Watch it : Israel-Hamas war live news: Israeli attacks kill over 10,000 people in Gaza

6- Nov-2023- Aljazeera

Israel-Hamas war live news: Global aid agencies demand Gaza ceasefire

• As heavy bombardment continues across Gaza, 18 UN and other humanitarian organisations issue statement calling for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire”.
• At least 9,922 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza and the occupied West Bank since October 7. More than 1,400 people were killed in Hamas’s attack on Israel.
• The party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemns Israel’s “barbaric war of extermination”.
• The UN says 88 UNRWA staff killed in Gaza, the “highest number” of “UN fatalities ever recorded in a single conflict”.
• Jordan says its air force parachuted urgent medical aid to the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza.

Killing of 10,000 Palestinians ‘a shocking milestone’

“Today marks a shocking milestone in Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza as we learn that 10,000 Palestinians have now been killed,” the UK-based organisation Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has said in a statement.

The grim toll was a result of Israel’s indiscriminate bombardment of civilian homes, hospitals, refugee camps, and schools, it added.

“Most of the dead are women and children. Israel’s bombardment of civilian areas in Gaza demands an immediate response from the international community, who must uphold international law. The cost of inaction is measured in lives, and we cannot allow this carnage to continue,” said Me壯陽藥 lanie Ward, MAP’s CEO.

Fikr Shalltoot, the organisation’s Gaza director, said Palestinians are terrified of what will come next if a ceasefire is not achieved soon.

“How many more deaths will it take for this assault to be brought to an end – 50,000, 100,000?” Shalltoot asked. “As we witness our homes, hospitals and schools turned to rubble, we are crying out for a shred of humanity from world leaders.

Explained: Gaza’s hospitals under threat

Gaza’s crowded hospitals, many already on the brink of collapse, are increasingly being circled in by Israeli fighter jets.

The latest strike earlier today damaged the solar panel roof of al-Shifa Hospital, the main medical facility in the besieged territory.

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera’s Explainers team have put together a comprehensive piece breaking down what’s happening to Gaza’s medical facilities – and to what extent they are protected by international law.

Access to bread in southern Gaza Strip is challenging: WFP

The only operative mill in Gaza remains unable to grind wheat due to a lack of electricity and fuel, the World Food Progamme (WFP) says.

When bread is available, people queue for long hours in bakeries, where they are exposed to air attacks.

At least 11 bakeries have been hit and destroyed since 7 October, according to the WFP.

Only one of the bakeries contracted by the UN’s food agency, along with eight other bakeries in the southern and central areas, intermittently provides bread to shelters, depending on the availability of flour and fuel.

Israel shells Shifa hospital solar panel system: Report

Israel’s military targeted the solar panel system of a building in Al Shifa Hospital complex in Gaza, media reports say.

Multiple solar panels on the roofs of standing buildings, particularly in Gaza City, have been destroyed in the past few days during Israeli bombardments.

Affected facilities include Nasser hospital, several water wells, and bakeries.

Affected facilities include Nasser hospital, several water wells, and bakeries.

This has eliminated one of the remaining sources of energy, which is not dependent on fuel.

Water shortages raise concerns of dehydration and related diseases: UN

Hundreds of thousands of residents in Gaza city and the North Gaza governorate are facing severe water shortages, as municipal-run wells are unable to pump water due to a lack of fuel, the UN agency OCHA says.

This has raised concerns dehydration and waterborne diseases due to water consumption from unsafe sources, the agency said, adding:

• In the south, all municipal wells have stopped operating since 2 November, due to the lack of fuel. Additionally, one of the two desalination plants in the area shut down.
• Six of the trucks that entered on 4 November from Egypt carried a total of 198 cubic metres of bottled water. They were distributed during the day at IDP shelters in the south of Gaza, meeting the drinking needs of about 66,000 IDPs for one day.
• On 4 and 5 November, seven water facilities across the Gaza Strip were directly hit and sustained major damage, including three sewage pipelines in Gaza city, two water reservoirs (in Gaza City, Rafah and Jabalia refugee camp) and two water wells in Rafah. The Gaza municipality warned about the imminent risk of sewage flooding.
  A child stands next to containers, as Palestinians collect water, amid a lack of clean and drinking water in Rafah, on Sunday [Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

More on the Health Ministry’s press conference in Gaza

A spokesperson for the Health Ministry in Gaza has just held a news conference. Here is what he said:

• The Palestinian death toll from the ongoing war with Israel has reached 10,022 people, including 4,104 children and 2,641 women.
• The number of those wounded since October 7 has risen to 25,408.
• Al-Rantisi Hospital was targeted twice by Israeli air attacks. The Cancer Center and the Specialised Children Center were also targeted. Four people were killed and 70 were injured, some of them children, staff and refugees. The Israeli attacks destroyed the solar panels and the water tanks in al-Rantisi Hospital.
• Targeting essential supplies threatens everyone’s lives at the hospital.
• Israel conducted 18 attacks in the past hours, killing 252 people.
• 192 medical staff were killed and 32 ambulances destroyed since October 7, while 16 hospitals are now out of service.
• The targeting of bakeries is adding to the food crisis.
• Israel is taking the international community’s silence as a green light to continue its massacres.
  Palestinians mourn relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in front of the morgue in Deir al Balah, Monday [Hatem Moussa/AP

EU’s Borrell suggests humanitarian pause

EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has suggested a plan under which Israel could suspend its military operation in Gaza in return for the Red Cross getting access to captives held by Hamas.

“I think that a humanitarian pause counterbalanced by an access to hostages with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as a first step to their release is an initiative in which we should work,” Borrell told EU diplomats in Brussels.

“Call it a truce, window, whatever, but we need that violence recedes and that international humanitarian law is being respected.”

While there have been widespread calls for a ceasefire, Netanyahu has ruled out this option until all captives are released.

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