{"id":38908,"date":"2023-10-19T07:25:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T07:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=38908"},"modified":"2026-07-10T02:43:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:43:18","slug":"latest-development-israel-hamas-conflict-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/10\/19\/latest-development-israel-hamas-conflict-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest development: Israel-Hamas conflict Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Here\u2019s what\u2019s happening in the latest Israel-Hamas war<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AUSTRALIAN LAWMAKER ACCUSES ISRAEL OF \u2018COLLECTIVELY PUNISHING\u2019 PALESTINIANS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CANBERRA, Australia \u2014 Australian government minister Ed Husic has accused Israel of collectively punishing Palestinians in its war on Hamas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Husic told Australian Broadcasting Corp. on Thursday: \u201cI feel very strongly that Palestinians are being collectively punished here for Hamas\u2019 barbarism.\u201d He added: \u201cI really do feel there is an obligation on governments, particularly the Israeli government, to &#8230; follow the rules of international law and to observe in particular that innocents should be protected.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opposition senator Jane Hume accused the Muslim lawmaker of using \u201cloose language\u201d that did not align with the government\u2019s position. Australia\u2019s House of Representatives this week passed a government motion that recognizes Israel\u2019s \u201cinherent right to defend itself\u201d and \u201cunequivocally condemns\u201d the Hamas attacks. The motion also calls for the \u201cprotection of civilian lives and the observance of international law.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AIRSTRIKE KILLS 7 SMALL CHILDREN IN GAZA HOME, RESIDENTS AND DOCTORS SAY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip \u2014 Residents and doctors in this southern Gaza town said an airstrike slammed into a home, killing seven small children.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The news spread quickly on social media, as grisly images of dead and bloodied toddlers lined up side by side on a hospital stretcher stirred outrage in Gaza and the West Bank.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bandaged and caked in dust, the bodies were brought to the Gaza European Hospital in Khan Younis along with three other dead members of the Bakri family. Photographers swarmed the operation room as women covered their eyes and doctors wept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is a massacre,\u201d hospital director Dr. Yousef Al-Akkad said, his voice choking with emotion. \u201cLet the world see, these are just children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local medics also confirmed that the children were killed in a strike and said the Bakri family was just one of many such cases Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LIVERPOOL AND EGYPT STAR SALAH URGES LEADERS TO PREVENT MORE BLOODSHED, GET HUMANITARIAN AID TO GAZA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CAIRO \u2014 Egyptian soccer star Mohamed Salah, arguably the most celebrated Arab footballer, called on world leaders to \u201ccome together to prevent further slaughter of all innocent souls\u201d and for the urgent delivery of humanitarian aid to the people in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere has been too much violence and too much heartbreak and brutality,\u201d the Liverpool striker said in&nbsp;<strong>a video<\/strong>&nbsp;that lasted a little under a minute. \u201cThe escalations in the recent weeks is unbearable to witness. All lives are sacred and must be protected. The massacres need to stop. Families are being torn apart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aid to Gaza \u201cmust be allowed immediately,\u201d he added. \u201cThe people there are in terrible conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They were Salah\u2019s first comments on the Israel-Hamas war, after he was criticized by some Arab fans for his silence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials said Wednesday that some aid will begin flowing into Gaza in the coming days.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US SENATORS SAY AFTER CLASSIFIED BRIEFING THAT ISRAEL NOT BEHIND HOSPITAL BLAST<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Senators who attended a classified briefing with top defense, intelligence and other administration officials said they were briefed that Israel was not responsible for the hospital blast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe intelligence community assesses that Israel is not to blame for the explosion of the hospital in Gaza,\u201d Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said as he left. \u201cThey believe it was an errant rocket from terrorists in Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut said the intelligence is \u201cdefinitive\u201d that it was not an Israeli operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a joint statement earlier, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the top Republican on the panel, said they reviewed intelligence and \u201cfeel confident that the explosion was the result of a failed rocket launch by militant terrorists and not the result of an Israeli airstrike.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UN OFFICIALS WARN OVER GAZA HEALTH SYSTEM, RISK OF CONFLICT EXPANDING<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UNITED NATIONS \u2013 U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council that the deadly destruction of a hospital has heaped further pressure on Gaza\u2019s crumbling health system, depriving the territory of a facility that cared for 45,000 patients every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking in a video briefing from Qatar, Griffiths also said the Al Ahli hospital was previously struck on Oct. 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also said the death toll in the 11 days since Hamas\u2019surprise attack inside Israel has already exceeded what was seen during seven weeks of Israeli-Hamas hostilities in 2014.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile the U.N. Mideast envoy warned that the risk of the conflict expanding is \u201cvery real and extremely dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tor Wennesland told the council that recent events \u201chave served to reignite grievances and re-animate alliances across the region.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier in the day at the U.N., the United States&nbsp;<strong>vetoed a resolution<\/strong>&nbsp;that would have condemned violence against civilians in the Israel-Hamas war and pushed for humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said President Joe Biden was in the region engaging in diplomacy and \u201cWe need to let that diplomacy play out.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BRITISH PM RISHI SUNAK HEADS TO MIDDLE EAST IN BID TO CONTAIN CONFLICT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LONDON \u2014 British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is flying to Israel and nearby countries as part of diplomatic efforts to stop the crisis triggered by Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7 attack from worsening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunak\u2019s office says he will meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog on Thursday. He will condemn Hamas\u2019 \u201chorrific act of terror\u201d and express condolences for the \u201cterrible loss of life\u201d in both Israel and Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He\u2019ll also visit \u201ca number of other regional capitals,\u201d Downing Street said, without providing details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The British leader\u2019s trip follows a visit to Israel on Wednesday by U.S. President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunak said in a statement that Tuesday\u2019s explosion at the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza \u201cshould be a watershed moment for leaders in the region and across the world to come together to avoid further dangerous escalation of conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.K. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly is also on a regional visit beginning with talks in Egypt on Thursday. He will also visit Qatar and Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BIDEN SAYS EGYPT AGREES TO OPEN RAFAH CROSSING FOR GAZA AID<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Joe Biden on Wednesday said Egypt\u2019s president has agreed to open a border crossing into Gaza to allow in 20 trucks with humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Biden said he spoke with Egypt President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi after his visit to Israel, where leaders there agreed to allow the aid in. Biden was speaking to reporters on Air Force One during a refueling stop in Germany on his way back to the U.S. from Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israel sealed off the Gaza Strip, stopping all entry of food, water, medicine and fuel to its 2.3 million people following the Hamas attack on Oct. 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">White House officials said the aid would flow in the coming days. Biden said if Hamas confiscates the aid, \u201cit will end.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier in the day, the United States promised $100 million in humanitarian assistance to help Palestinian people who have been displaced or otherwise affected by conflict in Gaza and the West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SECURITY FORCES ARREST DOZENS, FIRE LIVE ROUNDS TO DISPERSE PROTESTS IN THE OCCUPIED WEST BANK&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JERUSALEM \u2014 Rights groups in the occupied West Bank say Palestinian security forces arrested dozens of Palestinians protesting the deadly explosion at al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The protests late Tuesday devolved into skirmishes with Palestinian security forces, who fired tear gas, stun grenades and live fire to disperse stone-throwing demonstrators, wounding several.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lawyers for Justice, a legal aid group, said Wednesday that some 50 protesters were arrested overnight by Palestinian security forces in Ramallah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Palestinian Red Crescent meanwhile reported that Israeli soldiers using live rounds and rubber bullets shot and wounded 10 Palestinian protesters in the southern city of Hebron and 21 people in the northern city of Nablus. A 24-year-old Palestinian man was killed, according to the organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PROTESTS AROUND THE WORLD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thousands demonstrated outside the consulates of Israel and the United States in Istanbul late Wednesday. Many waved Palestinian flags, shouted anti-Israeli slogans and called for revenge against Israel a day after the deadly explosion at a hospital in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Betul Balcik, a 22-year-old student, told The Associated Press that \u201chumanity is dying\u201d in Gaza and she and friends were there to denounce \u201cwar crimes commited by Israel\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Large protests also erupted in Tunisia and Morocco, with demonstrators outraged by the blast at the hospital in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Protesters gathered outside the Parliament in Rabat chanting \u201cDown with America\u201d and demanding that Morocco reverse its 2020 decision to normalize relations and deepen security ties with Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Tunis, protesters gathered outside the U.S. and French Embassies to condemn those nations\u2019 support of Israel and demand that their ambassadors be removed from Tunisia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The demonstrations were among the largest since the Arab Spring more than a decade ago, observers said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was also a march by an estimated 10,000 pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Athens, Greece, that was quelled by riot police who fired tear gas. Earlier in the day about 100 people took part in a pro-Israeli gathering.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Demonstrators in Amman, Jordan; the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh in south Lebanon; and Tokyo directed some of their criticism at the U.S. and Biden for their support of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NEW YORK GOVERNOR VISITS ISRAEL TO SHOW SOLIDARITY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TEL AVIV, Israel \u2014 New York Gov. Kathy Hochul&nbsp;<strong>arrived in Israel<\/strong>&nbsp;to show support for the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Democrat was met at Ben-Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv by Israel\u2019s ambassador to the U.S., Michael Herzog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a security briefing, Hochul met with families and was scheduled to head to a food pantry to help pack and drop off boxes for people displaced by the conflict. Hochul was expected to stay in Jerusalem overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said her trip is meant as a gesture of solidarity and support. New York is home to the largest Jewish population of any U.S. city, according to the American Jewish Population Project at Brandeis University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is a deep, direct connection between New York state and Israel that has always been there, a bond steeled over decades,\u201d Hochul said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HAMAS REJECTS CLAIMS THAT ISRAEL ISN\u2019T BEHIND HOSPITAL BLAST<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BEIRUT \u2014 Hamas is denying Israel\u2019s claims that another militant group was responsible for the massive explosion at a Gaza City hospital that killed hundreds of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement Wednesday, Hamas said that in the days before Tuesday\u2019s blast at al-Ahli Hospital, Israeli authorities sent threats to several Gaza Strip hospitals and told each to evacuate or they would \u201cbe responsible for what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hamas said Israeli forces have targeted several emergency departments and ambulances since the violence began, adding that Israeli military officials contacted 21 hospitals including Al-Ahli, demanding that they evacuate \u201cimmediately because they are located in area of operations for the Israeli\u201d army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTRALIAN LAWMAKER ACCUSES ISRAEL OF \u2018COLLECTIVELY PUNISHING\u2019 PALESTINIANS CANBERRA, Australia \u2014 Australian government minister Ed Husic has accused Israel of collectively punishing Palestinians in its war on Hamas. Husic told Australian Broadcasting Corp. on Thursday: \u201cI feel very strongly that Palestinians are being collectively punished here for Hamas\u2019 barbarism.\u201d He added: \u201cI really do feel 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