Key Points
- 19:10 Hostage families: 'Guterres shameful, justifies Hamas'
- 18:51 Clash between Israel and Guterres. 'UN Secretary-General Resigns'
- 18:45 'Hamas frogmen intercepted in southern Israel'
- 17:17 Israel at the UN: 'Europe is the next to be hit'
- 18:00 The son of the murdered hostages: 'Peace with Palestine is possible, never with Hamas'
- 15:34 'Army ready for operation, we will decide with politicians'
- 13:37 Gaza's Ministry of Health, 5,791 dead including 2,360 minors
- 13:37 Israel: Diesel is available in Gaza at the Rafah crossing
- 13:36 Netanyahu: 'Jewish children hiding in attics like Anne Frank'
- 12:53 Israeli leaflets in Gaza to track down hostages
- 12:36 Netanyahu to Macron, Hamas like Isis in the streets of Paris
- 12:36 Macron, I will propose an anti-Isis coalition to fight Hamas as well
- 12:35 Hostage Freed: "I've Been Through Hell"
- 12:28 Market hit, dead and wounded in southern Gaza
- 12:00 Pizzaballa: "I condemn both the Hamas attack and the rockets on Gaza"
- 11:20 Army, 'Egypt plays a key role on hostages'
- 10:46 Tajani: "The hospital was not an Israeli missile"
- 10:23 Macron to Herzog, Israelis killed just because they are Jews
- 09:49 Red Crescent, 20 aid trucks will enter Gaza
- 09:49 Ground operation in Gaza, 'Israeli-only decision'
- 09:48 Hamas, '140 dead in Israeli night attacks on Gaza'
- 09:30 Macron to meet President Abu Mazen in Ramallah
- 09:05 Biden: "We will discuss ceasefire after the release of the hostages"
19:10
Hostage families: 'Guterres shameful, justifies Hamas'
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' statements "are outrageous": "He shamefully ignores the fact that a genocide was perpetrated against the Jewish people on Saturday, October 7, and has found an indirect way to justify the horrors that have been committed against Jews," the Forum of the Families of the Missing and Abductees in the Hamas Attack said in a statement.
18:51
Clash between Israel and Guterres. 'UN Secretary-General Resigns'
"I will not meet with the UN Secretary-General. After 7 October, there is no room for a balanced approach. Hamas must be wiped out of the world," Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, who is in New York for the UN Security Council, wrote in X
The UN Secretary-General, in his speech at the UN Headquarters, said that it was "important to recognize that Hamas' attacks did not come out of nowhere. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation." Guterres said that "the suffering of the Palestinian people cannot justify the appalling attacks by Hamas. And those appalling attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people."
Israel's ambassador to the UN called for Guterres' resignation: "The UN Secretary-General, who shows understanding for the campaign of mass murder of children, women and the elderly, is not fit to lead the UN. I call on him to resign immediately," Israel's ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, wrote on X. "There is no justification or sense in talking to those who show compassion for the most terrible atrocities committed against the citizens of Israel and the Jewish people. There are simply no words," Erdan noted.
18:45
'Hamas frogmen intercepted in southern Israel'
Units of the Israeli army are engaged in repelling an infiltration by Hamas commandos considered ''the most important since the October 7 massacres in the border kibbutzim''. A dozen frogmen from the north of the Gaza Strip tried to infiltrate the coast of Zikim in southern Israel by sea. Four of them were killed, while the others are still being sought. A state of alert has been raised in the vicinity of the Israeli city of Ashkelon.
17:17
Israel at the UN: 'Europe is the next to be hit'
"Europe will be the next to be hit by Hamas. He will have terrorists at his door," Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said in a speech at the UN.
18:00
Son of Killed Hostages: 'Peace with Palestine Possible, Never with Hamas'
"Peace with Palestine is possible, but not with Hamas. Never with Hamas." This is what Nadav Kipnis, son of Eviatar and Lilach, the Italian-Israeli couple kidnapped in the kibbutz of Be'er in the attack of October 7 and killed by Hamas, told ANSA.
"First of all, I would like to say that the two Israeli-American women who were released are two distant relatives of mine. And I'm happy for them, but I want to say that these images that are going around (in which a released hostage shakes hands with a kidnapper and says 'shalom') could be fake. Since they have killed, kidnapped and raped people, we cannot expect them to be so generous."
15:34
'Army ready for operation, we will decide with politicians'
The army is ready for the ground invasion of Gaza and will make the decision "with political power". This was said by the Chief of Staff of the Army Herzi Halevi, quoted by the media.
13:37
Gaza's Ministry of Health, 5,791 dead, including 2,360 minors
The death toll in Gaza from Israeli attacks has risen to 5,791, including 2,360 children. This was said by the Ministry of Health in Gaza, updating the data that also report 704 people killed in 24 hours. According to the same source, 12 hospitals are now closed and 32 clinics are unable to provide services to their patients.
13:37
Israel: there is diesel in Gaza, it is located at the Rafah crossing
A short distance from the Rafah crossing, Hamas "has set aside half a million liters of diesel," Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee said today, while Gaza authorities denounced the lack of fuel as it gradually paralyzed the health system and bakeries in the Gaza Strip. On X, Adraee published an aerial image of Rafah and wrote: "Hamas-Isis steals fuel from the inhabitants and diverts it to its underground tunnels, rocket launchers and its leaders. These are Hamas' priorities."
13:36
Netanyahu: 'Jewish children hiding in attics like Anne Frank'
In the Hamas attack on October 7, Jewish children were forced to "hide in attics" just "like Anne Frank" by the Nazis. This was said by the Israeli Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, quoted by the Israeli media, alongside French President Emmanuel Macron in Tel Aviv. The prime minister also compared the strafing of Israeli civilians to the Babyn Yar massacre in Kiev, where some 1941,34 Jews were shot in 000.
12:53
Israeli leaflets in Gaza to track down hostages
Israel today distributed leaflets in the Khan Yunes area (south of Gaza) asking the local population to help in the search for Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip. "If you want a better future for you and your children, send us credible and useful information about the hostages in your area. We assure you of maximum discretion, protection and even a monetary reward." The leaflet also mentions several possible channels of communication from Gaza with the Israeli army.
12:36
Netanyahu to Macron, Hamas like Isis in the streets of Paris
Hamas is like ISIS in the streets of "Nice, Lyon, Paris: the Israeli people refuse to live with ISIS on their borders. We need to dismantle this terror machine." Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu told French President Emmanuel Macron in Tel Aviv, recalling the ISIS attacks in France with hundreds of victims.
12:36
Macron, I will propose an anti-Isis coalition that also fights Hamas
"I want to propose to our partners in the anti-ISIS coalition in Iraq and Syria" that they build "an international and regional coalition to fight Hamas and the terrorist groups that threaten us all." French President Emmanuel Macron told Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv.
12:35
Hostage Freed: "I've Been Through Hell"
"I've been through hell. We never thought it would happen." This was said by Yocheved Lifshitz, the 85-year-old woman freed last night by Hamas. "They put me on a motorcycle, blew up the electronic fence that cost $2.5 billion but it didn't help. I was taken hostage, there was no distinction between old and young. It was very painful. They hit my ribs and made it hard for me to breathe."
"We reached a tunnel," he added, "then we walked for miles on wet earth, there's a gigantic system of tunnels, like spider webs."
12:28
Market hit, dead and injured in southern Gaza
An Israeli shelling in the Nusseirat market (in the southern sector of the Gaza Strip) caused a high number of deaths and injuries, according to witnesses on the spot contacted by ANSA.
The target of the attack was, apparently, a building near the largest supermarket in the Gaza Strip, which was very crowded at the time. The victims were transported to the Shuhada hospital in Khan Yunes where there is also an alert situation due to fuel shortages. Israeli air force struck today in the same area in Deir el-Balah and Rafah, causing 18 deaths according to the Maan news agency.
12:00
Pizzaballa: "I condemn both the Hamas attack and the rockets on Gaza"
"Conscience and moral duty oblige me to state clearly that what happened on 7 October in southern Israel is in no way admissible and we cannot fail to condemn it. There is no reason for such an atrocity. Yes, we have the duty to affirm and denounce it," says the Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa in a letter to the Diocese. "The same conscience, however, with a great weight on my heart, leads me today to affirm with equal clarity that this new cycle of violence has led to more than five thousand deaths in Gaza, including many women and children, tens of thousands injured, neighborhoods razed to the ground, lack of medicines, water, and basic necessities for more than two million people. These are tragedies that are incomprehensible and that we have a duty to denounce and condemn unreservedly."
11:20
Army, 'Egypt plays a key role on hostages'
Egypt is playing a ''key role'' in the case of Israelis being held hostage in Gaza and the missing. This was stated by military spokesman Daniel Hagari, commenting on the release yesterday of two elderly Israeli citizens. Egypt's efforts are efficient and welcome. We work in cooperation with Egypt and the Red Cross, and we thank them."
"The release of all hostages has the highest priority for us," he said.
10:46
Tajani: "The hospital was not an Israeli missile"
"It seems to me that common sense has prevailed in Israel so far, the reaction has been proportionate to the cowardly aggression they have suffered. So far, they have only hit Hamas centers. Even the missile that hit a hospital in Gaza and which was initially attributed to Israel, was not actually an Israeli missile, fell on the parking lot of the hospital and caused about fifty deaths and not 500 as reported: it must be prevented from playing negative roles, inflaming the Arab masses." This was said by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani to Sky Tg 24.
10:23
Macron to Herzog, Israelis killed just because they were Jews
The Israelis involved in the Hamas attack "were killed only because they were Jews and wanted to live in peace." French President Emmanuel Macron told his Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog in Tel Aviv, reiterating France's solidarity "today and tomorrow". Macron, quoted by Israeli media, added that "the hostages must be immediately freed."
09:49
Red Crescent, 20 trucks with aid will enter Gaza
The Palestinian Red Crescent has announced that 20 trucks of humanitarian aid will enter Gaza today. This was reported by local sources.
09:49
Ground operation in Gaza, 'Israeli-only decision'
"The United States, which is our strategic ally, has a set of strategic considerations and interests in the region that we value. But one thing must be kept in mind: the war is happening on our border and not thousands of miles from here," military spokesman Daniel Hagari said in response to a journalist who asked if the decision to launch a ground operation in Gaza was conditional on US advice. "After the war, we will have to live along a border from which there will no longer be a threat like the one on October 7.
So this is a decision that we have to make on our own."
09:48
Hamas, '140 dead in Israeli night attacks on Gaza'
At least 140 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip overnight, the Hamas government said in a statement this morning, adding that there were "hundreds injured" and "dozens of homes were destroyed."
09:30
Macron to meet President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah
French President Emmanuel Macron, who arrived in Israel today, will meet Palestinian President Abbas in Ramallah, after meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog and the families of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.
09:05
Biden: "We will discuss ceasefire after the release of the hostages"
Biden: "We will discuss the ceasefire after the release of the hostages."
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