Israel stated its forces have attacked Hamas gunmen contained in the militant group’s huge tunnel community beneath Gaza as preventing reveals no signal of stopping.
After the first successful rescue of a hostage held by Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected requires a ceasefire and vowed to crush the group’s skill to manipulate Gaza.
Hamas has thus far launched 4 civilians from the 240 hostages Israel says it captured throughout the militant group’s assault on 7 October – with many considered held within the tunnel community.
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Because the offensive continues, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and Israel Safety Authority (ISA) claimed to have killed a Hamas commander who directed the assault on their nation.
In a press release shared on Telegram, the 2 companies stated the militant was Nasim Abu Ajina, the commander of Hamas’s Beit Lahia Battalion.
The IDF additionally stated it has struck about 300 targets over the previous day “together with anti-tank missiles and rocket launch posts beneath shafts” in addition to navy compounds underground.
In the meantime, Gaza faces an “imminent public well being disaster” as the realm struggles with mass displacement and injury to water infrastructure, the World Well being Organisation warned on Tuesday.
Hamas stated militants clashed early on Tuesday with Israeli forces “invading the southern Gaza axis, (together with) with machine weapons”.
In different key developments:
• A British instructor trapped in Gaza was told by the UK Foreign Office it ‘can’t do anything more’;
• Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu stated they will not agree to a ceasefire.
A Sky Information producer in Gaza stated bombing continued within the north and west of Gaza Metropolis in a single day, with completely different components of a refugee camp additionally hit.
In accordance with calls acquired by the producer, the state of affairs in Shifa Hospital, in Gaza Metropolis, is “getting worse and worse” whereas heavy bombing was reported round al Quds hospital in Tel al Hawa, within the south of town.
An ongoing gasoline scarcity can also be forcing folks to make use of donkey carts, they added, to take injured folks to hospital and even {dead} our bodies to graveyards.
Bakeries are additionally struggling to supply sufficient bread, the producer stated, and are unable to deal with the demand.
The hospitals among the many newest hit in Israeli strikes, in response to a Sky Information producer in Gaza
Ceasefire ‘matter of life or demise’
The UN company for Palestinian refugees, often called UNRWA, says almost 672,000 Palestinians are sheltering in its colleges and different amenities, which is 4 occasions their capability.
UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini accused Israel of “collective punishment”, and of forcing the Palestinians’ displacement from northern Gaza to the south, the place they’re nonetheless not secure.
At a UN emergency assembly on Monday, he additionally warned “a direct humanitarian ceasefire has develop into a matter of life and demise for thousands and thousands”.
A Palestinian rescuer works on the web site of an Israeli strike on a home in Gaza Metropolis October 30, 2023. REUTERS/Mutasem Murtaja
The company added 64 of its employees have been killed for the reason that conflict started, together with a person killed along with his spouse and eight youngsters late on Monday.
“That is the very best quantity ever of UN support employees killed in any battle all over the world in such a short while,” spokesperson Juliette Touma stated.
“UNRWA won’t ever be the identical with out these colleagues.”
Not less than 8,525 Palestinians, together with 3,542 youngsters, have been killed in Israeli strikes for the reason that conflict started, the well being ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza stated on Tuesday.
The well being ministry spokesman, Ashraf al Qudra, additionally claims 130 healthcare employees have been killed, with 15 hospitals now out of service together with 32 healthcare centres.
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In the meantime, air raid sirens sounded within the Crimson Sea metropolis of Eilat on Tuesday and Israel’s navy stated it downed an incoming “aerial goal”.
In a while Tuesday, the navy stated it used the “Arrow” aerial defence system for the primary time for the reason that conflict to intercept a surface-to-surface missile within the Crimson Sea fired in the direction of its territory.
“There was no risk or danger to civilians,” it stated earlier within the day.
Greater than 1,400 folks have been killed on the Israeli aspect, in response to the nation’s authorities, since Hamas’s preliminary assault.