November 7, 2023 Israel-Hamas war

Felix Klein, second from right, the federal government commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight against Anti-Semitism, presents the Civil Society Situation Report on Anti-Semitism #12 at the Federal Press Conference in Berlin, Germany, on November 7.

Germany has seen a sharp rise in antisemitic incidents since Hamas’ attacks on Israel one month ago, according to a government commissioner.

German Federal Criminal Police have counted “at least 2,000 crimes in connection with the Middle East conflict,” Klein said, “with great pain, just two days before the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht 1938,” referring to the violent Nazi attacks on Jewish homes and businesses in November 1938.

“How can it be that the day on which more Jewish people were murdered than on any other day since the Shoah (Holocaust) is met with massive, violent antisemitism worldwide?” Klein asked.

Klein said there have been reported incidents of antisemitic writings found on German streets, Jewish families’ homes marked with the Star of David and a Jewish community center attacked with Molotov cocktails. 

The German government has increased security measures for Jewish and Israeli institutions in Germany, Klein said.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that Jews in Germany have a “fear of being attacked,” adding it makes “her heart bleed.”

“The full force of the law” is needed against antisemitism, Baerbock said, calling for German citizens to speak up against hate.

It is Germany’s duty to protect Jewish life in the country, she said. 

Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant at the Israeli Ministry of Defence on Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 16.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Israel will “retain complete freedom of action to respond to any situation in the Gaza Strip” once the war ends.

Speaking at the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Tuesday morning, Gallant said that “at the end of this ‘campaign,’ Hamas, as a military organization or governing body in Gaza, will cease to exist.” Gallant’s comments were published on the Ynet news website.

Gallant’s comments echo those of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who on Monday said in an interview with ABC News that Israel will have the “overall security responsibility” in Gaza for an “indefinite period” after the war ends.

Taken together, the comments shed light on the Israeli government’s plans for post-war Gaza. Government officials have not yet elaborated on how Gaza would be governed should they succeed in eliminating Hamas.

Remember: US President Joe Biden warned Israel last month that re-occupying Gaza would be a mistake.

Gallant also said on the Ynet recording that the war’s top priority was to “eliminate this phenomenon called Hamas,” and that he was personally focused on “victory in the war” and returning Israeli hostages home.

Mourning his 8-year-old daughter Emily, who he believed was killed in Hamas’ October 7 attacks on Israel, Thomas Hand said he was at least partially consoled knowing that militants had not taken her hostage.

Of all the terrible possibilities for her, death was the least painful, he said.

But then the Israeli military gave him the news that nearly made him collapse.

Emily might still be alive.

“She is more than likely in a tunnel somewhere under Gaza,” Hand told CNN, recalling how the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) recently shared new intelligence.

“It’s her birthday on the 17th of [November]. She will be 9,” he said. “She won’t even know (what) day it is. She won’t know it’s her birthday. There will be no birthday cake. No party, no friends. She will just be petrified in a tunnel under Gaza. That is her birthday.”

CNN has reached out to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for comment.

Read more of CNN’s report here.

The Israeli military said Tuesday it destroyed several tunnels in a residential area in the northeastern part of the Gaza Strip. 

Soldiers, with the help of reservists, located and destroyed “a number of tunnels located in a civilian neighborhood in the Beit Hanoun area” on Monday, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.

The IDF also released a video claiming to show its soldiers destroying tunnels in Beit Hanoun, but CNN has not been able to independently confirm the location.

More context: Hamas in 2021 claimed to have built 500 kilometers (311 miles) worth of tunnels under Gaza, though it is unclear if that figure was accurate or posturing. Amid a land, sea and air blockade by Israel and a land blockade by Egypt since 2007, the tunnels are used to transport people and goods and house Hamas command centers away from the IDF’s prying eyes.

A Palestinian American couple and their 1-year-old son are safely back at their Medway, Massachusetts, home after arriving in the US at Boston Logan International Airport on Monday, their attorney Sammy Nabulsi told CNN overnight.

Abood Okal, Wafaa Abuzayda, and their son Yousef are “incredibly thankful for their family and friends around the world who spoke up on their behalf, the Medway community, the media for sharing their plight and the plight of the hundreds of other Americans trapped in Gaza, their elected officials who fought hard for their return, and the State Department for providing them with safe departure,” Nabulsi said.

Nabulsi said the family asks for privacy at this time so they can rest and recover.  

Okal previously told CNN he was in Gaza to visit relatives he hadn’t seen for years, and he said the US State Department hadn’t been providing clear guidance.

A special flight carrying relief aid for Gaza, including hygiene kits, medicine and food rations, has departed from Pakistan on its way to Egypt, according to a statement from Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani and Minister for Human Rights Khalil George, along with the Palestinian Ambassador to Pakistan, were present for the send-off ceremony at Islamabad International Airport.

According to the statement, the foreign minister “expressed Pakistan’s full solidarity with its Palestinian brothers and sisters and condemned Israel’s brutal, disproportionate and indiscriminate use of force against civilians, including women and children, currently besieged in Gaza.”

Jilani also called for an immediate end to “Israeli aggression” and a “lifting of the siege of Gaza.”

The first shipment of aid from Pakistan, consisting of 100 tons of supplies, was sent on October 19.

Humanitarian aid from Pakistan for Palestinians at Al Arish airport, Egypt, on October 20.

On Thursday, Mumtaz Baloch, spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry, said that Pakistan was deeply concerned about the dire situation in Gaza and condemned Israel’s military campaign, saying that “deliberate strikes against civilian targets including refugee camps, hospitals and apartment buildings has created an unacceptable humanitarian situation.”

Singapore’s government has issued two advisories related to the Israel-Hamas conflict, reminding residents and visitors to be cautious about political displays and donations in accordance with existing laws.

The first of advisories, both issued on Monday, warned people not to display foreign national emblems related to the conflict.

“Unless expressly exempted, the public display of foreign national emblems without a permit is an offence under the Foreign National Emblems (Control of Display) Act 1949,” the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said.

Violations of the law are punishable by a fine of up to S$500 (US$368), imprisonment for a term of up to six months, or both, the MHA added.

Even those traveling into Singapore are “advised not to display or wear such articles,” the MHA said, adding that authorities at entry checkpoints “will take firm action against those who refuse to comply, including denying their entry into Singapore.”

The statement also said that “the peace and harmony between different races and religions in Singapore should not be taken for granted, and we must not let events happening externally affect this peace and harmony we have in Singapore.”

The second advisory, issued by the country’s Office of the Commissioner of Charities, asked the public to support only those foreign charitable causes that have a permit from the commission.

“This ensures that donors’ funds are channeled to the stated, bona fide purposes,” the advisory said, adding that it also applies to “sales of merchandise where there is a representation that the proceeds will be applied for a foreign charitable purpose.”

“The Bible says that there is a time for peace and a time for war,” intoned Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu on October 30. “This is a time for war.”

But what happens when this is no longer the case? Amid the death, destruction, displacement and despair in Gaza, the focus has understandably been on Israel’s response to the pogrom visited on the Jewish state a month ago to the day.

No-one has talked much about what comes next. On Monday, Netanyahu gave us his take. “I think Israel will, for an indefinite period… have the overall security responsibility (for Gaza),” he told ABC News, “because we’ve seen what happens when we don’t have it.”

As plans go, though, this was probably deliberately vague. It could mean Israeli military boots on the ground. It could mean coordination with a peacekeeping force of some sort. In theory it could mean reoccupying Gaza as Israel did from 1967 to 2005, though despite this being favored by some right-wing ministers, it seems unlikely.

The most convenient solution for Israel, and the one US Secretary of State Antony Blinken appears to favor, would be re-establishing Palestinian Authority (PA) control in the strip – something that was violently wrested from the PA by Hamas in 2007.

But this probably won’t happen in the short-term. PA President, Mahmoud Abbas, now in his 19th year of a four-year term, already lacks legitimacy among Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

It’s hard to see him improving his standing by metaphorically riding into Gaza in the slipstream of Israeli tanks – at least not without the “comprehensive political solution that includes all of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip”, he said would be required. Again, this seems fanciful at best.

All of the above, of course, is based on two assumptions. First, that Israel fulfils its objectives, of destroying Hamas militarily, removing it from power and recovering the more than 200 hostages still being held by the militant group. And second, that Netanyahu remains in charge once the war is over – and that’s far from likely.

Most Israelis want to see him go. Moreover, as I wrote last month, the surprise would be if Netanyahu clings to power, not if he loses it. Which means the decision on what to do with Gaza the day after will most likely fall to someone else.

A French riot policeman stands guard outside the Paris Synagogue after security measures have been reinforced near Jewish temples and schools in central Paris, France, on October 9.

French authorities have recorded about 1,100 antisemitic acts since the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Tuesday, more than three times the number reported earlier in October. 

Darmanin said France was witnessing “an explosion of antisemitic acts” and that the new figure represents “double of all antisemitic acts in all of 2022.”

According to numbers published by the French Protection Service for the Jewish Community, which works with the Interior Ministry, in 2022 there were 436 antisemitic acts. 

Darmanin said authorities had so far detained 490 people related to the crimes. Some 120 of those are foreigners, he said. 

“Around 15 are in administrative detention awaiting their deportation, three have been already expelled and the others have had their residency permits withdrawn,” said the minister on French Radio Sud, without specifying nationalities.

On October 17, French authorities reported 327 antisemitic acts and 183 detentions related to the crimes since the outbreak of hostilities in the Middle East. 

Trucks carrying aid wait to enter Gaza on October 21.

At least 569 aid trucks have entered Gaza since October 21, the United Nations humanitarian office (OCHA) said in its regular update Monday.

Some 93 trucks primarily carrying food items, medicines, health supplies, bottled water and hygiene products crossed from Egypt into Gaza on Monday, OCHA said.

OCHA stressed that the entry of fuel is “desperately needed” to operate electricity generators to run life-saving equipment, but remains banned by the Israeli authorities.

“Gaza remains under a full electricity blackout since 11 October, following Israel’s halt of its power and fuel supply, which triggered the shutdown of Gaza’s sole power plant,” OCHA said.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is received in Tokyo by Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa on November 7.

The G7 Foreign Ministers are working toward joint language on the Israel-Hamas war, a US official told CNN, as the grouping of the world’s seven most powerful democracies meets in Japan for its annual summit.

Top diplomats from the United States, Japan, Canada, Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom are meeting as the war in Gaza escalates and the civilian death toll grows.

It is unclear if the language will be included in the broader statement or if it will be a standalone statement, the official said.

On Monday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he would debrief his counterparts on his trip to the Middle East.

The annual Group of Seven (G7) summit, convening this year in Hiroshima, will seek to project a unified response to an increasingly assertive China – and the perceived threat it poses to the stability and economic security of a world already shaken by Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) they had struck a building adjacent to the Al-Quds hospital in Gaza City in a statement on Tuesday. 

The IDF said that they had located Hamas “terrorists” in the building adjacent to the hospital and carried out an airstrike against them.

“The attack led to significant secondary explosions which indicate the presence of a Hamas weapons depot in a civilian area,” the statement said.

In an earlier statement, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) had accused the Israeli military of conducting airstrikes near the hospital on Monday night. 

“(Israel) targeted the vicinity of Al-Quds hospital in the Gaza Strip with two missiles, approximately 50 meters away from the hospital gate,” the group said.  

In previous statements, the Israeli military maintained that it has requested civilians in Gaza City move south of Wadi Gaza, a waterway bisecting the center of the enclave, for safety.

Large explosions also rocked the vicinity of the Al-Quds hospital on Sunday, resulting in casualties, according to the PRCS. 

Over 60% of Gaza’s hospitals and medical centers are now out of service, according to a Monday statement from the Palestinian Authority Minister of Health Mai Al-Kaila.

Al-Kaila said that 16 out of the 35 hospitals in the strip as well as 51 out of its 72 medical centers were no longer operational due to the fuel and medical supply shortages as well as to Israeli bombardment. 

The PRCS has warned about the repercussions of fuel shortages in the Al-Quds hospital, which it says is sheltering 14,000 displaced people. 

“The hospital’s fuel reserves will run out within 48 hours, and life-saving equipment, neonatal incubators, and intensive care units will cease to function,” PRCS said in a statement on Monday.  

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 28.

Israel will have the “overall security responsibility” in Gaza for an “indefinite period” after the war ends, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed in an interview that aired on ABC News on Monday. 

The prime minister also repeated that Israel will not allow a general ceasefire until all hostages are released by Hamas. 

However, Netanyahu said he was open to short pauses to take place. 

Netanyahu also addressed the role of Iran and Hezbollah in the conflict, cautioning them from getting more involved. 

“I think they’ve understood that if they enter the war in a significant way, the response will be very, very powerful and I hope they don’t make that mistake,” Netanyahu told ABC. 

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Volker Turk holds a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela, on January 28.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, began a five-day visit to the Middle East on Tuesday “amid Israel’s escalation in Gaza,” his office said in a statement.

“Human rights violations are at the root of this escalation and human rights play a central role in finding a way out of this vortex of pain,” he added.

Türk is in Cairo, Egypt, on Tuesday and will visit Rafah on the border with Gaza Wednesday, before travelling to Amman in Jordan on Thursday. 

Justice Secretary Alex Chalk leaves a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street on September 5, in London, England.

Three British citizens are believed to be still being held in Gaza, UK Justice Secretary Alex Chalk told Sky News on Tuesday, after they were taken hostage by Hamas during its attack on Israel on October 7.

Chalk also said that it is “unclear” how many UK nationals have so far been unable to exit the enclave, but that “in terms of the numbers who have been allowed to leave about 100 have been able to leave.”

On Monday, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak welcomed the fact 100 nationals have been able to leave Gaza in recent days, the UK’s PA Media news agency reported.

“We have been very clear and consistent that we support humanitarian pauses, which are there specifically to allow aid to get into Gaza and hostages and foreign nationals to come out,” Sunak said Monday, adding that London was playing a “key role” to get aid to those who most needed it and would continue diplomatic efforts. 

Palestinians mourn relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in front of the morgue in Deir al Balah on October 31.

More than 10,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its military offensive a month ago, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah said, drawing from sources in the Hamas-controlled enclave.

Israel declared war on Hamas after the Islamist militant group launched a brutal attack on October 7, killing 1,400 in Israel and kidnapping more than 240. Israel retaliated by launching an air and ground offensive on Gaza, vowing to eliminate the militant group.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Monday it has struck hundreds of Hamas targets and taken control of a military compound in Gaza over the past 24 hours.

Inside the enclave, communication services are slowly being restored to some parts of Gaza after a weekend blackout. On average, about 30 trucks carrying humanitarian aid have been passing through the border each day, the Palestine Red Crescent Society in Ramallah said. However, this still does not include fuel supplies.

Here’s what else to know:

One month ago, the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a brutal assault on Israel, killing more than 1,400 people and kidnapping more than 240, according to Israeli authorities. It was the deadliest terror attack in the country’s history.

Israel’s retaliation has been lethal, with an air and ground campaign on the densely populated enclave of Gaza, which Hamas has controlled since 2007. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country would take “mighty vengeance” and was readying for “a long and difficult war.”

The siege of Gaza has killed more than 10,000 people, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah, drawing from sources in the Hamas-controlled enclave.

Gaza’s population is also gripped by a humanitarian crisis after Israel cut off access to food, water and electricity. Only a “trickle” of aid has been allowed to enter the isolated territory, according to the United Nations. Residents are grappling with severe shortages, and power is running out as fuel dwindles.

Here’s a look at some of the devastating scenes:

Photos of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas militants are projected onto the walls of Jerusalem's Old City on November 6.

A man sits on debris as Palestinians conduct a search and rescue operation after the second bombardment of the Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza City, on Wednesday, November 1. 

Relatives mourn as bodies are carried for burial from Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza, on October 31. 

Relatives attend the funeral of Albert Miles, 81, at the Kibbutz Revivim cemetery, southern Israel, on October 30. Miles was killed during the Hamas attack on October 7, in kibbutz Be'eri near the border with Gaza. 

Wounded Palestinians sit on the floor at the Al-Shifa Hospital after being transported from the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital following a blast there on October 17. 

Smoke plumes billow during Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on October 12. 

People carry bodies of Palestinians killed during an Israeli airstrike prior to their burial in Khan Younis, Gaza, on October 11. 

A building in Tel Aviv set ablaze on October 7 following rocket attacks from Gaza. 

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An American nurse who left Gaza last week has described the horrors she witnessed in the besieged enclave under Israeli bombardment after returning to safety in the United States.

Speaking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Emily Callahan, a manager with aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF), said her team saw “children with just massive burns down their faces, down their necks, all over their limbs.”

“They are given two hours of water every 12 hours,” she said, adding “there were only four toilets” at the UNRWA-run Khan Younis Training Centre in southern Gaza.

The facility is hosting more than 22,000 internally displaced people and the space per person is less than 2 square meters (about 21 square feet), according to the UN relief agency.

Callahan said there were children with “fresh open burns and wounds and partial amputations that are just walking around [in] these conditions.”

At least 70% of Gaza’s more than 2 million people are now displaced, with most living in appalling conditions at UN shelters, according to UNRWA.

In a statement Monday, the agency described the conditions in the overcrowded UNRWA installations, which are sheltering 717,000 internally displaced Gazans. It said the situation at the shelters is “inhumane” and deteriorating and warned of a risk of a public health crisis due to the damage to the water and sanitation infrastructure. 

Callahan said she and her team had to “call in favors and call their friends” for food and water and believed they were also at risk of starvation.

“When I say we would have starved to death without them, I am not exaggerating,” she said.

“And in the moments of absolute desperation of civilians, they were steadfast and calm and just talked to them and said these people are also in the same boat that you are, they have no supplies, they also have no food and water, they are also sleeping outside on the concrete.”

Yoav Peled is pictured in Tel Aviv on November 2.

Yoav Peled says he has started wondering if the world has gone mad.

Sitting outside the Kirya, Israel’s equivalent of the Pentagon in Tel Aviv, Peled was cutting pieces of yellow ribbon off a large wheel last Thursday, handing them out to strangers passing by. The bands symbolize solidarity with the roughly 240 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.

It is this solidarity — and specifically whether it still extends beyond Israel’s borders — that Peled was questioning.

As global leaders continue to pile pressure on Israel over the mounting civilian death toll from its bombardment of Gaza and huge crowds gather for pro-Palestinian protests in cities like London, Washington DC, Berlin, Paris, Amman and Cairo — almost all in support of civilians in Gaza, rather than Hamas — many Israelis are getting frustrated with what they see as unequal treatment.

It’s a feeling that cuts across the deep divisions within Israeli society: the world does not understand us.

Editor’s Note: A version of this post appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Read more voices from Israel.

A family member reacts as Palestinian cameraman Mohammed Alaloul (bottom) covers the body of a relative killed in an Israeli strike, in Gaza on November 5. 

The number of Palestinians killed in Gaza since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7 has surpassed 10,000, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah drawing from sources in the Hamas-controlled enclave. 

More than 70% of those killed were children, women and the elderly, while some 24,000 people have been injured, according to the ministry.

On Monday, the Hamas-controlled health ministry in Gaza said the death toll in the enclave has risen to more than 10,000.

Some background: Israel declared war on Hamas after the Islamist militant group launched a brutal attack on October 7, killing 1,400 in Israel and kidnapping more than 240. Israel retaliated by launching an air and ground offensive on Gaza, vowing to eliminate the militant group. 

Thousands more Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in the past month than during conflicts with Israel spanning the past 15 years.

The United Nations Human Rights Office said the attacks last week on Gaza’s largest refugee camp “could amount to war crimes” given the scale of casualties and destruction. 

More than 60% of Gaza’s hospitals and medical centers are now out of service, according to a statement from the Palestinian Authority Minister of Health Mai al-Kaila.

Al-Kaila said 16 of 35 hospitals and 51 of 72 medical centers are no longer operational due to the fuel and medical supply shortages as well as the Israeli bombardment. 

The Palestine Red Crescent Society has also issued an urgent appeal to international health and relief organizations to provide aid and supplies to Gaza, warning about the repercussions of fuel shortages in the Al-Quds Hospital that is sheltering 14,000 displaced people. 

Israeli airstrikes hit near the Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City on Monday night, according to a statement by the Palestine Red Crescent Society. 

CNN reached out to the Israeli military but did not immediately hear back.

In previous statements, the Israeli military maintained that it has requested civilians in Gaza City move south of Wadi Gaza, a waterway bisecting the center of the enclave, for safety. Earlier, it said it had struck 450 Hamas targets in the strip in 24 hours. 

On Sunday, large explosions rocked the vicinity of the Al-Quds hospital, resulting in casualties, including a number of deaths, according to the Red Crescent. 

The rising death toll in Gaza “defies humanity,” United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths said Tuesday.

On Monday, the Hamas-controlled Gaza health ministry said Israel’s attacks have killed at least 10,022 Palestinians, including 4,104 children, 2,641 women, and 611 elderly people in the strip since October 7.

It’s unclear how many combatants are included in the total. CNN cannot independently verify the numbers released by the ministry in Gaza, which is sealed off by Israel and mostly sealed by Egypt.

Some background: Israel declared war on Hamas after the Islamist militant group launched a brutal attack on October 7, killing 1,400 in Israel and kidnapping more than 240. Israel retaliated by launching an air and ground offensive on Gaza, vowing to eliminate the militant group. 

Thousands more Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in the past month than during conflicts with Israel spanning the past 15 years.

The heads of 18 UN and non-UN humanitarian organizations, including Griffiths, issued a joint statement Sunday calling for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire.”

Signatories included the heads of the WHO, UNICEF, CARE International, Save the Children, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Israel will have the “overall security responsibility” in Gaza for an “indefinite period” after the war with Hamas ends, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed in an interview that aired on ABC News Monday. 

Gaza should be governed by “those who don’t want to continue the way of Hamas,” Netanyahu said, adding: “I think Israel will, for an indefinite period, will have the overall security responsibility because we’ve seen what happens when we don’t have it.”

The prime minister also repeated that Israel will not allow a general ceasefire until all hostages are released by Hamas. 

However, Netanyahu said he was open to short pauses to take place. 

Netanyahu also addressed the role of Iran and Tehran-backed militant group Hezbollah in the conflict, cautioning them from becoming more involved. 

“I think they’ve understood that if they enter the war in a significant way, the response will be very, very powerful and I hope they don’t make that mistake,” Netanyahu told ABC. 

Displaced people are seen in the yard of a United Nations school housing in Khan Yunis on November 4.

At least 70% of Gaza’s more than 2 million people are now displaced with most living in appalling conditions at United Nations shelters, a spokesperson for a UN relief agency said.

Tamara Alrifa,  director of external relations for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said “1.5 million people who moved there were forcibly displaced.”

“So, we’re talking about 70% of people who are displaced away from their homes,” she said.

In a statement Monday, the agency described the conditions in the overcrowded UNRWA installations that are sheltering 717,000 internally displaced Gazans. It said the situation at the shelters is “inhumane” and deteriorating and warned of a risk of a public health crisis due to the damage to the water and sanitation infrastructure. 

The UN agency said the decomposition of bodies under collapsed buildings amid limited rescue efforts also continues to raise humanitarian and environmental concerns.

One UNRWA facility, the Khan Younis Training Centre (KYTC), is hosting more than 22,000 internally displaced people — and the space per person is less than 2 square meters (about 21 square feet), the organization said.

Gaza is “becoming a graveyard for children” and the deteriorating conditions in the enclave make the need for a humanitarian ceasefire more urgent, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said Monday.

Following those comments, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan called for Guterres to resign and accused him of remaining silent regarding the Israeli casualties in the October 7 Hamas attack.

“It has been over 30 days since the children of southern Israel were intentionally slaughtered by Hamas terrorists, but you have said NOTHING about the ‘graveyard of children’ the south of Israel has become,” Erdan said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, on Monday.

Israeli foreign minister Eli Cohen echoed Erdan, saying, “Hamas is the problem in Gaza, not Israel’s actions to eliminate this terrorist organization.”

The remarks from both sides come as the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7 surpassed 10,000, the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health in Gaza announced Monday.

Guterres said the UN and its partners are launching a $1.2 billion humanitarian appeal to help the entire population of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. 

Guterres also stressed the importance of protecting civilians and that “no party to an armed conflict is above international humanitarian law.” 

More than 400 trucks have crossed into Gaza from the Rafah crossing in the last two weeks, coming short of the roughly 500 a day that crossed before the conflict, Guterres said.

The Rafah crossing “alone does not have the capacity to process aid trucks at the scale required,” and the aid that has come through so far represents a “trickle of assistance [that] does not meet the ocean of need,” Guterres said. 

Guterres reiterated his condemnation of the Hamas October 7 attacks and called for the release of the hostages held captive by the militant group. 

The number of Palestinians killed in Gaza since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7 has surpassed 10,000, the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health in the enclave said Monday.

Ashraf Al Qudra, spokesperson for the ministry, said 10,022 Palestinians in Gaza had been killed by Israeli strikes, including 4,104 children, 2,641 women and 611 elderly people. Those numbers suggest about three-quarters of the dead are from vulnerable populations.

The ministry reported another 25,408 people have been injured.

It’s unclear how many combatants are included in the total. CNN cannot independently verify the numbers released by the ministry in Gaza, which is sealed off by Israel and mostly sealed by Egypt.

Some background: Israel declared war on Hamas after the Islamist militant group launched a brutal attack on October 7, killing 1,400 in Israel and kidnapping more than 240. Israel retaliated by launching an air and ground offensive on Gaza, vowing to eliminate the militant group. 

Thousands more Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in the past month than during conflicts with Israel spanning the past 15 years.

The United Nations Human Rights Office said the attacks last week on Gaza’s largest refugee camp “could amount to war crimes” given the scale of casualties and destruction. 

Flares fired by the Israeli army illuminate the sky over Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza on November 6.

The Al Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza was struck Sunday night during an intense night of Israeli bombing, several residents told a journalist working for CNN.

CNN and Agence France-Presse video of the aftermath showed damage consistent with airstrikes. Another video by AFP showed a wounded resident of the Al Shati camp arriving at the Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Sunday night, shortly after the reported strikes. 

The Israel Defense Forces said earlier that it had struck 450 Hamas targets in Gaza overnight. 

“Suddenly we heard sounds of two airstrikes, it was too loud, it felt like an earthquake, we saw stones flying everywhere,” one resident said.

The IDF has not yet commented on the incident but has repeatedly called on civilians to move south of Wadi Gaza as it intensifies its assault on Hamas in Gaza City and the northern part of the enclave. The IDF has said Hamas is embedding itself in civilian infrastructure and that it will strike Hamas “wherever necessary.” 

Hamas said it has been fighting Israeli forces in the camp and in the adjacent Sheikh Radwan neighborhood. 

A video published by Hamas’ military wing, Al Qassam Brigades, on Saturday showed militants firing rocket-propelled grenades on Israeli tanks from narrow streets and from destroyed buildings. Hamas said it was engaging Israeli forces on the borders of Al Shati Camp and the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood.  

On Monday, Hamas said it targeted Israeli military vehicles in the same locations. 

CNN could not independently verify Hamas’ claims.

In a private session Monday, the United Nations Security Council failed to reach a consensus on a draft resolution aimed at halting the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

“There is no agreement at this point,” said Deputy US Ambassador to the United Nations Robert Wood.

The so-called E-10, consisting of 10 non-permanent member states of the Security Council, has drafted a resolution.

However, the United States and the United Kingdom, permanent members who possess veto power, have opposed it. Western powers, particularly the US and UK, are resistant to including language in the resolution that calls for an immediate ceasefire, a proposition supported by several other Council members.

There have been discussions about humanitarian pauses, Wood said, “and we’re interested in pursuing language on that score.” But he added there was disagreement within the Security Council on whether that would be acceptable.

China’s UN Ambassador Jun Zhang, echoed the sentiments expressed by Secretary-General António Guterres, emphasizing that “Gaza is a graveyard for children.” Zhang called for an urgent ceasefire to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza.

“As we speak, Palestinian civilians continue to be killed. Children are bearing the brunt, as several US officials have stated already. Gaza is becoming a graveyard for children. No one is safe,” Zhang said.

The United Arab Emirates emphasized the importance of upholding the rules of warfare. UAE Ambassador Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, who co-initiated the meeting with China, underlined that discussions within the Council were ongoing, and nations were working to bridge their differences.

“We condemn the seventh October attacks by Hamas on Israel. We also condemned the indiscriminate attacks by Israel on the Gaza Strip. We express our grave concern that the continued detention of hostages and demand the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages, as well as their safety well-being and humane treatment consistent with international law,” Nusseibeh said.

Nusseibeh added that “the killing and maiming of children, attacks on schools and hospitals and the Gaza Strip and denying children access to humanitarian assistance are all very grave violations. against children.”

During the meeting, UN humanitarian officials briefed the Security Council on the dire humanitarian situation in the region.

Previous attempts to pass resolutions in the Security Council have faced challenges, including two US vetoes, further underscoring the complexity of reaching a consensus on this critical issue.