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Red Cross workers fired at in Gaza
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said a humanitarian convoy came under fire in Gaza City but was able to deliver medical supplies to al-Shifa hospital.
Two trucks were damaged and a driver was lightly wounded, the organisation said.
It said the convoy included five trucks and two ICRC vehicles and was carrying “lifesaving medical supplies to health facilities including to al-Quds hospital of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, when it was hit by fire.”
Israeli flares light up the sky above the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City.Credit: Bloomberg
The group did not identify the source of the fire.
After the incident, the convoy altered its route and reached al-Shifa hospital where it delivered the medical supplies, ICRC said. The ICRC convoy then accompanied six ambulances with critically wounded patients to the Rafah crossing from Gaza to Egypt, the group said.
“These are not the conditions under which humanitarian personnel can work,” said William Schomburg, head of the ICRC sub-delegation in Gaza. “Ensuring that vital aid can reach medical facilities is a legal obligation under international humanitarian law.”
Death toll still rising after a month of combat
Israeli troops have been battling Palestinian militants inside Gaza for over a week, and have succeeded in cutting the territory in half and encircling Gaza City. Food, medicine, fuel and water are running low, and United Nations-run schools-turned-shelters are overflowing.
The Palestinian death toll has surpassed 10,300, two-thirds of them women and minors, according to the Health Ministry of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. More than 2300 people are missing and believed to be buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, the ministry said. The ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants, and Israel says it has killed thousands of fighters.
People attend a vigil around the fountain in Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv.Credit: Getty
About 1400 people in Israel have died, mostly civilians killed during the October 7 incursion by Hamas. Israelis observed a moment of silence on Tuesday in memory of the victims. The 30th day is a milestone in Jewish mourning, and memorial events are planned in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
The military says 30 Israeli troops have been killed in Gaza since the ground offensive began.
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Netanyahu says Israel will take control of Gaza indefinitely
Israel will take “overall security responsibility” in Gaza indefinitely after its war with Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, the clearest indication yet that Israel plans to maintain control there after a month of a conflict that has claimed thousands of lives and levelled swaths of the territory.
Netanyahu expressed openness to “little pauses” in the fighting to facilitate delivery of aid to Gaza or the release of some of the more than 240 hostages seized by Hamas in its October 7 attack into Israel that triggered the war, in an interview with America’s ABC News.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Credit: AP
He ruled out any general ceasefire without the release of all the hostages. The White House said there was no agreement on US President Joe Biden’s call for a broader humanitarian pause after a phone call between the leaders.
The war has already come at a staggering cost, and Israel unleashed another wave of strikes across the territory overnight. Entire city blocks have been reduced to rubble, and about 70 per cent of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have fled their homes: many heeding Israeli orders to head to the southern part of the besieged territory, which is also being bombed.
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Israel says it is fighting in ‘the depths’ of Gaza city
The Israeli military says its ground forces are now fighting in “the depths” of Gaza City.
The comments signalled a new stage by the Israeli military as it moves in towards what it says is the headquarters and stronghold of the Hamas militant group.
Chief military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said that Israeli ground forces “are located right now in a ground operation in the depths of Gaza City and putting great pressure on Hamas”.
Earlier, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed Israel was making great progress in its war, saying that the army has killed thousands of Hamas fighters.
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