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Blinken urges pause in fighting as Israeli troops tighten encirclement of Gaza City

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday to press for a humanitarian pause in the fighting with Hamas, as Israeli troops tightened their encirclement of Gaza City.

Tensions escalated along the northern border with Lebanon ahead of a speech planned later Friday by Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Hamas ally. It is his first public speech since Hamas attacked Israel last month, stoking fears the conflict could become a regional one.

Israel's Netanyahu faces reckoning over Hamas disaster

JERUSALEM, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu built his reputation as a security hawk on the back of his service in an elite special forces unit that carried out some of Israel's most daring hostage rescues.

His legacy as his country's longest serving leader will now be shaped by one of the worst security failures it has known and by the fate of more than 200 hostages seized by Palestinian Hamas gunmen from Gaza who Israel says killed 1,400 people on the deadliest day of its 75-year-old history.

Death toll exceeds 10,000 in Israel-Hamas conflict

JERUSALEM/GAZA, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- The death toll has exceeded 10,000 since the Israel-Hamas conflict broke out on Oct. 7, according to Palestinian and Israeli sources.

The number of Palestinian casualties in Gaza has now reached at least 8,796, including 3,648 children and 2,290 women, according to the Gaza-based Health Ministry, while more than 1,400 people in Israel have been killed, said the Israeli Foreign Ministry.

Israel deploys missile boats in Red Sea as Houthis attack from Yemen

JERUSALEM, Nov 1 (Reuters) - The Israeli military said it had deployed missile boats in the Red Sea on Wednesday as reinforcements, a day after the Iran-aligned Houthi movement said it had launched missile and drone attacks on Israel and vowed to carry out more.

Images disseminated by the military showed Saar-class corvettes patrolling near Eilat port in the Red Sea, which Israel sees as a new front as its war in Gaza draws retaliation from Iran-aligned pro-Hamas forces elsewhere in the region.

Israel: First evacuees leave Gaza for Egypt, second blast rocks refugee camp

GAZA/JERUSALEM, Nov 1 (Reuters) - A first group of civilian evacuees from Gaza crossed into Egypt under a Qatari-mediated deal on Wednesday while Israeli forces bombed the Palestinian enclave from land, sea and air anew as they pressed their offensive against Hamas militants.

Another blast shook Jabalia, Gaza's largest refugee camp, on Wednesday, a day after Palestinian health officials said an Israeli air strike killed about 50 people and wounded 150 there. Israel said it had killed a Hamas commander in Tuesday's attack.

Israel sends missile boats to Red Sea after Houthi attack

JERUSALEM, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- Israel sent missile boats to the Red Sea, the army said on Wednesday after Houthi forces in Yemen fired missiles and drones toward Israel's resort city of Eilat.

"Israeli Navy missile boats arrived in the area of the Red Sea," the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement, noting the move was made following a "situational assessment and as part of defensive efforts in the area."

These numbers show the staggering toll of the Israel-Hamas war

JERUSALEM (AP) — The latest Israel-Hamas war has quickly become the deadliest and most destructive of the five wars fought between the sides since Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip in 2007 from the Palestinian Authority.

The fighting erupted Oct. 7 when Hamas carried out a bloody attack in southern Israel. Since then, Israel has relentlessly pounded the Gaza Strip with airstrikes that have wrought unprecedented destruction, flattening entire neighborhoods.

Israel has paid a ‘heavy price’ during ground operation in Gaza, says defence minister

01 November 2023; MEMO: Israeli forces have paid a “heavy price” during their ground operation in the Gaza Strip despite making “significant” achievements, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, Anadolu has reported. Gallant made his comments on Tuesday during a meeting at Palmachim Air Base in central Israel with troops of the Air Force’s elite Shaldag and 669 units, said Israeli Army Radio.

Israel deploys missile boats in Red Sea as Houthis attack from Yemen

01 November 2023; MEMO: The Israeli military has said that it has deployed missile boats in the Red Sea a day after Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement revealed that it had launched missile and drone attacks on Israel and vowed to carry out more. Images disseminated by the Israelis showed Saar-class corvettes patrolling near Eilat port in the Red Sea.

Israel sees this as a new front as its war in Gaza draws retaliation from Iran-aligned, pro-Hamas forces elsewhere in the region.

Israeli military says at least 240 hostages held in Gaza

TEL AVIV, October 31. /TASS/: At least 240 hostages are now being held in Gaza, Israel Defense Forces Spokesman Daniel Hagari said, citing the latest data.

"We have notified the families of the 240 hostages," he said at a news conference.

Hagari also said that 315 Israeli soldiers have been killed since fighting began on Oct. 7.

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