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Israel but so far there are no reports of any Indian getting injured or kIlled, just as the government has mounted Operation Ajay to evacuate Indian citizens. That's the immediate threat the conflict poses to India. However, India will be impacted in many serious ways if the conflict drags on or explodes into a bigger war. The conflict could widen as Israel began ground raids inside the Gaza Strip. Israel's announcement marked a shift from an air war to ground operations to root out Hamas fighters a week after the Palestinian terror group's deadly rampage in southern Israel. Live: The latest on the Israel-Hamas conflict The possibility of Israel-Hamas conflict dragging in many other countries is spooking the economy since any trouble in West Asia will have an immediate impact on oil supply, a frightening prospect after another geopolitical crisis, the Russia-Ukraine war, rattled the world last year disrupting energy and food trade. Given that the global economy is not in good health and the threat of recession looms in the US, the conflict poses a serious threat. How exactly will India be hit by the conflict? It seems a contained conflict that does not last long will not upset India in any significant manner but a longer conflict can destabilise India's economy.

Foreign investors have pulled out nearly Rs 9,800 crore from Indian equities this month so far owing to a sustained rise in US bond yields and the uncertain environment resulting from the Israel-Hamas conflict. This came after Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) turned net sellers in September and pulled out Rs 14,767 crore. Before the outflow, FPIs were incessantly buying Indian equities in the last six months from March to August and brought in Rs 1.74 lakh crore during the period.

US President Joe Biden on Sunday said that Hamas is using innocent Palestinian families as human shields in its assault on Israel, The Times of Israel reported. He said that the majority of Palestinians have anything to do with Hamas. Speaking at a gala dinner for the Human Rights Campaign in Washington, Biden said, «The humanitarian crisis in Gaza, innocent Palestinian families, and the vast majority have nothing to do with Hamas.» «They're being used as human shields,» he added. Biden claimed that the terror attack launched by Hamas was the bloodiest day for Jews since the Holocaust and that the Hamas terror organisation had used Palestinian civilians as human shields to avoid Israeli reprisals, according to The Times of Israel. The President said that the day before, he chatted on Zoom for an hour with relatives of Americans who are still missing, and he relates this to his own experiences, including the loss of his first wife and daughter in a vehicle accident in 1972, the report said. «They've endured an agony not knowing what's happening. It's not the same thing, but I can tell you what it's like.

Israel pressed on Sunday with preparations for a ground offensive in Gaza, after giving Palestinians a little more time flee northern areas it has vowed to target in response to the deadliest attack in its history. Hamas fighters gunned down, stabbed and burned to death more than 1,300 people in the attack that Israel has compared to 9/11 in the United States, sparking a massive retaliatory bombing campaign targeting the Islamist group that has killed over 2,200 in Gaza. Israel has warned around 1.1 million Gazans living in the north of the Palestinian territory to flee to the south ahead of a ground incursion which the military has indicated will focus on Gaza City, the base of the leadership of the Hamas militant group. The military said Gaza City residents must not delay their departure but a spokesperson said late Saturday they still had time to leave and that the ground offensive would not start on Sunday. Since Friday thousands of Gazans, who cannot leave the enclave as it is blockaded by both Israel and Egypt, have packed what belongings they can into bags and suitcases, to trudge through the rubble-strewn streets.

Israel-Hamas War: Israel's actions in Gaza have gone «beyond the scope of self-defence» and the Israeli government must «cease its collective punishment of the people of Gaza», China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in remarks published Sunday. Wang's remarks, made on a call to his Saudi Arabian counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan on Saturday, came as Israel appeared poised for a ground offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza. «Israel's actions have gone beyond the scope of self-defense,» Wang said according to a foreign ministry readout «It should listen earnestly to the calls of the international community and the UN secretary general, and cease its collective punishment of the people of Gaza,» he added in the strongest stance China has expressed so far on the conflict. More than one million people in the northern part of the crowded enclave have been ordered to flee ahead of the expected assault, an exodus that aid groups said would set off a humanitarian disaster.

The eyes of the world are on Gaza ahead of a looming Israeli ground offensive, but what people are looking for might be hidden deep underground in a maze of tunnels.

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United States have perished in Hamas attacks in Israel, a U.S. State Department spokesperson confirmed on Saturday.

₹1497 per 10 gm on the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX). The gold future contract for December expiry on MCX ended 2.58% higher at ₹59,415 per 10 gm levels on Friday. The rally in gold was seen in the times of the Russia-Ukraine war also.

Axios. This comes as the diplomatic sources said that on Saturday in Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian met with UN ambassador to the Middle East Tor Wennesland.

Zhai Jun will visit the Middle East next week to push for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict and promote peace talks, state broadcaster CCTV reported Sunday. Zhai «will visit the Middle East next week to coordinate with various parties for a ceasefire, to protect civilians, ease the situation, and promote peace talks,» CCTV said in a video posted to its official social media account on Sunday. The CCTV report came as Israel appeared poised for a ground offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza. More than one million people in the northern part of the crowded enclave have been ordered to flee ahead of the expected assault, an exodus that aid groups said would set off a humanitarian disaster. The cramped and impoverished territory, where 2.3 million residents live on top of each other, has been under a land, air and sea blockade since 2006. The latest deadly Israeli salvos were sparked by a Hamas raid which saw fighters break through the heavily fortified border between the Gaza Strip and Israel and gun down, stab and burn to death more than 1,300 people. In Gaza, health officials said Israel's response had killed more than 2,200 people.

Israel amidst the Israel-Hamas conflict left for home on Saturday, the second in a day and fourth since the launch of 'Operation Ajay'. The special flights are part of the operation launched on October 12 to facilitate the return of those Indian nationals who wish to return home following the brazen attacks on Israeli towns by Hamas militants from Gaza on October 7. The Indian Embassy in Tel Aviv earlier earlier announced that two special flights will operate from Ben Gurion airport on Saturday.

Gaza on Saturday or huddled by the thousands at a hospital in the target zone in hopes it would be spared, as Israel intensified warnings of an imminent offensive by air, ground and sea following Hamas militants’ deadly rampage in Israel a week ago. While workers at an Israeli military base continued efforts through the Jewish Sabbath to identify the more than 1,300 people killed in the Oct. 7 assault, Israel dropped leaflets from the air and redoubled warnings on social media for more than 1 million Gaza residents to move south. The military says it is trying to clear away civilians ahead of a concentrated campaign against Hamas militants in the north, including in what it said were underground hideouts in Gaza City. Hamas urged people to stay in their homes. The U.N. and aid groups say such a rapid exodus along with Israel’s siege of the territory would cause untold human suffering. The World Health Organization said the evacuation “could be tantamount to a death sentence” for the more than 2,000 patients in northern hospitals, including newborns in incubators and people in intensive care. Gaza’s humanitarian crisis already was mounting Saturday amid a growing shortage of water and medical supplies under a week-old Israeli blockade, which has also forced electrical plants to shut down without fuel.

BEIRUT (Reuters) — Reuters visuals journalist Issam Abdallah, 37, who was killed on Friday while filming Israeli missile attacks at the Israeli-Lebanon border, brought courage, compassion and insight to his work covering some of the biggest news stories of the past decade.

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RAMLA, Israel (Reuters) — Military forensic teams in Israel have examined bodies of victims of last week's Hamas attack on communities around the Gaza Strip and found multiple signs of torture, rape and other atrocities, officers said on Saturday.

UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) has warned that Gaza has run out of water. In a tweet shared by UNRWA, the UN agency has said that the situation in Gaza is of ‘life and death’, even as Palestinians in the densely populated Gaza strip struggle holding onto survival.

Canadian-Israeli woman, who was missing since Hamas militants ambushed a music festival in southern Israel, says she has died.Shir Georgy went missing after the group attacked the Tribe of Nova music festival near Kibbutz Re’im last Saturday.Her cousin said she called her parents that morning to let them know she found refuge in a bomb shelter and not to worry.“The last they heard of her is that she was in a safe room with the security of the party and with cops not knowing the extent and the horrible actions that were going to take place there. They’re used to rockets sadly, they’re used to this, but never, never to this extent,” said Sivane Dahan, Georgy’s cousin.Georgy’s aunt, Michal Bouganim, shared a video earlier this week on social media where Georgy is seen in a white shirt and purple scarf sitting on the floor among a group of other young people.

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