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Israel-Hamas war: Death toll reaches 13,000 in Gaza

  • Gaza authorities say more than 5,500 children are among dead, alongside 3,500 women, with 30,000 more people wounded
Reuters | AFP
November 19, 2023

GAZA/OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Gaza authorities said on Sunday the death toll from fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas in the Palestinian territory had reached 13,000 since war began on October 7.

The Gaza government said more than 5,500 children were among the dead, alongside 3,500 women, with 30,000 more people wounded.

Its health ministry has previously said it can no longer give exact tolls as intense fighting has prevented bodies from being recovered.

Israel army says finds 55-metre tunnel under Gaza hospital

The Israeli military on Sunday said it had uncovered a tunnel under Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital that stretched 55-metres beneath the complex where troops have been conducting a major operation.

“IDF troops exposed a 55-meter-long terror tunnel 10 metres deep underneath the Shifa hospital complex,” which ran under the hospital and ended at a blast door, an army statement said.

Israeli strike kills 41 from one family

The health ministry in the Gaza Strip on Sunday said 41 members of one family were killed in an Israeli strike on their home in Gaza City.

The ministry released a list of names of 41 members of the Malka family it said were killed by the strike at dawn in the city’s Zeytoun district.

Hamas battles Israeli forces in north Gaza, hostage deal report denied

Hamas battled Israeli forces trying to push into Gaza’s largest refugee camp on Sunday and Israeli air strikes to the south killed dozens of Palestinians, witnesses said, as a US media report of a nascent hostage release deal was denied.**

The Washington Post said on Sunday that US mediators were close to a deal between Israel and Hamas to free dozens of women and children held hostage in Gaza in exchange for a five-day pause in their war that would help boost emergency aid shipments to Gaza civilians, citing people familiar with the matter.

The Post had reported on Saturday a tentative deal had been reached, and this was denied by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. officials, with a White House spokesperson saying efforts were continuing to clinch a deal.

Hamas took about 240 hostages during its deadly cross-border rampage into Israeli communities on Oct. 7, which prompted Israel to lay siege to Gaza and invade the Palestinian territory to eradicate its ruling group.

Reuters reported on Nov. 15 that Qatari mediators had been seeking a deal between Israel and Hamas to exchange 50 hostages in return for a three-day ceasefire, citing an official briefed on the talks. At the time, the official said general outlines had been agreed but Israel was still negotiating details.

On Sunday, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al-Thani told a press conference in Doha that the main sticking points blocking a hostage release deal were now “very minor” - mainly practical and logistical issues.

The delicate hostage talks coincide with Israel preparing to expand its offensive against Hamas to densely populated Gaza’s southern half after air strikes killed dozens of Palestinians, including civilians reportedly sheltering at two schools.

Israeli forces invaded late last month after a devastating aerial blitz in response to Hamas’s shock Oct. 7 attack, and say they have wrested control of large areas of the north and northwest and east around Gaza City.

But guerrilla-style Hamas resistance remains fierce in pockets of the heavily urbanised north including parts of Gaza City and the sprawling Jabalia and Beach refugee camps, according to Hamas and local witnesses.

Witnesses reported heavy fighting overnight between Hamas gunmen and Israeli ground forces trying to advance into Jabalia, the largest of the enclave’s camps with nearly 100,000 people.

Jabalia has come under repeated Israeli bombardment that has killed scores of civilians, Palestinian medics say, with Israel saying the strikes have killed many Hamas fighters harbouring there.

After daybreak on Sunday, Israel’s military called on residents of several Jabalia neighbourhoods to evacuate towards south Gaza “to preserve your safety”, in Arabic messages on social media platform X.

It said it was pausing military action between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Sunday to smooth evacuations as Hamas “has lost control over northern Gaza and is trying to prevent you moving south”.

Most of Jabalia’s inhabitants rejected previous Israeli appeals to clear out to the south of the narrow coastal enclave.

The south has also been repeatedly bombarded by Israel, rendering Israeli promises of safety absurd, Palestinians say.

After several inconclusive wars since 2007, Israel vowed to destroy Hamas after its Oct. 7 attack in which around 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians, were killed, according to Israeli tallies, the deadliest day in the country’s 75-year history.

Gaza’s Health Ministry raised its death toll from the unrelenting Israeli bombardment to 12,300, including 5,000 children. Israel’s blitz has reduced swathes of the north to rubble, while some two-thirds of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million have been displaced to the south.

Air strikes in central Gaza

In the centre of the narrow coastal enclave, Palestinian medics said 31 people were killed, including two local journalists, in Israeli air strikes targeting a number of houses in the Bureij and Nusseirat refugee camps late on Saturday night. Another air strike killed a woman and her child overnight in the main southern city of Khan Younis, they said.

In Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, dozens of Palestinians marched to a funeral for 15 residents killed in an Israeli strike on an apartment block on Saturday. “Our youth are dying, women and children are dying, where are the Arab presidents?” said Heydaya Asfour, a relative of some of the dead.

The Israeli army says Hamas uses residential and other civilian buildings as cover for command centres, weapons, rocket launchpads and a vast underground tunnel network. The movement denies using human shields to wage war.

Hamas’s armed wing, the Al Qassam Brigades, said fighters killed six soldiers at close range in the village of Juhr al-Dik just east of Gaza City after ambushing them with an anti-personnel missile and closing in with machine guns.

Seven Israeli soldiers were killed in the fighting on Saturday, the military said, without giving details.

As the conflict entered its seventh week, there was no sign of a let-up, despite urgent international appeals for “humanitarian pauses” to enable unrestricted, safe deliveries of aid to civilians lacking food, drinking water and medical care.

‘Death Zone’ at Gaza’s biggest hospital

A team led by the World Health Organization (WHO) that visited Al Shifa, Gaza’s biggest hospital, on Saturday described it as a “death zone”, days after Israeli forces seized the premises to root out an alleged Hamas command centre underneath it.

The WHO team reported signs of gunfire and shelling and a mass grave at Al Shifa’s entrance, and said it was making plans for the immediate evacuation of 291 remaining patients, including the war-wounded, and 25 staff.

On Sunday, 31 premature babies were evacuated from Al Shifa in a joint operation by the U.N. and the Palestinian Red Crescent and taken south in ambulances towards the Emirates Hospital in Rafah, the aid group said.

Hundreds of other patients, staff and displaced people who were sheltering in Al Shifa left on Saturday, with Palestinian health officials saying they were ejected inhumanely by Israeli troops and the military saying the departures were voluntary.

After air-dropping leaflets earlier in the week, Israel on Saturday again warned civilians in parts of southern Gaza to relocate as it girds for an offensive from the north.

But an advance into southern Gaza may prove more complicated and deadlier than the north, with Hamas dug into the Khan Younis region, a power base of Gaza political leader Yahya Sinwar, a senior Israeli source and two top ex-officials said.
 
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White House and international media are publishing reports of ceasefire. Each time, Israel comes out and denies any agreement was reached. The US has to considering arms embargo or at least stopping weapons shipments to Israel.
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An Israeli official denies reports that a truce will begin in Gaza tomorrow, Monday

US Zions are complicit , why would they impose an arms embargo?
 
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Looks like the worlds most powerful man Elon has become a target of Zionists using the antisemitism war machine

He stood up for Palestine last week

And this week Zionist have forced him to apologize

Look at how cunning these snakes are

He’s fallen pray to Zionism

Once you say your not a anti semite your done

 
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How are the people at Lockheed Focalplane in Goleta taking the news, that the cameras aren’t sharp enough to distinguish between combatants and civilians? Or are they saying the IDF pilots and gunners are trigger happy and the equipment can’t be blamed.
@Skull and Bones


 
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the fireball is to left and right.. it seems trophy intercepted perhaps, changed the hot jet direction and splits it in two.. @Gomig-21 ?

Very likely and the most plausible explanation. Would love to see the video. I'm betting this is zionist ambush tactic all the way which is why the most effective way to hurt the demon steel is to run right up to it and place the charge, pull the pin twist the rod whatever and hope & pray to make it safely back to dugout just like we saw in the famous hero video. But that's only going to work the first few times until the demons adjust their own ambush tactics with snipers just for that reason. These are constantly evolving warfare tactics & counter-tactics.
 
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    • Posted at 10:40 17 Nov10:40 17 Nov

      Photos show desperation for bread in Gaza​

      Bread is ordinarily a staple food for people in Gaza. But fuel shortages mean bakeries have come to a crippling halt.
      Earlier this week, the UN's World Food Programme confirmed the shutdown of Gaza's final bakery operating in partnership with the agency.
      Today, it warned of the "immediate possibility of starvation" among Gaza's population of two million people.
      The following photos, taken in the southern city of Khan Younis earlier, show crowds gathered around one of the few bakeries still operating in the area.
      A crowd surges towards a shopfront

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      A man is handed a bag of bread through a shop window. A green fence partitions the shop from the crowd

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      A woman yells at a man standing above the crowd

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CNN reporting World Health Organization says 31 babies evacuated from Al Shifa Hospital. AlHamdulillah ya Rab if it's true those sweet innocent angels make it through this horrible ordeal and may Allah grant them a healthy and prosperous rest of their lives InshaAllah. These are the things that tear me apart.
 
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