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🔴 Live: King of Jordan says ‘urgent medical aid’ air-dropped into Gaza
Jordan’s air force air-dropped vital medical supplies to a field hospital in the besieged Gaza Strip, King Abdullah II said early Monday. Follow our live blog for the latest updates. All times are Paris time (GMT+1).
Issued on: 06/11/2023 – 03:01
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A young patient undergos dialysis at a hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 24, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas.
A young patient undergos dialysis at a hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 24, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. © Mahmud Hams, AFP
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An Israeli strike on a refugee camp Sunday in central Gaza killed at least 45 people and injured dozens, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. An Israeli military spokesperson said they were looking into whether its troops were operating in the area at the time.
The Palestinian death toll in Gaza has reached 9,770 people, including 4,008 children, according to the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza. In the occupied West Bank, more than 140 Palestinians have been killed in violence and Israeli raids.
The Israeli army said Sunday its land assault on the Gaza Strip had split the Palestinian territory in two, with “significant” strikes continuing in its war against Hamas. Israeli forces “have encircled Gaza City… Now there exists a south Gaza and a north Gaza,” military spokesman Daniel Hagari said.
Gaza’s Hamas government reported “intense bombings” on Sunday evening around several hospitals in the north of the Gaza Strip, shortly after telecommunications were cut for a third time.
US Secretary of state Antony Blinken made a surprise visit to Baghdad on Sunday following a trip to the occupied West Bank earlier in the day. Washington wants to prevent a wider regional conflict and has stepped up diplomacy with regional countries whose populations have been angered by Israel’s assault on Gaza. He is then expected in Turkey in the next stop of his second diplomatic shuttle in the region following the October 7 Hamas attack.
While in the West Bank, Blinken told Palestinian President Mahmoud that Palestinians in Gaza “must not be forcibly displaced”.
An Israeli strike on a car in south Lebanon killed three children and their grandmother on Sunday, Lebanese authorities said. All four were relatives of a journalist who was also wounded, the official Lebanese news agency said. The strikes came as the Israeli army said an attack from Lebanon killed an Israeli citizen in northern Israel.
Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib said Beirut will submit a complaint to the United Nations over the airstrikes in South lebanon, while the Iran-backed Hezbollah group promised Israel “will pay the price” for an attack it qualified as “a dangerous development”. In retaliation, the Lebanese militant faction said it fired multiple grad rockets at the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona on Sunday, a statement said.
05:00am: Israel intensifies Gaza strikes despite ceasefire calls
Israel on Monday pounded Gaza with “significant” strikes with soldiers battling Hamas forces in the besieged territory, ignoring ceasefire calls by UN aid agencies who condemned surging civilian deaths in the month-long conflict.
“We are striking Hamas, and we are going stronghold after stronghold, according to our plan, in a systematic effort to dismantle Hamas from its military capabilities,” Israeli army spokesman Jonathan Conricus told CNN.
“We have troops on the ground; infantry, armour, combat engineers. They are striking and they are also directing fire from the air,” he said, adding efforts were focused on the “underground infrastructure” network of Hamas tunnels.
04:00am: Blinken tries to soothe Turkey’s anger in Ankara
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken holds tough talks in Turkey on Monday, aimed at soothing the anger of one of Washington’s most strategic but difficult allies about the bloodshed in Gaza.
Blinken’s first visit since Israel went to war with Hamas in reprisal for the militants’ October 7 attack comes with fury at both Israel and the West boiling over on the streets of Turkey and inside the palace of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters who marched on an air base housing US forces in Turkey’s southeast hours before Blinken’s arrival Sunday.
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03:49am: US VP Harris to discuss boosting humanitarian aid to Gaza with foreign leaders
US Vice President Kamala Harris will discuss the Biden administration’s efforts to increase the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas conflict with foreign leaders during a phone conversation on Monday, her office said.
02:29am: UN agency chiefs join in urging Gaza ceasefire
The heads of all major UN agencies issued a rare joint statement Sunday expressing outrage at the civilian death toll in Gaza and calling for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in the war between Israel and Hamas.
“For almost a month, the world has been watching the unfolding situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory in shock and horror at the spiralling numbers of lives lost and torn apart,” the UN chiefs said.
The heads of 18 organizations including UNICEF, the World Food Program and the World Health Organization described the horrific toll on both sides since the October 7 Hamas cross-border attack from Gaza into Israel, which left about 1,400 people dead, mainly civilians, according to Israeli authorities.
01:08am: Israel says it stopped firing for many hours in northern Gaza to help civilians leave
Israel stopped firing in northern Gaza for several hours two days in a row to create safe passage for civilians to move to the south, a military spokesperson told CNN on Sunday, amid pressure for a humanitarian pause.
“Yesterday and today, for many hours with prior notice and warning, we facilitated, we stopped firing in certain areas of northern Gaza, which is the main combat area, and we called on Palestinians to move south,” Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus said.
00:53am: King of Jordan confirms ‘urgent medical aid’ air-drop for Gaza
Jordan’s air force air-dropped vital medical supplies to a field hospital in the besieged Gaza Strip, King Abdullah II said early Monday.
“Our fearless air force personnel air-dropped at midnight urgent medical aid to the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza,” he said on X, formerly Twitter.
Key developments from Sunday, November 5:
The Israeli army said Sunday its land assault on the Gaza Strip had split the Palestinian territory in two, with “significant” strikes continuing in its war against Hamas.
Israeli airstrikes hit two refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing at least 45 people, the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said.
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French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna has called for an “immediate” humanitarian pause in the Israel-Hamas war as casualties climb in the besieged Gaza Strip.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a high-security surprise visit to the Israeli-occupied West Bank Sunday, meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, according to photographs released by the Palestinian Authority.
Tensions increased with neighbouring Lebanon as an Israeli strike in the south of the country killed three children and their grandmother, Lebanese authorities said.
Read our blog to see how yesterday’s events unfolded.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)
