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Check all the LIVE Updates here on the LIVE blogBritish Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is set to visit Israel this week, Sky News reported on Tuesday without citing sources.A Downing Street spokesperson declined to confirm the report, saying Sunak's travel plans would be confirmed in the usual way.Last week, foreign minister James Cleverly travelled to Israel to show solidarity with the Israeli people following attacks by Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Reuters)The Israeli army said Tuesday a strike that hit a Gaza hospital, killing at least 200 people according to Hamas officials, was a rocket misfired by Islamic Jihad Palestinian militants."The hospital was hit as a result of a failed rocket launched by the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization," it said in a statement.Arab governments immediately blamed Israel, 11 days into a war between Israel and Gaza-based Hamas militants who attacked southern Israel on October 7.

Gaza is not legal and is calling the situation “absolutely unacceptable.”Trudeau was responding to unfolding reports coming out of Gaza, where the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said that an Israeli airstrike hit a hospital in Gaza City, killing hundreds of Palestinians, including people using the hospital as shelter.A spokesman for the Israeli military said on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the strike did not come from them.“From the analysis of the operational systems of the IDF, an enemy rocket barrage was carried out towards Israel, which passed through the vicinity of the hospital when it was hit,” the statement said. “According to intelligence information, from several sources we have, the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization is responsible for the failed shooting that hit the hospital.”Trudeau said in French, speaking to reporters on his way into the House of Commons, that “it’s not legal” to bomb a hospital.Trudeau has repeatedly said that wars have international rules that must be followed, and says Canada is working with allies to get a humanitarian corridor established so supplies can be brought into Gaza.Aid organizations are warning that the territory is near collapse, and Trudeau told reporters that hitting a hospital is “not acceptable.”The Health Ministry run by Hamas said at least 500 people had been killed in the hospital strike.Photos purportedly from al-Ahli Hospital shared widely on social video showed fire engulfing the building, widespread damage and bodies scattered in the wreckage.

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Minor Detail, which highlights the alleged atrocity committed by Israeli military personnel against a Bedouin girl in 1949. Track latest updates of Israel-Palestine war The decision to celebrate Shibli, and to hold panel discussions featuring her, was cancelled by Litprom following the October 7 attack by Hamas fighters at locations in southern Israel. Also, the author's work has also drawn “anti-Semitism" allegations from some corners.

British citizen Yahel, who went missing after Hamas's attack on Southern Israel last week, has been killed. Quoting her family members, BBC News has reported that the teenager and her mother have been killed in the attack, while her 16-year-old sister Noiya and their Israeli father Eli are still missing. Condoling her death, Lianne's British family said that she was «a beloved daughter, sister, mother, aunt and friend who enriched the lives of all those lucky enough to have known and loved her». The family also described Yahel as «funny, all the time» and added that she loved to sing and dance.

PTI. Also Read:Israel-Hamas war LIVE updates: Heavy Israeli airstrikes pound Southern Gaza In a statement signed by 15 opposition leaders, some of whom met the envoy at the Embassy here, they strongly condemned the "indiscriminate bombing" of Palestinians in Gaza by Israel and said that it amounts to an attempt at "genocide". “We urge an immediate cessation of all hostilities to prevent further loss of innocent lives and the destruction of homes and infrastructure," the leaders said.

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Hamas leader said on Monday the group «has what it needs» to free all Palestinians in Israel's jails, indicating the militant group may try to use the Israelis it kidnapped as bargaining chips to secure the release of Palestinian prisoners. Soon after Hamas official Khaled Meshaal made the remarks on the captives, who include Israelis and non-Israelis kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, the group's armed wing separately said the non-Israelis were «guests» who would be released «when circumstances allow». Gunmen from Hamas took scores of hostages after rampaging through southern Israeli communities and military bases, killing over 1,300 people.

UBS managing director and senior portfolio manager Jason Katz discusses whether the U.S. stock market is ignoring the threat of a wider Middle East war on 'Varney & Co.'

Although price moves remain contained in the absence of a dramatic weekend escalation, world markets are still on edge as Middle East tension builds without obvious resolution.

Ever since Hamas’s barbaric invasion of Israel on Oct. 7—a Shabbat morning that also happened to herald the end of the Jewish holiday of Succoth and fell one day after the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the 1973 Yom Kippur War (the symbolism runneth over)—I have been thinking of Tal Mazliach.

Siddaramaiah on Monday said the Congress high command has not sought any funds from the party regime in Karnataka to meet the party’s campaign expenses in the five states that are facing polls in November. His comments followed the attacks from the Opposition BJP and JDS linking the estimated Rs 82 crore cash recovered by the income tax authorities from a series of raids on two contractors in Bengaluru. While one of them is an office bearer of the state contractor association, the other is a spouse of a former corporator. Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan and Telangana are headed to assembly elections in November, and the Opposition parties have accused the ruling Congress of turning the southern state into an ATM to fund the party’s campaign expenses in these states. But the chief minister strongly denied the allegations.

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Hamas attackers for five hours, before she was shot and killed. Others hid in the woods, barricaded themselves in safe rooms and waited for up to 26 hours for help to arrive. The slow response of Israeli forces on Saturday, a national holiday, gave Hamas terrorists many hours to infiltrate more than 20 towns outside Gaza, where they killed at least 1,200 people and took an estimated 150 hostages. Israeli officials declined to answer questions about the timing of their response to the attacks. Here's what we know about the timeline of some of the deadliest events and the official response, based on interviews with survivors and their family members, and an analysis of photos and video. Before the attacks Before 6:30 a.m. Israeli intelligence detected an unusual surge in activity on the Gazan militant networks it monitors and alerted the Israeli soldiers guarding the Gazan border. But the warning wasn't acted upon, either because the soldiers didn't receive the alert or the soldiers didn't read it. Start of attacks Around 6:30 a.m. The deadliest attacks in Israel's history started in many places at the same time.

Gaza Strip since Israel began its bombardment against Hamas, the UN said on Sunday, warning of dire conditions on the ground. Israel declared war on the Islamist group last Sunday, a day after waves of its fighters broke through the heavily fortified border and shot, stabbed and burned to death more than 1,400 people, most of them civilians. The relentless bombing since against those who masterminded the attack have flattened neighbourhoods and left at least 2,670 people dead in the Gaza Strip, the majority ordinary Palestinians.

Hamas. Israel's shekel sank to a nearly eight-year low, after the country's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, vowed to «demolish Hamas» in retaliation for the rampage on Oct. 7 that killed 1,300 people in the worst attack on civilians in Israel's history. U.S.

Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels. Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest financial insights! Click here Moody’s Investors Service postponed a planned review of Israel’s rating on Friday, saying it continued to evaluate the wider credit risk of recent hostilities. The resilience of Israeli debt issuers is at stake if a conflict stretches on, the ratings agency said in a separate note earlier last week.

CBS News, Joe Biden said the United States has been working to alleviate shortages of food, water, and gas to protect civilians. He also asserted that the extreme elements of Hamas don't represent all Palestinians. "But invading and "taking out the extremists" is a “necessary requirement".

Read all the latest updates on Israel-Hamas war at Mint's LIVE blog:United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reiterated that the US has Israel's back."The United States has Israel's back. We will stand with it today, tomorrow, and every day, and we're doing that in word and also in deed," Blinken said.US President Joe Biden said he is "confident" Israel will act under the rules of war in its conflict with Palestine.In an interview with "60 Minutes," Biden said that while he believes Hamas must be eliminated entirely, there must be a path for a Palestinian state.Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has said that the United States should not accept Palestinian refugees escaping from Gaza.

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