UN leaders say Gaza warfare should ‘cease now’ as reported dying toll tops 10,000 By Reuters

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

GAZA (Reuters) – U.N. company leaders saying “sufficient is sufficient” demanded a humanitarian ceasefire on Monday practically a month into Gaza’s warfare, as well being authorities within the enclave stated the dying toll from Israeli strikes now exceeded 10,000.

Israel has rebuffed mounting worldwide strain for a ceasefire, saying hostages taken by Hamas militants throughout their rampage in southern Israel on Oct. 7 must be launched first.

“A whole inhabitants is besieged and beneath assault, denied entry to the necessities for survival, bombed of their houses, shelters, hospitals and locations of worship. That is unacceptable,” the U.N. chiefs stated in a joint assertion.

“We want a right away humanitarian ceasefire. It has been 30 days. Sufficient is sufficient. This should cease now.”

The 18 signatories embrace the U.N. Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk, World Well being Group head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and U.N. support chief Martin Griffiths.

The reported variety of fatalities in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct. 7 has now surpassed 10,000, with the well being ministry within the Hamas-controlled enclave saying at the very least 10,022 Palestinians have been killed together with 4,104 kids.

A Reuters journalist in Gaza stated an in a single day bombardment by air, floor and sea was probably the most intense since Israel started its offensive following the Oct. 7 assault during which Hamas killed 1,400 folks and seized greater than 240 hostages.

Israel, which says its forces have encircled Gaza Metropolis, faces mounting strain over civilian casualties. A U.S. diplomatic push within the area is meant to scale back dangers of the battle escalating.

The well being ministry in Gaza stated dozens of individuals have been killed by the Israeli air strikes in Gaza Metropolis and additional south in Gaza neighbourhoods resembling Zawaida and Deir Al-Balah. Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa TV quoted medical sources as saying at the very least 75 Palestinians have been killed and 106 harm within the assaults.

Palestinian well being officers stated eight folks have been killed in an air strike in a single day on Gaza Metropolis’s Rantissi most cancers hospital. Israel’s navy stated it was wanting into the report.

The Israeli military stated its strikes hit “tunnels, terrorists, navy compounds, remark posts, and anti-tank missile launch posts”. Floor troops killed a number of Hamas fighters whereas taking a militant compound containing remark posts, coaching areas and underground tunnels, it stated.

Gaza border officers stated the Rafah crossing has resumed operations to permit overseas passport holders and critically wounded Palestinians into Egypt. A whole lot of overseas nationals and wounded have been allowed to depart Gaza for Egypt final week however no such exits have been reported since Nov. 3.

BLINKEN IN TURKEY, CIA CHIEF MAY VISIT ISRAEL

Turkish International Minister Hakan Fidan informed his U.S. counterpart Antony Blinken in a gathering in Ankara {that a} ceasefire wanted to be declared urgently in Gaza, a Turkish overseas ministry supply stated.

Blinken made an unannounced go to to the West Financial institution on Sunday to satisfy Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who joined worldwide requires a right away ceasefire. Blinken reiterated U.S. considerations {that a} ceasefire may support Hamas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dominated one out for now.

U.S. CIA Director William Burns was additionally set to go to Israel on Monday to debate the warfare and intelligence with officers, the New York Instances reported. Burns additionally will make stops in different regional states, it quoted an unnamed U.S. official as saying.

The CIA didn’t reply to Reuters’ request for remark.

Israel stated 31 troopers had been killed because it started expanded floor operations in Gaza on Oct. 27, preventing 1000’s of Hamas fighters who imagine they’ll maintain off Israel’s advance from a warren of tunnels beneath the enclave.

Israel has known as on civilians in north Gaza – the guts of Hamas’ forces – to evacuate for their very own security and introduced that it will allow free passage on a southbound freeway for 4 hours daily.

Nevertheless, U.N. monitoring confirmed that lower than 2,000 did so on Sunday, citing worry, heavy harm to roads and lack of know-how attributable to restricted communications, a U.N. humanitarian briefing stated.

Lieutenant-Colonel Jonathan Conricus, an Israeli navy spokesperson, confirmed reporters what he stated was aerial footage of Hamas tunnels and rocket websites at two hospitals in northern Gaza, saying this confirmed Israel was not answerable for “what’s taking place now in northern Gaza”.

A Hamas assertion known as on U.N. Secretary Basic Antonio Guterres to kind a committee to go to Gaza hospitals to confirm Israel’s “false narrative” that Hamas makes use of hospitals as websites.

On common, a toddler is killed and two are injured each 10 minutes throughout the warfare, the U.N. aid company for Palestinians stated. The company’s shelters in south Gaza are overcrowded and unable to take new arrivals, and lots of displaced individuals are sleeping within the streets, the U.N. humanitarian workplace stated.

‘TORN-APART FLESH’

Telecoms supplier Paltel stated companies have been resuming after they have been disconnected from the Israeli facet on Sunday.

U.S. Central Command, which covers the Center East, stated on X a nuclear missile submarine had arrived within the area – an uncommon announcement seen by some analysts as a message to Iran, an Israeli foe.

The Iranian overseas minister Hossein Amirabdollahian informed state TV the U.S. has despatched a message to Iran prior to now three days saying it sought a ceasefire in Gaza, however in apply Iran had seen solely U.S. “assist of genocide in Gaza.”

Folks looked for victims or survivors on the Maghazi refugee camp in Gaza, the place the well being ministry stated Israeli forces had killed at the very least 47 folks in strikes early on Sunday.

“All evening I and the opposite males have been making an attempt to choose the lifeless from the rubble. We bought kids, dismembered, torn-apart flesh,” stated Saeed al-Nejma, 53. Requested for remark, the Israeli navy stated it was gathering particulars.

In a separate assault, 21 Palestinians from one household have been killed in strikes, the well being ministry stated. Israel’s navy declined to remark.

Reuters couldn’t independently confirm these accounts.

Tensions elevated with Lebanon after an Israeli strike on a automotive within the south of the nation killed three kids and their grandmother, Lebanese authorities stated.

Israel stated it hit “terrorist targets of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon” in response to a missile assault in opposition to tanks that killed an Israeli citizen. Hezbollah stated it responded by firing rockets at Kiryat Shmona city in northern Israel.

(This story has been refiled to take away the second point out of ‘enclave’ in paragraph 1)