The war between Israel and Hamas fighters entered its 19th day on Wednesday, October 25, worsening humanitarian situations in the Gaza Strip with Israel ready for ground invasion in the Palestinian enclave.
Gaza health ministry said more than 6,546 have been killed and about 17,439 wounded. The authorities said 70 percent of the dead were children (2,740), women (1584), and elderly (364).
On the Israeli side, at least 1,405 people have been killed including 306 soldiers and 5,132 injured.
Latest updates
- The health ministry in Gaza said the health care system in Gaza is completely out of service and is in a state of complete collapse.
- Qatar’s foreign minister said negotiations on the release of hostages held by Hamas are continuing.
- At least eight Syrian soldiers were killed and seven others injured in Israeli airstrikes on Wednesday.
- The head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday met with Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri and Islamic Jihad chief Ziad al-Nakhala in Beirut
- The innocent population of Palestinians cannot be collateral damage as Israel pursues its right to go after Hamas, Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister has warned even as he admitted “different strands of opinion” within the European Union (EU) on the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
- Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations Gildad Erdan is demanding that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres resign.
- Amidst reports of an imminent ground invasion of Gaza by Israel, President Joe Biden has said that Israel can make its own decisions, as the US firmly backs its ally while urging caution.
- In the past 24 hours, 756 Palestinians, including 344 children, were killed in Israeli strikes, the Gaza health ministry said.
- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees has warned that hospitals in Gaza could be closed by Wednesday evening if no fuel is delivered.
- The Palestinian Foreign Ministry “condemned” Israel’s call for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to resign, calling it an “unprovoked attack”.
- The Hamas health ministry reported that at least 50 people were killed in a single hour of increased Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip.
- Israel Defense Forces said it has killed the commander of Hamas’s North Khan Younis Battalion, Taysir Mubasher, in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip.
- India’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador R. Ravindra urged the parties to work towards creating conditions necessary for peace and to restart direct negotiations through de-escalation and the cessation of violence.
