2023-11-12 10:28:37
According to Israel, the Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas has lost control of the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hamas fighters “no longer have a safe place to hide.” The military had also previously announced that Hamas no longer controlled the north of the coastal strip.
Netanyahu said everyone from Hamas leader Jihia al-Sinwar “to the last terrorist” was doomed to die. The army has already killed thousands of terrorists, including “commanders who led the terrible massacre on October 7th”.
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There will be no ceasefire without the hostages being returned, Netanyahu reiterated. Regarding diplomatic efforts to secure a release, he said the families would be informed as soon as there was something concrete. Until then it is better to remain silent.
Netanyahu reiterated that Israel wanted to retain security control in the Gaza Strip following defeating Hamas. The coastal strip must be demilitarized so that it can no longer pose a threat to Israel. The army will control Gaza as long as it is necessary, said Netanyahu.
All developments in the live ticker:
11:25 a.m. – Hezbollah chief speaks of increased attacks on Israel with new weapons
The Islamist Hezbollah militia in Lebanon has increased its attacks on Israel and is using new types of weapons, according to its leader Hassan Nasrallah. In recent days, the number of attacks has increased, as has the number of targets attacked, Nasrallah said in a televised speech on Saturday.
Thousands of Hezbollah supporters watched Nasrallah’s speech
Those: picture alliance/dpa/Marwan Naamani
In addition, Hezbollah used combat drones and “Burkan rockets” with a bomb load of 300 to 500 kilograms for the first time and guided surveillance drones far into northern Israel.
11:03 a.m. – Current situation of the Israeli ground operation
Israeli ground operation in the Gaza Strip
Source: OpenStreetMap; Infographic WORLD
10:33 a.m. – Residents of the city of Gaza report heavy air strikes
Residents of the city of Gaza reported heavy airstrikes and bombardment on Sunday night. The area around the Shifa Hospital was also affected. There was fighting nearby between Israeli soldiers and Hamas fighters, the Israeli military confirmed. “We spent the night in panic waiting for them to arrive,” said resident Ahmed al-Bursh, who has sought refuge in the hospital. “They’re outside, not far from the gates.”
9:46 a.m. – Israel’s army announces new window of opportunity to escape to southern Gaza
Israel’s army gave civilians in the embattled northern Gaza Strip a new window of opportunity to flee to the south of the coastal area on Sunday. In addition, a passage will be created between the largest clinic in Gaza, the Shifa Hospital, and a connecting road to the south, the army announced on Platform X.
The escape corridor is open between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. local time (8 a.m. to 3 p.m. CET). Israel’s army accuses Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, of using the Shifa Hospital as a command and control center.
06:54 – Israeli soldiers find weapons cache in kindergarten
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) published a video on the news service “X” that is said to show a Hamas weapons cache in a kindergarten. “IDF troops found weapons, ammunition and explosive devices in a kindergarten in Gaza during operations in the north of the Gaza Strip,” it said.
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03:45 – Israel carries out air strikes on targets in Syria following shelling the Golan Heights
In response to the shelling of the annexed Golan Heights, Israel has once more attacked targets in neighboring Syria. The army said the air force was targeting “terrorist infrastructure”. According to the army, two projectiles fired from Syria hit uninhabited areas in the Golan Heights on Saturday. Air alerts were raised in the region.
Israel had already attacked targets in Syria on Friday following a drone that the army said was fired from Syria hit a primary school in Eilat in southern Israel. The drone only caused property damage.
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Israel has occupied the strategically important Golan Heights since the end of the Six-Day War in 1967 and annexed them in 1981. The international community still does not recognize the annexation to this day.
03:30 – City of Essen responds with a human chain for peace
A good week following the highly controversial rally in Essen, in which participants demonstrated, among other things, for an Islamic caliphate, the city wants to form a long human chain for peace and reconciliation. The organizers are expecting around 2,000 people at the Old Synagogue on Sunday at 6 p.m. The call is supported by the Essen Alliance for Cosmopolitanism, which brings together the city administration, religious representatives, trade unions and companies.
02:01 – Netanyahu once morest role for Palestinian Authority in Gaza Strip
In the debate regarding the future of the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out involving the Palestinian Authority. “There will have to be something different there,” he said on Israeli television on Saturday when asked whether the Authority, led by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, might govern the Gaza Strip following the war. The coastal area should not be under the control of an authority “that educates its children to hate Israel, kill Israelis and wipe out the State of Israel.”
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In any case, Israel must have control over security in the Gaza Strip, emphasized Netanyahu. The army must be able to invade the coastal area at any time “to drive out terrorists who might reappear.”
12:30 a.m. – London police arrest more than 120 people at a large demonstration
In London, according to police, more than 300,000 pro-Palestinian demonstrators demonstrated in the city center. Police arrested more than 120 far-right counter-protesters who tried to disrupt the main rally. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak condemned the violence and also attacked “Hamas sympathizers” who joined the mass rally, “initiating anti-Semitic chants and waving pro-Hamas signs and clothing during the demonstration.”
00:19 – A total of more than 280 Germans and their relatives left the Gaza Strip
According to the Foreign Office, dozens more people with German citizenship have been able to leave the embattled Gaza Strip in the past few days. In total, over 280 Germans and their relatives have now left the country, the Foreign Office announced via news service X. Intensive work is continuing to ensure that all Germans who want to can leave the Palestinian territory.
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11:48 p.m. – Israel’s army rejects allegations of alleged hospital attacks
The Israeli army has denied allegations that its soldiers are shelling the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip. “In the last few hours, false information has been spread that we would surround and attack Al-Shifa Hospital. These are false reports,” said army spokesman Daniel Hagari on Saturday evening.
“Hamas is lying regarding what is happening in the hospitals,” Hagari added. The radical Islamic Palestinian organization had already claimed on Friday evening that the army had attacked the Al-Shifa hospital. However, checks showed “that it was a poorly targeted rocket that was fired by terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip.”
The army spokesman emphasized that there was still “a designated passage to enter or leave the hospital.” Another hospital, the Rantisi Children’s Hospital, has now been “evacuated” following “a terrorist” who was holding a thousand people there was eliminated.
11:05 p.m. – US military plane crashes during training flight in Mediterranean region
A US military plane has crashed following a “mishap” during a training flight in the eastern Mediterranean region. The aircraft “suffered a breakdown” during the training flight on Friday and crashed, said the European Command of the US Armed Forces (Eucom). Eucom initially did not provide any information regarding the fate of the crew or the type of aircraft. The cause of the incident is being investigated. However, there is no evidence of “hostile activity”.
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After the start of the war between Israel and the radical Islamic Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the USA increased its military presence in the region and, among other things, sent the aircraft carrier “USS Gerald Ford”.
22:08 – Israel warns Hezbollah sharply
Israel has issued a stark warning to the Shiite militia Hezbollah in response to ongoing attacks from neighboring Lebanon. “Don’t make the mistake of joining the war. That would be the mistake of your life,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday evening to the group, which is mainly financed by Iran. “Your entry into the war will seal the fate of Lebanon.”
Israeli Defense Minister Joav Galant said that on his country’s northern border, i.e. on the border with Lebanon, “provocations have turned into aggression.” Most of the Israeli Air Force is no longer involved in the Gaza Strip and the noses of the aircraft are now directed north. “The citizens of Lebanon must know that if Nasrallah makes a mistake, the fate of Beirut might be like the fate of Gaza.”
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned of a military escalation on the Israeli-Lebanese border in his first speech since the outbreak of war on Friday last week. Since the beginning of the Gaza war, the situation there has continued to deteriorate.
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Hezbollah is considered to be far more powerful and armed than the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Its influence extends deep into the crisis-paralyzed Lebanese state, where the group is also represented in parliament.
9:40 p.m. – Border crossing to Egypt is scheduled to reopen on Sunday
The Rafah border crossing is scheduled to reopen on Sunday for foreign passport holders to travel from the Gaza Strip to Egypt. This is reported by the Gaza border authority.
On Friday, evacuations from the coastal area were suspended, according to Egyptian security circles and a Palestinian official. The reason given was that there were problems in bringing people who were supposed to be allowed into Egypt for medical reasons from inside the Gaza Strip to Rafah.
9:06 p.m. – Israel’s army announces evacuation of babies from Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza
The Israeli army has announced its assistance in evacuating infants from the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. The clinic’s staff asked the military “that we help take the babies in the pediatric ward to a safer hospital tomorrow,” said army spokesman Daniel Hagari. “We will provide the necessary support.”
The Israeli medical organization Physicians for Human Rights Israel had previously reported that two premature babies had died due to power outages in the neonatology intensive care unit at Al-Shifa Hospital and that 37 other premature babies were “in real danger of their lives”.
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Surgeon Mohammed Obeid confirmed the deaths of the two newborns and reported that an adult patient also died when his ventilator failed. “We want someone to give a guarantee that they can evacuate the patients because we have regarding 600 hospitalized patients,” he said in an audio message released by the aid group Doctors Without Borders.
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