As the conflict between Israel and Gaza enters its 18th day, these are the main developments.
Here the situation Tuesday, October 24, 2023:
Recent developments
- The death toll in Gaza is official It exceeded 5,000.
- Hama fired two Old Israeli captives, resting in a hospital in Tel Aviv, while their husbands are still imprisoned in Gaza.
- One of Gaza’s remaining medical facilities, the Indonesian Hospital, was closed and plunged into darkness overnight. Although power was restored Tuesday morning, it is unclear how long the fuel will last.
- In another deadly night attack, Israel has bombed the al-Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza. With many still trapped under the rubble, the death toll is unclear.
- Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said Israel had struck more than 400 targets, including mosques, in the past day. Hagari said Israel struck Hamas’ “headquarters of operations” and killed at least three of the group’s deputy commanders.
Human influence and struggle
- At least 140 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes late Monday and into the early hours of Tuesday. Gaza List.
- The bombing in Khan Younis also left 80 injured, medical sources told WAFA, while the airstrikes also caused an explosion at a gas station in Khan Younis, killing at least 14 people.
- Israeli airstrikes on Tal al-Hawa in Gaza killed a Palestinian Journalist Roshdi SarrajMaking him the 23rd journalist killed in the Israel-Gaza war.
- Captives held in Gaza it won’t stop Israel’s Minister of Energy said that Israel had launched a ground invasion.
- During the fighting between Israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters on the Lebanon-Israel border, about 19,000 People in Lebanon have been internally displaced since October 8, according to the United Nations Migration Agency.
Climbing in the occupied West Bank
- A senior Hamas leader, Omar Daraghmeh, who was arrested in the occupied West Bank, has died in custody. Hamas and Islamic Jihad have claimed a massacre, while protests are brewing in Tubas and Ramallah.
- like the night searches and arrests Further in the West Bank, another senior Hamas leader, Adnan Hamarsheh, was taken to an Israeli vehicle from his home near Jenin.
- An Israeli soldier was wounded in the attacks, the Israeli army said.
diplomacy
- French President Emmanuel Macron has landed in Tel Aviv. Earlier, he outlined the agenda of the visit, showing solidarity with Israel and making clear his commitments against terrorist groups. Macron said he will also demand the creation of a Palestinian state and an end to Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
- The United Nations General Assembly will convene a special emergency session on Thursday to address the “grave situation” in Palestine.
- In a phone call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Joe Biden said the flow of aid to Gaza must continue.
- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made phone calls to Israeli and Palestinian counterparts, stressing China’s position to seek a peaceful solution and reiterating the call to abide by international humanitarian law. Wang will also be there Visiting the USA this week.
- Former US President Barack Obama published a statement on the Medium blog in which he condemned Hamas, supported Israel’s right to defend itself, and warned that Israel’s siege of Gaza could “harden the Palestinians for generations” to come.
