Live updates | Israeli troops briefly enter Gaza as wider ground incursion looms

The Israeli army stated its troops and tanks briefly entered northern Gaza in a single day into Thursday, hitting a number of militant objectives as a wider ground incursion loomed after greater than two weeks of heavy air raids.

Israeli airstrikes have devastated portions of the Gaza Strip, leaving neighborhoods in rubble, and hospitals in Gaza are suffering to regard lots of wounded with diminishing sources.

The U.N. warned that it’s at the verge of working out of gasoline within the Gaza Strip, forcing it to sharply curtail aid efforts within the blockaded territory. And the U.N. Security Council failed again to deal with the Israeli-Hamas conflict, rejecting rival resolutions through the United States and Russia.

The conflict is the deadliest of 5 Gaza wars for each side. The Hamas-run Health Ministry stated Wednesday that a minimum of 6,546 Palestinians were killed and 17,439 others wounded. In the occupied West Bank, greater than 100 Palestinians were killed and 1,650 wounded in violence and Israeli raids following Hamas’ wonder rampage on Oct. 7 in southern Israel.

The Associated Press could not independently examine the loss of life tolls cited through Hamas, which says it tallies figures from health center administrators.

The combating has killed greater than 1,400 other people in Israel, in step with Israeli officers, most commonly civilians who died within the initial Hamas attack. Israel’s army on Wednesday raised the collection of ultimate hostages in Gaza to 222 other people, together with foreigners believed captured through Hamas all through the incursion. Four hostages were launched.

U.S. and different officers worry the combating may just spill over right into a wider regional war.

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Here’s what’s going down in the most recent Israel-Hamas conflict:

ISRAEL TROOPS LAUNCH BRIEF GROUND RAID INTO GAZA

Israeli troops and tanks introduced a temporary ground raid into northern Gaza in a single day into Thursday, the army stated, putting a number of militant objectives with a purpose to “prepare the battlefield” forward of a broadly anticipated ground invasion after greater than two weeks of devastating air raids.

During the raid, the army stated infantrymen struck combatants, militant infrastructure and anti-tank missile launching positions. There had been no rapid studies of casualties on both sides.

FAMILIES OF ABDUCTED ISRAELIS MEET WITH ITALY’S PRIME MINISTER

ROME — Relatives of Israelis held hostage through Hamas met with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome on Wednesday to discuss their anguish and lift consciousness for his or her family members’ plight in Gaza.

Nadav Kipnis’ oldsters, Evyatar and Lilich Kipnis, had been discovered useless days after the Oct. 7 Hamas assault. His cousin is being held captive.

“None of them deserved to be treated in such horrible ways. We have to spread the message of anything that can help. It’s what my parents would have wanted,” Kipnis stated.

Ilan Regev’s two kids, 21-year-old Maya and 18-year-old Itay, had been abducted on the Nova Music Festival.

Hamas has stated it seeks the discharge of all Palestinian prisoners held through Israel in alternate for the captives.

“Give them everything, 4,000, 5,000 prisoners in Israel. I don’t care, these are children, babies, bring them back,” Regev stated.

Since the militants’ bloody assault greater than two weeks in the past, Meloni has traveled to Israel and visited Rome’s primary synagogue, the place she pledged to protect Jewish voters towards “every form of antisemitism.”

ISRAELI STRIKE KILLS FAMILY MEMBERS OF AL JAZEERA BUREAU CHIEF IN GAZA

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — An Israeli strike on Wednesday killed the spouse, son and younger daughter of Al Jazeera Arabic’s bureau leader in Gaza, Wael Dahdouh.

Footage aired at the Qatar-based TV community confirmed the veteran journalist, nonetheless dressed in his blue frame armor marked “press,” weeping over his son’s corpse on a health center ground.

“They take vengeance on us through our children?” he sobbed.

Another son, Yehia, used to be significantly wounded, and Dahdouh’s grandson used to be additionally declared useless two hours later, the community reported. Other kin survived the Israeli strike, together with a baby granddaughter.

“This is a series of targeted attacks on children, women and civilians,” Dahdouh, taking a look surprised, advised Al Jazeera as he left the health center.

The media community launched a remark condemning what it referred to as an “indiscriminate assault” at the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. The camp is south of the world Israel has ordered civilians to evacuate.

In Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Youmna Elsayed advised the community: “It’s heartbreaking to be reporting about Wael’s family and to see how broken he is.”

U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL FAILS AGAIN TO PASS RESOLUTION ON ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council has failed once more to deal with the Israeli-Hamas conflict in Gaza, rejecting rival United States and Russian resolutions.

The U.S. solution would have reaffirmed Israel’s proper to self-defense, instructed recognize for global rules — particularly coverage of civilians — and referred to as for “humanitarian pauses” to ship desperately wanted assist to Gaza. Wednesday’s vote within the 15-member council used to be 10 nations in choose, 3 towards and a couple of abstentions. The solution used to be now not followed as a result of each Russia and China solid vetoes.

The Russian solution would have referred to as for a right away “humanitarian cease-fire,” and unequivocally condemned Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks in Israel and “indiscriminate attacks” on civilians and civilian objects in Gaza. The vote was 4 in favor, 2 against and 9 abstentions. The resolution wasn’t adopted because it failed to get the minimum nine “yes” votes.

The council is charged under the U.N. Charter with maintaining international peace and security. But Wednesday’s rejections, following its rejections last week of a Russian resolution and a Brazilian proposal, leave the Security Council divided and paralyzed in taking action on the Israeli-Hamas war.

Malta’s U.N. Ambassador Vanessa Frazier told reporters before the vote that if both resolutions failed, she would attempt to draft a compromise resolution.

U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield accused Russia of submitting its text with no consultations “in bad faith.” Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia called the U.S. draft a “politicized” proposal to shore up Israel.

IRAQI MILITANT GROUP SAYS IT ATTACKED BASE HOUSING U.S. FORCES IN SYRIA

BAGHDAD — An Iranian backed group in Iraq claimed responsibility for an attack on a military base housing U.S. forces in eastern Syria on Wednesday, as a string of attacks targeting U.S. military facilities in Iraq and Syria persist.

The Islamic Resistance group in Iraq, an umbrella organization for several Iran-backed militias, said in a statement that it had struck the Kharab al-Jir base in the northeastern Hassakeh province with rockets. It said it hit its target, without making any mention of casualties.

Washington did not immediately comment on the attack. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in a call Monday with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shiaa al-Sudani, urged Sudani “to pursue those behind the attacks and fulfill Iraq’s commitment to maintain the security at these installations,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement Tuesday.

The past week has seen a spate of more than a dozen attacks on U.S. military facilities in Iraq in Syria, most of them claimed by the same group, which has said it is retaliating against America’s backing of Israel in its war with Hamas.

BIDEN CONDEMNS ATTACKS ON PALESTINIANS BY ISRAELI SETTLERS IN THE WEST BANK

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Wednesday said there is no going back to the “status quo” in Israel and the region following the deadly attack by Hamas on Oct. 7.

“When this crisis is over, there has to be a vision of what comes next,” Biden said during a news conference at the White House with the Prime Minister of Australia. “And in our view, it has to be a two-state solution.”

Biden said again that he believed Israeli had the right — the “responsibility” — to respond to the attack. “The anger, the hurt, the sense of outrage that the Israeli people are feeling” following the attack is “completely understandable,” he said.

But he also decried the attacks on Palestinians by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, and said it must stop and “stop now,” and he said he remained focused on humanitarian aid into Gaza.

AIRSTRIKE IN GAZA CITY KILLS MORE THAN 2 DOZEN AND INJURES OVER 100, HAMAS SAYS

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — An Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Wednesday killed at least 26 people and injured more than 100, Hamas’ Interior Ministry said.

Bodies of dead men and women were scattered in streets that had relatively little damage while a block of buildings lay in ruins with people searching for survivors.

Two wounded young boys embraced each other and appeared to be crying as a first responder and three other men carried them to safety on a stretcher.

A man with blood running from his scalp into his eye and down his cheek looked stunned as he sat on what remained of a sofa propped in the rubble, while a girl, who was also wounded, hugged him.

FRANCE’S MACRON ANGLES FOR INTERNATIONAL COALITION TO FIGHT HAMAS

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron is promoting, with little success so far, the creation of an international coalition to fight the armed Palestinian group Hamas.

He pitched the idea during a two-day trip to the Middle East that started in Israel.

Leaders he met with in Israel, the West Bank, Jordan and Egypt didn’t publicly address the issue.

The first response to the devastating Israel-Hamas war is “the fight against terrorism,” Macron said Wednesday after his meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi.

“The right response is to cooperate, to draw lessons from the international coalition against the Islamic State group” that intervened in Iraq and Syria, he added.

Macron first proposed the idea Tuesday after his meeting with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, mentioning a “regional and international coalition” against Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip.

Netanyahu did not specifically comment on the proposal.

U.S. EMBASSY IN KUWAIT TO LIMIT ACTIVITY ON MILITARY BASES AFTER IRAQI MILITIA’S THREATS

JERUSALEM — The U.S. Embassy in Kuwait is acknowledging an Iraqi militia’s threat to target U.S. military bases in the Mideast nation over the Israeli airstrikes targeting the Gaza Strip in its war on Hamas.

In a statement to American citizens, the embassy identified the threat as coming from Awliya Wa’ad al-Haq, or “The True Promise Brigades.” That group, believed allied with Iran, has claimed an attack previously on the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

“As a result, the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait is limiting its activity on U.S. military bases to essential and official events only,” the embassy said in an alert.

NETANYAHU SAYS HE WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR HAMAS’ ATTACK

JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will be held accountable for the bloody Oct. 7 massacre by Hamas militants, but that will only come after Israel’s war against the Islamic militant group.

In a nationally televised address Wednesday night, Netanyahu said he was busy plotting a ground invasion of Gaza, though he refused to say when that might happen. He also expressed sorrow over the attack, which killed more than 1,400 Israelis and saw over 200 others taken captive in Gaza.

“Oct. 7 is a black day in our history,” he said. “We will get to the bottom of what happened on the southern border around Gaza. This debacle will be investigated. Everyone will have to give answers, including me.”

FRANCE TO SEND NAVY SHIP TO BRING AID TO GAZA STRIP, MACRON SAY

CAIRO — French President Emmanuel Macron said France is going to send a Navy ship to bring aid to hospitals in the Gaza Strip.

The ship will leave the French military port of Toulon, in the Mediterranean Sea, within 48 hours, he said. He didn’t provide further details.

In addition, a French plane will arrive in Egypt on Thursday to deliver medical equipment via a convoy to Gaza. “Others will follow,” Macron said, adding that France wants to provide Gaza’s civilian population access to medicine and medical care.

Macron’s visit to Egypt comes as part of a two-day tour to the Middle East that started with a visit to Israel meant to show France’s support and solidarity following the Hamas attack on Oct. 7. The trip included a stop in Ramallah, in the West Bank, to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and another stop Wednesday morning in Jordan for talks with King Abdullah II.

Macron in Egypt said, “There’s no double standard … international law applies to everyone.”

“All victims deserve our compassion, our commitment toward a fair and sustainable peace in the Middle East,” he added.