Israel-Hamas war live: Gaza power plant goes out of service

11- October-2023- Aljazeera

• Officials in Gaza say the enclave faces humanitarian catastrophe with the power plant shutting down completely due to the depletion of fuel.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Benny Gantz agree to form emergency unity government and war cabinet after Hamas’s surprise attack.

Israeli forces continue pounding the Gaza Strip for a fifth day, killing at least 1,055 Palestinians. The death toll in Israel has climbed to 1,200 people.

Hamas has continued to fire rockets at Israel, with Israeli forces and Lebanon-based Hezbollah fighters also exchanging fire Israel’s military has also said that shells launched from Syria landed in open areas within Israel.

100 newborns, 1,100 dialysis patients face looming power outages in Gaza: Doctor

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Hassan Khalaf, the medical director of Al-Wafa Hospital in Gaza City, said hospitals in the besieged enclave are relying on generators, which are not equipped to power many medical devices.

He predicted the generators have only “maximum: a few days”, and may be as short as a day or two, amid dwindling fuel supplies resulting from the “complete siege” announced by Israeli Defence Minister Gallant.

Khalaf said there are currently 100 newborn babies relying on medical equipment currently in Gaza.

“These newborns, they could not survive … because they depend in every aspect of life on electricity and equipment,” he said. “They are very tiny. They are very weak”

The doctor also said there were about 1,100 patients who rely on dialysis machines for survival in Gaza, saying the Israeli siege amounts to “mass killing”.

Gaza situation ‘the most dangerous’ of my life: Longtime aid worker

“The situation is exceptional and horrible on the ground,” Ziad Shehadah, general manager of Humanitarian Care Malaysia, tells Al Jazeera as humanitarian workers try to deliver aid in Gaza.

“We are trying to provide them [displaced Palestinians] with food packs, pillows, blankets and so on, but we are facing two problems. First, most of the supplies are stored near the border, so it’s unreachable. The second point is that most of the products are about to finish,” Shehadah said.

He explained that as electricity is cut off in Gaza, the aid group is finding it challenging to communicate with its staff members and their families.

“It is the most dangerous situation I have ever seen in my life,” added Shehadah, who was worked for decades as a humanitarian worker across the region. “This is the [most] terrible war ever.”

Eleven UN staff, five paramedics killed since Saturday

Eleven workers with the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and five members of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) have been killed in the conflict, the aid groups say.

“We are very saddened to confirm that 11 UNRWA colleagues have been killed since 7 October in the Gaza Strip,” the UN agency said in a statement.

Five worked as teachers at UNRWA schools, one was a gynecologist, one an engineer, one a psychological counselor and three were support staff, it said.

The IFRC said in a separate statement that five of its members – four in Gaza and one in Israel – had been killed.

IFRC said four Palestine Red Crescent paramedics were killed when their ambulances were hit in two incidents on Wednesday.

On Saturday, an ambulance driver for Magen David Adom, Israel’s national emergency service, lost his life while driving an ambulance to treat the injured, the IFRC said.

Three Canadians killed in Israel: Minister

Three Canadians died in Israel over the weekend and three others remain missing, Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly has said.

Speaking at a news conference, Joly said that more than 4,700 Canadian citizens and permanent residents in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank had registered with the government

Egypt discusses plans to provide aid to Gaza under limited ceasefire: Report

Egypt has discussed plans with the United States and other countries to provide humanitarian aid through its border with the Gaza Strip under a limited ceasefire, two Egyptian security sources tell the Reuters news agency.

The aid would pass through the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, the sources said, speaking on the condition of anonymity