Israel Palestine War News Live: Israel has asked Gazans to move south out of harm’s way
Israel-Hamas War News Live:
At least 11 Palestinians were killed today after Israel pounded Gaza with air strikes. Palestinian media reported 11 people were killed in an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis.
The strikes came hours after Israel warned it would “increase” its attacks in Gaza’s north and called on Gazans to move south out of harm’s way.
“For your own safety move southward. We will continue to attack in the area of Gaza City and increase attacks,” Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a briefing to Israeli reporters.
Earlier on Saturday, the first humanitarian aid convoy of 20 trucks to be allowed into the Gaza Strip since war broke out on October 7 arrived through the Rafah border crossing.
Israel started its “total siege” of Gaza after an October 7 cross-border attack on its cities by Hamas members, who killed 1,400 people.
Gaza’s Health Ministry has said that Israel’s air and missile strikes had killed at least 4,385 Palestinians, including hundreds of children.
Here are the live updates on the Israel-Hamas war:
Get The HindkeshariUpdatesTurn on notifications to receive alerts as this story develops.
Israel has amassed tanks and troops for a planned Gaza ground invasion with the objective of “crushing” Hamas.
In a video distributed by the Israeli military on Saturday, Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi told troops, “We are going to go into the Gaza Strip to destroy Hamas operatives and Hamas infrastructure and we will have in our mind the memories of the images and those who fell on Saturday two weeks ago.”
Israeli troops have carried out live fire drills “in preparations for the next stage of war”, footage released by the Israeli Army on Saturday showed.
The US has proposed a draft UN Security Council resolution that says Israel has a right to defend itself, the news agency Reuters reported.
The draft text also calls for the protection of civilians including those who are trying to get to safety.
It was not immediately clear if or when the US planned to put the draft resolution to a vote.
Israel today said it killed “terror operatives” from Hamas and Islamic Jihad in an air strike on a mosque in the West Bank’s Jenin.
The strike hit the Al-Ansar mosque, which the Israeli military said “was used by the terrorists as a command centre to plan the attacks and as a base for their execution”.
The IDF & ISA just conducted an aerial strike on a Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist compound in the Al-Ansar Mosque in Jenin.
Recent IDF intel revealed that the Mosque was used as a command center to plan and execute terrorist attacks against civilians. pic.twitter.com/gQfyv6wUAV
– Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 22, 2023
The Israeli military said those targeted had already carried out “several terror attacks over the last months, and were organising an additional imminent terror attack”.
It said they were “neutralised”, without giving details on the number killed in the strike.
Israel has said it would “increase” its attacks in Gaza’s north and has called on Gazans to move south out of harm’s way.
“For your own safety move southward. We will continue to attack in the area of Gaza City and increase attacks,” Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a briefing to Israeli reporters.
At least 11 Palestinians were killed today after Israel attacked Gaza with air strikes.
Palestinian media reported at least 11 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis.