Al Jazeera :
UNICEF says Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed at least one child per day and wounded 10 since October 4.
Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati says he hopes a ceasefire with Israel will be announced in the coming hours or days as US envoy Amos Hochstein travels to the region for truce talks.
An Israeli air strike at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya destroys a warehouse containing medical supplies that were received only days ago.
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has killed at least 43,163 Palestinians and wounded 101,510 since October 7, 2023. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day and more than 200 were taken captive.
In Lebanon, at least 2,822 people have been killed and 12,937 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war on Gaza began.
Hamas says in a statement that the latest Israeli raid on Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank and the assassination of its senior operative Hussam al-Mallah will not stop the Palestinian resistance.
It said Israeli raids across occupied areas further confirm that the Israeli approach “is extending from Gaza to the West Bank and every inch of our land”.
However, it said the killings, which included two people in the Nur Shams refugee camp, “will not weaken our resistance, nor will they break the will of our people to embrace the resistance and support it in all the cities, camps and villages of our proud West Bank”.
A youth movement has announced the launch of a global hunger strike campaign, called “Support for Gaza”, to attract attention to famine-like conditions in the enclave.
Activists with the Global Youth Movement said they want the siege of Gaza to be broken, the forced displacement of Palestinians to be stopped, and humanitarian aid to be brought into northern Gaza starting from November 1.
The movement said in a statement published by Palestinian media that the strike will not end until the campaign’s demands are met.
This comes as UN and international organisations operating on the ground in Gaza report that food insecurity levels are rising to catastrophic levels in the enclave as the Israeli military blocks most aid.
Palestinians in Gaza have been living under an Israeli-imposed land, sea and air blockade since 2007, leading rights groups to refer to the enclave as an “open-air prison”.
Israel now appears to be trying to depopulate Gaza by terminating UNRWA’s services, an irreplaceable lifeline for the population, according to analysts.
“It seems very clear from the way Israel is carrying out this war…that Israel is trying to make life so difficult in Gaza that people leave,” said Khaled Elgindy, an expert on Israel and Palestine and a senior fellow for the Middle East Institute.
