Israel-Hamas war
US President Joe Biden warned Wednesday he would stop supplying Israel with artillery shells and other weapons if it attacks Rafah in southern Gaza, as he deplored the fact that civilians had been killed by the dropping of US bombs. Read our liveblog for all the latest developments on Israel’s war on Gaza.
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- Israel said on Wednesday that it had reopened the Kerem Shalom border crossing to humanitarian aid for Gaza.
- Hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip have only three days of fuel left, due to the closure of border crossings, the head of the World Health Organization warned on Wednesday.
- Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said on Wednesday “the mission has not been completed” in Israel’s north in the conflict with Lebanon’s Hezbollah, and that he remained determined to allow the safe return of evacuated residents to their homes.
- In separate statements, Qatar and the African Union condemned Israel’s incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Wednesday and called on the international community to stop a “deadly escalation” of the war and prevent a “genocide”.
- At least 34,844 Palestinians have been killed and an estimated 78,404 have been wounded in Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory. Some 1,170 people were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks and 250 people were taken hostage, according to Israeli figures, with 132 still missing.
- The Israeli military appeared on Wednesday to play down an arms shipment hold-up by the US, whose administration expressed disapproval of this week’s operation in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, saying the allies resolve any disagreements “behind closed doors”.
- A Lebanese security source said five people including two Hezbollah fighters were killed Wednesday in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon, with a Palestinian armed group reporting three fatalities among its ranks.
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About casualty figures from Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry:
Gaza’s health ministry collects data from the enclave’s hospitals and the Palestinian Red Crescent. For more on the health ministry’s casualty figures, click here.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, Reuters, AP)
