The UN secretary general António Guterres has issued a statement, saying that “nowhere is safe” in Gaza as he repeats his calls for a ceasefire.
Guterres opened up his statement with a condemnation of Israel’s strike on an ambulance near Gaza’s al Shifa hospital, saying:
I am horrified by the reported attack in Gaza on an ambulance convoy outside Al Shifa hospital. The images of bodies strewn on the street outside the hospital are harrowing.
I do not forget the terror attacks committed in Israel by Hamas and the killing, maiming and abductions, including of women and children. All hostages held in Gaza must be released immediately and unconditionally.
He added:
Now, for nearly one month, civilians in Gaza, including children and women, have been besieged, denied aid, killed, and bombed out of their homes.
This must stop.
The humanitarian situation in Gaza is horrific. Not nearly enough food, water and medicine are coming in to meet people’s needs. Fuel to power hospitals and water plants is running out. UNRWA shelters are at nearly four times their full capacity and are being hit in bombardments. Morgues are overflowing. Shops are empty. The sanitation situation is abysmal. We are seeing an increase in diseases and respiratory illnesses, especially among children. An entire population is traumatized. Nowhere is safe.
More than 9,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes since Hamas launched its attacks against Israel on 7 October.
Thousands more Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from their homes and denied medical aid, food and water amid Israel’s deadly siege on the narrow strip.
British woman denied passage out of Gaza via Rafah crossing
The latest from PA on a British woman failing to get entry into Egypt from war-stricken Gaza, which has lead her mother in the UK to say that foreign nationals trapped there are “being used as bargaining chips”.
From the Press Association: Zaynab Wandawi, 29, from Salford in Greater Manchester, travelled to Gaza at the beginning of October with her husband, who is British Palestinian, and his relatives for a family member’s wedding before the Israel-Hamas war erupted.
Wandawi, an English language teacher, and a group of 12 family members - 10 of whom are British nationals, attempted to cross the border into Egypt on Wednesday, but were told their names were not on the list.
The group were told their names were on the list to cross into Egypt on Saturday, but were turned away from the border amid disagreement between the Palestinian and Israeli authorities in control of the crossing, according to her mother, Lalah Ali-Faten.
The Foreign Office said the temporary closure of the Rafah crossing was “disappointing” and it was pressing for the key border post to be reopened.
Ali-Faten, 52, from Prestwich, north Manchester, told the PA news agency: “It seems now that they’re being used as a bargaining chip, the foreign nationals.”
Here are some images coming through the newswires of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem where protestors have gathered in angry anti-government protests, with many urging prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign:
Protestors gathered outside the residence of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid growing anger at the government’s failures that led to Hamas’s deadly attacks against Israel on October 7.
Reuters reports a crowd in the hundreds pushing through police barriers around Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem, waving Israeli flags and chanting, “Jail now!”
Protestors also gathered in Tel Aviv, with many holding signs that said “Ceasefire” and others that read “Release the hostages now at all costs.”
On Saturday, a poll for Israel’s Channel 13 found that 76% of Israelis felt that Netanhayu should resign, Reuters reports, adding 64% say that Israel should hold an election immediately after the war.
44% blamed Netanyahu as the person most at fault for the October 7 Hamas attack. 33% blamed the military chief of staff and senior IDF officials and 5% blamed efense minister Yoav Gallant, according to the poll.
Turkey announced on Saturday that it is recalling its ambassador to Israel and cutting contact with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Turkish foreign ministry said ambassador Sakir Ozkan Torunlar was being recalled for consultations “in view of the unfolding humanitarian tragedy in Gaza caused by the continuing attacks by Israel against civilians, and Israel’s refusal [to accept] a ceasefire,” Agence France-Presse reports.
Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Lior Haiat called the move “another step by the Turkish president that sides with the Hamas terrorist organisation.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters separately that he held Netanyahu personally responsible for the ongoing bloodshed in Gaza where over 9,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli strikes.
“Netanyahu is no longer someone we can talk to. We have written him off,” Turkish media quoted Erdogan as saying, Agence France-Presse reports.
Nevertheless, Erdogan said on Saturday that his country could not afford to sever all diplomatic contacts with Israel.
“Completely severing ties is not possible, especially in international diplomacy,” Erdogan said.
Turkey’s move follows Israel’s withdrawal of its diplomats from the country last month after Erdogan called Israel an “occupier” at a pro-Palestinian rally.
Hamas’s armed wing said that more than 60 hostages were missing due to Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, Reuters reports.
Abu Ubaida, the spokesperson for the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam brigades, also said on Hamas’s Telegram account that 23 bodies of Israeli hostages were trapped under the rubble.
It seems that we will never be able to reach them due to the continued brutal aggression of the occupation against Gaza.
Reuters could not immediately verify the statement.
US secretary of state Antony Blinken has reaffirmed US support for “humanitarian pauses” in the ongoing fight between Israel and Hamas.
In an address in Amman, Jordan, about sparing civilians and speeding up aid deliveries entering into Gaza, Blinken said: “The United States believes that all of these efforts will be facilitated by humanitarian pauses.”
“We believe humanitarian pauses can be critical mechanisms to protect civilians, to getting aid in, to getting foreign nationals out while still enabling Israel to achieve its objectives to defeat Hamas,” he added.
On Saturday, Blinken met with senior Jordanian and Arab officials in Amman in his second visit to the region since the war broke out on 7 October in an attempt to garner support for a post-conflict future for Gaza and Israel.
Middle East powers should maintain their push to de-escalate the region through trade and economic ties despite the Israel-Hamas war, a senior United Arab Emirates official said on Saturday.
Agence France-Presse reports:
The sudden flare-up in Gaza, after a deadly attack by Hamas militants, follows a period of fence-mending in the region including by the UAE and its neighbouring fellow oil giant, Saudi Arabia.
According to UAE presidential adviser Anwar Gargash, countries should maintain that strategy even though the war is sending shockwaves through the region.
“National actors are basically trying to use economics as a way to de-escalate tension,” Gargash told the World Policy Conference in Abu Dhabi.
“I think there is no reason why we should also veer away from that course of action.”
Gargash said the war demonstrated that the UAE and others still had to “work together with other regional actors in order to ensure that regional stability is guaranteed”.
“But I think the other message is also (that) national plans have to move on. I don’t think that national plans have to be on pause, because there will always be a major regional issue that will surprise us.”
Thousands of protestors have gathered in Washington DC’s Freedom Plaza in a show of solidarity with Palestinians.
Organizers of the protest said they are anticipating at least 30,000 marchers to show up today.
Marchers will loop past the White House in a unified call on Joe Biden to end US military aid to Israel, as well as urge a ceasefire.
Israel will “find and eliminate” Hamas’s Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar, Israel’s defense minister Yoav Gallant said on Saturday.
“We will find Sinwar and will eliminate him,” Gallant told a news conference, as Israeli forces fought street battles with Hamas inside the Palestinian territory.
Soon after the war between Israel and Hamas erupted, Israel said that Sinwar was a “dead man walking”, and that he and the leader of the group’s armed wing, Mohammed Deif, were the army’s top targets in the conflict.
Activists have rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday evening to call for a ceasefire amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, according to videos posted online.
Protestors held signs that read “Ceasefire now” and “No military solution.” Other signs read: “Ceasefire, hostage deal.”
Here are some images coming through the newswires of the pro-Palestinian protests happening across London:
Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in London for the fourth consecutive week of demonstrations in a show of solidarity with Palestinians.
The Metropolitan police have said there will be a “sharper focus” on using social media and face recognition to detect criminal behaviour at protests this weekend.
Here is video of a UN-run school in Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp that was damaged by an Israeli airstrike:
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has warned it cannot provide safety to the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians as more than 50 UN facilities have been “impacted” by the conflict – including “five direct hits’” – and 38 people had died in UN shelters, Thomas White, the director of UNRWA affairs, said on Friday.
A group of UN experts has warned that Palestinians “are at grave risk of genocide” and condemned Israel’s strike on a residential complex in the Jabalia refugee camp earlier this week, calling it a “brazen violation of international law” and a “war crime”.
The UN secretary general António Guterres has issued a statement, saying that “nowhere is safe” in Gaza as he repeats his calls for a ceasefire.
Guterres opened up his statement with a condemnation of Israel’s strike on an ambulance near Gaza’s al Shifa hospital, saying:
I am horrified by the reported attack in Gaza on an ambulance convoy outside Al Shifa hospital. The images of bodies strewn on the street outside the hospital are harrowing.
I do not forget the terror attacks committed in Israel by Hamas and the killing, maiming and abductions, including of women and children. All hostages held in Gaza must be released immediately and unconditionally.
He added:
Now, for nearly one month, civilians in Gaza, including children and women, have been besieged, denied aid, killed, and bombed out of their homes.
This must stop.
The humanitarian situation in Gaza is horrific. Not nearly enough food, water and medicine are coming in to meet people’s needs. Fuel to power hospitals and water plants is running out. UNRWA shelters are at nearly four times their full capacity and are being hit in bombardments. Morgues are overflowing. Shops are empty. The sanitation situation is abysmal. We are seeing an increase in diseases and respiratory illnesses, especially among children. An entire population is traumatized. Nowhere is safe.
More than 9,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes since Hamas launched its attacks against Israel on 7 October.
Thousands more Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from their homes and denied medical aid, food and water amid Israel’s deadly siege on the narrow strip.
Médecins Sans Frontières has condemned Israel’s strike on an ambulance near Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital on Friday, calling it “a new low in an endless stream of unconscionable violence”:
The deadly attack outside the gate of l-Shifa hospital impacting an ambulance yesterday is horrendous. This is an attack outside Gaza’s main and busiest hospital, where our staff work daily to provide lifesaving medical care.
The repeated strikes on hospitals, ambulances, densely populated areas and refugee camps are disgraceful.
Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets in Berlin on Saturday in a show of solidarity with Palestinians.
Agence France-Presse reports that the atmosphere was calm at the start of the rally with many demonstrators showing up alongside their families and children.
Many held posters that read “Save Gaza”, “Stop genocide” and “Ceasefire” while others wore keffiyehs and shouted: “Free Palestine!”
“We estimate the number of demonstrators at around 3,500, but more are arriving,” a police spokesperson told AFP.
The rally’s organisers said they estimated about 2,000 participants would show up but police said there could be at least 10,000 participants. Police have deployed about 1,400 officers to the march.
The United States believes that a ceasefire in Israel’s military offensive in Gaza would leave Palestinian militant group Hamas in place and allow it to regroup and carry out attacks similar to the one on 7 October, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said.
That attack killed more than 1,400 people, the worst assault in Israel’s history.
Blinken made his comments at a news conference in Amman, alongside his Jordanian and Egyptian counterparts, who have repeatedly urged an immediate cessation of hostilities.
The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said on Saturday both Washington and Arab states believe the status quo of a Hamas-controlled Gaza cannot continue and that he has discussed with his Arab counterparts how to chart a better path forward towards a two-state solution.
Speaking at a news conference in Amman, alongside his Egyptian and Jordanian counterparts, the top US diplomat also said Washington was worried about violence by extremist settlers in the West Bank.
Qatar’s foreign ministry said on Saturday that the continued bombardment of the Gaza Strip complicated its efforts to mediate the release of hostages held by Hamas.
The foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, made the comment in a meeting with the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, on Saturday, the ministry said in a statement
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