Egypt to help 7,000 foreigners escape from Gaza
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry said it was working to help 7,000 foreigners from more than 60 countries leave the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing.
Egypt’s Assistant Foreign Minister Ismail Khairat met with ambassadors and foreign embassy officials on Wednesday to explain the country’s efforts to open the Rafah crossing, the ministry announced.
The Rafah border opened on Wednesday, allowing hundreds of foreigners and dozens of seriously injured Palestinians to leave Gaza, which has been under siege for more than three weeks.
Sunak talks about Gaza with Guterres at AI summit
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak met UN Secretary-General António Guterres to discuss the situation in Gaza during bilateral talks at the UK AI Summit.
“We are delighted to be having these conversations about ensuring we manage risks to reap the benefits, but we are also pleased to be having these conversations about ensuring we manage risks to reap the benefits, but we are also working closely with the United Nations in Gaza to deliver aid to people in Gaza. We know we’re going to be talking about the situation as well. There are people who need it as soon as possible,” Sunak said.
‘Bird of peace’ gives life to Lebanese woman stranded in Khan Yunis
Nagam Mohanna Report from Gaza:
Fakhar Taj Sher’s love of birds kept him sane during years of war and conflict in the Gaza Strip.
As thousands of people flee their homes from brutal Israeli airstrikes, a 70-year-old Lebanese woman decides to flee to Khan Younis in the south, taking her bird with her.
Sheer left her home in Lebanon in 1978 after her Palestinian husband was killed during the Israeli invasion.
“I love animals more than myself,” she said The National. “They are my healing mechanism.”
Taj and her family, her daughter Raneem and grandson Ahmed, camped outside Nasser Hospital in the south in a two-metre-high tent and took the birds in cages.
Israeli forces raid East Jerusalem hospital, arrest patients from Gaza Strip
Israeli forces have raided a hospital in occupied East Jerusalem and arrested patients from the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian media.
According to Wafa news agency, soldiers surrounded Al-Maqasid Hospital in Artur and prevented people from leaving.
The military also arrested a number of patients from Gaza from emergency departments and wards designated for people from the enclave, the agency reported.
Israel has stepped up searches and arrests in East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, where four people were killed by the military on Thursday morning.
Death toll in Gaza rises to 9,061, Ministry of Health announces
The Gaza Ministry of Health said 9,061 people have been killed since the start of the war, including 3,760 children and 2,326 women.
The ministry added that 32,000 other people were injured.
French evacuees from Gaza describe chaos at Rafah crossing
French archaeologist René Elter, who was allowed to leave the Gaza Strip via the Rafah border crossing on Wednesday, described the chaos.
“People were fighting. We felt suffering, pain and fear,” he told French daily Le Monde.
“They didn’t want to stay in the hell that is Gaza today. They had to leave on Wednesday or they would have to stay where they were and register again to be allowed to leave. He was worried that it might happen.
Ertel, who was one of five French nationals who withdrew from Gaza on Wednesday, said Palestinian officials were “overwhelmed.”
“There were hundreds of passports on their table,” he said.
Bodies of two Lebanese farmers shot dead by Israeli forces found near border
Lebanese state news agency reported that the bodies of two Lebanese farmers shot dead by Israeli forces were found near the border.
UNIFIL acknowledged the discovery The National. The deaths occurred during fighting between Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel.
On Wednesday, Unifil announced that the Lebanese army had requested help in rescuing two injured people in the Wazani area.
Unifil said Israeli forces temporarily stopped firing to allow a search operation, but no individuals were found.
“The search will have to resume in the morning as it is dark and there are mines,” Unifil added.
Iraq summit for “regional stability” postponed due to Gaza war
An international summit on “regional stability” scheduled for late November in Baghdad has been postponed due to the Israel-Gaza war, an Iraqi official told AFP.
Farhad Alaluddin, an advisor to Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia, said that the third Baghdad Conference for Economic Integration and Regional Stability, which was co-hosted with France, will be held at a later date due to the regional situation in the Middle East. It will be postponed until further notice.” Al-Sudani.
“What is happening in Palestine in particular,” Alaluddin pointed out.
Check the report in the French daily newspaper le figaroAllardin said the Baghdad summit, which was also scheduled to be attended by French President Emmanuel Macron, had been postponed “to focus on Iraq’s efforts towards a ceasefire and the relief of the Palestinian people and their plight.”
One person killed in West Bank shooting incident
A man was killed in a shooting near the Beit Lid intersection near the West Bank towns of Einab and Shabei Shomron.
Magen David Adom reported that a 35-year-old man was in the car when the shooting occurred and the car rolled over. MDA attempted to treat his wounds but had to declare him dead at the scene.
“When we arrived at the scene, we saw a car lying upside down on its roof in the bushes on the side of the road,” said MDA doctor Benji Landsberg.
Hamas militants focus on hit-and-run attack on Israeli military
Israeli tanks and troops closing in on Gaza City are meeting fierce resistance from Hamas militants using mortars and hit-and-run attacks from tunnels.
The four-week war has gripped major population centers in the northern Gaza Strip.
Israeli officials said at a news conference that 17 of the soldiers had died in the fighting so far.
Ambulances head to Gaza from Egypt to pick up injured Palestinians
Twenty ambulances entered Gaza through Egypt’s Rafah border crossing to collect more injured Palestinians for treatment in Egyptian hospitals, Red Crescent officials said. National.
Egyptian Health Ministry officials in Rafah said 60 injured Palestinians would be allowed to enter Egypt.
The Rafah crossing opened on Wednesday to receive injured Palestinians and foreigners trapped in Gaza.
The Hamas-run Gaza border authority announced on Wednesday that 76 Palestinians, including the wounded and their companions, had entered Egypt.
A field hospital is currently being set up in Sheikh Zuweid, North Sinai, 28 kilometers from the Rafah crossing. But Palestinians have not yet been accepted, Red Crescent officials said.
The injured Palestinians were being admitted to hospitals in North Sinai’s al-Arish and Bir al-Abd cities, which were on high alert to accept patients on Wednesday, the Egyptian Ministry of Health said.
Arab League to host two summits in Riyadh on November 10th and 11th
Saudi Arabia will host an emergency summit in Riyadh on November 11 to coincide with the previously planned Arab League-African Union meeting.
Invitations to the Arab-African summit were already sent out before the Israel-Gaza war.
Saudi officials are currently in talks to have heads of state attend an emergency meeting of the Arab League, a Foreign Ministry source said. National.
According to Arab League Under-Secretary-General Hossam Zaki, the meeting was formally convened by the Palestinian Authority and Saudi Arabia.
Saudi sources said. The National The emergency Arab summit will address the events in Gaza and issue a joint statement that will “unify the Arab voice.”
“Currently, adjustments are being made at an urgent pace,” the official said.
“We are working to unify all the remaining Arab delegations around one message and communiqué, which will hopefully be read out on November 11, but the situation is very fluid in that respect.”
The summit will be held in two parts: on November 10th, foreign ministers will meet with the foreign ministers of African countries, and on November 11th, the Arab League summit will be held in Gaza, inviting heads of state. It is scheduled to take place.
German minister announces ban on Hamas activities
Germany has banned the activities of Hamas, already designated as a terrorist organization, and the pro-Palestinian group Samidoun, the interior minister announced.
“Together with Hamas, today I completely ban the activities of a terrorist organization aimed at the destruction of the State of Israel,” Nancy Feiser said.
It added that Samidoun’s German division would also be dissolved. Feser said the international network operates under the guise of a prisoner solidarity group to spread anti-Israel and anti-Semitic propaganda.
-Reuters
Israel arrests 14 Palestinians, including one woman, in West Bank attack
Israeli forces arrested 14 people, including one woman, in a raid on a house in the occupied West Bank on Thursday.
According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, the governorates of Ramallah and Arbire, as well as the town of Nirin, west of Ramallah, were attacked by Israeli forces.
Those arrested include Sherine al-Sus, a Palestinian from northeast Ramallah, Mohamed Harish, a former political detainee from Beituniya in west Ramallah, and Sami al-Asmar, a resident of Ramallah al-Takhta.
Editor Iyad Mahmoud Safi and his nephew Mohammad Hassam Mahmoud Safi from Jala Zone camp north of Ramallah were also detained.
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Israeli army announces 242 Israelis taken hostage in Gaza Strip
The Israeli military announced that 242 people were confirmed to be hostages in the Gaza Strip.
Hezbollah death toll rises to 50
The death toll of Hezbollah fighters since fighting with Israel broke out last month has risen to 50, with the group announcing new deaths.
Hezbollah’s top commander, Hassan Nasrallah, will speak on Friday for the first time since fighting began on October 7.
Authorities said 345 foreigners left Gaza for Egypt on Wednesday.
Border authorities in the Gaza Strip announced on Wednesday that 345 of the 596 foreigners approved for evacuation from the Strip were allowed to leave for Egypt.
The list of foreign nationals approved to leave the enclave following a deal rumored to be led by Qatar includes 20 Australians, 36 Bulgarians, five South Koreans and 17 Sri Lankans, according to foreign ministries. It is said that it is included.
France, Britain and the United States announced on Wednesday that the first nationals were able to leave Gaza through the Rafah border.
The Rafah border crossing opened on Wednesday and remains open to allow foreigners to leave, according to Gaza border authorities.
Officials released an updated list of people approved for evacuation Wednesday night and asked those on the list to head to the intersection at 7 a.m.
Many details of the agreement under which foreigners were allowed to leave the country remain secret.
This was announced by Egyptian security officials. The National It said the list of foreigners approved to leave the country was created after extensive coordination between Israel and Egypt.
Hamas says 600 people could leave Gaza on Thursday
Hamas said another 600 foreigners and dual nationals, including 400 Americans, were scheduled to leave Gaza on Thursday.
This is the second exodus since the border with Egypt was opened on Wednesday. People were allowed to leave the country for the first time since the war began on October 7.
-Bloomberg