Israel-Hamas war live: Palestinian death toll rises to more than 1,500; Gaza’s health system ‘at breaking point’, says WHO
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Gaza health ministry says Israeli strikes have killed more than 1,400 Palestinians
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Warning sirens have sounded in northern Israel.
The military said it “launched an interceptor following an aerial identification” and was investigating the cause.
The German foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, will travel to Israel tomorrow.
Updated at 10.36 EDT
Here’s a video of the press conference earlier in Tel Aviv with US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
US will always be there for Israel, says secretary of state – video
Updated at 10.26 EDT
Palestinian president ‘rejects’ civilian killings, hostage taking, on both sides
The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has spoken to the king of Jordan, Abdullah II.
Palestine’s main news network, Wafa, cited Abbas as stressing “the need to move to political action to end the occupation and achieve peace, stressing the rejection of practices related to killing civilians or abusing them on both sides, calling for the release of civilians, prisoners and detainees, and stressing the need to stop settler terrorism against our people in Palestinian cities, villages and camps in the West Bank”.
Updated at 10.18 EDT
Two Palestinian rights groups have released a statement accusing Israel of killing 24-year-old Attiya Fathi Al-Nabaheen, along with 12 members of his family, in a “targeted airstrike”.
Adalah, a Palestinian-run human rights group focusing on legal issues, and the Gaza-based Al Mezan Center for Human Rights said they were previously pursuing a lengthy legal battle on his behalf against the Israeli state for shooting him in 2014 – an incident that left him paralysed from the neck down.
“At approximately 11.30 a.m on Sunday, 8 October 2023, Israeli warplanes targeted–without prior warning – the four-storey house of the Al-Nabaheen family, situated to the east of the Al-Bureij refugee camp, in Gaza’s Middle Area District,” the statement said.
“The attack also resulted in the complete destruction of the Al-Nabaheen family’s house. According to Tamir Al-Nabaheen, Attiya’s brother, who survived the targeted airstrike, the attack occurred while his children were playing with their cousins at the building’s entrance. Tragically, Tamir’s three children, as well as their cousins, were killed in the attack.”
The statement added: “Attiya Fathi Al-Nabaheen was the victim of two grave war crimes perpetrated by Israeli forces.”
Updated at 10.01 EDT
Gaza health ministry says 447 children and 248 women killed in Israeli strikes
We reported earlier that the Gaza health ministry said 1,400 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli strikes since Saturday. The ministry has now provided more details:
447 children and 248 women are among the 1,417 killed by Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip, it said.
Updated at 09.58 EDT
The international non-profit, Reporters Without Borders, has said Israeli strikes have killed three journalists so far, and two others died as a result of gunshot wounds. The group did not say who shot the two.
Eleven workers with the UN Palestinian refugee agency have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, the organisation has said.
Updated at 09.49 EDT
Gaza health ministry says Israeli strikes have killed more than 1,400 Palestinians
The health ministry in Gaza just released the updated toll from the Israeli airstrikes that began on Saturday after the Hamas attack.
It said the Israeli bombings had killed 1,417 Palestinians and wounded 6,238 since Saturday.
Updated at 09.26 EDT
Diplomats in Brussels have said that defence ministers at today’s Nato meeting were left stunned after the Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, showed them “shocking” and “horrific” video from the Hamas attack on Israeli civilians.
Reuters reports that Gallant, who remotely attended the one-hour Nato session about Israel, briefed ministers on the attack and showed them an “uncensored video of Hamas atrocities”.
“It was horrific. It brought home to everyone the reality of what happened,” one western diplomat said.
Another source spoke of “graphic and shocking footage” and described Nato allies as united in their support for Israel.
The video had “graphic elements” with “some blurring to protect the dignity of victims”, an official in the room said.
My colleague Lili Bayer is live blogging the details of the Nato meeting here.
Updated at 09.01 EDT
Iran’s foreign minister accused Israel of seeking “genocide” by enforcing a siege against Gaza, according to Iranian state TV, before a visit to Iraq’s capital on Thursday.
“Today, the continuation of war crimes by Netanyahu and Zionists against the civilians of Gaza, besieging, cutting off water and electricity, and denying entry of medicine and food, has created conditions where the Zionists are seeking a genocide of all people in Gaza,” Reuters reports Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said.
“The war we witness today in the Gaza Strip is not just the Zionists’ war against Hamas, it is the Zionists’ war against all Palestinians.”
Updated at 08.32 EDT