Death toll in besieged Palestinian enclave facing non-stop Israeli bombardment rises to over 4,300, with over 13,600 injured as the conflict rages for the 15th day.
Palestinians carry an injured person on a stretcher after an airstrike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, Saturday, October 21, 2023. / Photo: APIsrael is to immediately step up its strikes in Gaza to increase pressure on Hamas, a military spokesman has told a press conference.
He stressed that a permanent solution could not be achieved without the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital, the statement noted.Qatar, a key power in the efforts to release hostages seized by Hamas from Israel, believes they can be released"very soon" thanks to ongoing discussions, a Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman told the German Welt am Sonntag newspaper Saturday.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, who hosted the summit, again rejected any talk of driving Gaza's 2.3 million Palestinians into the Sinai Peninsula and warned against the “liquidation of the Palestinian cause." Jordan's King Abdullah II called Israel's siege and bombardment of Gaza “a war crime.”
Erdogan stressed that the stance of Western nations had increased human rights violations in Gaza, while underlining that the failure of countries to try to stop Israel would have irreparable consequences.Israel has launched fresh airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese media.
"The UK is clear and has been consistently clear that Israel has the right to self-defence and the right to secure the release of those who are kidnapped on October 7," Cleverly told the Cairo Peace Summit hosted by Egypt. It said the incursion was in retaliation for the storming of the Al Aqsa Mosque and growing violence by Israeli settlers.The Israel-Palestine conflict requires a new guarantee mechanism, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said.
"We appeal to the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to go south,” the spokesman said, adding that the “humanitarian aid will go in there and we will continue to intensify the strikes on the northern Gaza Strip.” More than 4,300 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's counteroffensive, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, amid a growing humanitarian crisis.Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has told a Cairo Peace Summit that a peace process over the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians should resume on the basis of a two-state solution.
The accumulation of bodies in the courtyards, rooms and refrigerators of hospitals prompted residents of the besieged enclave to dig mass graves in the gardens of their homes, according to an Anadolu correspondent.The number of people killed in Gaza since October 7 is 84 percent higher than the total number of Palestinians killed in the 50-day conflict in 2014, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on Friday.
According to a ministry statement, 12 of the injured people are in critical condition, 285 are in serious condition, 775 are in moderate condition, and the rest sustained minor injuries.The first convoy carrying aid into the besieged Gaza"must not be the last", the UN humanitarian chief said as trucks loaded with supplies entered the war-torn enclave.
In a statement, Salama Maarouf, the head of the office, said:"With the start of the entry through the Rafah crossing of the first limited convoy of basic needs, we are waiting for UNRWA - as the receiving party - to carry out its duty of delivering aid to those in need in various areas in Gaza."UN chief Antonio Guterres has urged a"humanitarian ceasefire" in the Israeli war on Gaza and called for global"action to end this godawful nightmare".
Many in Gaza, reduced to eating one meal a day and without enough water to drink, are waiting desperately for aid. The meeting in Egypt’s New Administrative Capital, just east of Cairo, will discuss ways to de-escalate the fighting and seek a ceasefire amid mounting concerns about a regional conflict, Egypt's state-run media reported.Also attending are the prime ministers of Italy, Spain, Greece and Canada and the president of the European Council, according to the state-run Al-Ahram daily newspaper. Foreign ministers from Germany, France, the UK and Japan are also attending, the paper reported.
RSF said the Israeli government is close to imposing a complete media blackout in Gaza in addition to the long-standing and recently intensified blockade, which is already affecting local journalists and their families. Trucks carrying relief the United Nations calls a"lifeline" are still stuck on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing into Gaza, though Biden said movement could begin in the"next 24 to 48 hours".A Palestinian minor was killed by Israeli army fire in the West Bank city of Jericho when Israeli forces raided the Aqabat Jaber and Ein as-Sulṭan refugee camps, according to witnesses.
Warplanes struck several areas in Rafah in southern Gaza, leaving at least seven people dead, said WAFA, citing sources.Fresh Israeli air strikes in the blockaded Gaza have killed at least 15 Palestinians, according to Gaza's Interior Ministry. Photo: AP Four children and a woman were killed in a separate strike on a house east of Rafah in southern Gaza, it said.The father of freed American teen Natalie Raanan has said she's doing well after her release by Hamas."She's doing good. She's doing very good," said Uri Raanan, who lives in the Chicago suburbs."I'm in tears, and I feel very, very good."
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