{"id":39420,"date":"2023-10-29T06:48:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T06:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=39420"},"modified":"2023-10-29T06:48:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T06:48:02","slug":"israel-hamas-war-latest-development-day-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/10\/29\/israel-hamas-war-latest-development-day-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel-Hamas war: latest development day 23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The UN security council will meet on Monday<\/strong>following Israel\u2019s expanded ground operations in Gaza, according to diplomats cited in a Reuters update. The United Arab Emirates asked the UN security council on Saturday to meet \u201cas soon as possible\u201d following Israel\u2019s communication blackout across Gaza and its expanded ground operation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Benjamin Netanyahu has told Israel that the military has opened a \u201csecond stage\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;in the war against Hamas by sending ground forces into Gaza and expanding attacks from the ground, air and sea. The Israeli prime minister said the war would be \u201clong and difficult\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Netanyahu also said Israel was \u201cready to make sure that the murderers are going to pay the price for the massacre\u201d, referring to the Hamas attacks of 7 October,&nbsp;<\/strong>and Israel was \u201cgoing to abolish this evil in order to further all humanity\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tens of thousands marched through central London on Saturday\u00a0to demand a ceasefire in Gaza<\/strong>\u00a0with many also expressing fury at the UK government\u2019s refusal to back one. As Israel ratcheted up its offensive, about 100,000 people attended the latest demonstration \u2013 matching the previous Saturday\u2019s record turnout for a pro-Palestinian march in the UK.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza \u201cto prevent more deaths \u2026 and allow desperately needed humanitarian supplies in\u201d.&nbsp;<\/strong>The medical NGO said: \u201cWe have teams on standby ready to send medical supplies and to enter Gaza, as soon as the situation allows it. But if the bombing continues with the current intensity, any effort to increase medical aid will inevitably fall short.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Elon Musk said he would provide the Starlink satellite service to \u201cinternationally recognised aid organizations in Gaza\u201d.&nbsp;<\/strong>Musk made the announcement in response to New York\u2019s Democratic representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s condemnation of Israel\u2019s communications blackout in Gaza.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Israel\u2019s communications minister, Shlomo Karhi, said his office \u201cwill cut any ties with Starlink\u201d following Elon Musk\u2019s announcement. \u201c<\/strong>Perhaps Musk would be willing to condition it with the release of our abducted babies, sons, daughters, elderly people. All of them!\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The UN secretary general, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, met with the Qatari prime minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani to discuss the war between Israel and Hamas.&nbsp;<\/strong>Guterres said he expressed<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cour full gratitude, appreciation and support for Qatar\u2019s tireless mediation initiatives, namely for the release of the hostages kept in Gaza\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hamas said it was trying to locate eight Russian-Israeli dual citizens among the more than 200 hostages captured during its 7 October attacks against Israel.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cAnd when we find them, we will let them go,\u201d senior Hamas representative Moussa Abu Marzook said, according to RIA Novosti, a Russian state-run news service.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hamas\u2019s armed wing has announced it is ready to release hostages captured during the 7 October attacks in return for all Palestinian prisoners of Israel.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cThe price to pay for the large number of enemy hostages in our hands is to empty the [Israeli] prisons of all Palestinian prisoners,\u201d Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades spokesperson Abu Obeida said in a statement broadcast by the Hamas-run Al-Aqsa television channel, Agence France-Presse reported.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Israel\u2019s foreign minister, Eli Cohen, has ordered the return of Israeli diplomats from Turkey following President Tayyip Erdo\u011fan\u2019s comments at a pro-Palestinian rally in which he called Israel an \u201coccupier\u201d.&nbsp;<\/strong>Cohen tweeted on Saturday:<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cGiven the grave statements coming from Turkey, I have ordered the return of diplomatic representatives there in order to conduct a reevaluation of the relations between Israel and Turkey.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":39421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6850,9970,6349,5569,11394,10852,13336,12758,12283,9986,11555,7460,4398,5262,10804,11337,913,2884,12246,5663,4119,6732,11700,5345,5575,2629,2264,6345,5930,12173,13036,12773,3095,3684,5660,5572,7259,990,9237,11973,5568,3805,12103,3174,1511,11926,11224,8552,5333,6431,5217,9205,5655,5752,8547,11187,2570,12605,10412,5465,5689,5251],"class_list":["post-39420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-aid","tag-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","tag-antonio-guterres","tag-arab","tag-attacks","tag-babies","tag-blackout","tag-captured","tag-ceasefire","tag-central-london","tag-citizens","tag-cohen","tag-communications-minister","tag-cut","tag-day-23","tag-demand","tag-democratic","tag-demonstration","tag-diplomatic","tag-diplomats","tag-elon-musk","tag-emirates","tag-evil","tag-foreign-minister","tag-france","tag-gaza","tag-government","tag-guterres","tag-hamas","tag-hostages","tag-humanity","tag-increase","tag-israel","tag-london","tag-massacre","tag-military","tag-musk","tag-new-york","tag-nio","tag-one","tag-palestinian","tag-president","tag-price","tag-prime-minister","tag-prime-minister-israeli-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-prisoners","tag-pro-palestinian","tag-qatar","tag-rally","tag-release","tag-russian","tag-satellite","tag-security","tag-security-council","tag-sheikh","tag-starlink","tag-turkey","tag-uk","tag-uk-government","tag-un","tag-un-security-council","tag-war"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39422,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39420\/revisions\/39422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}