Israel-Hamas War LIVE Updates: More than 14,800 people killed in Gaza, Hamas health authorities says
Israel-Hamas War LIVE Updates: More than 14,800 people killed in Gaza, Hamas health authorities says
10:16 (IST)
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Israeli attack on Indonesian Hospital in Gaza destroys ‘all of the first floor’: Charity
Dr Sarbini Abdul Murad, head of the Indonesian charity Medical Emergency Rescue Committee (MER-C), which helped fund the construction of the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza, confirmed an attack on the medical facility overnight had caused extensive damage.
“Last night, Israeli forces attacked the hospital with tanks and destroyed all of the first floor. The damage was very bad,” Murad said, speaking to Al Jazeera from the Indonesian capital Jakarta.
“Previously, they had attacked the third floor. They arrested at least three people. This is their way of taking over the hospitals before the ceasefire today,” he said.
The Indonesian Hospital was built in 2011 with donations collected by MER-C from Indonesian citizens and humanitarian organisations.
10:11 (IST)
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Just 80 aid trucks enter Gaza on Thursday as assistance continues to lag behind set goals
As of 6 p.m. on Thursday, just 80 trucks of humanitarian goods have entered Gaza through Egypt's Rafah crossing, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, as the volume of aid continued to fall short of international agencies' targets.
Prior to the commencement of the conflict, over 500 trucks of relief were entering Gaza each day.
The UN set an initial aim of 100 trucks each day, which has only been met a few times since help was initially let in on October 21.
09:46 (IST)
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IDF reportedly intensifying shelling throughout Gaza overnight as truce approaches
With just hours until the multi-day truce begins at 7 a.m., IDF forces have been pounding terror targets throughout the night across the Gaza Strip, according to the Kan public television, quoting Palestinian sources.
IDF strikes have targeted the northern Gaza refugee camps of Jabalia, Nuseirat, and al-Maghazi, while exchanges of fire between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants have been reported in neighbouring Beit Lehia.
09:44 (IST)
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Casualty fears after Israeli strike hits Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp
An Israeli missile struck a residential block in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
A video showed many rescue personnel standing close to a demolished structure, with the strike shattering a large portion of its concrete roof.
Children are allegedly among those killed in the strike, which occurred only hours before a four-day truce is supposed to begin at 05:00 GMT.
09:10 (IST)
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Child rescued in Gaza after another night of Israeli bombings
Fouad Abu Khamash, a Gaza-based photojournalist, shared a video clip of the aftermath of an Israeli shelling in the Gaza Strip on Instagram.
A obviously shaken youngster is seen in the arms of a young guy before being taken in an ambulance in the video.
Several devastating Israeli bombings occurred across Gaza overnight, including one on a UNRWA school, which killed at least 27 people, and another on two civilian cars on the Nuseirat-Mughraqa Road, which killed 11 people, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
08:43 (IST)
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More than 14,800 people killed in Gaza, Hamas health authorities says
According to Hamas officials in Gaza, the number of persons killed in Israeli bombings in Gaza since October 7 has risen to 14,854, including 5,850 children.
Obtaining current statistics on the number of casualties in Gaza has gotten more difficult as Israel's enormous air and ground onslaught continues.
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Ramallah, which collects statistics from hospitals and other sources in the Gaza Strip, estimated the death toll at 12,700 on Monday.
In subsequent health updates, the Ramallah-based ministry stated that severe interruptions in Gaza's communications networks had rendered its own efforts at precise data collecting difficult.
08:30 (IST)
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Gaza truce and hostage release set to start
A four-day cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas conflict was expected to begin Friday, with hostages being exchanged for inmates, the first significant reprieve in seven weeks of warfare that has cost thousands of lives.
The ceasefire was set to begin at 7:00 a.m. (0500 GMT) after lengthy talks, debate, and delay, silencing guns that had raged since Hamas's horrific assaults into Israel on October 7.
According to Qatari peacebrokers, the commencement of the truce would be followed by the release of a first batch of 13 hostages held in Gaza, as well as an unspecified number of Palestinian inmates from Israeli jails.
08:29 (IST)
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Palestinian doctor says 27 dead in Israeli strike on UN school in Gaza
According to a Palestinian medic, at least 27 people were killed and 93 were injured in an Israeli raid on a United Nations school in Gaza on Thursday.
According to a doctor at a hospital in the camp who spoke on the condition of anonymity, the attack damaged a UN-run school where hundreds of displaced Palestinians were hiding in Jabalia, Gaza's biggest refugee camp.
08:19 (IST)
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Israel and Hamas to begin four-day truce on Friday, say Qatar mediators
Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas will begin a four-day truce on Friday morning with a first group of 13 Israeli women and child hostages released later during the day, mediators in Qatar said.
World powers gave the news a cautious welcome. But fighting raged on, with local officials saying a hospital in Gaza City was among the targets bombed as the hours counted down to the start of the first break in a brutal, near seven-week-old war. Both sides also signalled the pause would be temporary before fighting resumes.
08:12 (IST)
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Israeli forces detain Al-Shifa hospital chief in Gaza
The head of Gaza City's Al-Shifa hospital, the largest in the Palestinian territories, was detained Thursday by Israeli soldiers, who said it was for alleged Hamas usage of the institution.
Mohammad Abu Salmiya, the hospital's director, has been regularly featured in foreign media concerning the situation within Al-Shifa, which has been a key target of an Israeli ground invasion following strikes by the Palestinian terrorist organisation Hamas on October 7.
The Israeli army, which invaded the hospital last week, said that Hamas fighters staged strikes using a tunnel network beneath the institution in Gaza City.
08:04 (IST)
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Israel announces it has received initial list of hostages to be released by Hamas
The release of Hamas captives, which was supposed to happen on Thursday as part of a settlement, has been postponed until at least Friday. Notably, a truce struck by Washington and Qatar intends to halt the continuing combat between Israel and Hamas militants for the time being.
The release of Hamas captives, which was supposed to happen on Thursday as part of a settlement, has been postponed until at least Friday. Notably, a truce struck by Washington and Qatar intends to halt the continuing combat between Israel and Hamas militants for the time being.
Meanwhile, the Israel Defence Forces found a Hamas terror facility beneath Al-Shifa Hospital. The IDF turned to X (previously Twitter) to publish a comprehensive video of the network of tunnels beneath Gaza’s largest hospital.
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