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A humanitarian crisis is underway in Gaza as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flee from the territory’s north to the south, heeding the Israeli military’s warnings to evacuate before an anticipated ground invasion.
Twenty-nine Americans have been killed, the State Department said Saturday. Fifteen U.S. citizens are unaccounted-for, as well as one lawful permanent resident. Most Israelis enter the military at 18. After serving for two to three years, soldiers are typically placed in the Israeli Defense Forces reserves and can serve for decades.But to some, inlcuding Josh Jacobson,"it just felt so weird to be in Boston when there is so much going on here. It is my duty as part of the collective nation of Israel to come back and help."The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group is headed from Norfolk, Va., to the Eastern Mediterranean, the U.S.
"A week ago we saw hate manifest in another way in the worst massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust. More than 1,300 innocent lives lost in Israel, including at least 27 Americans," he said. David joined the Israel Defense Forces when he was 18 and is in the reserves. Israel has called up more than 300,000 reservists since Hamas launched its terrorist attacks. Israel’s prime minister declared war on Hamas and vowed to crush it.
“But I really have to go,” Capt. Shai, who asked that his first name not be used, told NBC News at an Israeli military training camp in southern Israel. Capt. Shai said he feels bad for the plight of Palestinian civilians. “There are many Palestinians in Gaza that are innocent, that didn’t do these attacks necessarily,” he said. “But Hamas is holding them captive.”
Renat Lifshitz of New York says the war is affecting even the small details of daily life for Jews everywhere. Hamas attackers livestreamed the kidnapping of 8-year-old Ela Elyakim and 15-year-old Dafna Elyakim from the kibbutz Oct. 7.Ela and Dafna were supposed to have spent the weekend at their mother’s home in Tel Aviv, but they went to their father’s in Nahal Oz to take part in a ceremony celebrating the 70th anniversary of the kibbutz’s founding.
It was the first meeting between Iranian and Hamas officials since Hamas attacked Israel last Saturday, the state-run news agency said. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters Thursday that the U.S. did not have intelligence in advance of an imminent attack and that if it had, the administration would have shared the information with Israel.
Abbas thanked Biden for the administration's efforts and said he is ready to engage in peace talks if Palestinian people are given their rights.Twenty-nine U.S. citizens were confirmed dead in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, a State Department spokesperson said Saturday afternoon. Goldberg said she last saw her son Friday of last week. He then left with his best friend to go to the Supernova music festival near the Gaza border, where 260 people were killed.
“He’s my universe. He’s my whole life. He’s the most important thing to me,” she said, adding that she was also aware that her family’s suffering is “one small part” of a much larger, terrible event.“The families of unaccounted for Americans following the terrorist attack on Israel are going through the unthinkable.
In Washington, several thousand rallied at a hourslong protest, some holding pro-Palestinian posters, flags and umbrellas in the rain, chanting “Hey, hey, ho, ho, the occupation’s got to go” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”The World Health Organization condemned Israel's orders to evacuate"22 hospitals treating more than 2,000 inpatients in northern Gaza" in a
Israel's evacuation order has put hospital directors and health care workers in a position to choose between abandoning sick patients amid airstrikes or putting their own lives in danger while remaining on site to treat them, according to the WHO. Hagari said the destruction of anyone who was part of the attack on Israel"is a top priority" and continued to urge Gaza City residents to evacuate to the south.
“These are all my friends. These are my family,” Schwartz said, gesturing to his fellow troops. “I probably couldn’t forgive myself if I just stayed home, if I just went to work, if I was doing something else rather than being here.”Millet Ben Haim reflected on how life has changed for her since Hamas militants attacked the Nova music festival, which she attended.
“But because of the war, I can’t leave Gaza,” he said, adding that he thinks his education and “my life too” will be destroyed “because I can’t do anything.”Brothers Hesham Kaoud, Jamal Kaoud, Esam Kaoud, Nezam Kaoud, Mohammad Kaoud, along with Esam's son 20-year-old son, Ameer Kaoud, were in north Gaza visiting from California and Texas since September. They were meant to return home on Oct. 21.
Now, Shamiss' family members are waiting for additional updates from the U.S. Consulate as the Israel Defense Forces have announced a plan to implement “a wide range of offensive operative plans,” which will include “an integrated and coordinated attack from the air, sea and land.”The Israeli government said Saturday evening there were murdered and missing people from 43 different countries following the Hamas attacks.
There are a number of military tanks and vehicles in this area — stopping for fuel and then heading out in the direction of Gaza.Haniyeh said the Israeli military has “resorted to massacres, genocide and burning land attempts to displace our people and families in Gaza.” After civilians in the northern Gaza Strip were ordered to evacuate south by Israeli forces yesterday, he said, the south of Gaza is now full of “people who are sleeping in the streets” and people sleeping in open areas.Hamas militants are obstructing safe routes, preventing residents of the Gaza Strip from moving south following Israel's evacuation order, the Israel Defense Forces said.
Blinken also intends to preserve a previous deal to stabilize relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, which was recently put on hold by Saudi Arabia.Fifteen medical centers have been damaged, two hospitals have stopped providing service, and 28 health staff have been killed and dozens more injured, according to Palestinian Health Minister Mai Al-Kaila.
The IDF said that in recent days soldiers have been fighting to regain control of towns and outposts, capturing “many weapons that were in the possession of the terrorists, while evacuating the wounded who were hit.” Hanegbi also said that when it came to its intelligence failure ahead of the attacks and protecting its citizens, “We failed and no one thinks differently, and it will be investigated, but all efforts now are for war.”Israeli soldiers prepare armed drones stationed close to the Gaza Strip, from a field near the southern Israeli city of Sderot on Saturday.
Israeli soldiers walk near houses that were destroyed during a Hamas attack on the kibbutz in Be'eri, Israel, on Saturday.The foreign minister said priority needs to be placed on stopping "further civilian suffering."Blinken agreed that civilians need to be protected."We’re working together to do exactly that," he said.
As soldiers conducted maintenance on their vehicles, the sounds of small-arms fire could be heard in the distance. Smoke rose from the mountaintops from what Israel’s military says were roughly 30 mortar shells fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory. Israeli forces responded by shelling the site from which the mortars were fired.
Three young men sit in “The Sira,” one of the only few bars in town open on a Saturday. They say they are"depressed, scared, anxious, all of the above.” Al-Manar TV reported that Hezbollah fighters pounded Israeli positions in the Chebaa Farms and Kfar Chouba hills area on Saturday. Rabbi Meir Azari said that he was supposed to be officiating four bar mitzvahs on Saturday, three weddings this week and four next week — but all of them have been canceled given that so many young people have been mobilized to join the war.
"For security reasons, the Musée du Louvre is closing its doors today, Saturday, October 14. Those who have booked a visit during the day will be reimbursed," the gallery posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.The closure comes after Macron called for the mobilization of 7,000 soldiers for increased security patrols after a teacher was fatally stabbed and two more people injured in an Islamist attack on a school in Arras, northern France.
The department has advised Americans not to travel to Gaza, due to the threats of armed conflict, civil unrest and terrorism, and has also advised citizens to"reconsider travel" to Israel and the West Bank.Thousands of people have turned out to a protest in central London over the Israeli siege of Gaza.
The State Department told Americans that the crossing might only be open for a short period of time and with very little notice. "Everyone was killed, only my mother survived," he said via WhatsApp. Images from the scene show him kissing her hand as she was pulled from the wreckage alive.showing a group of people who died while fleeing northern Gaza on Friday. Among the dead in the convoy were children and women, lying in pools of blood near vehicles.Seventy were killed after Israeli airstrikes hit convoys of Palestinian evacuees heading south in Gaza.
“Lots of people are waiting here, outside the Palestinian gate. They are all waiting to get out of here, but the Palestinians are not here to open the gate, and the Egyptians are not there on their side too. Nobody has any information, any update,” she said. “We need to truck fuel into Gaza now. Fuel is the only way for people to have safe drinking water. If not, people will start dying of severe dehydration, among them young children, the elderly and women. Water is now the last remaining lifeline,” he added.SDEROT, Israel — In the small Israeli city of Sderot, on the border with northern Gaza, the steady booms of outgoing Israeli artillery can be heard. Small arms are firing in the distance.
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