Israel-Hamas war highlights: Gaza death toll at 18,412; over 50,000 injured

Israel-Hamas war highlights: Gaza death toll at 18,412; over 50,000 injured

A picture taken from the Palestinian city of Rafah shows smoke billowing near the Egyptian border, in the southern Gaza Strip, during an Israeli strike. (AFP)

Israel-Hamas war highlights: The war between Israel and Hamas entered its second month, with the UN General Assembly on Tuesday preparing to vote on a non-binding resolution demanding "an immediate humanitarian ceasefire" in Gaza – a call that the council has so far failed to make....Read More

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• 12 Dec 2023, 11:34:25 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas war LIVE updates: Australia, Canada, New Zealand give joint statement on Gaza situation

  "We are alarmed at the diminishing safe space for civilians in Gaza. The price of defeating Hamas cannot be the continuous suffering of all Palestinian civilians," the prime ministers of the three countries said in a joint statement on Tuesday as quoted by Reuters.

• 12 Dec 2023, 11:07:27 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas war LIVE updates: Israel ‘starting to lose support’ over indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, says Joe Biden

  On Tuesday, US President Joe Biden said that Israel is starting to lose support from the international community due to its extensive bombing in Gaza which has resulted in the death of thousands of Palestinians.

  "They're starting to lose that support," said Biden as quoted by Reuters.

• 12 Dec 2023, 10:47:26 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas war LIVE updates: Israel's PM says country has full backing of USA against Hamas

  The official account of the Prime Minister of Israel posted on X(formerly Twitter) that Israel has full backing of USA in its ground offensive against Hamas. Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu also thanked USA for its support.

• 12 Dec 2023, 10:31:07 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas war LIVE updates: Israel's PM says difference with US about post-war Gaza rule

  On Tuesday, Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that there are differences with US on the matter of what might follow the Gaza war, reported Reuters.

  Meanwhile, more than 100 Israeli hostgaes are still held under Hamas captivity amid the ongoing war.

• 12 Dec 2023, 10:10:21 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas war LIVE updates: Iran says Israel, US will not be able to eliminate Hamas

  On Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said that Israel and the United States will never be able to finish Hamas. Amirabdollahian added that the only way to liberate Israli hostates was through a political solution to the ongoing war.

• 12 Dec 2023, 09:53:38 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas war LIVE updates: Israel shares why Gaza ceasefire is not the solution

  Israel shared a video on X(formerly Twitter) and highlighted that a ceasefire in Gaza would benefit Hamas and embolden its terror agenda.

• 12 Dec 2023, 08:31:15 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas war LIVE updates: Israel shares pictures of weapons' recovery from a house in Gaza

  Israel has shared how weapons were recovered from the house of a boy who received health treatment in Israel.

• 12 Dec 2023, 08:09:44 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas war LIVE updates: Middle East leaders clueless over strategy for 'day after' Gaza war

  According to a report by AFP, Middle East leaders gathered in Qatar and discussed ideas for what happens after the end of Gaza war. They opposed the idea of putting their own troops or international forces into the ravaged territory.

  "No one from the region will accept... to put boots on the ground (following after) an Israeli tank. This is unacceptable," said Qatari premier Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani.

• 12 Dec 2023, 07:40:07 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas war LIVE updates: Israeli forces killed 4 Palestinians in West Bank, says Palestinian health ministry

  The Palestinian health ministry has claimed that Israeli forces killed four Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday. Notably, thousands of Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

• 12 Dec 2023, 07:22:42 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas war LIVE updates: Israel shares interview of Hamas's former Minister of Communications

  Israel has shared the interview of Hamas's former Minister of Communications who has blamed Yahya Sinwar and Hamas officials for the destruction of Gaza.

• 12 Dec 2023, 07:09:43 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas war LIVE updates: 18,412 people killed in Gaza

  On Tuesday, the health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip claimed that at least 18,412 people had been killed in the ongoing Gaza war. The ministry said there were more than 50,000 wounded, reported AFP.

• 12 Dec 2023, 06:08:56 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas war LIVE updates: Israel shares video of inspection of aid trucks

  Israel has shared a video of inspection of aid trucks to Gaza. First batch of humanitarian aid trucks were inspected at Kerem Shalom on Tuesday.

• 12 Dec 2023, 05:54:36 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas war LIVE updates: UN aid agency chief terms Gaza situation as 'hell on earth'

  On Tuesday, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees Philippe Lazzarini termed the situation in Gaza as 'hell on earth' for its civilians.

  "Back in #Gaza, endless deepening tragedy. People are everywhere, live in the street, need everything. They plead for safety & for an end to this hell on earth," UNWRA chief Philippe Lazzarini said in a post on X( formerly Twitter)

• 12 Dec 2023, 05:31:09 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas war LIVE updates: India's External Affairs Minister speaks to Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen

  On Tuesday, India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar spoke to Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen and discussed the war situation in Gaza.

  "Just spoke to Israeli Foreign Minister @elicoh1. Discussed the Gaza situation, Lebanon and safety of maritime traffic in the region," Jaishankar wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

  "Will continue to remain in touch," he added.

• 12 Dec 2023, 05:20:16 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas war LIVE updates: Gaza's health ministry claims Israel raiding Kamal Adwan hospital

  On Tuesday, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry claimed that Israeli forces are raiding Kamal Adwan hospital, reported AFP.

  "Israeli occupation forces are storming Kamal Adwan hospital after besieging and bombing it for days," ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said, accusing troops of rounding up men in the hospital courtyard, including medical staff.

• 12 Dec 2023, 04:56:29 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas war LIVE updates: France to hold meeting on tackling Hamas financing

  According to a report by Reuters, a meeting of more than 20 countries including Israel but no Arab states will happen in Paris on Wednesday. The focus would be to define a strategy on how to curb financing of Hamas and its activities online.

• 12 Dec 2023, 04:41:27 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas war LIVE Updates: Israel reposts filmmaker Steven Spielberg's comments on growing antisemitism

  Israel has reposted a video of filmmaker Steven Spielberg commenting on growing antisemitism across the world amid Israel-Hamas war.

• 12 Dec 2023, 04:28:00 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas war LIVE: Israel army says more than 10% of soldier deaths in Gaza from friendly fire

  On Tuesday, Israel army revealed that more than 10% of its soldiers died in Gaza due to accidental friendly fire.

  "To date there have been 105 deaths since the ground operations, 20 of which were accidents," a military spokesperson told AFP.

  Thirteen were the result of friendly fire, while the others were killed in incidents involving weaponry, machinery, trampling, or "firing irregularities", the spokesperson said.

• 12 Dec 2023, 04:14:39 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas war LIVE: Israel Defense Forces uncover terrorist training center in Gaza

  Israel Defense Forces shared a video of uncovering a terrorist training center in Gaza. Its soldiers claimed to have found many weapons including rifles, grenades, cartridges inside the center.

• 12 Dec 2023, 03:59:21 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas War LIVE: Israel pummels southern Gaza as hunger tightens grip

  Israeli warplanes and tanks pounded southern Gaza overnight and on Tuesday, and the U.N. said aid distribution to Gazans facing growing hunger had largely stopped because of the intensity of fighting in the two-month-old war between Israel and Hamas.

  In the southern Gazan city of Rafah, which borders Egypt, health officials said 22 people including children were killed in an Israeli air strike on houses overnight. Civil emergency workers were searching for more victims under the rubble.

  Residents said the shelling of Rafah, where the Israeli army this month ordered people to head for their safety, was some of the heaviest in days.

• 12 Dec 2023, 03:13:07 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas War LIVE: Kremlin restates concern over Gaza situation, says aid not getting in

  The Kremlin reiterated its concern on Tuesday over the humanitarian situation in Gaza, saying it was practically impossible to deliver aid to Palestinians there while fighting between Israel and Hamas continued

• 12 Dec 2023, 02:32:23 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas War LIVE: Israel says additional border crossing to examine Gaza aid

  Israel said Monday that more humanitarian aid will enter Gaza as it announced an additional checkpoint for examining relief supplies before dispatching them to the Palestinian territory through the Rafah gateway.

  International aid organisations have struggled to get supplies to desperate Gazans under Israeli bombardment, with only the Rafah crossing in Egypt open.

• 12 Dec 2023, 02:07:37 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas War LIVE: WHO voices concern about health worker detentions in Gaza

  World Health Organisation (WHO) chief on Tuesday said he was concerned about the prolonged checks of health convoys in the Gaza Strip and the detention of health workers there.

  In a post on the X social media platform, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said a WHO-led mission to Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza on Saturday was stopped twice at a checkpoint on the way to north Gaza and on the way back, and that some staff of the Palestine Red Crescent Society were detained on both occasions.

  "We are deeply concerned about prolonged checks and detention of health workers that put lives of already fragile patients at risk," Tedros said.

• 12 Dec 2023, 01:53:05 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas War LIVE: Israel shoots down six rockets launched from Lebanon

  The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) reported that it successfully struck down six rockets out of a group that was launched by terrorists based in Lebanon at Israeli territory.

  IDF forces then attacked the sources of the launches with artillery fire.

  Meanwhile, the United States is concerned about reports that Israel used US-supplied white phosphorus munitions in an attack carried out in southern Lebanon in October, US National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said on Monday (local time).

• 12 Dec 2023, 01:35:14 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas War LIVE: Israeli forces continue to find terror bases in schools, UN facilities in Gaza

  The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) reported that soldiers from its Bisla'h infantry brigade combat team together with fighters from the 636th special forces battalion identified terrorists who were armed with shoulder-fired missiles in the Shejaiya area. The brigade directed aircraft that eliminated the terrorists.

  Further evidence of terrorists using UN facilities and schools as cover for their activities was also found.

  During an activity carried out by the 460th armored brigade's Brigade Combat Team (special forces) in the Jabaliya area, fighters located explosive charges, a Kalashnikov and an RPG hidden in bags and UNRWA (The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) in bags inside a residence. In addition, a truck full of long-range rockets was located near a school in the area.

• 12 Dec 2023, 12:55:51 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas War LIVE: Puma to end sponsorship of Israel's national football team next year

  Puma will end its sponsorship of Israel's national football team next year, in a decision made before Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, a spokesperson for the German sportswear firm said on Tuesday.

  "While two newly signed national teams - including a new statement team - will be announced later this year and in 2024, the contracts of some federations such as Serbia and Israel will expire in 2024," said the spokesperson in an emailed statement.

  The decision was taken in 2022 as part of Puma's new "fewer-bigger-better strategy" and was in line with the regular timelines for designing and developing team jerseys, added the spokesperson.

• 12 Dec 2023, 12:29:04 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas War LIVE: Chemical tanker that was hit by missile off Yemen heads for safe port

  The chemical tanker that was struck by a missile off the coast of Yemen on Tuesday is now headed for a safe port, the ship's Norwegian owner, Mowinckel Chemical Tankers, told Reuters on Tuesday.

  The STRINDA tanker's crew of 22 from India are all unhurt, Mowinckel Chair Geir Belsnes said.

• 12 Dec 2023, 12:09:11 PM IST

  Israel-Hamas War LIVE: Turkish Cypriots reject 'malicious' Israel allegation

  Turkish Cypriot authorities have denied an "unfounded and malicious allegation" by Israel that Iran was using northern Cyprus for "terrorism objectives".

  The foreign ministry of breakaway North Cyprus released the statement on Monday after the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a day earlier that Israel helped Cyprus foil an Iranian-ordered attack against Israelis and Jews on the island.

  His office gave no details of the planned attack but the statement on behalf of the Mossad intelligence service said Israel was troubled by what it saw as Iranian use of northern Cyprus "both for terrorism objectives and as an operational and transit area".

• 12 Dec 2023, 11:27:19 AM IST

  Israel-Hamas War LIVE: Three Palestinians killed in Israeli raid on West Bank's Jenin

  Three Palestinians were killed on Tuesday during an Israeli raid on the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the Palestinian health ministry said.

  An Israeli drone attack killed the three Palestinians and injured others, medical sources said, adding that the Israeli raid included the city of Jenin and its refugee camp.

• 12 Dec 2023, 10:50:37 AM IST

  Israel-Hamas War LIVE: Israel bombs Gaza after warning Hamas nears 'dissolution'

  Israel pressed on with its bombing of Gaza on Tuesday after saying its campaign to destroy Hamas has left the Palestinian militant group on the "the verge of dissolution".

  Humanitarian leaders fear the besieged territory will soon be overwhelmed by disease and starvation, and are piling diplomatic pressure on Israel to boost efforts to protect civilians.

  Fighting raged on Tuesday, with Hamas saying clashes had taken place in central Gaza and witnesses reporting deadly Israeli strikes in the south of the territory.

• 12 Dec 2023, 10:39:51 AM IST

  Israel-Hamas War LIVE: UN General Assembly set to demand Gaza ceasefire

  The UN General Assembly appeared set to demand on Tuesday an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the two-month long conflict between Israel and Hamas after the United States vetoed such a move in the Security Council.

  No country has a veto power in the 193-member General Assembly, which is due to vote on a draft resolution that mirrors the language of one that was blocked by the United States in the 15-member Security Council last week.

  General Assembly resolutions are not binding but carry political weight and reflect global views on the war in the Gaza Strip, as health authorities in the Hamas-run Palestinian enclave say the death toll from Israel's offensive had passed 18,000.

• 12 Dec 2023, 10:22:17 AM IST

  Israel-Hamas War LIVE: Israel says it's ready to fight for months to defeat Hamas

  Israel says it's prepared to fight for months or longer to defeat Gaza's Hamas rulers, as its ground offense intensifies with more airstrikes and artillery fire.

  Israel faces international outrage after its military offensive has killed more than 17,700 Palestinians in Gaza, around two-thirds of them women and children, according to the Health Ministry in the Hamas-controlled territory. About 90% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been displaced within the besieged territory, where United Nations agencies say there is no safe place to flee.

• 12 Dec 2023, 10:03:09 AM IST

  Israel-Hamas War LIVE: Missile strikes Norwegian-flagged tanker in Red Sea off Yemen

  A missile suspected to have been fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels slammed into a Norwegian-flagged tanker in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen near a key maritime chokepoint, authorities said Tuesday.

  The assault on the oil and chemical tanker Strinda expands a campaign by the Iranian-backed rebels targeting ships close to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait into apparently now striking those that have no clear ties to Israel. That potentially imperils cargo and energy shipments coming through the Suez Canal and further widens the international impact of the Israel-Hamas war now raging in the Gaza Strip.

• 12 Dec 2023, 09:26:17 AM IST

  Israel-Hamas War LIVE: Israeli defense chief resists pressure to halt Gaza offensive, says campaign will 'take time'

  Israel’s defense minister on Monday pushed back against international calls to wrap up the country’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip, saying the current phase of the operation against the Hamas militant group will “take time.”

  Yoav Gallant, a member of Israel’s three-man war cabinet, remained unswayed by a growing chorus of criticism over the widespread damage and heavy civilian death toll caused by the two-month military campaign. The U.N. secretary-general and leading Arab states have called for an immediate cease-fire. The United States has urged Israel to reduce civilian casualties, though it has provided unwavering diplomatic and military support.

• 12 Dec 2023, 09:12:57 AM IST

  Israel-Hamas War LIVE: Cruise missile from Yemen strikes tanker ship, say US officials

  A land-based cruise missile launched from Houthi-controlled Yemen struck a commercial tanker vessel, causing a fire and damage but no casualties, two U.S. defence officials told Reuters on Monday.

  The attack on the tanker STRINDA took place about 60 nautical miles (111km) north of the Bab al-Mandab Strait about 2100 GMT, one of officials said. The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Mason was there and provided aid, the officials said.

  The second official said the STRINDA was moving under its own power in the hours after the attack.

• 12 Dec 2023, 08:57:12 AM IST

  Israel-Hamas War LIVE: Israel bombs Gaza after warning Hamas nears 'dissolution'

  Israel pressed on with its bombing of Gaza on Tuesday after saying its campaign to destroy Hamas has left the Palestinian militant group on the "the verge of dissolution".

  Humanitarian leaders fear the besieged territory will soon be overwhelmed by disease and starvation, and are piling diplomatic pressure on Israel to boost efforts to protect civilians.

  Fierce fighting raged on Tuesday, with Hamas saying clashes had taken place in central Gaza and witnesses reporting deadly Israeli strikes in the south of the territory.

  Strikes on Monday targeted Gaza's main southern city of Khan Yunis, now the epicentre of the fighting, as well as Rafah, a city on the border with Egypt where tens of thousands of people are seeking shelter.