Israel Palestine War News Live: Israel has asked Gazans to move south out of harm’s way
Israel-Hamas War News Live:
At least 11 Palestinians were killed today after Israel pounded Gaza with air strikes. Palestinian media reported 11 people were killed in an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis.
The strikes came hours after Israel warned it would “increase” its attacks in Gaza’s north and called on Gazans to move south out of harm’s way.
“For your own safety move southward. We will continue to attack in the area of Gaza City and increase attacks,” Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a briefing to Israeli reporters.
Earlier on Saturday, the first humanitarian aid convoy of 20 trucks to be allowed into the Gaza Strip since war broke out on October 7 arrived through the Rafah border crossing.
Israel started its “total siege” of Gaza after an October 7 cross-border attack on its cities by Hamas members, who killed 1,400 people.
Gaza’s Health Ministry has said that Israel’s air and missile strikes had killed at least 4,385 Palestinians, including hundreds of children.
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Escalating attacks by Hezbollah group risk “dragging Lebanon into a war”, Israel’s military said today.
“Hezbollah is dragging Lebanon into a war that it will gain nothing from, but stands to lose a lot,” the news agency AFP quoted Israel Defense Forces spokesman Jonathan Conricus as saying.
“They’re escalating the situation,” he added.
Canada’s National Department of Defence said on Saturday that Israel was not behind the Al-Ahli hospital strike in Gaza.
“Analysis conducted independently by the Canadian Forces Intelligence Command indicates with a high degree of confidence that Israel did not strike the Al-Ahli hospital on 17 October 2023,” it said in a statement.
The strike was more likely caused by an errant rocket fired from Gaza, the Defence department said based on analysis of open source and classified reporting.
Canada’s findings are similar to conclusions by the US and France.
Amid an ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, the US will send a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system and additional Patriot air defense missile system battalions to the Middle East, the Pentagon said on Saturday.
“Following detailed discussions with President (Joe) Biden on recent escalations by Iran and its proxy forces across the Middle East Region, today I directed a series of additional steps to further strengthen the Department of Defense posture in the region,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement.
“These steps will bolster regional deterrence efforts, increase force protection for U.S. forces in the region, and assist in the defense of Israel,” he added.
The US has sent a significant amount of naval power to the Middle East in recent weeks, including two aircraft carriers, their support ships and about 2,000 Marines.
Israel has amassed tanks and troops for a planned Gaza ground invasion with the objective of “crushing” Hamas.
In a video distributed by the Israeli military on Saturday, Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi told troops, “We are going to go into the Gaza Strip to destroy Hamas operatives and Hamas infrastructure and we will have in our mind the memories of the images and those who fell on Saturday two weeks ago.”
Israeli troops have carried out live fire drills “in preparations for the next stage of war”, footage released by the Israeli Army on Saturday showed.
The US has proposed a draft UN Security Council resolution that says Israel has a right to defend itself, the news agency Reuters reported.
The draft text also calls for the protection of civilians including those who are trying to get to safety.
It was not immediately clear if or when the US planned to put the draft resolution to a vote.
Israel today said it killed “terror operatives” from Hamas and Islamic Jihad in an air strike on a mosque in the West Bank’s Jenin.
The strike hit the Al-Ansar mosque, which the Israeli military said “was used by the terrorists as a command centre to plan the attacks and as a base for their execution”.
The IDF & ISA just conducted an aerial strike on a Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist compound in the Al-Ansar Mosque in Jenin.
Recent IDF intel revealed that the Mosque was used as a command center to plan and execute terrorist attacks against civilians. pic.twitter.com/gQfyv6wUAV
– Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 22, 2023
The Israeli military said those targeted had already carried out “several terror attacks over the last months, and were organising an additional imminent terror attack”.
It said they were “neutralised”, without giving details on the number killed in the strike.
Israel has said it would “increase” its attacks in Gaza’s north and has called on Gazans to move south out of harm’s way.
“For your own safety move southward. We will continue to attack in the area of Gaza City and increase attacks,” Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a briefing to Israeli reporters.
At least 11 Palestinians were killed today after Israel attacked Gaza with air strikes.
Palestinian media reported at least 11 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis.