DIRECT. Israel-Hamas war: “dozens” of fighters killed overnight in Gaza, according to the Israeli army

2023-10-30 12:20:49

10:44

Body of German-Israeli hostage Shani Louk found and identified

Shani Louk had been seen in footage shared on the day of the Hamas attack on a music festival standing in the back of a truck after being kidnapped and taken to Gaza. A few days later, her mother said she was alive and was being held in a hospital in Gaza. But in the morning the mother of the 23-year-old girl told German channel RTL/Ntv that she had been informed on Sunday that her daughter was no longer alive. “Yesterday we received a message that my daughter is no longer alive,” Ricarda Louk said. Israeli authorities confirmed that the body had been found and identified.

10:22

Terrorist attack near Jerusalem tram station

A stabbing attack reportedly took place near the Shivtei Israel light rail station in central Jerusalem. The attacker would have been neutralized. A police officer was reportedly seriously injured.

10:12

Hamas rocket reportedly hits building in southern Israeli town of Netivot

To date, no results have been communicated.

09:16

Israeli tanks on the edge of Gaza City, according to witnesses. The main road axis would be cut

Israeli tanks entered a neighborhood on the edge of Gaza City, cutting off the main road between the north and south of the Gaza Strip, witnesses said.

The tanks arrived near the al-Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City, according to witnesses. “They cut the Salahedine road (linking the north to the south) and are shooting at any vehicle traveling there,” one of them told AFP.

09:14

“819 anti-Semitic acts” in France since the Hamas attacks, according to Darmanin

“We are putting very significant resources into protecting French people of Jewish faith,” explained Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior on BFMTV-RMC, indicating that “819 anti-Semitic acts” have been recorded in France since October 7.

He also reported “414 arrests by police and gendarmes for people who committed anti-Semitic acts”

08:58

Israeli strikes in Syria after rocket attacks

The Israeli army said it struck several targets in Syria in response to rocket attacks,

“A combat aircraft recently attacked the launchers from which the shots were fired from Syrian territory towards Israeli territory on Sunday evening,” the Israeli army said on X. It had reported a few hours earlier of several rocket attacks, which fell in an “open area”. According to Israeli public radio Kan, the sites struck are in the Deraa region of southern Syria and are linked to Iran’s allies. In a statement, the Syrian Ministry of Defense for its part indicated that “the Israeli enemy” had “carried out an aerial attack from the occupied Golan, targeting two positions of our armed forces in the Daraa region”. He only reported material damage.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), the strikes notably targeted “an artillery battalion” in the province of Deraa.

This NGO based in the United Kingdom but which has a vast network of sources in Syria specified that it is Syrian and Palestinian groups linked to Hezbollah which are launching the rockets from the Daraa region.

08:55

Thousands of refugees in the hospital in the city of Khan Yunis

According to the Al Jazeera channel, “at least 14,000 people” have taken refuge in Al-Quds hospital in Khan Younes in the south of the Gaza Strip. In this town, many houses were destroyed around the hospital.

08:29

Deadly fighting last night in Gaza

The Israeli army said its forces had killed “dozens” of fighters during nighttime fighting in the Gaza Strip, which was bombed in response to the unprecedented bloody attack carried out on October 7 by Palestinian Hamas in Israel.

The army said that “troops killed dozens of terrorists who barricaded themselves in buildings and tunnels and attempted to attack them.” A fighter jet targeted a building “with more than 20 Hamas terrorists inside,” according to the army.

07:54

“When friends of Israel urge Israel to protect civilian life, as we have done, it is essential that Israel listens,” Australia warns

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong has urged Israel to “listen” when its friends ask it to protect innocent lives in Gaza. She warned that the world “will not accept the continued deaths of civilians.” She said on national radio that civilians on both sides had been “murdered”.

07:28

Israeli forces raid Jenin refugee camp

Although sometimes contradictory information circulates, it seems that the Israeli army attacked the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank. At least four Palestinians were reportedly killed. The director of the Jenin government hospital, Wissam Bakr, revealed the names of two men allegedly shot dead by Israeli forces, according to Al Jazeera.

Palestinian media outlet WAFA reported that around 100 military vehicles and at least one bulldozer entered the town and that an Israeli drone carried out an airstrike. The entrance gate to the refugee camp and several houses in Jenin were reportedly destroyed.

07:18

Israeli Air Force claims to have attacked 600 targets in Gaza’s Al-Azhar University neighborhood

The Israeli Air Force claims to have attacked around 600 targets over the past day, including “in the area of Al-Azhar University” in central Gaza City. During the night, IDF soldiers in the Gaza Strip were identified in this area and an anti-tank missile was about to be launched.

According to the Air Force, “weapons warehouses, hideouts and gatherings of Hamas members as well as anti-tank positions” were targeted.

07:12

Macron, Sunak and Biden warn about humanitarian support for Gaza

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday insisted on the need for “urgent humanitarian support for Gaza”. The White House, for its part, reported a call from President Biden to Benjamin Netanyahu in which he “stressed the need to immediately and significantly increase the flow of humanitarian aid to meet the needs of civilians in Gaza.” He did the same in an appeal to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi.

07:00

Cyprus authorities fear massive arrival of migrants

In one week, 458 Syrian migrants from Lebanon arrived in Cyprus. Authorities fear more and more arrivals as the conflict between Israel and the Hamas terrorist movement threatens to spread. According to the authorities of the Republic of Cyprus, the capacity to manage large numbers of migrants was limited.

06:55

High tensions on the border with Lebanon

There have been almost daily exchanges of fire on the border between Lebanon and Israel between the Israeli army and pro-Palestinian armed groups, including Lebanese Hezbollah, since October 7. During the night, the “Al-Quds Brigades”, the military branch of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, present in Lebanon, announced on Telegram that two of their members were killed in Hanita in northern Israel after having managed to “cross the security barrier”, which triggered numerous shots during the night.

06:53

Ten trucks entered via Rafah this Sunday

Ten humanitarian aid trucks were able to enter Gaza on Sunday, via the Rafah crossing point with Egypt, bringing to 94 the number of these vehicles arriving since October 21, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent. It would take 100 per day in this 360m2 area where 2.4 million inhabitants deprived of everything are crowded together.

06:52

The UN fears a collapse of “public order”

After looting of warehouses and food aid distribution centers, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned of a collapse of “public order” this Sunday.

06:51

Assault on an airport in Dagestan: 60 arrests, 9 police officers injured

Sixty people suspected of having stormed an airport in Dagestan, a region of Russia, visibly looking for Israelis, were arrested and nine police officers were injured during these clashes, Russian authorities said.

“More than 150 active participants in the unrest have been identified, sixty of them have been arrested,” the press service of the Russian Interior Ministry said in a statement, specifying that two injured police officers had been hospitalized.

The United States condemned the “anti-Semitic demonstrations” which took place at this airport.

06:42

“Violent fighting” in Gaza this Sunday

On the ground, Hamas reported on Sunday evening “violent fighting (…) using automatic and anti-tank weapons” in the north of the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli army has been operating on the ground since Friday evening. The Israeli army had assured earlier that its air force, “guided by (ground) troops, had struck Hamas military structures in the north of the Gaza Strip”, and reported rocket fire from the Palestinian territory. towards central and southern Israel.