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JERUSALEM, Nov 15 (NNN-MA’AN) – The number of passengers taking international flights at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv fell by 41.25 percent year-on-year, in Oct, the Israel Airports Authority (IAA) said in a report yesterday.

Due to the conflict between Israel and Hamas that broke out on Oct 7, the airport only saw 1.17 million passengers passing through in the month, compared to almost two million in Oct, 2022.

Yesterday, the daily passenger count at the airport declined to 11,100, the lowest daily figure since the conflict erupted.

TEL AVIV, November 13. /TASS/: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) suspended its military operation in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, near the border with Egypt, for four hours for humanitarian aid, said Avichay Adraee, the IDF spokesperson for the Arab media.

"We will allow a tactical pause in fighting in Rafah during the day today, namely from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. GMT - TASS) for humanitarian purposes," the spokesman wrote on X (formerly Twitter) in Arabic.

12 November 2023; MEMO: Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned Lebanon on Saturday about getting into its war against the Gaza Strip and said Israel knows how to replicate its actions in Beirut, reports Anadolu Agency.

The comment was in reference to Palestinians walking with white flags along the coast toward the south on orders from the Israeli army.

"I see Gaza residents walking with white flags along the coast, heading south" he said.

Nov 12 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel had offered fuel to Gaza's Al Shifa hospital, which suspended operations after running out of fuel, but that the militants had refused to receive it.

Netanyahu was asked by NBC News whether Israeli allegations that Hamas had a command post under Gaza's main hospital justified jeopardizing the lives of sick people and babies.

09 November 2023; MEMO: A group of Israelis have been accused of theft of jewellery and other items from Israelis killed at a music festival during the 7 October operation by Palestinian Resistance group, Hamas, in areas surrounding the besieged Gaza Strip.

JERUSALEM, Nov 9 (Reuters) - The armed wing of the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad in Gaza released a video on Thursday showing an elderly woman and a young boy who were among around 240 hostages seized by militant gunmen who attacked Israel on Oct. 7.

It said it was prepared to release the two for humanitarian and medical reasons once appropriate conditions were met. It did not give further details.

JERUSALEM, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- Israel vowed on Thursday that its forces would keep intensifying the fighting in the heart of Gaza City in the next few days, despite the implementation of a four-hour daily humanitarian pause.

Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Herzi Halevi toured the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday with Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet internal security agency. They were shown in videos released by the military sitting inside a moving tank and later talking with commanders in a dimly lit room.

JERUSALEM (AP) — At a time when world sentiment has begun to sour on Israel’s devastating offensive in Gaza, the vast majority of Israelis, across the political spectrum, are convinced of the justice of the war.

Still under rocket and missile attacks on several fronts, they have little tolerance for anyone railing against the steep toll the conflict has exacted on the other side. They have rallied to crush Hamas, which breached the country’s borders from the Gaza Strip, killing more than 1,400 people and taking over 240 hostage in an Oct. 7 rampage that triggered the war.

JERUSALEM, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Friday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet in Tel Aviv as Israel pressed ahead with its offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

It was Blinken's fourth visit to Israel since the fighting erupted on Oct. 7. He was shown an Israeli army video that purportedly documented part of the killing of Israeli civilians by Hamas on the first day of the conflict, according to a statement from Netanyahu's office.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Friday deported thousands of Palestinian workers from the Gaza Strip back to the besieged territory, Palestinian authorities said, capping what many described as harrowing weeks trapped in legal limbo since their detention when the Israel-Hamas war erupted.