Despite Israel’s escalation of its attacks on the Gaza Strip, negotiations continue, brokered by Qatar between the Hebrew state and the Palestinian Hamas movement, with the aim of calming the situation in the Strip, according to a source who spoke to Reuters. Communications between besieged Gaza residents and the outside world were almost cut off on Saturday, while Israeli planes dropped more bombs coinciding with a ground attack. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Saturday evening that defeating the Hamas movement is an “existential challenge” for Israel, noting that “90% of the movement’s military budget comes from Iran,” and stressed that contacts to free the hostages will continue. On Saturday, the families of 229 hostages held by Hamas intensified their pressure on the Israeli government to present plans to rescue them, amid fears that the military attack on the Gaza Strip would endanger the lives of the hostages.
Published on: 10/29/2023 – 00:02
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The war between Hamas and Israel enters Gaza For the 23rd day in a row, at a time when the Hebrew state announced the expansion of its ground operations, while warnings continued of the worsening humanitarian crisis in the besieged Strip.
According to the latest statistics of the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli bombing of the Strip led to the death of at least 8,000 Palestinians, including more than 3,500 children and 1,726 women, since the unprecedented attack carried out by the Hamas movement in Israel on October 7, which It killed at least 1,400 people, according to an Israeli army tally.
00:50 The death toll from the Israeli bombing in the Gaza Strip has risen to more than 8 thousand dead
00:01 President of the International Committee of the Red Cross: The world must not tolerate the “catastrophic” situation in Gaza
The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross on Saturday called on the world to take action to stop the “unbearable level of human suffering” in the Gaza Strip.
Mirjana Spolijaric said, “This is a catastrophic failure that the world must not tolerate,” at a time when Israel announced that its war on Gaza had “entered a new phase” and intensified its bombing of the Strip.
France 24/AFP/Reuters
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