-Shifa Hospital Saturday “have not stopped,” according to Médecins Sans Frontières, also known as Doctors Without Borders.
“The ambulances can no longer move to collect the injured, and non-stop bombardment prevents patients and staff from evacuating,” the organization said in a statement.
A freelance journalist based at the hospital told CNN there were still dozens of bodies at the hospital awaiting burial, but that people feared going outside to bury them.
“The situation is very difficult and dire. After a slowdown in shelling this afternoon, the shelling and gunfire resumed, heavily targeting anything that moves,” Mustafa Sarsour said.
Medics inside the hospital are working by candlelight, Sarsour said. Other resources are also getting scarce.
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Hostilities around Al-Shifa Hospital “have not stopped,” Doctors Without Borders says
From CNN's Eve Brennan and Kareem KhadderHostilities around Al-Shifa Hospital Saturday “have not stopped,” according to Médecins Sans Frontières, also known as Doctors Without Borders.
“The ambulances can no longer move to collect the injured, and non-stop bombardment prevents patients and staff from evacuating,” the organization said in a statement.
A freelance journalist based at the hospital told CNN there were still dozens of bodies at the hospital awaiting burial, but that people feared going outside to bury them.
“The situation is very difficult and dire. After a slowdown in shelling this afternoon, the shelling and gunfire resumed, heavily targeting anything that moves,” Mustafa Sarsour said.
Medics inside the hospital are working by candlelight, Sarsour said. Other resources are also getting scarce.
November 11, 2023 Israel-Hamas war
The Hamas-run health ministry says Israel laid siege to Gaza's largest hospital Saturday. The IDF denies the claim, but acknowledged heavy fighting in the area.
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Negotiations to release more hostages held in Gaza since the October 7 Hamas attacks are moving in a positive direction, but the situation remains fluid — and the continued bombardment of Gaza isn’t helping matters, Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said Saturday.
Qatar, a key US ally in the Middle East, has a close relationship with Hamas, and has emerged as a broker of sorts as negotiations over the release of hostages and humanitarian aid into the Gaza strip continues.
During a Saturday call, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Qatar to press Hamas on allowing more dual nationals to leave Gaza — particularly US dual nationals, according to a source familiar with the call. Al-Thani told Blinken that Qatar will continue to negotiate with Hamas to make that happen.
CNN has previously reported if a deal were to be struck, the hostages would exit Gaza in stages on a rolling basis – with priority placed on extra vulnerable groups like children and women – in a process that is expected to take multiple days, a senior US official said.
CNN’s MJ Lee contributed reporting to this post.
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Hostage negotiations are moving in a positive direction, but situation remains fluid, Qatari officials say
From CNN’s Alex MarquardtNegotiations to release more hostages held in Gaza since the October 7 Hamas attacks are moving in a positive direction, but the situation remains fluid — and the continued bombardment of Gaza isn’t helping matters, Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said Saturday.
Qatar, a key US ally in the Middle East, has a close relationship with Hamas, and has emerged as a broker of sorts as negotiations over the release of hostages and humanitarian aid into the Gaza strip continues.
During a Saturday call, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Qatar to press Hamas on allowing more dual nationals to leave Gaza — particularly US dual nationals, according to a source familiar with the call. Al-Thani told Blinken that Qatar will continue to negotiate with Hamas to make that happen.
CNN has previously reported if a deal were to be struck, the hostages would exit Gaza in stages on a rolling basis – with priority placed on extra vulnerable groups like children and women – in a process that is expected to take multiple days, a senior US official said.
CNN’s MJ Lee contributed reporting to this post.
November 11, 2023 Israel-Hamas war
The Hamas-run health ministry says Israel laid siege to Gaza's largest hospital Saturday. The IDF denies the claim, but acknowledged heavy fighting in the area.
BY ISABEL DEBRE
Updated 8:59 PM GMT, November 11, 2023
Throughout the war, Palestinian families fleeing bombed-out homes have taken refuge in medical compounds, believing them to be safer than other alternatives.
Kamal Najar, a 35-year-old who sheltered at Shifa with his toddler son and infant daughter this week, said he believed that the hospital would be “off-limits, even for Israel.”
“It was the thing we somehow told ourselves wouldn’t happen,” he said, speaking by phone from the central city of Deir al-Balah, where he arrived by foot Friday after escaping what he said were strikes on the hospital with tens of thousands of others.
On Saturday, some 1,500 patients, along with 1,500 medical workers and some 15,000 displaced people were still stranded at Shifa, health authorities said. They said a blackout plunged Shifa Hospital into darkness and switched off life-saving equipment, killing several patients — including a newborn in an incubator.
Palestinian medical workers accuse Israel of mounting an all-out attack on infrastructure to punish the population and force a surrender. “It’s to say, ‘Not only will we kill and wound you, we will ensure you have nowhere to go to be treated,’” said Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta, a British Palestinian surgeon working for Doctors Without Borders in Gaza City.
Some 190 medical workers were among more than 11,000 Palestinians killed since the start of the war, according to the Health Ministry in Gaza. Ongoing Israeli bombardment has wrecked 31 ambulances and knocked 20 hospitals out of operation, the ministry said. The war was triggered by Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel in which about 1,200 people were killed.
“Death always feels close,” said Naseem Hassan, a 48-year-old medic in the southern city of Khan Younis. Too many colleagues, he said, have left the hospital only to return hours later in body bags. He had a close call Thursday when two missiles landed just meters from his ambulance.
“This is a war of all-out destruction and there is no protection anywhere,” he said. “Israel could be more precise but it’s choosing not to be.”
Israel has said it targets Hamas fighters, not civilians. However, it has used powerful explosives in strikes on densely populated areas that have killed large numbers of women and children.
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Updated 8:59 PM GMT, November 11, 2023
Throughout the war, Palestinian families fleeing bombed-out homes have taken refuge in medical compounds, believing them to be safer than other alternatives.
Kamal Najar, a 35-year-old who sheltered at Shifa with his toddler son and infant daughter this week, said he believed that the hospital would be “off-limits, even for Israel.”
“It was the thing we somehow told ourselves wouldn’t happen,” he said, speaking by phone from the central city of Deir al-Balah, where he arrived by foot Friday after escaping what he said were strikes on the hospital with tens of thousands of others.
On Saturday, some 1,500 patients, along with 1,500 medical workers and some 15,000 displaced people were still stranded at Shifa, health authorities said. They said a blackout plunged Shifa Hospital into darkness and switched off life-saving equipment, killing several patients — including a newborn in an incubator.
Palestinian medical workers accuse Israel of mounting an all-out attack on infrastructure to punish the population and force a surrender. “It’s to say, ‘Not only will we kill and wound you, we will ensure you have nowhere to go to be treated,’” said Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta, a British Palestinian surgeon working for Doctors Without Borders in Gaza City.
Some 190 medical workers were among more than 11,000 Palestinians killed since the start of the war, according to the Health Ministry in Gaza. Ongoing Israeli bombardment has wrecked 31 ambulances and knocked 20 hospitals out of operation, the ministry said. The war was triggered by Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel in which about 1,200 people were killed.
“Death always feels close,” said Naseem Hassan, a 48-year-old medic in the southern city of Khan Younis. Too many colleagues, he said, have left the hospital only to return hours later in body bags. He had a close call Thursday when two missiles landed just meters from his ambulance.
“This is a war of all-out destruction and there is no protection anywhere,” he said. “Israel could be more precise but it’s choosing not to be.”
Israel has said it targets Hamas fighters, not civilians. However, it has used powerful explosives in strikes on densely populated areas that have killed large numbers of women and children.
Hospitals have special protection under the rules of war. Why are they in the crosshairs in Gaza?
Hospitals have been caught in the crossfire during the Israel-Hamas war — both literally and in the clashing narratives of the conflict.
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