Impeding the delivery of relief aid to Gazaβs residents may be be considered a crime within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, according to the bodyβs top prosecutor.
Lebanonβs Hezbollah claims to have brought down an Israeli drone in the southeast of Lebanon using a surface-to-air missile, causing it to crash inside Israeli territory.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says the killing of Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah in Lebanon earlier this month resulted from a deliberate strike from the direction of the Israeli border.
Israeli fighter jets have launched an attack on the area of Tal al-Hawa in Gaza City, near al-Quds Hospital. An attack some 20 metres from the hospital shattered windows and spread smoke inside the facility.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdolahian has refuted allegations of Iranβs direct involvement in the October 7 attack by Hamas, describing them as βbaselessβ.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and French President Emmanuel Macron have emphasised the importance of delivering urgent humanitarian assistance to war-torn Gaza, according to the UK government.
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Israel steps up strikes close to al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City after ordering its βimmediateβ evacuation; the World Health Organization says it is βdeeply concernedβ.
The United Nations chief has repeated call for a ceasefire to end βthis nightmare for the people of Gaza, Israelβ.
These were the updates on the Israel-Hamas war for Sunday, October 29.
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βThreat is not Hamas but Gazans, and Arabs of Judea and Samariaβ
A leading Israeli security expert has told the countryβs Maariv newspaper the βthreat is not Hamas but the Gazans and the Arabs of Judea and Samariaβ.
βAs long as the state of Israel does not understand what the threat is β it will not be able to win,β Eliyahu Yossian, research fellow at Meshgav Institute for National Security and winner of the Israel Defense Prize, told the newspaper in an example of the discourse among Israelβs far right as the Gaza assault continues.
βIf we donβt treat Gaza as an enemy, we will never get out of the rounds and each time it is going to get worse to the point that we reached the acute situation of [October 7] morning. The state of Israel needs to understand and accept that there are no innocents in Gaza.β
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