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🔴 Live: Israeli strikes on Gaza kill more than 5,000, says Hamas health ministry
At least 5,087 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes since October 7, including 2,055 children, said the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry on Monday as the bombardment on the besieged enclave intensified. A third aid convoy entered the Rafah crossing from Egypt on Monday as EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg were debating whether to call for a humanitarian ceasefire to enable more aid into Gaza. Follow FRANCE 24’s live coverage of the crisis. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).
Issued on: 23/10/2023 – 05:12
The latest news in brief:
- Overnight Israeli strikes on Gaza killed at least 70 people, including 17 in a single strike that hit a house near Jabaliya in northern Gaza, said Hamas officials on Monday.
- Egypt’s military spokesman on Sunday said an unspecified number of border guards sustained “minor injuries” from “fragments of a shell accidentally fired from an Israeli tank”.
- The UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, said that 29 of its staff have been killed in Gaza since October 7.
- French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Tel Aviv on Tuesday to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the French presidential office said on Sunday evening.
- A second aid convoy of 14 trucks reached Gaza on Sunday. UN aid chief Martin Griffiths warned the besieged enclave still needed “more, much more” aid.
- Leaders of the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Britain issued a joint statement that underscored their support for Israel and its right to defend itself, but also urged it to adhere to international humanitarian law and protect civilians.
- The death toll in Gaza rose to 4,651 according to the Gaza health ministry. The number of people taken hostage by Hamas on October 7 mounted to 222, the Israeli military said Monday. The official number of people killed in the Hamas attack has not been revised since Saturday; it remains at 1,400.
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Key developments from Sunday, October 22:
US President Joe Biden convened a meeting of the so-called Quint – the US, France, Britain, Germany and Italy – plus Canada after speaking with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.
The second aid convoy destined for desperate Palestinian civilians reached Gaza on Sunday, as Israel widened its attacks to include targets in Syria and the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian discussed in a call late on Sunday the means of stopping Israel’s “brutal crimes” in Gaza, Hamas said in a statement.
Read our blog to see how the day’s events unfolded.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)
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