Israel-Gaza latest: Israel releases images of troops inside Gaza - as UN issues 'life or death' warningSKY News 10/31/2023
The Israeli military says its troops were attacked by anti-tank missiles and machine gun fire in Gaza overnight. Last night Benjamin Netanyahu, the country's prime minister, ruled out a ceasefire.Key points• Israeli troops attacked with 'anti-tank missiles and machine guns' -as they release footage claiming to show ground operation
• Urgent ceasefire 'matter of life and death for millions' - UN View post|Public health catastrophe 'imminent'
• Deborah Haynes:What's going on two miles from the Gaza border?
• Stuart Ramsay:Nowhere to hide as Gaza 'cut in half'
• They made me feel insignificant': British teacher trapped in Gaza sent sad face emoji by Foreign Office official
• The war explained:Why is there concern about wider regional war? |What is collective punishment? |What does Hamas ultimately want?
• Updates from Cordelia Lynchin Jerusalem,Stuart RamsayandDeborah Haynesin southern Israel, andAlex Rossiin Beirut
• Live reporting by Jess Sharp
Eyewitness: Situation at Gaza hospital getting 'worse and worse' as injured people transferred in donkey cartsThe situation at a hospital in Gaza is getting "worse and worse" as supplies run low, Israeli bombings continue and people are forced to use donkey carts to transport the injured.
That's what our producer in the region has told us today.
Here's their full report on the situation:
"In the north of Gaza and Gaza City, they continued bombing during the night in different areas, especially in the west side of Gaza City and the beach camp.
"The bombing hit different places in the refugee camp. Many people were killed and injured there.
"According to the calls that we have had from people there in Gaza, the situation in Shifa hospital is getting worse and worse.
"There is limited water and food there, people are starting to starve.
"They couldn't even move because of the heavy bombing around the hospitals, especially al-Quds hospital in Tel al-Hawa. They are attacking buildings without any warning, whether there are people inside or not.
"The same is happening in other places like in the middle area of the Gaza Strip and in the south. We continue to hear the sound of the clashes during the night and the sound of the bombing.
"The other issue is the shortage of fuel in Gaza. People have started using donkey carts to take the injured people to the hospital or the dead bodies to the graveyard.
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Ceasefire could leave Hamas 'emboldened' and it would start 'preparing for future violence immediately', says StarmerBack in the UK, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is delivering a statement on the conflict.
He says the 7 October attack was the "biggest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust" and "terrorism on a scale of brutality that few countries have ever experienced".
Talking about Gaza, he says the region is suffering from a humanitarian catastrophe on an "unimaginable scale", with thousands of Palestinians "reduced to drinking contaminated filth".
But he says a ceasefire could leave Hamas feeling "emboldened" to attack again and they would start "preparing for future violence immediately".
"A ceasefire always freezes any conflict in the state where it currently lies. And as we speak, that would leave Hamas with the infrastructure and the capabilities to carry out the sort of attack we saw on October 7," he adds.
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Israeli officials row back on refusal to grant visas to UN officialsIsraeli officials are rowing back on their promise not to grant entry visas to UN representatives.
Last week, the country's UN ambassador Gilad Erdan said Israel would "refuse to grant visas" to officials after the group's Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the Hamas attack "did not happen in a vacuum".
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Israeli troops destroy house of exiled Hamas commanderIsraeli troops have destroyed the family home of an exiled Hamas commander in the occupied West Bank.
The property belonged to Saleh al-Arouri, who is currently believed to be living in southern Lebanon.
He is the deputy to Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and is among a group of leaders singled out by Israeli officials.
He spent 17 years in Israeli jails after rising to prominence in 2014 by admitting to the abduction and killing of three Israeli teenagers from a West Bank settlement.
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Eyewitness: Flares, tanks and a warplane - what's going on two miles from the Gaza border?On day four of Israel's expanded ground operation, gun battles could be heard as Israeli troops pushed behind Hamas lines.
A network of tunnels underneath the Palestinian enclave raise the threat of Hamas fighters being able to emerge behind the invading forces and attack them.
It is not possible independently to see how Israel's ground offensive is unfolding.
Instead, the Israeli military posts regular footage and updates of what it says is happening, describing battles with Hamas fighters, killing an unstated number and also destroying anti-tank missile and rocket launch posts.
Another target is the web of underground tunnels, used by Hamas to conduct operations.
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