Cover image: Egyptian volunteers gather around a truck carrying humanitarian aid at the Rafah crossing, on the Egyptian side, October 22, 2023. STRINGER / REUTERS
- Thirty-three humanitarian aid trucks entered Gaza on Sunday via the Rafah crossing point on the border with Egypt, said the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. This is the largest convoy to enter the besieged Palestinian territory since the limited resumption of the delivery of humanitarian aid on October 21, the UN office said. In total, 117 trucks of humanitarian aid were able to enter Gaza.
- Preventing humanitarian aid from reaching Gaza could constitute “a crime”, declared Sunday the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, for whom “Israel must ensure without delay that civilians receive food, medicine” in Gaza.
- The Israeli army announced, overnight from Sunday to Monday, that it had carried out strikes in Syria “in response to Syrian fire towards Israeli territory”as well as in Lebanon Or “targets of the terrorist organization Hezbollah” were targeted.
- US ally Jordan has asked Washington to deploy Patriot air defense systems to strengthen its border protection as tensions in the region intensify, the Jordanian army spokesperson said on Sunday.
- US Vice President Kamala Harris said the United States had no “absolutely no intention, or plan, to send combat troops to Israel or Gaza.” She recalled that Washington did not conflate Hamas and the Palestinians. “Palestinians deserve measures of safety and security, self-determination and dignity, and we have been very clear that the rules of war must be respected and humanitarian aid must be delivered”Ms. Harris said in an interview broadcast Sunday on CBS.
- Several dozen men stormed the tarmac and terminal of Makhachkala airport on Sunday evening, capital of the predominantly Muslim Russian republic of Dagestan, upon the announcement that a plane from Israel was to land there. According to the Dagestan Ministry of Health, at least ten people were injured, two of whom are in a ” critical state “. Russia’s aviation agency, Rossaviatsia, announced that the airport would remain closed until November 6.
- The Palestinian Red Crescent said on Sunday evening that the Israeli army had repeatedly bombed the area around one of its hospitals in Gaza, causing damage and endangering patients and civilians who came to take refuge there.
- Hamas says more than 8,000 people, mostly civilians, nearly half of them children, were killed in Israeli bombings since the start of the war. More than 1,400 people died, mainly civilians, during the attack perpetrated by the Palestinian Islamist movement in Israel on October 7.
- According to Reporters Without Borders, journalists who were victims of strikes in Lebanon on October 13 were targeted. Two bombings fell thirty seconds apart on a group of seven journalists covering the clashes between Hezbollah and Israel in southern Lebanon. One of them died, and four were injured.
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