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Hamas launched its surprise attack on Israel, Col. Golan Vach arrived at the Be’eri kibbutz to evacuate residents.“What I saw here was not only murder,” he said Saturday as he returned to the heavily damaged community near the Gaza border a week later.“It was humiliation.”A collection of bungalows and farmland in the Negev Desert, Be’eri was the site of one of worst massacres of the Oct.

AP citing Juliette Touma, a spokesperson for the UN's Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, about half a million Gaza residents have taken refuge in UN shelters across the territory and are running out of water. “Gaza is running dry," she said, adding that UN teams have also begun to ration water.

United Nations agency supporting Palestinian refugees said Sunday. «An estimated one million people have been displaced in the first seven days» of the war in Gaza, UNRWA Director of Communications Juliette Touma told AFP. «The number is likely to be higher as people continue to leave their homes.» Israel has been pounding Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip after the Islamist militants carried out a deadly attack on southern Israel on October 7 that killed more than 1,300 people. More than 2,300 people have also been killed in Gaza in Israeli air strikes targeting Hamas leaders, militants and their hideouts in the coastal enclave.

Gaza as thousands packed into the courtyard of the besieged territory's largest hospital as a refuge of last resort from a looming Israeli ground offensive and overwhelmed doctors struggled to care for patients they fear will die once generators run out of fuel. Palestinian civilians across Gaza, already battered by years of conflict, were struggling for survival Sunday in the face of an unprecedented Israeli operation against the territory following a Hamas militant attack on Oct 7 that killed 1,300 Israelis, most of them civilians.

Gaza ground invasion aimed at destroying Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist militant group that unleashed the bloodiest attack in the country's history. In the eight days since Hamas gunmen killed more than 1,300 Israelis in their surprise onslaught, Israel has responded with a devastating bombing campaign that has claimed over 2,300 lives in Gaza. Fear and chaos reigned in the 40-kilometre (25-mile) long strip that is one of the world's most densely populated areas and where the UN estimated that one million have been displaced in the war's first week. Entire Gaza city blocks lay in ruins and hospitals were overflowing with thousands of wounded in the besieged territory, but there were fears of worse to come. A bereaved and infuriated Israel has massed forces outside the long-blockaded enclave of 2.4 million in preparation for what the army has said would be a land, air and sea attack involving a «significant ground operation». Israel has also stationed troops and tanks on its UN-patrolled northern border with Lebanon and closed a four kilometre (2.5 mile) wide zone there to civilians after deadly exchanges of cross-border fire with Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited front line troops in the south near Gaza on Saturday, wearing a flak jacket. «Are you ready for what is coming?» he said.

Hamas gunmen are marshalling their own resources to get their loved ones home. Israel's military said Sunday it had confirmed that 126 people have been held captive since Hamas militants from the blockaded Gaza Strip attacked southern Israel on October 7. They gunned down civilians and dragged dozens of others, Israelis and foreigners, back to Gaza. Among them were children, including nine-month-old Kfir and four-year-old Arial Bibes, snatched along with their mother Shiri.

“war crimes" and attempting “genocide". This criticism comes even as world leaders, including US President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, among others, have backed Israel's "right to self defence". “As a Jew, I do not accept that what Israel is doing to Gaza fits the category of self-defence.

It is worth noting that Saudi Arabia, Iran and Qatar not only extended their support to Palestine, but also criticised Israel over its treatment of Palestinians. Egypt is also extending its support to Palestine and is also providing humanitarian assistance to Gaza. The nation also condemned any displacement of Palestinians from North Gaza.

‘War crime’, ‘attempted genocide’: How some Jews around the world denounced Israel's Gaza bombardment This prompted the company's Pakistan-based arm to issue a statement in a bid to distance itself away from the Israeli branch's actions. “McDonald’s in Pakistan is a local enterprise, with full ownership and operation overseen by SIZA Foods Pvt. Ltd.

killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza since October 7th, when Hamas terrorists murdered 1,300 people in southern Israel. Israeli jets and artillery have been pounding the coastal enclave. “The scenes out of Gaza will be hard to stomach," warned a spokesman for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) on October 12th.

Israel-Hamas conflict, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to show solidarity with the Palestinian people saying the Palestine issue is not just of Muslims alone, it is a humanitarian issue and it is a matter of all those who want justice. Addressing a gathering here on Saturday night, the Hyderabad MP citing media reports said the «zaalim» Israeli government has bombarded Gaza with 6,000 bombs in the last six days and due to which over 1,500 Palestinian people including children and women were killed and several thousands are injured. He alleged that whatever is happening in Gaza is «ethnic cleansing» and wanted the Indian government and the country to condemn «the war crimes» Israel is doing.

Gold staged a stunning rally on Friday on escalation of the Mideast conflict. The situation took a grave turn after Israel gave Gaza Palestinians twenty-four hours to evacuate the Gaza Strip as the Israeli army prepared for a massive assault in Gaza.

Laurence Norman, Dion Nissenbaum, Warren P. Strobel, William Mauldin, Amir Mizroch, Ari Flanzraich, Jared Malsin, Vivian Salama and Menna Farouk contributed to this article. Write to Benoit Faucon at [email protected], Dov Lieber at [email protected], Summer Said at [email protected], Rory Jones at [email protected] and Sune Engel Rasmussen at [email protected]"Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels

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Reuters. Also read: Israel-Hamas War LIVE Updates: Another Hamas commander killed today, Israeli army claims | Watch Former army chief rabbi Rabbi Israel Weiss said around 90% of the military fatalities have been identified, while special forensic teams teams are halfway through the identification process for civilians.

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Israel Defence Force (IDF) on Sunday alleged that the terror group Hamas is blocking the evacuation of civilians in the Gaza Strip ahead of the possible ground offensive by Israel after the deadly attacks on October 7. It further stated that multiple rockets were fired at Tel Aviv and southern Israel during Saturday night and IDF continues to target Hamas military targets. Taking to X (formerly Twitter), IDF posted, «Hamas is blocking the evacuation of civilians». In a video briefing, IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus said, «During the night, there were rockets fired at Tel Aviv and southern Israel. There is still combat in and around the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Thousands of Australians joined pro-Palestinian rallies on Sunday, despite police threats to curb them amid tension after the bloody Hamas incursion into Israel eight days ago.

foreign investors continued through the month of October as they pulled out about Rs 10,000 crore so far. As per NSDL data, FPIs sold equity for Rs 13,652 crore through the stock exchanges till October 13, but invested Rs 3,868 crore through the primary market, making them net sellers in the month so far. Sustained rise in US bond yields in anticipation of further rates and uncertain geopolitical environment have been the main contributing factors for FII offloading Indian shares. The selling was seen in financials, power, and IT, but they continued to buy capital goods and automobiles. In September, FPIs net sold shares worth a whopping Rs 30,000 crore in eight sectors, while investments worth over Rs 1,000 crore were made only in four sectors. Overall, the total investment by FPIs in equity has reached Rs 1.1 lakh crore and over Rs 33,000 crore in the debt market this year so far. Analysts said the Indian market continues to exhibit resilience even amid many challenges and that investors may turn optimistic in the near future. «India, with its strong macro fundamentals, seems to be a place where people want to continue to stay invested. So, we believe that the pace of selling of the FPIs, especially in banks, is coming off,» said Unmesh Sharma of HDFC Securities. «There is a growing concern among FPIs, that if they continue to sell, they will miss out on the potential rally in the Indian market.

Gaza Health Ministry says 2,329 Palestinians have been killed since the latest fighting erupted, making this the deadliest of the five Gaza wars for Palestinians. The death toll on Sunday surpassed that of the third war between Israel and Hamas, in the summer of 2014, when 2,251 Palestinians, including 1,462 civilians, were killed, according to U.N.

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