Live blog: ++ Israel reports around 9,000 terrorists killed ++

Israel says it has killed around 9,000 Hamas terrorists so far. China calls for an international peace conference for the Gaza Strip. All developments in the live blog.

According to the local health authority run by the terrorist organization Hamas, 24,100 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war. More than 60,800 people were injured. In the past 24 hours, 132 Palestinians were killed and 252 others were injured.

Just over three months after the start of the Gaza war, there are signs of increasing US frustration with Israel’s conduct of the war. For weeks, Washington has been urging Israel to move from the intensive phase of heavy bombing to more targeted strikes against the terrorist organization Hamas. Asked whether the US should put more pressure on Israel, US National Security Council communications director John Kirby said on CBS’ “Face the Nation”: “We believe it is time “to make this transition”.

US President Joe Biden is “increasingly frustrated” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rejection of most of the US government’s recent requests related to the war in Gaza, the news portal Axios reported, citing four US officials. According to Biden and his advisors, Israel is not doing enough in terms of humanitarian aid for the civilian population in the Gaza Strip.

The Turkish judiciary is investigating Israeli professional footballer Sagiv Jehezkel after celebrating a goal. Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc announced this in the short message service X. First division club Antalyaspor also released the 28-year-old right winger after the 1-1 draw against Trabzonspor, it said on the club’s homepage.

Jehezkel held his bandaged arm up to the cameras after his equalizer in the 68th minute. On it was handwritten in English the note “100 days” and the date October 7th. and a Star of David. The Attorney General’s Office’s investigation was based on “public incitement to hatred and hostility,” Tunc’s post on X said.

Jehezkel was arrested during the game, state news agency Anadolu reported. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli Foreign Ministry are trying to bring the player to Israel, Israel’s Channel 12 reported.

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong has called for a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza war. “Australia wants to see steps towards a viable ceasefire,” Wong said before departing for a trip to Israel and Jordan, the West Bank and the United Arab Emirates.

A ceasefire should never be “one-sided,” she added, according to the Australian news agency AAP.

According to its own statements, the US military has once again fended off a rocket from the Yemen-based Houthi militias in the south of the Red Sea. The Houthis fired the anti-ship cruise missile on Sunday in the direction of a US Navy destroyer, the responsible regional command of the US military said on Platform X. The missile was intercepted by the US Air Force near the Yemeni coast of Hudaydah.

Since the Gaza war broke out between Israel and the Islamist Hamas, Iran-backed Houthi rebels have repeatedly attacked ships with alleged Israeli connections in the Red Sea. Large shipping companies are increasingly avoiding the route. Because of the Houthis’ actions, the USA and Great Britain recently attacked the group’s positions in Yemen, supported by the Netherlands, Canada, Australia and Bahrain.

The Israeli armed forces say they have “eliminated” around 9,000 terrorists from the Islamist Hamas and other terrorist groups in the Gaza war so far. In addition, there are more than 50 company commanders, 19 battalion and two brigade commanders from Hamas, according to an army data list published on the occasion of the 100th day of the war.

The war was triggered by the terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas and other extremist groups on October 7th. More than 1,200 people were killed and more than 240 others were taken hostage in the Gaza Strip. Israel responded to the unprecedented attack with massive air strikes and a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip. According to the Hamas-controlled health authority, almost 24,000 people have now been killed there. This number, which cannot be independently verified, does not distinguish between fighters and civilians.

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi is calling for a larger and more effective international peace conference as well as a concrete timetable for the implementation of a two-state solution in view of the worsening crisis in the Gaza Strip. The Chinese Foreign Ministry announced this after Wang’s talks with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry in Cairo. Separately, Wang also held talks with the Secretary General of the Arab League, during which both sides agreed on several points to resolve the crisis.

Israeli soldiers have killed five Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. According to Israeli and Palestinian sources, two of them were shot dead after they broke through barriers at a checkpoint near the city of Hebron in their car. The soldiers chased the car, “shot at the terrorists and neutralized them,” the Israeli army said. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah confirmed the deaths of the two men.

In another incident near Ramallah, two teenagers were killed by Israeli soldiers, according to the ministry. The Israeli army said two attackers threw an explosive device at soldiers at a military base. In a third incident in a refugee settlement near Jericho, a young man was shot dead by Israeli soldiers, according to the Ministry of Health. According to medical sources in Jericho, a 16-year-old was killed in a raid in the settlement in which the Israeli army wanted to arrest a suspect.

An anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon has killed two people in northern Israel. Hamas says it no longer has any information about the whereabouts of many of its hostages.