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https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/1 | 2023-11-15T04:04:00 | Moving our live coverage | For technical reasons, our live coverage is moving to a new page - click here for the latest updates. | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/1 | 2023-11-15T03:58:00 | Murdered peace advocate was 'always smiling' | Canadian-Israeli peace advocate Vivian Silver, 74, has been confirmed to have been killed in Hamas's 7 October attacks, after she was initially thought to have been taken hostage.
She co-founded the Women Wage Peace group, which lobbied for a diplomatic resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and helped found Aj... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/1 | 2023-11-15T03:14:00 | What's happened so far | It's past 05:00 in Israel and Gaza, where Israeli forces are carrying out an operation on Gaza's largest hospital.
This is the first time the military is directly entering Al-Shifa hospital after days of strikes and heavy fighting around the grounds in Gaza City.
The "precise and targeted operations against Hamas" wa... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/1 | 2023-11-15T02:52:00 | US responds: 'We don't want to see a firefight in a hospital' | We've just seen the first comments from the White House on Israel's raid on Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza.
"We do not support striking a hospital from the air and we don't want to see a firefight in a hospital where innocent people, helpless people, sick people trying to get medical care they deserve are caught in the cros... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/1 | 2023-11-15T02:48:00 | How many inside beseiged Al-Shifa? | Thousands of patients and civilians are believed to be sheltering at Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital, which has come under siege from Israeli forces.
The estimates vary however. The WHO had earlier on Tuesday said there were about 700 patients, 400 hospital staff and 3,000 civilians at Al-Shifa.
The Hamas-run health ministry ... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/1 | 2023-11-15T02:21:00 | Tanks and over a hundred soldiers have entered Al-Shifa- Eyewitness | Earlier we received an update from Khader Zaanoun, an eyewitness inside Al-Shifa hospital.
This is the latest from him:
“I saw six tanks inside the hospital and more than a hundred commandos soldiers, they entered the main emergency department, some of the soldiers were masked and screamed in Arabic 'don’t move don’t... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/1 | 2023-11-15T02:12:00 | Biden and Netanyahu have spoken in recent hours | We are hearing from the White House that US President Biden and Israeli PM Netanyahu have had a phone call discussion.
In a statement, the White House said both leaders "discussed at length ongoing efforts to secure the release of hostages held by Hamas, including many children and a number of Americans".
The US is sti... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/1 | 2023-11-15T01:49:00 | IDF calls on ‘Hamas terrorists’ present in Al-Shifa ‘to surrender’ | We reported earlier that the IDF confirmed that it is carrying out “precise and targeted operations against Hamas in a specified area in the Al-Shifa Hospital, based on intelligence information”.
In a post on X, the IDF also added that it "has publicly warned time and again that Hamas' continued military use of the Al-... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/1 | 2023-11-15T01:38:00 | Hamas response singles out Biden | Hamas has issued a response to Israel's storming of the hospital, specificying that US President Biden is wholly "responsible" for the raid.
It "holds the occupation [Israel] and President Biden fully responsible for occupation army's raid of Al Shifa medical complex", according to a Reuters translation of the statemen... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/1 | 2023-11-15T01:16:00 | Israel 'storming' hospital - eyewitness | An eyewitness inside Al-Shifa hospital tells me that Israeli soldiers have begun storming it.
“The soldiers fired a smoke bomb that caused
people to suffocate," says Khader Al-Zaanoun.
"I saw the soldiers entering the specialised surgical
department,” Khader told me before contact with him was cut off. | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/1 | 2023-11-15T01:04:00 | Gaza's biggest hospital | The area around Al-Shifa, Gaza's biggest hospital, has become
the focus of fighting in recent days. Thousands of people are believed to be
sheltering there.
Officials say the hospital is running out of fuel - and
there's concern over the emergency care needed, with doctors saying premature
babies have been taken off i... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/1 | 2023-11-15T00:44:00 | Israel 'warned it would raid hospital' | A spokesman for the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says Israel informed them that it would "raid the Al-Shifa hospital complex in the
coming minutes", according to the Al Jazeera news network.
Ashraf al-Qidra said officials in Gaza had told the Red Cross about the warning.
As we mentioned in the post below, Israel... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/1 | 2023-11-15T00:25:00 | Israel says it is carrying out an operation against Hamas in Al-Shifa Hospital | The Israeli military says it is carrying out a "precise and targeted operation against Hamas" in part of Al-Shifa Hospital "based on intelligence information and an operational necessity".
In a statement on social media, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) say their forces "include medical teams and Arabic speakers, who ... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/1 | 2023-11-14T23:44:00 | Two injured as Hamas hits Tel Aviv with missiles | Israel's retaliatory offensive against Hamas has dominated our live blog coverage today, with intense fighting encroaching hospitals in Gaza and deadly clashes erupting in the West Bank.
But earlier today Hamas fired more rockets at Israel, as it has been doing regularly since the initial 7 October attacks. The group s... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/1 | 2023-11-14T22:52:00 | Human rights group says Israeli strike that killed Lebanon family was 'apparent war crime' | Away from Gaza for a moment, in recent weeks we've seen repeated clashes between Israel and its northern neighbour Lebanon at the border.
The group Human Rights Watch said earlier that an Israeli strike in Lebanon that killed three children and their grandmother just over a week ago should be investigated as an "appare... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/1 | 2023-11-14T22:38:00 | Gazans in tents prepare to spend night sheltering from thunderstorms | We've been receiving some photos from Gaza, where heavy rain and thunderstorms have been moving across the Strip tonight.
As our reporter in Khan Younis, Rushdi Abualouf, said earlier, even with a makeshift tent many displaced people are going to struggle in these conditions. Here are the latest pictures from Khan Youn... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/1 | 2023-11-14T22:29:00 | Hamas say US Al-Shifa remarks give Israel 'green light' to target hospitals | Hamas has just responded to comments made by the US tonight, that there is intelligence showing the group has a command centre under Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Hamas denies it has bases under hospitals.
"These statements give a green light to the Israeli occupation to commit further brutal massacres targeting hosp... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/1 | 2023-11-14T22:11:00 | What we see in IDF video claiming to show Hamas use of hospital | We've been reporting on Israel's claims - now backed up by the US - that Hamas has a base under Al-Shifa hospital. But as well as Al-Shifa, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have also made allegations about another Gaza City medical facility - Rantisi children's hospital.
On Monday night it released a six-minute video pu... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/1 | 2023-11-14T21:56:00 | What has been happening at Al-Shifa hospital? | We've been reporting a lot on Gaza's largest hospital, Al-Shifa in recent days, as Israeli forces surround it. Israel says Hamas are operating from tunnels beneath the medical facility. Hamas deny this, but in the last few hours the US said it had intelligence that backs up Israel's claim, saying the group stored arms ... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/2 | 2023-11-14T21:18:00 | First time US confirms it has intelligence supporting Israel's Al-Shifa claim | As we've just reported, the White House and Pentagon say they have intelligence that Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are operating from and storing weapons in tunnels below hospitals, including Gaza’s largest, Al-Shifa.
This is the first time they have so fully supported such Israeli claims, which have stirred con... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/2 | 2023-11-14T20:48:00 | Hamas has lost control of northern Gaza - Israeli defence minister | Israel's defence minister, Yoav Gallant, has said in a news conference this evening that Hamas has “lost control” of northern Gaza.
He added that Israel's army has made significant gains and were in control of the centre of Gaza City, in the north. For days Israel's military have surrounded Al-Shifa Hospital, in the ci... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/2 | 2023-11-14T20:34:00 | Israel says it seized Gaza parliament and Hamas buildings | As a reminder, Israel's army said earlier it had captured a number of government buildings in Gaza City. In an operational update from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), it shared details of raids carried out inside Gaza's governing
institutions:
This evening, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said that "Hamas has lo... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/2 | 2023-11-14T20:07:00 | US says intelligence shows Hamas has base under Al-Shifa | US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says the US has intelligence that Hamas has a command centre under Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
Kirby told reporters the intelligence shows that "Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad use some hospitals in the Gaza Strip, including Al-Shifa, and tunnels underneath them... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/2 | 2023-11-14T19:59:00 | Listen: The Today debate - What happens when the war ends? | Tonight's edition of the Today debate, presented by Mishal Husain, will be streaming shortly on BBC Radio 4 - you can listen to it here.
The topic is: Israel-Gaza - What happens when the war ends?
On the panel is:
Listen to the debate live from 20:00 on BBC Radio 4 or on the stream at the top of this page. | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/2 | 2023-11-14T19:45:00 | UN says heavy rains 'add to suffering' of 580,000 displaced in south Gaza | The United Nations relief agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) has reported that 580,000 displaced people in southern Gaza have sought shelter, and that overcrowding coupled with heavy rain will make conditions even worse.
World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson Margaret Harris issued a statement on the difficulty of t... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/2 | 2023-11-14T19:11:00 | 'Deeply disturbed' - UN chief responds to Gaza hospital situation | The head of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, is "deeply disturbed by the horrible situation and dramatic loss of life in several hospitals in Gaza," his spokesman has said in a statement.
The spokesman was talking to reporters, following reports all day of worsening conditions at the hospitals there as they strugg... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/2 | 2023-11-14T18:51:00 | Israel's foreign minister criticises Guterres, says he 'does not deserve to be UN head' | Israel's foreign minister Eli Cohen has been speaking at the UN in Geneva, where he criticised both the Red Cross and UN chief Antonio Guterres.
"Guterres does not deserve to be the head of the United Nations," Cohen told a news conference. "Guterres does not promote any peace process in the region," he said - and sugg... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/2 | 2023-11-14T18:35:00 | Fuel to run out in Gaza tomorrow, charities warn | For a while now, aid workers have been raising the alarm about the lack of fuel in Gaza. The charity Médecins Sans Frontières has just told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that fuel will run out in the Strip tomorrow.
Paul Caney, from MSF, said Gaza's stocks will be obsolete within 48 hours. As a result, UN trucks will no... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/2 | 2023-11-14T18:17:00 | UK speech shows West's increasing concerns about Gaza | Away from the situation on the ground for a moment - there was fascinating language from the UK's new de facto Deputy Foreign Secretary, Andrew Mitchell, in the Commons earlier about the situation in Gaza.
He
repeated what the prime minister said last night at his Guildhall speech:
Israel must act within international ... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/2 | 2023-11-14T17:54:00 | People living in tents in Gaza now facing torrential rain | There's very heavy rain here tonight here at Nasser Hospital where hundreds of displaced people are now located in the courtyard of this hospital.
They are struggling to cope with this weather as the rain hasn't stopped for the last half an hour and most people are sleeping on the ground.
Very few people have managed t... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/2 | 2023-11-14T17:44:00 | What's the latest? | It's coming up to 17:30 in our London newsroom - and 19.30 in Israel and Gaza, where there's currently torrential rain according to our reporters there. Here's the latest: | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/2 | 2023-11-14T17:26:00 | Satellite image shows Israeli positions near Gaza's largest hospital | As the Israel Defence Forces continues its offensive inside Gaza City,
BBC Verify has acquired a satellite image of the area around Al-Shifa hospital
from 11 November. The area has seen heavy fighting with more than 2,000 people trapped.
The image appears to show military
vehicles parked in several positions in open g... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/2 | 2023-11-14T17:11:00 | Biden's message to hostages: 'Hang in there, we're coming' | US President Joe Biden has offered a message of hope to the hostages Hamas kidnapped from Israel during the 7 October attacks.
Asked by journalists at an address he was giving on climate change about the hostages - now more than five weeks on from them being taken - Biden said he had been "talking to the people involve... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/2 | 2023-11-14T16:52:00 | Charity says bullets were fired into its building near Al-Shifa hospital | More now from the situation in Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, where hospital workers have said people are being buried in mass graves after power cuts meant hospital equipment failed.
In the last couple of hours, the charity Doctors Without Borders said bullets were fired into one of its premises near Al-Shifa hospita... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/2 | 2023-11-14T16:39:00 | Why this war in Gaza is different to the others | If this Gaza war was like all the others, a ceasefire would probably have been in force by now.
But now the fault lines that divide the Middle East are rumbling. For at least two decades, the most serious rift in the region has been between the friends and allies of Iran, and the friends and allies of the United States... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/2 | 2023-11-14T16:22:00 | Medics bury 200 bodies at Al-Shifa Hospital, says doctor | Earlier we reported that 179 people had been buried in a mass grave within Gaza City's largest hospital, Al-Shifa, according to the hospital's director.
Now we've spoken to Dr Adnan al-Bursh from the hospital, who says 200 bodies have been buried in the hospital grounds.
It took around 100 of the hospital’s medical tea... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/2 | 2023-11-14T16:12:00 | 'Unclean and unbearable' - Giving birth under the bombs in Gaza | Women in Gaza have described giving birth without painkillers and having to flee from one place to another while heavily pregnant.
The World Health Organization says maternal deaths are expected to increase in Gaza given the lack of access to adequate care. It says the hostilities have direct and deadly consequences fo... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/2 | 2023-11-14T15:46:00 | Video shows people along evacuation road out of Al-Shifa hospital | Video has emerged showing some
people on what the IDF calls a “humanitarian corridor” for Palestinians to
leave Al-Shifa hospital. Israel has been asking people to evacuate the hospital because they believe Hamas has its base underneath the building - something Hamas denies.
The IDF said people should flee along al-Wah... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/2 | 2023-11-14T15:14:00 | UK and US impose third round of sanctions on Hamas | The UK and US have announced a third
round of sanctions following Hamas's 7 October attack on Israel.
The US Treasury Department said the sanctions will target "key
Hamas officials and the mechanisms by which Iran provides support to Hamas and
Palestinian Islamic Jihad" - which is another armed faction in the Gaza
Stri... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/3 | 2023-11-14T14:40:00 | Reports people attempting to leave hospital shot in legs | The BBC's Rushdi Abualouf has heard that no people, or any items of aid,
have been allowed in or out of the Al-Shifa hospital for the last 48 hours, according
to one of his contacts.
That source - one of the few remaining journalists in the hospital -
says four people had tried to leave Al-Shifa yesterday, but were sho... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/3 | 2023-11-14T14:22:00 | Hostages' families begin five-day protest march from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem | The families of hostages being held by Hamas have begun a five-day march, demanding their loved ones' freedom.
Israel says 239 people were kidnapped by Hamas gunmen during the 7 October attack, which killed 1,200 people.
Over a month later, relatives and supporters of the hostages have today begun a 43-mile (70 km) mar... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/3 | 2023-11-14T14:03:00 | UK considering 'air and maritime options' to get aid into Gaza | Foreign Office Minister Andrew Mitchell has given MPs an update
about the UK's plans to send more aid into Gaza.
While speaking to the Commons about the government's response to
the situation in Israel and Gaza, he said the UK is considering using "air
and maritime options" to send more aid – including via its bases in... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/3 | 2023-11-14T13:47:00 | Israel festival attack survivor says she saw Hamas rape woman | Warning: This article contains distressing content
Police have shown journalists a single horrific testimony from a woman who was at the Nova festival site during the 7 October attack.
At least 260 people were killed when Hamas gunmen fired rockets and then stormed the festival in the early hours of the morning.
Other... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/3 | 2023-11-14T13:23:00 | More than 60% of hospitals in Gaza non-functional - WHO | While we've been reporting on the humanitarian situation in Gaza's largest hospital, Al-Shifa, there's several other health facilities suffering due to the lack of resources and insecurity.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said over half of Gaza's hospitals - 22 out of 36 - are now "non-functional".
Posting on X, th... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/3 | 2023-11-14T13:02:00 | Hospital director says 179 bodies in mass grave | Earlier, the BBC's Rushdi Abualouf reported that a contact still inside Gaza City's largest hospital, Al-Shifa, had told him 170 bodies were being buried in a mass grave there.
Since then, we’ve heard from the hospital’s director who says 179 people, including babies, have been buried in the grave within the hospital g... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/3 | 2023-11-14T12:39:00 | Watch: Brother of Hamas victim says he lives in fear | In the UK, the brother of a British-Israeli man murdered by Hamas has told me he's never been more fearful of antisemitism here as he is now.
Bernard Cowan, from Scotland, was killed in his home on a kibbutz in southern Israel during Hamas's 7 October attack.
His brother Colin says he "is filled with dread" as a Jew li... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/3 | 2023-11-14T12:19:00 | Rows of tents shelter displaced Palestinians from fighting and cold conditions | In Khan Younis, southern Gaza, colder conditions are beginning to set in - affecting some of the 1.6 million Palestinians the UN estimates have been internally displaced since the war began last month.
Many have been forced to shelter from the fighting in tents, including the BBC's Gaza correspondent Rushdi Abualouf, w... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/3 | 2023-11-14T11:43:00 | Recap of the last few hours | Fighting rages on in northern Gaza as the Israeli military continues on its retaliatory offensive against Hamas.
A main focus of our reporting over the last few days has been activity at or near some of the enclave's main hospitals, which we're still hearing about today.
If you're just joining us, or need a recap, her... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/3 | 2023-11-14T11:23:00 | Charity says Gaza hospital doesn't need incubators, it needs fuel | A UK-based charity says Gaza City's largest hospital, Al-Shifa, needs fuel - not incubators, as has been widely speculated.
It comes after the Israeli military said it was in process of "coordinating the transfer of incubators from a hospital in Israel to Gaza", though it didn't specify if the machines were going to A... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/3 | 2023-11-14T11:02:00 | Contact inside hospital says mass grave for 170 bodies being prepared | In the last hour I've spoken to some of the last remaining journalists
inside Gaza City's Al-Shifa hospital.
One told me the hospital is preparing a mass grave for about
170 bodies in a small courtyard of the hospital. He witnessed around 30 bodies
being put into the grave.
He says moving from one building to another a... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/3 | 2023-11-14T10:50:00 | IDF says evacuation route to south Gaza open again | The Israeli military says it is once again encouraging
Palestinians in northern Gaza to move south via its designated "safe road", the Salah al-Din highway. The
evacuation route first opened on 5 November.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has been telling people to move south for weeks, to avoid the heavier fighting in ... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/3 | 2023-11-14T10:26:00 | Where is the West Bank - and who lives there? | Following our last post, here's a reminder about the West Bank - in case you need one.
It's an area of land located - as the name suggests - on the west bank of the River Jordan and bounded by Israel to the north, west and south. To its east lies Jordan.
It has been occupied by Israel since the 1967 Middle East war, bu... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/3 | 2023-11-14T10:13:00 | Deadly clashes at West Bank refugee camp | Seven Palestinians were killed in the West Bank’s Tulkarem refugee camp this morning in clashes with the Israeli military, the head of the local hospital confirmed to the BBC.
Three were killed by live ammunition and four by shrapnel injuries from a blast, said Dr Amin Khader, who is also a surgeon at Thabet Thabet hos... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/3 | 2023-11-14T09:55:00 | IDF confirms death of 19-year-old Israeli captive | The Israeli military has confirmed the death of a 19-year-old Israeli who was kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October.
Noa Marciano was described as a fallen soldier. No cause of death is given, but the IDF says her family has been notified.
As we reported last night, a video was shared widely online in which Marciano identifi... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/3 | 2023-11-14T09:14:00 | Western leaders urge restraint from Israel | The US and UK, like many other countries, offered their full support to Israel following Hamas's attack on 7 October.
That commitment stayed steadfast as the Israeli military launched its retaliatory strikes on Gaza - but over the last few days appeals to Israel to exercise restraint have been stepped up, with US Presi... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/3 | 2023-11-14T08:50:00 | Watch: Surgeon in Gaza describes 'relentless' situation | Tom Potokar, a chief surgeon in Gaza with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), has been describing the "exhausting" and "relentless" workload of surgeons in the area since fighting erupted between Hamas and Israel last month.
In this clip, which the humanitarian organisation uploaded to social media, Po... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/3 | 2023-11-14T08:31:00 | What's the latest? | It's gone 10:30 in Israel and Gaza and 08:30 here in our London newsroom. Here's a look at the latest developments. | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/3 | 2023-11-14T08:14:00 | Al-Shifa hospital surrounded by tanks | In the last half an hour, I made a call to someone inside
Al-Shifa hospital.
He said the tense situation around the hospital remains the
same, and that he heard a few explosions and exchanges of fire overnight.
He also told me tanks are surrounding the hospital from all
directions and that access in and out of the hosp... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/3 | 2023-11-14T07:52:00 | Sunak’s toughest message yet for Israel | Western powers are growing concerned
by the remorseless death toll in Gaza.
Rishi Sunak has yet to demand a
ceasefire. But his speech at the at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet on Monday echoed American warnings that too
many Palestinian civilians are losing their lives.
The prime minister said Israel must
be able to defend it... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/4 | 2023-11-14T07:33:00 | Biden says Al-Shifa hospital must be protected | President Biden has urged Israel to protect Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital.
Speaking from the Oval Office on Monday, he said the US is in contact with the Israelis and it was his "hope and expectation" that there would be "less intrusive action relative to the hospital".
"The hospital must be protected," he told reporters.
F... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/4 | 2023-11-14T07:21:00 | Israel says it's transferring incubators to Gaza - amid fears over newborns | The Israeli military says it's in the process of "coordinating the transfer of incubators from a hospital in Israel to Gaza".
Alongside a statement, posted on social media, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) posted an image of what appears to be one of its soldiers unloading an incubator from a van in a car park. It's not... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/4 | 2023-11-14T07:12:00 | Blackpool family who fled Gaza fear for those left behind | A British family who fled Gaza with only a small suitcase between six of them have said they do not know what the future now holds and they fear for the lives of those left behind.
Emad Abuaassi and his wife Stephanie moved to Gaza from Blackpool a year ago, to be closer to his family.
After the conflict began they lef... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/4 | 2023-11-14T06:41:00 | Doctor says 'catastrophic' situation at hospital in central Gaza | Dr Ebrahem Matar is a heart specialist in the intensive care
unit at the Aqsa Martyrs' hospital - the only medical centre in the middle area
of the Gaza Strip.
"The whole hospital right now is full of wounded people and
it is also full of refugees who took the hospital as a shelter because they
lost their houses," the ... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/4 | 2023-11-14T06:16:00 | Fuel shortage putting humanitarian operation in jeopardy - UN | As we reported earlier, the UN's Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA, says the fuel depot it has been using for supplies has run dry.
Its director of communications, Juliette Touma, has told the BBC this will put the largest humanitarian operation in the Gaza Strip "in jeopardy".
She says it means UNRWA won't be able to ... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/4 | 2023-11-14T05:56:00 | No military or security solution - Jordan's King Abdullah | Jordan's King Abdullah
rejected any plans by Israel to occupy parts of Gaza or create security zones within the territory.
The monarch told senior politicians at the royal palace that there could be "no military or security solution" to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, state media reported.
He was quot... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/4 | 2023-11-14T05:35:00 | Palestinians killed in West Bank town- reports | There have been multiple reports of Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank town of Tulkarm in the past hours.
At least three people were killed in an Israeli drone strike early Tuesday morning, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
Meanwhile, another five were killed during an Israeli military operation around ... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/4 | 2023-11-14T05:19:00 | Indonesia’s leader urges US to do more to end ‘atrocities’ in Gaza | Indonesian President Joko Widodo has pressed his US counterpart,
Joe Biden, to take further steps to bring about a ceasefire in the conflict.
"Indonesia appealed to
the US to do more to stop the atrocities in Gaza," Widodo said following
talks at the White House on Monday.
"This [a ceasefire] is
a must for the sake of ... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/4 | 2023-11-14T05:02:00 | Hospital babies and patients have already died, Al-Shifa doctor tells BBC | This story contains some upsetting details
Dr Mohamed Abu Selmia, manager of the key Al-Shifa hospital, has told the BBC 32 people have died in recent days.
Three premature babies and seven people had died due to a lack of oxygen, he said.
Several other patients needing dialysis risk dying in "the next couple of days... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/4 | 2023-11-14T04:46:00 | Canadian believed to be Hamas hostage was killed in first attack | The family of Vivian Silver, 74, say they now know the Candian-Israeli peace activist was killed in the 7 October attacks at Kibbutz Be'eri in southern Israel.
Her family thought until last week that she had been taken hostage by Hamas. Her house had been burnt to the ground but no body had been found at the time, her ... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/4 | 2023-11-14T04:33:00 | Netanyahu adviser blames Hamas for hospital 'warzone' | Mark Regev, a senior advister to the Israeli PM, has argued that Hamas is to blame for turning Al-Shifa hospital - the largest in Gaza -"into a warzone".
In comments to the BBC, he said Hamas had "deliberately built" military infrastructure under the hospital and had "used those babies to shield its military machine".
... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/4 | 2023-11-14T04:21:00 | Sunak’s toughest message yet for Israel | Western powers are growing concerned
by the remorseless death toll in Gaza.
Rishi Sunak has yet to demand a
ceasefire. But his speech at the at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet echoed American warnings that too
many Palestinian civilians are losing their lives.
The Prime Minister said Israel must
be able to defend itself and b... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/4 | 2023-11-14T04:09:00 | If you're just joining us | Good afternoon from Singapore, where Frances Mao and I have taken over the live page from our colleagues in London.
It's just gone 06:00 in Gaza where fighting has continued overnight. Among key developments: | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/4 | 2023-11-14T00:18:00 | WHO says Gaza hospital unable to bury dead bodies | The World Health Organization (WHO) has described Gaza's largest hospital as "nearly a cemetery."
Al-Shifa hospital - which is located in the north of Gaza - has been at the front line of intense fighting over the last few days with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) insisting that Hamas is operating a command-and-control... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/4 | 2023-11-13T23:58:00 | Israel supporting family of hostage after Hamas death claim | The chief spokesman of the
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says the hearts of the Israeli military go out to the
family of a 19-year-old woman, Noa Marciano, who was kidnapped by Hamas on 7
October.
A video has been
circulating on social media in which Marciano identifies herself and says
she has been held for four days. T... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/4 | 2023-11-13T23:40:00 | UK’s new foreign secretary discusses conflict with Blinken | David Cameron, who was appointed the UK’s new foreign secretary on Monday, has spoken to his US counterpart, Antony Blinken,
about the Israel-Gaza war.
According to a social media post from his new office, Cameron, a former British
prime minister, and the US secretary of state discussed “Israel’s
right to self-defence... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/4 | 2023-11-13T23:24:00 | In pictures: Day 38 of Israel-Gaza war | As day 38 of the Israel-Gaza war comes to a close, here's a look at how the conflict is affecting communities on the ground and around the world. | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/4 | 2023-11-13T23:00:00 | 'I found out on social media that my relatives had died' | Here in London, a group of British Palestinians held a press conference earlier on Monday to talk about the impact the war had been having on them.
Lubaba Khalid, who stepped down as Young Labour's BME representative over comments made by party leader Keir Starmer, said she had found out through social media that her r... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/4 | 2023-11-13T22:33:00 | UK to 'bolster' support for Palestinian Authority and two-state solution | UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that while the immediate priority in the Middle East conflict is to address "the suffering" in Gaza, work needed to be done to ensure future stability in the region.
Sunak said, "We need to do more to create a new political horizon."
He called for unity around supporting a two-sta... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/4 | 2023-11-13T22:13:00 | UK PM says Israel must protect civilians in Gaza | More from UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's keynote speech at the Lord Mayor's Banquet in the City of London, where he has said that while he supports Israel's right to "defend itself against terror", more needed to be done to keep civilians safe during the war with Hamas.
Sunak went on to say that Israel had a responsib... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/5 | 2023-11-13T21:52:00 | Hamas fears 'a new Middle East', says UK's Sunak | UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said the 7 October Hamas attacks on Israel were motivated not just by "hatred" but also by an unease that Israel was forging new ties within the Middle East.
Speaking at the Lord Mayor's Banquet in London, Sunak said Hamas feared that "a new Middle East is being born which would see Is... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/5 | 2023-11-13T21:37:00 | Biden says Al-Shifa hospital must be protected | As we've been reporting, doctors are reporting desperate conditions at Gaza City's largest hospital, Al-Shifa, because of fighting nearby and fuel shortages.
Asked by reporters about the situation there, US President Joe Biden said "the hospital must be protected".
"It's my hope and expectation that there will be less ... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/5 | 2023-11-13T21:21:00 | No negotiations with IDF over evacuations - Al-Shifa doctor | Dr Mohamed Abu Selmia, manager of the Al-Shifa hospital, has told the BBC about the deteriorating situation there, where in recent days 32 people have died.
He said among them were three premature babies and seven people who died due to a lack of oxygen. Several other patients who need dialysis risk dying in "the next ... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/5 | 2023-11-13T21:04:00 | IDF bids to back up its claims about Hamas and hospitals | The Israel Defense Force's chief
spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari set high expectations, promising his briefing
would expose to the world that Hamas uses hospitals as an “instrument of
war.”
The BBC has no
way of verifying the claims made this evening.
Hagari showed
himself in one video pointing to what he called... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/5 | 2023-11-13T20:42:00 | The lives of premature Gaza babies hang in the balance | The lives of dozens of
tiny premature babies, shown to the world huddled together on surgical beds, hang in the balance.
Due to an outage of fuel
at Al-Shifa hospital, clinicians there say the babies have had to be removed
from one of their key lifelines - incubators.
Incubators are small beds
enclosed by clear hard ... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/5 | 2023-11-13T20:27:00 | Death toll in Gaza rises to 11,240, says Hamas-run health ministry | The total death toll in Gaza Strip since 7 October rose to 11,240 on Monday, according to the media office of the Hamas-controlled government in the territory.
The figure includes 4,630 children and 3,130 women, the media office spokesperson said.
As we reported on Sunday, the WHO says it has confidence in the death fi... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/5 | 2023-11-13T20:15:00 | We will free Gaza from Hamas - Hagari | As he concludes his remarks, Hagari says: "This is not the last hospital like this in Gaza and the world should know that".
"Whoever gives money to this hospital... is giving Hamas help," he adds.
"We will free our hostages from Gaza and free Gaza from Hamas for the sake of the people of Israel and for the people of ... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/5 | 2023-11-13T20:13:00 | IDF says videos show 'terror tunnel' close to hospital and school | During the press conference, Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari also said he had been to Gaza, to Rantisi children's hospital himself, and filmed what he described as "concrete evidence" that "Hamas uses hospitals as an instrument of war".
He said that in the basement under the Rantisi hospital, Israeli troops... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/5 | 2023-11-13T19:59:00 | IDF spokesman shows 'video of Hamas infrastructure under hospital' | IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari has been holding a press briefing showing what he says is evidence of Hamas infrastructure at Rantisi hospital.
Hagari says the video shown to the press shows Hamas equipment - explosives, suicide vests, and even a motorcycle used in the 7 October attacks - hidden in a basement under the ho... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/5 | 2023-11-13T19:37:00 | IDF says several senior Hamas officials have been killed | The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman has said that a number of senior Hamas operatives have been killed over the last few days, including Hamas's former head of Military Intelligence.
The IDF's Daniel Hagari said that Mohammed Khamis Dababash, who used to head up Hamas's intelligence unit and was "also involved i... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/5 | 2023-11-13T19:23:00 | 'I chose to fight but don't know if I'll come back alive' | Yakir, a 33-year-old Israeli, was called up along with hundreds and thousands of reservists, immediately after the attacks by Hamas on 7 October in which 1,200 people were killed and some 240 taken hostage.
"I haven't told my family I am going inside Gaza. I don't want them to be worried. Only my boyfriend knows I'll b... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/5 | 2023-11-13T19:11:00 | 'It's very challenging to live like this': Life for displaced Gazan girls | I've been speaking to Jana and Farah, two Gazan girls aged 13 and 11 who are sheltering in a farmhouse in Khan Younis along with about 90 other people. The girls say they eat about one meal a day, a sandwich with some meat if there is any, or some rice.
“We barely have anything,” Jana says. “It’s very challenging to li... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/5 | 2023-11-13T18:54:00 | The Gaza hospital struggling on with battery power | A senior doctor at the Al-Awda hospital in northern Gaza has told the anti-poverty campaign group, ActionAid, that the hospital is using battery power to help with the delivering of babies and the treatment of the injured.
Al-Awda Hospital has closed its main generators and has been without electricity
or fuel for thre... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/5 | 2023-11-13T18:44:00 | Israel Defence minister says 'Hamas lost control in Gaza' - AFP | Israel's defence minister has said that "Hamas has lost control in Gaza", according to the AFP news agency.
Yoav Gallant was speaking in a video broadcast on Israel's main TV stations.
According to the AFP, he said: "Terrorists are fleeing southward. Civilians are looting Hamas bases."
"They don't have faith in the g... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/5 | 2023-11-13T18:27:00 | What we know about the Israel's 'local pauses' in Gaza | Let's turn our attention back to Gaza and last Thursday, the US said it understood Israeli forces would begin to implement four-hour “humanitarian pauses” in northern Gaza each day, in order to permit civilians to leave, increase the flow of aid, and
enable hostage releases.
But Israeli officials did not directly confi... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/5 | 2023-11-13T18:11:00 | British-Palestinians ask Sunak for urgent meeting | A group of British-Palestinians have sent a letter to UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak asking for an urgent meeting.
The letter has been sent by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) “on behalf of members of the Palestinian community in the UK with families and loved ones living in Gaza”.
The group s... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/5 | 2023-11-13T17:54:00 | Fighting between Hezbollah and Israel fuels fears of war for Lebanon | Let's move away from the situation in Gaza and take a look at the Israel-Lebanon border, where for weeks the Lebanese group Hezbollah and the Israeli military have continued to exchange fire.
But the last few days have been particularly tense, fuelling fears that the powerful Iranian backed militia could drag Lebanon i... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/5 | 2023-11-13T17:34:00 | Netanyahu adviser says Hamas turned Al Shifa hospital into a warzone | A senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the BBC that Hamas do not want to accept solutions for the lack of fuel needed to save the premature babies at Al-Shifa hospital and that "they want pictures to show a crisis".
Mark Regev, who is also the former Israeli Ambassador to the United King... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/5 | 2023-11-13T17:12:00 | Gaza's biggest hospital becoming a cemetery, says WHO | As we've been reporting, the situation in hospitals in Gaza continues to be desperate.
At Gaza City's Al Shifa hospital, the largest in the territory, power cuts and a lack of fuel are causing severe difficulties, with particular international concern for the fate of dozens of premature babies no longer able to stay in... | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/5 | 2023-11-13T16:46:00 | What's been happening? | It's just past 18:45 in Gaza and Israel, and 16:45 here in London. If you're just joining us or need a recap, here's where things stand: | BBC | site-live-news |
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67400490/page/6 | 2023-11-13T16:40:00 | All hospitals in north Gaza 'out of service' - Hamas-run health ministry | The deputy health minister in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, Youssef Abu Rish, has told the AFP news that all hospitals in the north of Gaza are "out of service".
Fighting has been taking place in recent days close to several key hospitals. Some have been largely evacuated - others are struggling with shortages of fuel, wat... | BBC | site-live-news |
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