Live updates | Israeli ground forces attack Hamas targets in north as warplanes strike across Gaza

Israeli ground forces are attacking Hamas militants and infrastructure in northern Gaza as warplanes strike across the sealed-off territory. Buoyed by way of the primary a success rescue of a captive held by way of Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected requires a cease-fire and once more vowed to weigh down the militant staff’s skill to manipulate Gaza or threaten Israel.

More than part of Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians have fled their houses, with loads of 1000’s sheltering in packed U.N.-run schools-turned-shelters or in hospitals along 1000’s of wounded sufferers.

The Palestinian dying toll in the Israel-Hamas warfare has reached 8,306, consistent with the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza. In the occupied West Bank, greater than 122 Palestinians were killed in violence and Israeli raids.

More than 1,400 folks in Israel were killed, maximum of them civilians slain in the preliminary Hamas rampage that began the combating Oct. 7. In addition, 240 hostages have been taken from Israel into Gaza by way of the militant staff. One of the captives, a feminine Israeli soldier, was rescued in a unique forces operation.

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Here’s what is going on in the most recent Israel-Hamas warfare:

CANADA SAYS HUMANITARIAN ACCORD URGENTLY NEEDED

TORONTO — Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly stated Monday {that a} humanitarian settlement is urgently had to lend a hand folks in the Gaza Strip.

Speaking to the Economic Club of Canada, Joly referred to as for a short lived pause in hostilities in the Israel-Hamas warfare to permit extra assist to get into Gaza.

“The humanitarian scenario going through the Palestinian folks, going through Palestinian girls and kids, is dire,” she stated.

Joly reiterated Canada’s unequivocal condemnation of Hamas for its assaults on Israelis and stated Israel has a proper to protect itself in opposition to terrorism “in accordance with world legislation.″ She additionally criticized assaults by way of extremist Israelis on Palestinians in the West Bank.

UNWRA HEAD SAYS CIVIL ORDER BREAKDOWN ENDANGERS AGENCY’S OPERATIONS

UNITED NATIONS — The head of the U.N. company for Palestinian refugees is caution that “an immediate humanitarian cease-fire has become a matter of life and death for millions,” stressing that “the present and future of Palestinians and Israelis depend on it.”

Philippe Lazzarini warned throughout an emergency assembly of the U.N. Security Council Monday {that a} additional breakdown of civil order, following the new break-ins on the company’s warehouses by way of panicked Palestinians looking for meals and different assist, will make it extraordinarily tough for the most important U.N. company in Gaza to proceed running.

He stated in a digital briefing that he’s anxious a couple of spillover of the warfare and suggested all 193 U.N. member international locations “to change the trajectory of this crisis.”

The commissioner-general of the agency known as UNRWA, also said 64 of its staff have been killed in just over three weeks — the latest only two hours prior when UNRWA’s head of security in mid-Gaza was killed with his wife and eight children.

Lazzarini said most Palestinians in Gaza “feel trapped in a war they have nothing to do with” and “they feel the world is equating all of them to Hamas.” He stressed out that the Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities in Israel don’t absolve Israel from its responsibilities below world humanitarian legislation, beginning with the security of civilians.

ISRAEL BACKTRACKS ON REFUSING TO GRANT ENTRY VISAS TO UN OFFICIALS

GENEVA — Israeli officials are going back on their promised refusal to grant entry visas to U.N. officials.

Martin Griffiths, the head of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, tweeted Monday that he was in Israel — less than a week after Israel’s U.N. ambassador said it had “refused” to grant Griffiths a visa.

Israeli officers had expressed outrage over comments remaining Wednesday by way of U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that the fatal Oct. 7 attack by way of Hamas militants “did not happen in a vacuum.”

Gilad Erdan, Israel’s U.N. ambassador, accused Guterres on Israel’s Army Radio of justifying a slaughter, called for his resignation and said Israel would “refuse to grant visas to U.N. representatives.”

U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Guterres stood by his remarks.

On Monday, Israel’s ambassador in Geneva, Meirav Eilon Shahar, said, “We haven’t said categorically that we’re not giving visas. We are … We understand their need to be there.”

Eilon Shahar confirmed that Griffiths was in Israel, as well as other officials, including Han Kluge, the regional head of the World Health Organization.

But she continued to voice Israel’s frustration that U.N. institution chiefs didn’t speak out more forcefully against Hamas militants for “butchering civilians and women in such a vicious way.”

“The United Nations has let down the people of Israel,” Eilon Shahar added. “When I say the United Nations, I’m talking about the multilateral organizations have let down the people of Israel.”