Israeli airstrikes hit a refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip early Sunday, killing dozens of other folks, well being officers mentioned. The moves got here because the U.S. is urging Israel to take a humanitarian pause from its relentless bombardment of Gaza and emerging civilian deaths.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled to Ramallah in the West Bank for a up to now unannounced assembly with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Blinken on Saturday met with Arab foreign ministers in Jordan, after keeping talks in Israel with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who insisted there may well be no transient cease-fire until all hostages held by Hamas are released. President Joe Biden prompt Saturday that development used to be being made at the humanitarian pause.
The Palestinian dying toll in the Israel-Hamas warfare reached 9,448, in step with the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza. In the occupied West Bank, greater than 140 Palestinians were killed in violence and Israeli raids.
More than 1,400 other folks in Israel were killed, maximum of them in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that began the preventing, and 242 hostages have been taken from Israel into Gaza via the militant crew.
Roughly 1,100 other folks have left the Gaza Strip throughout the Rafah crossing since Wednesday beneath an obvious settlement some of the United States, Egypt, Israel and Qatar, which mediates with Hamas.
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Here’s what is going on in the most recent Israel-Hamas warfare:
POPE FRANCIS PRAYS FOR A CEASE-FIRE
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, addressing the fighters in the Israel-Hamas warfare, prayed that “in the name of God, you will stop and will cease fire.”
“I hope that all possible paths are pursued so an enlargement of the conflict can absolutely be avoided,’’ Francis told the public gathered in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday.
A cease-fire would “allow the wounded to be assisted” and support to reach to relieve “a very grave humanitarian situation,’’ Francis said.
“Free all the hostages, immediately. Among them are also so many children. May they return to their families,’’ the pontiff continued in an appeal he delivered from his studio window. “Yes, let’s think of children, of all the children caught up in this war, as well in Ukraine and in other conflicts. They’re killing their future this way.”
He invited prayers so “they’ll have the strength to say ‘enough!’”
WFP CHIEF MAKES URGENT PLEA FOR EXPANDED ACCESS TO GAZA
CAIRO — The head of the U.N. food agency has pleaded for expanded humanitarian access to the besieged Gaza Strip as food supplies are running low.
“Right now, parents in Gaza do not know whether they can feed their children today and whether they will even survive to see tomorrow,” mentioned Cindy McCain, government director of the World Food Program. She referred to as for scaling up the supply of support to Gaza to align with “the catastrophic conditions facing families there.”
“The crisis in Gaza is not just a local tragedy, it’s a stark reminder that our global food crisis is worsening. Not only does this crisis threaten regional peace and stability, it undermines our collective efforts to combat hunger worldwide,” she said.
McCain visited Saturday the Egyptian side of Rafah crossing point, the sole entry of aid to Gaza, and met with President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi in Cairo.
LEBANESE OFFICIALS SAY ISRAELI DRONE STRIKE WOUNDS PARAMEDICS
BEIRUT — An Israeli drone struck near two ambulance on their way to pick up casualties from overnight strikes in southern Lebanon, wounding four paramedics, local officials told The Associated Press.
The civil defense unit of a scouts group affiliated with Lebanon’s Amal Movement, a political party allied with Hezbollah, said that the drone “directly targeted” their two ambulances. They were heading south to save several people wounded in an Israeli strike that hit a house overnight.
Local and medical officials told AP that the Lebanese army and the Red Cross transported the wounded paramedics to a hospital in Tyre, as Israeli strikes reportedly did not stop. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situation.
There were reports that the paramedics were on their way to collect two slain Hezbollah militants.
Israeli army Arabic language spokesman Avichay Adraee said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that Israeli forces had launched strikes on a “terrorist cell” that was attempting to fire missiles toward Israel from the Ras Naqoura area in south Lebanon. He said two cars had arrived at the scene during the strikes but that the cars were not the intended target.
Israeli troops and Hezbollah militants and their allies along the tense Lebanon-Israel border have been clashing for almost a month since the start of the Hamas-Israel war. While clashes remain largely contained to areas near the border, they have increased in intensity as Israel continues its ground incursion into Gaza.
— By Associated Press writer Kareeem Chehayeb
NETANYAHU CRITICIZES ISRAELI MINISTER’S ATOMIC BOMB COMMENT
JERUSALEM — Israel’s minister of Jewish heritage, Amihai Eliyahu, said that dropping an atomic bomb on the Gaza Strip is a possibility. His comments were immediately denounced by other Cabinet members.
Eliyahu, a junior minister in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhau’s Cabinet, made the comment in an interview with Kol Beramah radio. He later tried to walk it back, saying, “Anyone reasonable would understand that the comment was metaphorical. But we definitely need to respond powerfully and disproportionately to terrorism.”
Army Radio cited Netanyahu as announcing that the commentary used to be “divorced from truth.”
“Israel and the IDF operate according to the highest standards of international law to avoid hurting non-combatants — and will continue to do so until we achieve victory,” he used to be quoted as announcing.
The radio mentioned Netanyahu suspended Eliyahu from Cabinet conferences till additional understand, a transfer that has no sensible impact.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant additionally criticized Eliyahu, announcing, “It’s a good thing that people like this are not in charge of Israel’s security.”
Meanwhile, Giora Eiland, an adviser to Gallant, mentioned Israel is a ways from vanquishing Hamas.
“We don’t see hundreds of people starting to surrender,” Eiland, a reserves normal and previous head of the National Security Council, instructed Army Radio. “You see very, very sophisticated attacks from the other side involving the successful coordinated use of paragliders, antitank missile fire and mortar fire. This requires a high degree of coordination among forces and they do it well.”
ISRAELI WARPLANES HIT MAGHAZI REFUGEE CAMP, KILLING AT LEAST 40
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Israeli warplanes struck the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza early Sunday, killing no less than 40 other folks, in step with well being officers.
The camp is situated in the evacuation zone the place Israel’s army had advised Palestinian civilians in Gaza to hunt shelter because it focuses its army offensive in the northern spaces. Despite such appeals, Israel has persevered its bombardment throughout Gaza, announcing it’s concentrated on Hamas warring parties and property in all places in the besieged enclave. It has accused Hamas of the use of civilians as human shields.
Critics say Israel’s moves are incessantly disproportionate, making an allowance for the massive choice of girls and youngsters killed in such assaults.
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PROTESTERS MARCH IN INDONESIA
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Hundreds of hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters marched throughout the heart of Indonesia’s capital on Sunday, calling for an finish to Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
The demonstrators, many dressed in scarves with the phrases “Save Palestine” on them, chanted slogans denouncing Israel’s movements in Gaza as they stuffed the National Monument park in central Jakarta, waving Indonesian and Palestinian flags.
It used to be the largest protest but in the arena’s maximum populous Muslim-majority country because the Israel-Hamas warfare started ultimate month.
Several cupboard ministers and politicians, together with Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi and House speaker Puan Maharani, attended the protest arranged via the Indonesian Ulema Council, the rustic’s maximum influential Islamic frame.
Indonesia has lengthy been a robust supporter of Palestinians and has no diplomatic ties with Israel.
RESCUERS DIG THROUGH DESTROYED HOMES TO FIND AIRSTRIKE SURVIVORS
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Firefighters sprayed jets of water throughout twisted steel and jumbled concrete as flames roared from houses destroyed via an Israeli airstrike in the Jabaliya refugee camp.
The escalating bombardment comes as Israel’s army mentioned it had encircled Gaza City, the preliminary goal of its offensive to overwhelm Hamas.
It wasn’t right away transparent what number of people have been killed or wounded in the strike overdue Saturday in the northern Gaza Strip. Rescuers shouted to one another as they attempted to tug other folks from the wreckage.
Associated Press video confirmed a guy, barefoot and with blood soaking thru his garments, being carried on a stretcher throughout the concrete skeleton of a broken construction.
“Careful, careful!” anyone referred to as out as they staggered around the rubble. Others used a mattress sheet to haul a useless frame from the scene. Inside a bouncing ambulance riding away, a rescuer dressed in black latex gloves patted the pinnacle of a younger boy cradled in his lap. A person screamed off-camera.
PRESIDENT BIDEN HINTS AT PROGRESS ON PERSUADING ISRAEL TO PAUSE ATTACKS
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. — President Joe Biden prompt Saturday there were some advances in U.S. makes an attempt to influence Israel to pause army moves on Gaza for humanitarian causes.
In a transient trade with newshounds as he left St. Edmond Roman Catholic Church in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, Biden used to be requested if there used to be development, and he answered, “Yes,” however didn’t proportion specifics.
This comes after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met along with his Arab opposite numbers Saturday. He disagreed with them at the want for a right away cease-fire and made transparent the furthest he would cross used to be backing a pause for support to achieve civilians in Gaza. Blinken mentioned a cease-fire would depart Hamas in position.
FAMILIES AND SUPPORTERS OF HOSTAGES IN GAZA CALL FOR THEIR RELEASE ‘NOW’
TEL AVIV, Israel — Thousands of other folks have joined a demonstration in Tel Aviv arranged via households of a few 240 hostages being held in the Gaza Strip.
“Now!” the group chanted again and again, calling for hostages to be freed immediately after just about a month in captivity. Many held photos of the hostages, who come with kids and older other folks.
Hadas Kalderon of Kibbutz Nir Oz whose two kids have been abducted, ages 16 and 12, referred to as for a cease-fire in trade for the go back of the hostages.
Hamas militants kidnapped the hostages in an Oct. 7 cross-border raid that brought on the most recent Israel-Hamas warfare. The plight of the hostages and their households has captured the country’s consideration.
Ella Ben-Ami, a 23-year-old Israeli whose folks have been kidnapped, mentioned she held Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accountable.
She referred to as for a halt in all humanitarian support to Gaza till the hostages are freed.
THOUSANDS IN WASHINGTON PROTEST BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S SUPPORT OF ISRAEL
WASHINGTON — Thousands of most commonly younger other folks stuffed the streets of downtown Washington D.C. on Saturday afternoon to protest the Biden management’s improve of Israel and its persevered army marketing campaign in Gaza.
“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” chanted demonstrators. They wore black and white keffiyehs as a huge Palestinian flag used to be unfurled via a crowd that stuffed Pennsylvania Avenue, the road main as much as the White House.
Dozens of small white frame luggage with the names of youngsters killed coated the road and demonstrators held indicators calling for a right away cease-fire.
CARRIER GROUP ARRIVES IN THE MIDDLE EAST BOOSTING US MILITARY PRESENCE
BEIRUT — The U.S. Central Command says the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group arrived in the Middle East and the CENTCOM space of accountability as a part of the rise in regional posture.
The Eisenhower sailed into the Mediterranean ultimate Saturday because the American forces amplify their presence in the Middle East to discourage Iran and its proxy militant teams from seeking to widen the Israel-Hamas warfare.
The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower airplane service and its strike crew had moved throughout the Strait of Gibraltar previous this week, placing two American carriers in the Mediterranean Sea, a uncommon sight in contemporary years.
The USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group is already in the jap Mediterranean, a part of a buildup of forces because the U.S. helps Israel in its warfare in opposition to Hamas.