Cover image: Trucks carrying humanitarian aid for Palestinians at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, October 31, 2023. MOHAMED ABD EL GHANY / REUTERS
- The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, reaffirmed Monday October 30 that Israel “will not accept[it] not a cessation of hostilities with Hamas after the horrible attacks of October 7”like the ” UNITED STATES (…) after the bombing of Pearl Harbor or after the terrorist attack of September 11″. During a press conference for foreign media, Mr. Netanyahu estimated that ceasing fire would be giving in to the ” barbarity ” of Hamas. “There is a time for peace and a time for war”he continued. According to Mr. Netanyahu, the Israeli army is advancing ” methodically “ in the Gaza Strip, while “The IDF has expanded its land entry into the Gaza Strip.”
- During the night from Monday to Tuesday, the Palestinian Red Crescent was alarmed by strikes “incessant” near Al-Quds hospital, in the north of the Gaza Strip, where civilians have taken refuge to protect themselves from Israeli bombings. Another establishment, the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in Gaza, also suffered strikes, according to its director.
- In the Gaza Strip, people “Displaced people face increasingly desperate conditions”reports the UN. Its ability to provide life-saving assistance was “further hampered by the thirty-six hour communications disruption that affected the entire Gaza Strip”she explains in a press release.
- The Israeli Defense Ministry’s body overseeing civilian activities in the Palestinian territories (COGAT) said Tuesday that 39 trucks of humanitarian aid arrived in Gaza on Monday, which would bring to 156 the total number of trucks entering the enclave since the limited resumption of aid delivery on October 21.
- The Israeli army announced that it had released Ori Megidish, a soldier held hostage in Gazaduring the night from Sunday to Monday, “during IDF ground operations.” On the other hand, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the death of a German-Israeli woman kidnapped by Hamas, without specifying the circumstances of this discovery. For its part, Hamas published a video of three women presented as hostages.
- Israeli forces reported striking Hezbollah infrastructure in Lebanon overnight from Monday to Tuesday. The Lebanese Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, assured that he was doing his best to “prevent Lebanon from entering into war”, ignoring Hezbollah’s intentions.
- Hamas says more than 8,300 people, mostly civilians and nearly half children, were killed in Israeli bombings since the start of the war. More than 1,400 people died, mainly civilians, during the attack perpetrated by the Palestinian Islamist movement in Israel on October 7.
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