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‘Painful concessions’ needed to secure release of Israeli captives in Gaza: Yoav Gallant

‘Painful concessions’ needed to secure release of Israeli captives in Gaza: Yoav Gallant
By Alma Milisic, Alastair McCready, Mersiha Gadzo, Urooba Jamal and Lyndal Rowlands
Published On 6 Nov 2024

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6 Nov 2024 - 23:59
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To read about how people in Gaza are responding to Trump’s win with trepidation, read our article here.

To find out more about what Trump 2.0 means for US foreign policy, read our explainer here.

And you can read more about Israel’s new defence minister, Israel Katz, here.

6 Nov 2024 - 23:45
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Here’s what happened today

We will be closing this live page soon. Here is a recap of the day’s major developments:

  • At least 40 people killed in Israeli strikes around Baalbek in eastern Lebanon.
  • At least 15 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on a house in Gaza’s Beit Lahiya as footage verified by Al Jazeera shows a new wave of displacement of families from parts of the city in the north of the Gaza Strip.
  • Lebanon’s civil defence crew has pulled 30 bodies from the rubble of an apartment building in Barja, after it was destroyed in an Israeli strike yesterday.
  • Netanyahu has spoken with Trump about “the Iranian threat” after praising his “huge victory” in the elections.
  • Egypt has joined a call led by Turkey and backed by dozens of countries, urging the UN to halt arms deliveries to Israel.
6 Nov 2024 - 23:30
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‘Israel will keep invading – with more ease’: Gaza dreads Trump presidency

By Mohamed Solaimane

For the past 13 months, Ahmed Jarad has been living with the dim hope that he might one day return to his home in Beit Lahiya, a village in the north of the Gaza Strip.

But on Wednesday, as Trump declared his triumphant return to the White House, Jarad said his dream of returning to his hometown, currently being pounded by Israel and its stranded population sealed off from the south, has been crushed.

Jarad said he is certain that Israel’s brutality will only worsen once Trump, who enjoyed a close relationship with Netanyahu during his first presidency, is once again sworn in as leader of the world’s strongest superpower.

You can read more here.

Volunteers at a charity kitchen in al-Mawasi, close to Khan Younis in central Gaza, provide food to people who have been displaced by Israel’s war on Gaza [Mohamed Solaimane/Al Jazeera]
6 Nov 2024 - 23:15
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WATCH: Distrust of Trump in Lebanon amid continuing Israeli bombardment

6 Nov 2024 - 23:00
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Photos: Police clash with protesters after fires lit outside Netanyahu’s residence

Israeli Border Police try to keep demonstrators away from a fire next to Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem on Wednesday [Ronen Zvulun/Reuters]
The protest was called after Netanyahu fired Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, who the protesters saw as more likely to bring Israeli captives home from Gaza [Ronen Zvulu/Reuters]
[Ronen Zvulu/Reuters]

6 Nov 2024 - 22:45
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Several Palestinians suffocate after Israeli army fired tear gas in West Bank raid

Wafa news agency is reporting that the Israeli army fired tear gas at Palestinians in al-Khader town, south of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, resulting in several of them suffocating.

The report said that Israeli forces “barged their way into the town, where they deployed in the vicinity of the local mosque and the Tal area, simultaneously while firing barrages of concussion grenades and tear gas canisters towards the villagers, causing a number to suffocate”.

6 Nov 2024 - 22:30
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Israeli forces kill Palestinian man in Jenin

A Palestinian man has been shot and killed by Israeli forces in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.

His death brings the number of Palestinians killed in Jenin in the past 48 hours to seven, and 10 across the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency said.

Palestinian medics carry the body of a Palestinian man killed in an Israeli army attack in Jenin, West Bank on Tuesday [Hisham Abu Shaqra/Anadolu]
6 Nov 2024 - 22:15
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Police seize documents from Netanyahu’s office

Israeli media is reporting that police investigators have seized documents from Netanyahu’s office as part of their investigation into a new security case.

We will bring you more on this as soon as we can.

6 Nov 2024 - 22:00
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Photos: More than 230 patients, carers medically evacuated from Gaza

Some 230 Palestinians, including patients and their caregivers, were evacuated from Gaza on Wednesday [AFP]
The patients will receive treatment in the United Arab Emirates and Romania, the WHO said [Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu]
The WHO said the ‘patients included those with autoimmune diseases, blood diseases, cancer, kidney conditions and trauma injuries’ [Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu]
Israeli authorities who have long restricted medical evacuations said it was the ‘largest number of patients and caregivers who have left’ Gaza, in recent months [Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu]

6 Nov 2024 - 21:45
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Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital a ‘war zone’, warns UNICEF

“The Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza has become a besieged war zone,” UNICEF in the MENA region said in a post on X.

“The last neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) remaining in the north has been damaged in heavy attacks in recent days. In the past year, 4,000 babies have been cut off from lifesaving newborn care because of sustained attacks on the hospitals,” the organisation added.

6 Nov 2024 - 21:30
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Egypt joins Turkey’s call to UN for arms embargo on Israel

Egypt has joined a call led by Turkey and backed by dozens of countries, urging the UN to halt arms deliveries to Israel.

A Foreign Ministry statement on Tuesday said Egypt joined the call as part of “international efforts to pressure Israel to cease its continuous violations of international law and international humanitarian law”.

It also aims to stop “Israeli violations” against Palestinians and protect civilians, the statement read.

Israel’s ambassador to the UN Danny Danon on Monday accused Turkey of “malice,” after Ankara submitted a letter signed by 52 countries calling for a halt in arms deliveries to Israel.

6 Nov 2024 - 21:15
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In Lebanon, the feeling is there won’t be change until Trump takes office

By Zeina Khodr

Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon

Lebanon’s government is renewing its call for a ceasefire and the implementation of United Nations Resolution 1701 to bring an end to Israel’s war.

That would involve a Hezbollah pullback from the southern border areas and the deployment of the Lebanese army. But it is again accusing the Israeli government of rejecting all diplomatic initiatives.

And the feeling in Lebanon is there won’t be any new initiative, at least not until Trump takes office in late January.

During his campaign, Trump promised to end the conflict in the Middle East. But he didn’t say how. There’s concern there that the coming weeks will witness an escalation.

6 Nov 2024 - 21:00
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WHO chief says up to 10,000 children could not be reached for polio vaccination

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said polio vaccination concluded in the north of Gaza where vaccination rates were slightly lower at around 88 percent coverage because up to 10,000 children could not be reached to receive a second dose.

Those children are still “vulnerable to polio”, the WHO chief said, adding that “efforts will continue to reach more children through regular health services”.

6 Nov 2024 - 20:45
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Palestinian man, his son killed in Israeli attack near Nuseirat

A Palestinian man and his young son have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a house north of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, the Wafa news agency reports.

The pair, along with some wounded Palestinians, were transferred to al-Awda Hospital, while search operations continued for missing people under the rubble.

Injured Palestinians are brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital after Israeli attacks on the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir el-Balah, Gaza on Wednesday [Ashraf Amra/Anadolu]
6 Nov 2024 - 20:30
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UNGA president says Israel’s UNRWA ban ‘intolerable affront’

Philemon Yang, the president of the UN General Assembly, has expressed “deep alarm” at two Israeli laws which “if implemented, would prevent UNRWA from undertaking its essential work”.

“This decision constitutes an intolerable affront to the authority of the General Assembly, to international law and, most importantly, to the human dignity of innocent Palestinian civilians,” said Yang, who is also the former prime minister of Cameroon, at a meeting he called after Israel’s parliament passed two bills banning UNRWA last week.

UNRWA was created by the UN General Assembly on December 8, 1949, to provide basic support including food, healthcare and education to tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees.

6 Nov 2024 - 20:20
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Developing

Hezbollah says it targeted military base south of Tel Aviv

Hezbollah has said that it targeted a military base south of Tel Aviv with a swarm of drones “for the first time”.

Fighters launched a “squadron of attack drones at the Bilu base south of Tel Aviv, for the first time,” the group said in a statement.

6 Nov 2024 - 20:10
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If you’re just joining us

Here’s what you need to know:

  • About 40 Israeli strikes have killed at least 38 people around Lebanon’s Baalbek, regional governor Bachir Khodr said.
  • At least five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike on a group of civilians in the Tal al-Zaatar area in the northern Gaza Strip.
  • Israel’s emergency medical service said the body of a foreign worker “severe injuries from shrapnel” was found in a field in northern Israel.
  • Lebanon’s civil defence crew has pulled 30 bodies from the rubble of an apartment building in Barja, after it was destroyed in an Israeli strike yesterday.
  • Netanyahu and Trump had a “warm and cordial” call where they discussed “the Iranian threat” and the need to work together for Israel’s security.
6 Nov 2024 - 20:00
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Israelis protest outside Netanyahu’s Jerusalem residence

Israelis have protested in Jerusalem outside Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Jerusalem residence demanding a deal to get the captives released and fearing that the sacking of Defence Minister Gallant would bring in further delay to such an agreement.

“We just got another obstacle, the sacking of Gallant,” said Yehuda Cohen, father of one of the captives held in Gaza.

Citing a crisis of trust regarding the management of Israel’s ongoing military operations, Netanyahu replaced Gallant with Israel Katz, previously the foreign minister while Gideon Saar became foreign minister.

Gallant and Netanyahu, both in the right-wing Likud party, have clashed for months over the objectives of Israel’s 13-month-old war in Gaza.

Israeli protesters march towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Jerusalem residence after he sacked his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, in Jerusalem, November 6, 2024 [Ronen Zvulun/Reuters]
6 Nov 2024 - 19:50
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Photos: Search beneath the rubble as dozens buried in Lebanon’s Barja

Rescue workers said on Wednesday that they have pulled 30 bodies from the rubble of an apartment building in Barja, Lebanon [Hassan Ammar/AP Photo]
The building was hit by an Israeli strike without warning on Tuesday night [Hassan Ammar/AP Photo]
A resident returns to collect some of his family’s belongings [Hassan Ammar/AP Photo]
[Hassan Ammar/AP Photo]

6 Nov 2024 - 19:40
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Palestinians ‘starving while the world watches’

UN humanitarian chief Joyce Msuya has warned that Palestinian civilians in Gaza are “starving while the world watches on”.

“For the past month, North Gaza has been under a near-total brutal siege,” Msuya said in a social media post.

“Israeli military operations have left Palestinians without the essentials to survive,” she said, adding “these atrocities must stop.”