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Live update: March for hostages arrives in Jerusalem ahead of rally at PM’s office
Hillary Clinton: ‘There was a ceasefire on October 6. Hamas chose to break it’
I consider Hillary Clinton a very good source. I’ll take her word for it.
Every rocket fired reveals a location. IDF is narrowing down one at a time.Rocket fire from the Gaza Strip on Nirim and Ashkelon mark the first attacks in some 20 hours, since Friday's barrage on Tel Aviv. Rate of rocket fire has slowed significantly since the IDF's ground operation.
He warned that Jordan would do “whatever it takes to stop” the displacement of Palestinians, amid heavy Israeli bombardment of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip in retaliation for Hamas attack on southern Israel on 7 October.Israel says it wants to wipe out Hamas. There’s a lot of military people here, I just don’t understand how this objective can be realised.
In addition to it being a war crime, it would be a direct threat to our national security. We’ll do whatever it takes to stop it.
This war is not taking us anywhere but towards more conflict, more suffering and the threat of expanding into regional wars.
IDF denies ordering evacuation of Al-Shifa hospital but says it is providing route out
The Israeli military has denied ordering the evacuation of Al-Shifa hospital following earlier reports that it had told everyone in the complex to leave within an hour.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had agreed to a request from the director at Al-Shifa for Gazans who wanted to evacuate to do so via a "secure route".
"At no point, did the IDF order the evacuation of patients or medical teams and in fact proposed that any request for medical evacuation will be facilitated by the IDF," a statement said.
Medical staff would stay with patients who are unable to evacuate, the statement continued, saying the IDF had been providing additional food, water and humanitarian assistance to the hospital.
Israeli troops have been searching the hospital, where they say Hamas has a command centre in tunnels below ground. They have found some weapons stashes but so far have not provided evidence of a major command centre.
Large numbers of displaced people have been sheltering in the hospital, where conditions are desperate after intense fighting in the area.
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The US president’s top adviser on the Middle East said on Saturday that the release of hostages held by Hamas would lead to a surge in the delivery of humanitarian aid and significant pause in fighting in Gaza.
“The hostages are released, you will see a significant, significant change,” Brett McGurk said at the IISS Manama Dialogue security summit in Bahrain.
Reuters also reports that Bahrain’s crown prince, speaking at the summit on Friday, called on Hamas to release Israeli women and children held hostage and for Israel in exchange to release from its prisons Palestinian women and children who he said were non-combatants.
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Joe Biden says Gaza and West Bank should be ‘reunited’ under Palestinian Authority; reiterates call for two-state solution – as it happened
In Washington Post on Saturday, Biden writes: ‘After this war is over, the voices of Palestinian people … must be at the center of post-crisis governance’www.theguardian.com