Gaza is becoming a "graveyard for children", U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Monday, amplifying demands for a ceasefire in the enclave, where Palestinian health authorities said the death toll from Israeli strikes had exceeded 10,000.
Both Israel and the Hamas militants who control Gaza have rebuffed mounting international pressure for a ceasefire. Israel says hostages taken by Hamas during its rampage in southern Israel on Oct. 7 should be released first; Hamas says it will not free them or stop fighting while Gaza is under assault.
"Ground operations by the Israel Defense Forces and continued bombardment are hitting civilians, hospitals, refugee camps, mosques, churches and U.N. facilities – including shelters. No one is safe," Guterres told reporters.
"At the same time, Hamas and other militants use civilians as human shields and continue to launch rockets indiscriminately towards Israel," he said, calling for an immediate and unconditional release of all hostages.
Israel said 31 soldiers had been killed since it began expanded ground operations in Gaza on Oct. 27 and reiterated that Hamas was hiding with civilians and at hospitals. Hamas said the idea that Hamas was based in hospitals was a "false narrative that the U.N. should verify.
A Reuters journalist in Gaza said Israel's overnight bombardment by air, ground and sea was one of its most intense since the Oct. 7 attack in which Hamas killed 1,400 people in Israel and seized more than 240 hostages.
The health ministry in the Hamas-controlled enclave said at least 10,022 people in Gaza have since been killed, including 4,104 children.
"Gaza is becoming a graveyard for children. Hundreds of girls and boys are reportedly being killed or injured every day," Guterres said.
International organisations have said hospitals cannot cope with the wounded and food and clean water are running out with aid deliveries nowhere near enough.
Guterres said 89 people working with the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) were among the dead. UNRWA said five colleagues had been killed in the past 24 hours alone.
"We need an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. It's been 30 days. Enough is enough. This must stop now," an earlier statement by 18 U.N. organisations said.
The States is pushing hard to arrange pauses in the conflict to allow in aid rather than a full ceasefire, arguing, like Israel, that Hamas militants would just take advantage.
U.S. President Joe Biden discussed such pauses and possible hostage releases in a phone call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, reiterating his support for Israel while emphasising that it must protect civilians, the White House said.
The faces of hostages were projected onto the wall of Jerusalem's Old City on the eve of the one month anniversary of the attack.
ISRAEL SAYS IT IS CLOSING IN ON HAMAS
The Israeli military said its forces had taken a militant compound and were poised to attack Hamas fighters hiding in underground tunnels and bunkers in the northern Gaza Strip, having isolated the area with troops and tanks. It released video of tanks moving through bombed-out streets and groups of troops moving on foot.
"Now we are going to start closing in on them," Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Hecht told reporters.
The armed wing of Hamas, the Al-Qassam brigades, said it had damaged 27 Israeli military vehicles in 48 hours and inflicted significant losses in direct engagements with Israeli troops.
The health ministry in Gaza said dozens of people were killed by Israeli air strikes in the north and south, including on Gaza City's Rantissi cancer hospital, where eight people were killed. Israel's military said it was looking into the report.
Gaza's health ministry spokesman said an air strike had also hit a building belonging to Gaza's largest hospital, Al Shifa, where 170 people were being treated and hundreds of evacuees were sheltering. One person was killed and several were wounded, he said. Israel said it had not struck the hospital.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said it had escorted a four-ambulance convoy of patients from Gaza City to the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. Evacuations had been suspended since an Israeli strike on an ambulance on Friday but three Egyptian security sources said dozens of foreign passport holders also left on Monday.
UN Chief ratchets up pressure as Security Council meets
The UN Security Council met on Monday afternoon for two hours, behind closed doors.
We’ve heard the Secretary General today warning that Gaza is becoming a “graveyard for children”. Even as the Council was meeting, he was tweeting that message. Repetitively tweeting about the need for a ceasefire today.
We’ve seen Guterres really ratchet up the pressure on the international community.
In 1 month Israel has killed more than 10,000 Palestinians in Gaza, incl more than 4,000 children.
— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) November 6, 2023
That is 1 in every 200 people, in Gaza alone. In 1 month.
Let that sink in. https://t.co/XKd8DN6qqm
We’ve seen Guterres really ratchet up the pressure on the international community.
He said, “the parties to the conflict, and indeed, the international community, face an immediate and fundamental responsibility: to stop the inhuman collective suffering and dramatically expand humanitarian aid to Gaza.”
He said, “the parties to the conflict, and indeed, the international community, face an immediate and fundamental responsibility: to stop the inhuman collective suffering and dramatically expand humanitarian aid to Gaza.”
So council members discuss this behind closed doors. Many of them came out after the meeting, to speak to the media. Clearly they’re feeling pressure not just from the officials, but from their constituencies back home as well.
Teenager shot dead by Israeli forces in West Bank
A 19-year-old Palestinian was killed and another man wounded after Israeli forces opened fire on them near the town of Beit Anan in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian news agency Wafa identified the person killed as Musab Mujahid Kamel al-Matari.
Sources told Wafa that Matari and another unidentified Palestinian were shot by Israeli authorities before they were arrested.
The family was later informed of his death.
Even before Matari’s killing, at least four Palestinians had already been reported killed by Israeli forces during a rare daytime raid in Tulkarem.
At about the same time, Israeli forces also stormed the town of Beit Daqo, northwest of occupied East Jerusalem, destroying a monument dedicated to Palestinians killed by Israel.
Hamas said it had launched 16 missiles towards Nahariyya and Southern Haifa in Israel.
How Western leaders reacted after attacks on civilians in Gaza, Ukraine
Here’s how these Western leaders reacted after attacks on civilians in Gaza vs. Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/uNTuK7ybE1
— AJ+ (@ajplus) November 6, 2023
Meanwhile, people searched for victims or survivors at the Maghazi refugee camp in Gaza, where the health ministry said Israeli forces had killed at least 47 people in strikes early on Sunday.
"All night I and the other men were trying to pick the dead from the rubble. We got children, dismembered, torn-apart flesh," said Saeed al-Nejma, 53. Asked for comment, the Israeli military said it was gathering details.
Israeli forces just arrested Ahed Tamimi in the village of Nabi Saleh in the occupied West Bank.
— Dena Takruri (@Dena) November 6, 2023
Over a week ago they arrested her father, Bassem Tamimi while he was trying to make his way to Jordan.
The family still has no idea where he’s being held.
“#Gaza is facing a catastrophic situation. #Gaza has been asked to choose between human cleansing and genocide, either to leave or to die”
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) November 6, 2023
A message from the PRCS President Dr. Younis Al-Khatib to the international community.#GazaGenocide #humanity #IHL pic.twitter.com/47c7txYxAf
I continue to think about the serious situation in Palestine and in Israel where many, many people have lost their lives. In God’s name, I beg you to stop: cease using weapons! I hope that avenues will be pursued so that an escalation of the conflict might be absolutely avoided.
— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) November 5, 2023
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