Israel-Hamas War Live: UN committee voices concern about rising Israeli hate speech against Palestinians

Gaza health ministry issues list of names of 7,000 dead in Israeli bombing after Biden questions death toll

The health ministry in Gaza issued a 212-page document on Thursday which it said contained the names and ID numbers of more than 7,000 Palestinians killed during the Israeli bombardment of the enclave.

Israel calls on Russia to expel visiting Hamas delegation

Israel on Thursday called on Russia to expel a visiting Hamas delegation, saying their invitation to Moscow was "deplorable."

"Hamas is a terrorist organization worse than ISIS. The hands of senior Hamas figures are covered with the blood of more than 1400 Israelis who were slaughtered, murdered, executed and burned, and they are responsible for the abduction of more than 220 Israelis, including babies, children, women and the elderly," the Israeli Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

A missile from 'Israel-Hamas War' struck coastal town of Taba, Egypt; six injured

US forces strike two facilities of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran in Eastern Syria

The strikes were ordered by President Biden in response to surging attacks on US personnel and bases in Syria and Iraq this week.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III’s Statement on U.S. Military Strikes in Eastern Syria

According to the Pentagon, there have been at least 12 attacks on US bases and personnel in Iraq and four in Syria since 17 October, AP reports.

US says did not co-ordinate retaliatory strikes on Syrian targets with Israel, Reuters report

Israel ground forces and jets raided central Gaza, reports AFP

Women mourn during a funeral for Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes, as the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Israeli poll finds 49% support for holding off on Gaza invasion

Israeli military participates in a drill near Israel's border with Lebanon in northern Israel.

Almost half of Israelis want to hold off on any invasion of Gaza, according to a poll published on Friday, in what may indicate a dip in support for the planned next stage of the counter-offensive against Hamas militants holding some 200 hostages. Asked if the military should immediately escalate to a large-scale ground offensive, 29 per cent of Israelis agreed while 49 per cent said "it would be better to wait" and 22 per cent were undecided, the poll published in the Maariv newspaper said. (Reuters)

UNRWA says 6,29,000 Palestinians are sheltered at 150 camps; call for urgent need of fuel to continue operations

The figure is three times the capacity of shelters. “The current overcrowding conditions remain of concern and represent a health and protection risk,” it added.

UNRWA update report

Florida sends medical supplies, military aid to Israel

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced plans to supply Israel with drones, arms, and ammunition in light on Thursday. Florida dispatched cargo planes containing medical supplies, drones, body armour, and helmets, Jeremy Redfern from the governor's office told the Associated Press.

Palestinian journalist Yasser Abu Namous, his mother killed in Israeli airstrike on their home in Khan Younis

Palestinian journalist Yasser Abu Namous is the latest to be killed by Israeli occupation forces since the beginning of the Israel's genocide in Gaza.

He and his mother were killed in an Israeli airstrike on their home in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

Yasser Abu Namous.

Massive demonstration in New York in solidarity with Palestinians

Israel says Hamas holding 229 captives; Hamas delegation visiting Russia says won't release them until cease-fire

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Funerals all over in Gaza after intense Israeli strike

Aids don't match need; 20 trucks a day not enough: UN Food Agency urges continuation of humanitarian aid

Anadolu English Reports

IDF and Shin Bet killed Midhat Mabasher, commander of the West Khan Yunis Battalion in terrorist organization Hamas

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Commissioner general for UN agency for Palestinian refugees says basic services in Gaza are 'crumbling' and 'many more' people will die from the 'consequences of the siege'

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Rally against Israeli air strikes on Gaza, in Sanaa

People hold Palestinian flags during a rally against Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, in Sanaa, Yemen October 27, 2023.

WHO cites reports of 1,000 unidentified bodies under Gaza rubble

A World Health Organization official said on Friday the agency had received estimates that some 1,000 unidentified bodies are still buried under the rubble in Gaza which are not yet included in death tolls.

Israeli forces kill four Palestinians in West Bank clashes, WAFA agency says

Israeli forces killed four Palestinians during raids in the occupied West Bank on Friday, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA said. Two of the dead were identified by militant factions as their members. As it wages a now three-week-old war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israel has also stepped up operations against Islamist groups in the West Bank, killing scores of Palestinians and arresting hundreds. One Israeli soldier was killed in a clash.

Gaza Health Ministry releases names of 6,747 people they say were killed in Israeli strikes

The Hamas-run Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip has released a list of 6,747 people it said had been killed in Israel's relentless bombardment of the Palestinian territory in retaliation for the Hamas-led raid Oct. 7 that killed more than 1,400 people in Israel.

Lack of fuel threatens UN food aid to Gaza, WFP says

The UN food agency said on Friday that "severe fuel shortages" may force it to stop supplying emergency food aid to thousands of displaced families in the Israeli-besieged Gaza Strip.

US puts new sanctions on Hamas, members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard

The US on Friday issued a second round of sanctions on the Palestinian group Hamas following its attack this month on Israeli communities, including by targeting a Hamas official in Iran and members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Medical team and aid trucks enter Gaza via Rafah crossing - Palestinian border official

A medical team and 10 aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Friday via the Rafah crossing with Egypt, carrying water, food and medicine, a Palestinian border official told Reuters.

Palestinians protest in support of the people of Gaza, in Hebron Palestinians protest in support of the people of Gaza, in Hebron Site of an Israeli air strike on a house in Khan Younis

People walk at the site of an Israeli air strike on a house, as the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 27, 2023.

Palestinians protest in support of the people of Gaza, in Hebron

Palestinians take part in a protest in support of the people of Gaza, as the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, October 27, 2023.

7,326 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza since October 7, says Health Ministry in Gaza

Israel keeps tight curbs on Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa holy site, 5,000 pray

Israeli security forces stopped young Palestinians from reaching Al-Aqsa mosque on Friday, requiring them to say Muslim prayers outside Jerusalem's Old City, before letting several thousand elder worshippers enter under continued tight curbs.The authority in charge, the Jerusalem Islamic Endowments Department, said 5,000 worshippers performed Friday prayers at the holy site. That compares to about 50,000 on average prior to Hamas militants' Oct. 7 attacks on Israel.

EU Council agrees to Spain's Middle East peace conference proposal

The Council of the European Union has accepted the Spanish proposal to hold a peace conference in about six months on the conflict between Israel and Hamas, Spain's acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Friday.

Indians given death penalty in Qatar accused of spying for Israel, sources say

Eight Indian former naval officers who were handed the death penalty by a court in Qatar on Thursday were charged with spying for Israel, a source in India and another in Qatar said.

London mayor's call for ceasefire in Gaza puts pressure on Labour leader

London Mayor Sadiq Khan called on Friday for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, going a step beyond his Labour Party's appeals for a humanitarian pause in fighting to allow aid into the Israeli-besieged Gaza Strip.

Children lay teddy bears in solidarity with Gaza in London

People attend a protest in solidarity with the children of Gaza outside the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, Britain, October 27, 2023.

Hamas sees all its hostages as Israelis, official tells Russian state media

Hamas officials visiting Moscow were quoted by Russian media on Friday as saying the militant group viewed all its hostages as Israelis, whatever additional passports they held, and could not release any of them until Israel agreed to a ceasefire.

Lebanon's Hezbollah supporters protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, in Beirut

A child looks on as Hezbollah supporters protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Beirut, Lebanon, October 27, 2023.

Red Cross says its first medics enter Gaza during war Jerusalem

Medics from the International Committee of the Red Cross entered Gaza Friday for the first time since the outbreak of war on October 7, a spokeswoman for the organisation said. Six medical staff passed through Gaza's Rafah border crossing with Egypt, alongside four other ICRC specialists and six aid trucks, reported AFP.

Qatar open to reconsidering Hamas presence in Qatar, US official says

Qatar told the U.S. it was open to reconsidering the presence of Hamas in Qatar once a crisis is resolved to secure the release of scores of hostages taken to Gaza by the Palestinian militant group, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.

London hate crimes rise again in wake of Middle East conflict

Antisemitic and Islamaphobic incidents have almost doubled in just over a week in London, police data showed on Friday, in the wake of the attack by Hamas militants on southern Israel nearly three weeks ago and subsequent bombardment by Israel of Gaza.

Residential Tel Aviv apartment block hit by rocket that was fired from Gaza Strip

Israeli paramedics wheel people away from the site where a rocket hit a residential apartment building after being fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 27, 2023.

Berlin's Jewish community hosts show of support for hostages abducted by Hamas

Berlin's Jewish community set up 220 chairs that symbolically represent hostages taken by Hamas and missing people waiting to come home, following a deadly infiltration of Israel by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, during a solidarity demonstration in front of the Jewish Parish Hall, in Berlin, Germany, October 27, 2023.

Israeli military says Hamas hiding tunnels, operations centres in Gaza hospital

The Israeli military accused the Islamist movement Hamas on Friday of using the main hospital in Gaza as a shield for its tunnels and operational centres.

Prayers, protests and clashes in Jerusalem and West Bank as Gaza war rages

Israeli security forces restricted young Palestinians from entering Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem for prayers on Friday and deployed in strength across the Old City and beyond to quell any unrest spilling over from the conflict in Gaza.

UN committee voices concern about rising Israeli hate speech against Palestinians

A UN committee on racism voiced concern on Friday about a "sharp increase in racist hate speech and dehumanisation" directed at Palestinians by Israelis, including senior officials, since the October 7 Hamas attacks.

US says 'perilous moment' reached in Israel-Hamas war

US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said on Friday that the world has reached a "perilous moment" in the conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas says fired 'salvos' of rockets at Israel

Hamas said late Friday it had fired "salvos" of rockets at Israel after intense Israeli bombing of the Palestinian territory, reported AFP.

Qatar makes 'breakthrough' in hostage negotiations, EU calls for 'humanitarian pauses'

Qatar has made “significant progress" on hostage negotiations with Hamas but still some issues remain to be sorted out, even as 27 leaders of European Union called for "humanitarian pauses for aid suppliesn to flow", which was short of calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Middle East, reports said.