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The bodies of 854 citizens had been collected and arrived at an identification point. 361 have been identified and 264 civilians buried.
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White House walks back Biden’s claim he saw children beheaded by Hamas
The White House has walked back President Joe Biden’s claim that he saw pictures of beheaded children following Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel.
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'The last thing we know about them is that they were trying to flee the party, but we don't know anything after that, no one has seen them, heard from them' Eva Chiell, the grandmother of two people missing, tells
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'this is even worse than the horror the Nazis did'
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It said the Israeli bombings have killed 1,417 Palestinians and wounded 6,238 since Saturday.
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Gaza health ministry says Israeli strikes have killed more than 1,400 Palestinians
The ministry just released the updated toll of the Israeli airstrikes, that began on Saturday after the Hamas attack.It said the Israeli bombings have killed 1,417 Palestinians and wounded 6,238 since Saturday.
Palestinian death toll passes 1,500 – as it happened
UN spokesperson says such a movement would have ‘devastating humanitarian consequences’ as Israel prepares for a ground offensive; Palestinian death toll rises to 1,537, according to Gaza’s health ministry
Israel attacks Damascus and Aleppo airports - Syria state media
State media in Syria says Israel has targeted airports in its capital Damascus and the city of Aleppo.State news agency Sana reported that "bursts of missiles" had led to damage to the airports’ landing strips and had put them out of service.
Local media also say that Syrian air defences were launched in response to the attacks.
The UK-based war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported several explosions in Aleppo.
The BBC has not been able to independently confirm the reported attacks.
The reported airstrikes come a day before the Iranian foreign minister was expected to visit Syria.
Both countries are avowed enemies of Israel, and Iran has long backed Hamas.
Israel frequently bombs targets in Syria linked to Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, but rarely acknowledges the strikes.
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Is Israeli bombing of Gaza a violation of international laws?
Activists are raising concerns about Israel’s indiscriminate bombing of Gaza that killed 1,100 Palestinians.
Gaza death toll surpasses 1,400 - health ministry
The death toll in Gaza following air strikes by Israeli forces has risen to 1,417, according to an update from the health ministry in the Palestinian territory.The total number of people injured is now 6,268.
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Live update: Iran’s Khamenei tweets in Hebrew: Zionists, you brought this calamity upon yourselves
'We hope for a ceasefire so we can go out to buy food and drink'
Yolande KnellBBC Middle East correspondent, Jerusalem
Getting in touch with contacts in the Gaza Strip is becoming much harder. Mobile phone and internet service is poor and without electricity, people are often relying on private generators with their fuel running out.
A resident of Beach refugee camp managed to post a video of the aftermath of an Israeli strike this morning, which local health officials say killed 15 people from two families.
“A huge strike hit one of the most crowded refugee camps without any warning. It’s literally a massacre,” wrote Almeqdad Jameel. His footage shows rescuers struggling to carry out a body through the rubble.
I spoke briefly to a Christian schoolteacher I know, who told me her neighbourhood in Gaza City felt safer today as “the shelling isn’t as close”. She is trying to stay optimistic - “We just hope for a ceasefire so we can go out and get food and drinks.”
For a time, Palestinian writer Abdulhadi Alijla – who comes from Gaza but lives overseas – was unable to reach loved ones back home. “Every day, I find myself grappling with the terrifying possibility that my family might be obliterated at any moment,” he wrote on Facebook.
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IDF: Focused on taking out Hamas leadership, terrorists still trying to infiltrate by sea route
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Awad Darawshe was a Muslim paramedic who was near the site of the music festival massacre. His friends begged him to leave but he insisted on staying to treat the wounded. He was murdered by Hamas and his ambulance was stolen and driven into the Gaza Strip. A hero. May his memory be a blessing.
Children among 17 Britons dead or missing in Israel
Seventeen British nationals, including children, are dead or missing after the Hamas attack on Israel, an official UK source has told the BBC.
It is an increase on the previous estimate of "more than 10".
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Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has travelled to Israel, with the Foreign Office saying the visit was to meet survivors and outline UK support.
A Foreign Office spokesperson said Mr Cleverly was in Israel "to demonstrate the UK's unwavering solidarity with the Israeli people following Hamas' terrorist attacks".
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Children among 17 Britons dead or missing in Israel
The death toll in Israel from Saturday's attack by Hamas is now more than 1,200.
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Scholz pledges ‘zero tolerance’ as antisemitic incidents rise in Europe
Attacks on Jewish communities and protests glorifying terrorism spread in wake of Israel-Hamas warOfficials across Europe are scrambling to curtail any spillover of tensions from the Israel-Hamas war, with Germany pledging a “zero tolerance” approach to antisemitism and France arresting 24 people following a spate of more than 100 incidents targeting Jewish people.
The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, told parliament on Thursday that, while thousands of people had rallied in support of Israel, the country had also seen “disgraceful images on our streets in which the most brutal acts of terror have been celebrated in broad daylight”.
The remarks came after demonstrations in Berlin and Duisburg in which sweets and cakes were handed out to participants as some danced and cheered in apparent joy at the atrocities carried out in Israel.
Scholz announced a ban in Germany on all activity lauding Hamas crimes in Israel, including the use of their symbols, or expressions of praise for murder and manslaughter, and the burning of the Israeli flag. Anyone found to be doing so would be prosecuted, he said. The ban includes the Palestinian network Samidoun.
In announcing the measures, Scholz pointed to Germany’s particular responsibility towards Israel owing to its previous role as the perpetrator of the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews were murdered.
“Our law governing associations is a sharp sword. And we, as a strong constitutional state, will draw this sword,” said Scholz. There will be “zero tolerance for antisemitism,” he added.
Scholz’s remarks came as France – home to large Jewish and Muslim populations – said the president, Emmanuel Macron, would give a TV address on Thursday evening to call for unity as the country reels from a rise in antisemitic attacks.
In recent days, two dozen people have been arrested over antisemitic acts, said the country’s interior minister, Gérald Darmanin.
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The Jerusalem Post can now confirm based on verified photos of the bodies that the reports of babies being burnt and decapitated in Hamas's assault on Kfar Aza are correct. May their memory be a blessing.
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 air strikes on the Gaza Strip, the organisation has said.
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Eleven workers with the UN Palestinian refugee agency have been killed in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, the organisation has said.
Israel-Hamas war live: Israeli military has told 1.1 million in Gaza to move further south in next 24 hours, UN says
UN spokesperson says such a movement would have ‘devastating humanitarian consequences’ as Israel prepares for a ground offensive; Palestinian death toll rises to 1,537, according to Gaza’s health ministry
UK government fills seats on first arranged flight from Israel
Nick BeakeReporting from Tel Aviv
A British official at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport tells me all seats for the first UK government-arranged flight out of Israel have now been allocated.
Those travelling have already been sent a text message.
The official said he was unaware when the flight would leave later today. He said it would be a chartered flight, rather than commercial or military.
BA and Virgin flights to and from the airport are currently suspended. El Al - the Israeli carrier - continues to operate flights to the UK.
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Blinken tells a personal story as a Jew. He tells of his grandfather fleeing pogroms in Russia, and of his stepfather surviving concentration camps in the Holocaust.
“I understand on a personal level the harrowing echoes that Hamas’s massacres carry for Israeli Jews, indeed for Jews everywhere,” he says.
“I also come before you as a husband and father of young children. It’s impossible for me to look at the photos of families killed, such as the mother, father, and three small children murdered as they sheltered in their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz, and not think of my own children,” he says.
“This was just one of Hamas’s countless acts of terror in a litany of brutality and inhumanity that, yes, brings to mind the worst of ISIS,” Blinken says. “Babies slaughtered, bodies desecrated, young people burned alive, women raped, parents executed in front of their children, children in front of their parents.
“How are we even to understand this, to digest this?
“And yet, at the same time that we’ve been shocked by the depravity of Hamas, we’ve also been inspired by the bravery of Israel’s citizens. The grandfather who drove over an hour to a kibbutz under siege armed only with a pistol and rescued his kids and grandkids,” he says. “The mother who died shielding her teenage son with her body, giving her life to save his. Giving him life for a second time. The volunteer security teams on the kibbutzes who swiftly rallied to defend their friends and neighbors despite being heavily outnumbered.”
He also notes the “remarkable solidarity” of the Israeli people, the long lines of people giving blood, the reservists who flew home from abroad, the people who opened their homes to fellow citizens displaced from the south.
“The people of Israel have long and rightly prided themselves on their self-reliance, on their ability to defend themselves even when the odds are stacked against them,” Blinken continues.
‘The message that I bring to Israel is this — you may be strong enough on your own to defend yourself, but as long as America exists, you will never, ever have to. We will always be there by your side,” he says. “That’s the message that President Biden delivered to the prime minister from the moment that this crisis began.”
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Blinken: For as long as America exists, Israel will never have to defend itself alone
Speaking after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he is “incredibly grateful” to be back in Israel, “in this incredibly difficult moment, for this nation, but in fact for the entire world.”Blinken tells a personal story as a Jew. He tells of his grandfather fleeing pogroms in Russia, and of his stepfather surviving concentration camps in the Holocaust.
“I understand on a personal level the harrowing echoes that Hamas’s massacres carry for Israeli Jews, indeed for Jews everywhere,” he says.
“I also come before you as a husband and father of young children. It’s impossible for me to look at the photos of families killed, such as the mother, father, and three small children murdered as they sheltered in their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz, and not think of my own children,” he says.
“This was just one of Hamas’s countless acts of terror in a litany of brutality and inhumanity that, yes, brings to mind the worst of ISIS,” Blinken says. “Babies slaughtered, bodies desecrated, young people burned alive, women raped, parents executed in front of their children, children in front of their parents.
“How are we even to understand this, to digest this?
“And yet, at the same time that we’ve been shocked by the depravity of Hamas, we’ve also been inspired by the bravery of Israel’s citizens. The grandfather who drove over an hour to a kibbutz under siege armed only with a pistol and rescued his kids and grandkids,” he says. “The mother who died shielding her teenage son with her body, giving her life to save his. Giving him life for a second time. The volunteer security teams on the kibbutzes who swiftly rallied to defend their friends and neighbors despite being heavily outnumbered.”
He also notes the “remarkable solidarity” of the Israeli people, the long lines of people giving blood, the reservists who flew home from abroad, the people who opened their homes to fellow citizens displaced from the south.
“The people of Israel have long and rightly prided themselves on their self-reliance, on their ability to defend themselves even when the odds are stacked against them,” Blinken continues.
‘The message that I bring to Israel is this — you may be strong enough on your own to defend yourself, but as long as America exists, you will never, ever have to. We will always be there by your side,” he says. “That’s the message that President Biden delivered to the prime minister from the moment that this crisis began.”
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Israelis still considering military options amid humanitarian response
Dan Johnson
Reporting from Tel Aviv
The pavement outside Tel Aviv's expo centre is covered with boxes being furiously filled and sealed by volunteers.
Donated clothes and shoes are being wrapped and dispatched to support families evacuated from their homes in Israel's south.
Israel's humanitarian response has been instinctive and unified. PM Benjamin Netanyahu is invoking national unity as the head of an emergency wartime government.
But Israelis are still considering the best military option, as the build-up of troops continues close to Gaza.
A young woman named Lyle says: "I wouldn't feel good that our army is going in there because probably there will be losses, but Hamas should be eliminated - period."
Nir Hazot proudly introduces himself as an Israeli patriot who supports an invasion.
"We want the leaders of Hamas, only the leaders. They need to suffer, they need to be in court. It's got to be specific, come with intelligence and get the leaders," he says.
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“The IDF is responsible for the security of the country and its citizens, and on Saturday morning in the area surrounding the Gaza Strip, we did not handle it. We will learn, we will investigate, but now is the time for war,” Halevi says from southern Israel.
He also says Israel will do everything it can to return the hostages taken by Hamas and other groups.
“We are five days after a murderous, brutal and surprising incident. The slaughter by the murderous Hamas terrorists, the human animals, of our children, our wives and our people, is animalistic, it is inhumane. The IDF is fighting merciless terrorists who have committed unimaginable acts.
“Yahya Sinwar, the ruler of the Gaza Strip, decided on this horrible attack, and therefore he and the entire system under him are dead men. We will attack them, we will dismantle them, dismantle their system,” he says.
Halevi says a time will come to investigate how Hamas managed to carry out the attack.
On the estimated 200 Israelis and foreigners held captive by the terror group in the Gaza Strip, Halevi says: “We will do everything to return the hostages back home.”
“We are killing many terrorists, many commanders, destroying terror infrastructure that supported this terrible, brutal crime,” Halevi continues.
“Gaza will not look the same,” he adds.
IDF chief Halevi admits military failed to prevent Hamas attack, vows to investigate
In his first public statement since the war between Israel and Palestinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip began, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi acknowledges failures that enabled Hamas’s infiltration and mass murders on Saturday.“The IDF is responsible for the security of the country and its citizens, and on Saturday morning in the area surrounding the Gaza Strip, we did not handle it. We will learn, we will investigate, but now is the time for war,” Halevi says from southern Israel.
He also says Israel will do everything it can to return the hostages taken by Hamas and other groups.
“We are five days after a murderous, brutal and surprising incident. The slaughter by the murderous Hamas terrorists, the human animals, of our children, our wives and our people, is animalistic, it is inhumane. The IDF is fighting merciless terrorists who have committed unimaginable acts.
“Yahya Sinwar, the ruler of the Gaza Strip, decided on this horrible attack, and therefore he and the entire system under him are dead men. We will attack them, we will dismantle them, dismantle their system,” he says.
Halevi says a time will come to investigate how Hamas managed to carry out the attack.
On the estimated 200 Israelis and foreigners held captive by the terror group in the Gaza Strip, Halevi says: “We will do everything to return the hostages back home.”
“We are killing many terrorists, many commanders, destroying terror infrastructure that supported this terrible, brutal crime,” Halevi continues.
“Gaza will not look the same,” he adds.
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