Israel-Hamas War Highlights: More than 50 Palestinians killed in Israeli air strikes on Jabalia refugee camp, hospital director says

Netanyahu says Hamas preventing civilians from leaving, causing casualties

Hamas said its militants in Gaza fired anti-tank missiles at Israel's invading forces

Hamas said its militants in Gaza fired anti-tank missiles at Israel's invading forces early on Tuesday and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed calls for a halt to fighting 

UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs says 'the current situation in Gaza may pale in comparison with what is to come'.

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Japan announces further sanctions on Gaza-based individuals

Japan will impose further sanctions on a number of individuals including people based in Gaza, according to a statement released by the Japanese foreign ministry on Tuesday, reports Reuters.

Israel’s emergency medical service to receive $88 million in gift led by Michael Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg said Monday that he would donate nearly $44 million to Magen David Adom, Israel’s nonprofit emergency medical service, after the Hamas attacks on civilians and soldiers Oct. 7.

The former New York City mayor and billionaire philanthropist said he planned to match contributions he solicited through an email appeal for the American Friends of Magen David Adom. The total amounts to an $88 million gift, the largest in the American organization’s history, NYT reports.

UN Relief and Works Agency chief says 'what happened and continues to happen' in Gaza is 'forced displacement', The Spectator Index reports.

IAF fighter jets strike Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure in Lebanon

Seven people were killed in Israeli airstrike on the al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza, The Spectator Index reports.

Hamas Official Mousa Abu Marzouk said that the tunnels built by Hamas are meant to protect terrorists, and not civilians, in an interview that was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute, The Jerusalem Post reported.

Hamas says it fires on Israeli forces pressing ground assault

Smoke billows after rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip to Israel, as seen from Israel, October 30, 2023.

Hamas said its militants in Gaza fired anti-tank missiles at Israel's invading forces early on Tuesday and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed calls for a halt to fighting that has deepened the Palestinian enclave's humanitarian crisis.

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Unconfirmed Rumors ongoing tonight that the Iranian Commander of the “Quds Force” of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Brigadier General Esmail Qaani is currently in Lebanon in order to meet with Hezbollah Political and Military Officials about the War in Israel.

Brigadier General Esmail Qaani.

Natalie Raanan, a US citizen who was kidnapped by the Hamas terrorist organization and was held in Gaza earlier this month, has returned to her home in Chicago, The Jerusalem Post reports.

IDF ground forces on operations inside the Gaza Strip

Hundreds of Hamas military targets were destroyed and terrorists killed by the IDF over the past 24 hours, the IDF announced on Tuesday morning, The Jerusalem Post reported.

Israel warns of possible hostile aircraft near Red Sea city of Eilat

Air raid sirens went off in the area of the Red Sea city of Eilat on Tuesday, and Israel's military said the alert concerned a possible hostile aircraft intrusion.

The military offered no further detail, Reuters reported.

Israel radio reports that Israel shot down a drone over the Red Sea (Reuters)

Israel said its forces attacked Hamas gunmen inside the Islamists' vast tunnel network beneath Gaza, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed calls for a halt to fighting to ease the Palestinian enclave's humanitarian crisis (Reuters)

Kuwait's crown prince Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Sabah said on Tuesday that his country condemns Israeli "aggression" on Gaza and called for a ceasefire

Al-Sabah was addressing the parliament on behalf of the Emir in the opening of the parliament regular second session, reports Reuters.

The number of hostages being held in Gaza has risen to 240, the IDF announced on Tuesday morning

The Hamas commander who orchestrated the attacks on Erez and Netiv Ha’asara during the deadly Hamas massacre in southern Israel on October 7 has been eliminated

Three Israelis have been arrested on suspicion of having connections with ISIS, Israel Police and the Shin Bet said on Tuesday morning, The Jerusalem Post reports.

IDF shares ground operation details

Nearly one-third of Lebanese citizens favor joining Hamas in war against Israel, according to new polling data on Lebanese attitudes toward the war in Israel (The Jerusalem Post )

Three rockets that were fired into Israel by Hamas fell in the vicinity of one of the kibbutzim of the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council, the council announced on Tuesday morning. (The Jerusalem Post )

WHO warns of 'imminent public health catastrophe' in Gaza

A "public health catastrophe" is imminent in Gaza, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, amid overcrowding, mass displacement and damage to water and sanitation infrastructure.

WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier warned of the risk of civilian deaths not directly linked to Israeli bombardment.

"It's an imminent public health catastrophe that looms with the mass displacement, the overcrowding, the damage to water and sanitation infrastructure," Lindmeier told reporters.

Gaza health authorities say more than 8,300 Palestinians have been killed since Israel began air strikes on the Hamas-run enclave in response to the Oct. 7 attacks when Hamas killed 1,400 people in Israel and took more than 200 hostages.

A Palestinian man wounded in Israeli strikes reacts next to the bodies of his relatives who were killed in the strikes, at Shuhada Al-Aqsa hospital in the central Gaza Strip.

8,525 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes since October 7, says Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry

At least 8,525 Palestinians, including 3,542 children, were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct.7 , the health ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza said on Tuesday.

130 healthcare staff were killed, and 15 hospitals are now out of service along with 32 healthcare centres, health ministry spokesman, Ashraf Al-Qudra said.

Mourners react during a funeral of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip October 31, 2023.

Israel says used 'Arrow' aerial defense system for first time to intercept missile

Israel's military said on Tuesday it used the "Arrow" aerial defense system for the first time since the Oct. 7 outbreak of the war with Hamas to intercept a surface-to-surface missile in the Red Sea fired towards its territory.

Gaza surgeons operate in corridors as Israeli bombs fill hospitals

In northern Gaza, where Israel has ordered a million people to leave their homes and head for the southern half of the enclave, hospital conditions have been particularly tough.

Officials at the Turkish Friendship Hospital said bombing had damaged a ward treating cancer patients.

"The bombardment caused great damage and put some electro-mechanical systems out of work. It also endangered the lives of patients and medical teams," said Doctor Sobi Skaik, director of the hospital, the area's only cancer treatment facility.

More than 50 Palestinians killed in Israeli air strikes on Jabalia refugee camp, hospital director says

The director of Gaza's Indonesian hospital told Al-Jazeera on Tuesday that at least 50 Palestinians were killed and 150 were wounded in Israeli air strikes on Jabalia refugee camp.

Israel says will turn full attention to Hezbollah 'after Hamas'

Israel is assuming a defensive posture on the Lebanese front in order to avoid overstretching its forces as it focuses on waging the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israeli National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi said in a briefing on Tuesday.

Hanegbi added that, "the day after Hamas", Israel would apply "the lessons learned" against Lebanon's Hezbollah militants. He said this would have operational aspects, but did not elaborate further.

Global divisions becoming deeper and more dangerous, says UN Secretary-General

On Tuesday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that as global tensions increase, the divisions among nations are growing deeper and more perilous. He expressed concerns that smaller countries are apprehensive about becoming unintended casualties in the competition between major world powers.

Guterres delivered these remarks during his speech to Nepal's parliament. Additionally, he addressed the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, acknowledging that even though Nepal is thousands of miles away, its citizens were among the victims of Hamas' severe attacks in Israel. He offered his condolences to the families of the ten Nepalese students who lost their lives in an attack by Hamas militants in Israel and expressed his hopes for the safe return of Bipin Joshi, a missing student.

“As geopolitical tensions rise, global divisions are becoming deeper and more dangerous. Smaller countries fear becoming collateral damage in competition between great powers,” Guterres said.