US, Israel say a halt would only benefit Hamas, allowing the militants to regroup and attack again. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Smoke rising above the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Nov 4.A Palestinian man stands on the rubble of a collapsed building following a strike by the Israeli military on Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Nov 4.A man carries a child into a hospital following Israel's bombardment of Gaza City's eastern suburb of Shujaiya, on Nov 4.
Palestinian news agency WAFA said 51 Palestinians, mostly women and children, were killed and scores wounded in an Israeli bombardment of Gaza’s Maghazi refugee camp on Saturday night. Reuters could not independently verify the WAFA report.
“This war is just going to produce more pain for Palestinians, for Israelis, and this is going to push us all again into the abyss of hatred and dehumanisation,” Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said in a joint news conference with Mr Blinken. “So that needs to stop.” Arab leaders have also appeared reluctant to make comprehensive comments about the future of Gaza, saying the focus should remain on stopping the war and that it was not possible to know what the enclave would look like once the fighting stopped.
This year had already been the deadliest for West Bank residents in at least 15 years, with some 200 Palestinians and 26 Israelis killed, according to United Nations data. Another 121 West Bank Palestinians have been killed since the Oct 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.Daily attacks by Israeli settlers have more than doubled, UN figures show, even though most of the deaths have occurred during clashes with IDF soldiers.
The Israeli military said it would enable Palestinians to travel on a main Gaza highway, the Salah a-Din road, during a three-hour window on Saturday. Several residents told Reuters they were too afraid to use the road. Many posted warnings on social media that Israeli tanks were stationed there.
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