Status: 30.10.2023, 06:23 a.m.
By: Christian Stör, Robert Wagner, Felix Busjaeger
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Israel's military is expanding its fight against Hamas in Gaza. Fierce fighting in the West Bank. The latest developments in the news ticker.
- Advancing in Gaza: Israel intensifies its advance against Hamas
- According to the military: Number of hostages abducted to Gaza has risen to 239
- Forecast for the war in Israel: General assumes that it will last a long time – economy will have to reopen
- The information on the war in Israel processed here comes from international media and news agencies, but also from the parties to the conflict. However, some of the information on the situation in Israel and the Gaza Strip cannot be independently verified. Even in these cases, we remain transparent.
Update from October 30, 06:00 a.m.: Three Palestinians have been killed in Israeli army raids in the West Bank city of Jenin, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa. About a hundred military vehicles and bulldozers entered the city, it said. According to The Times of Israel, Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades said they were fighting Israeli forces in the city with IEDs, among other things. The Israeli army has not yet provided any information on this.
Israeli tanks are taking up positions along Israel's border with the Gaza Strip. © Maya Alleruzzo/AP/dpa
Israel intensifies its advances against Hamas
Update from October 30, 05:30 a.m.: While Israel's military in the Gaza Strip is increasingly advancing against the Gaza Strip with tank formations and warplanes, the humanitarian situation for the people there is becoming increasingly dire. Although Israel has urged the civilians remaining in the north of the Gaza Strip, including patients in hospitals, to seek safety in the south, thousands of people remain at Shifa Hospital, according to TV reports. According to Israel, the hospital also serves as a Hamas command center.
Anti-Jewish attacks in Dagestan
Update from October 29, 21:18 p.m.: Shocking images from an airport in the Russian republic of Dagestan are currently going around the world. In the city of Makhachkala, a pro-Palestinian mob, mostly made up of young men, stormed the airport terminal after rumors circulated that Jewish refugees from Israel were on a plane from Tel Aviv. In some cases, the mob also stormed the airfield. The airfield was temporarily closed, incoming planes were diverted to other airports, according to the state aviation regulator Rosaviatsiya, according to the Tass agency.
The plane landed at an alternate airport, but according to media reports, there was also unrest there. Passengers were instructed to stay on the plane and riot police were called to the scene of the accident to protect them. Makhachkala is among the cities in the North Caucasus where evacuation flights for Russian citizens from Israel land. The majority of the population in this area of Russia is Muslim.
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War in Israel: Number of hostages taken to Gaza has risen to 239
Update, October 29, 20:14 p.m.: According to the Israeli army, the number of hostages taken by Hamas to the Gaza Strip has risen to 239. Army spokesman Daniel Hagari said, according to the Times of Israel, that the military had so far informed the families of 239 hostages. The four hostages released so far are not included in this list.
Hagari added that this figure is not definitive, as new information is constantly being processed. "That's an unbelievable number. There are foreign workers among the hostages, we need time to reach all the families." There are currently 40 people whose fate is currently unknown.
War in Israel: General assumes that it will last a long time – economy will have to reopen
Update October 29, 19:59 p.m.: The head of the Israeli army's Home Front Command, Major General Rafi Milo, believes that the war in the Gaza Strip could last months and that the economy will have to restart while the fighting is still ongoing. "This war will last a long time, weeks or months," Milo said at a press conference in the southern city of Ashkelon. The Home Command is conducting daily assessments of the situation to decide whether the current restrictions can be lifted.
"We're looking at the capabilities and intentions of the enemies," Milo said. "Since it's going to be a long war, everyday life will slowly [return to normal]. The economy needs to get back on track," he added. Milo also noted that soldiers from the Home Front Command are stationed throughout the country to provide Israeli civilians with a sense of security.
War in Israel: Red Crescent in Gaza accuses Israel of deliberately endangering civilians
Update October 29, 19:08 p.m.: The Red Crescent in Gaza accuses the Israeli military of endangering civilians by airstrikes on its hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. "The Israeli army continues to fire rockets directly near the Al-Quds Hospital in order to force medical personnel, displaced persons and patients to evacuate the hospital," the medical organization said in a statement. These attacks had caused "significant damage" to the hospital and "exposed residents and patients to the risk of suffocation," the statement continued. Hamas terrorists are said to have barricaded themselves in the hospital, according to the Israeli military.
War in Israel: US and UK coordinate efforts to prevent expansion
Update from October 29, 17:45 p.m.: The Secretary of State of the United States, Anthony Blinken, and the United Kingdom, James Cleverly, coordinated their approach to the current Middle East crisis in a telephone conversation yesterday. The aim is to better coordinate the commitment of their two states in order to prevent an expansion of the war in Israel.
Both leaders "reaffirmed Israel's right to self-defense, discussed their engagement with regional partners to prevent the conflict from spreading and ensure the release of the hostages," according to a U.S. statement. "They reaffirmed the need to maintain humanitarian aid to the civilian population in Gaza," it added.
War in Israel: Ground troops kill numerous Hamas terrorists
Update, October 29, 16:59 p.m.: According to the Israel Defense Forces, the soldiers have so far killed several Palestinian terrorists in clashes in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. In addition to the killed Hamas fighters who emerged from a tunnel near the Erez crossing, other armed Palestinians were killed in other clashes nearby, the Times of Israel reports. In addition, the ground forces ordered the air force to carry out drone strikes on two Hamas hideouts, in which several suspected Hamas members were also killed.
Update from October 29, 16:09 p.m.: The Israeli army says it has destroyed a suspected Hezbollah site in southern Lebanon, where another attack with anti-tank missiles on Israel is said to have been prepared. The attack was aimed at the area around the northern Israeli community of Avivim, the army said. Since the beginning of the war in Israel, rockets have been repeatedly fired at Israel from southern Lebanon.
War in Israel: Hamas uses tunnels to take Israeli soldiers by surprise
Update, October 29, 15:13 p.m.: In the ongoing ground offensive in the northern Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers are also dealing with a widely ramified tunnel system that Hamas uses for surprise attacks. According to the Times of Israel, this apparently happened today. According to reports, a large number of Hamas armed fighters emerged from a tunnel near Eretz, near the border with Israel, and engaged in a firefight with Israeli ground forces. Several Hamas terrorists were reportedly killed.
Numerous Attacks on Targets in the Gaza Strip: War in Israel Expands
First reported on 29 October: Tel Aviv – The war in Israel is currently on the verge of a new expansion. According to the Israeli army, combat operations in the Gaza Strip have recently been massively expanded. Hundreds of positions of the Islamist Hamas are said to have been attacked. In the course of the past few days, a total of more than 450 targets in Gaza are said to have been bombed in the Israeli war.
War in Israel in a New Phase: Ground Offensive in the Gaza Strip Seems to Have Begun
Following Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7, the Israeli government announced a large-scale ground offensive on the Gaza Strip. The mission had been delayed for several days, but in the meantime there are increasing indications that a new phase in the war in Israel has begun. ZDF correspondent Bewerunge said on Sunday that it no longer makes sense to beat around the bush 24 hours after the massive ground operations. "This is the beginning of a ground offensive, this is THE ground offensive."
As part of the latest operations in the Israeli war, which could possibly mark the beginning of the major ground offensive – which is generally considered dangerous – an officer was seriously injured during the night, according to reports from the Israeli military. In the northern Gaza Strip he was hit by a mortar shell. Another Israeli soldier was wounded in a clash with terrorists in the north. Both are being treated in hospital, Israel's military said. (with agency material)