Cover image: An explosion in the Gaza Strip, seen from Israel, October 30, 2023. AMIR COHEN / REUTERS
- The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed Monday, October 30 that Israel “will not accept 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.
- In the Gaza Strip, “displaced people are facing increasingly desperate conditions,” the UN reported Monday. Its ability to provide life-saving assistance was “further hampered by the thirty-six hour communications disruption that affected the entire Gaza Strip, including humanitarian organizations, from October 27 to the early hours of October 29”she explains in a press release.
- Thirty-three humanitarian aid trucks entered Gaza on Sunday via the Rafah crossing point on the border with Egypt, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said. This is the largest convoy to enter the besieged Palestinian territory since the limited resumption of aid delivery on October 21, the UN office said. In total, 117 humanitarian aid trucks were able to enter the enclave.
- Hamas released a video of three women presented as hostages. One of them called on the Israeli prime minister to conclude a prisoner exchange with Hamas to obtain their release. This video has been described as “cruel psychological propaganda” by Benjamin Netanyahu. Shortly after, the Israeli army announced that it had released a female soldier held hostage in Gaza. Conversely, a German-Israeli woman kidnapped by Hamas is dead, said the Israeli Foreign Ministry, without specifying the circumstances of this discovery.
- Israeli forces reported midday Monday that they had “responded” to shooting on the border with Lebanonwhile the Lebanese Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, assured that he was doing his best to “prevent Lebanon from entering into war”, ignoring Hezbollah’s intentions.
- Several dozen men stormed the tarmac and terminal of Makhachkala airport on Sunday evening, capital of the predominantly Muslim Russian republic of Dagestan, upon the announcement that a plane from Israel was to land there. According to the Dagestan Ministry of Health, at least ten people were injured, two of whom are in a ” critical state “. Russia’s aviation agency, Rossaviatsia, announced that the airport would remain closed until November 6.
- 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.
- According to Reporters Without Borders, journalists who were victims of strikes in Lebanon on October 13 were targeted. Two bombings fell thirty seconds apart on a group of seven journalists covering the clashes between Hezbollah and Israel in southern Lebanon. One of them died, and four were injured.
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