Israel-Hamas war: List of key events, day 42 | Israel-Palestine conflict News

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Because the battle between Israel and Gaza enters its forty second day, these are the primary developments.

Almost six weeks after the beginning of the struggle, right here is the state of affairs on Friday, November 17, 2023:

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• The Syrian military introduced early on Friday that the Syrian air defence shot down Israeli missiles within the environment of the capital, Damascus. Whereas a lot of the missiles had been intercepted, some prompted materials harm, the military mentioned.
• The United Nations World Meals Programme (WFP) has warned that Gaza faces the opportunity of speedy hunger, including that solely 10 % of the required meals provides are getting into the besieged enclave. Air assaults have hit bakeries and wheat mills in southern Gaza, leaving just one firm in a position to produce flour within the enclave.
• A communications blackout in a lot of Gaza, in addition to the assaults on Gaza’s well being system, are making it tough for the Ministry of Well being to collect information about places hit by Israeli strikes.
• The Israeli navy mentioned on Friday it retrieved the physique of a soldier, Noa Marciano, who had been held captive by Hamas. The physique of one other Hamas captive, Yehudit Weiss was additionally discovered, the Israeli navy mentioned on Thursday.
• Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp was hit by Israeli air strikes on Thursday, killing at the very least 11 folks, in keeping with Palestinian authorities.

Scenario at Gaza’s hospitals

• The state of affairs in Gaza’s hospitals continues to worsen.
• The Israeli military continues to stay at Gaza’s largest medical facility, the al-Shifa Hospital, for a 3rd day in a row. The radiology division of the hospital has been broken and several other our bodies have been faraway from the medical facility.
• The Israeli navy mentioned on Thursday night time that it discovered an operational tunnel shaft below al-Shifa Hospital. The navy had insisted that Hamas was working its command centre from below the hospital however has up to now failed to show any proof to again its claims.
• Hospitals in Gaza have run out of beds to accommodate sufferers, forcing many to be handled on hospital flooring. They’re additionally resorting to manually performing procedures as they’ve run out of medical provides and tools.
• Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Friday {that a} medical facility in Gaza established by his basis has been destroyed by Israeli bombing.

Diplomacy

• Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on X on Friday that he mentioned the present state of affairs together with his Australian counterpart, Anthony Albanese. Trudeau has been pressured by the Canadian voters to name for a ceasefire in Gaza. In the meantime, Albanese’s authorities has resisted calling for a ceasefire.
• The US State Division launched a press release on Thursday following the assault on a Jordanian navy hospital in Gaza on Wednesday that wounded seven folks. State Division spokesman Matthew Miller expressed concern for the wounded, commending the Jordanian authorities for the institution of the hospital. Miller, nevertheless, didn’t condemn the strike nor did he say who was accountable.
• The State Division additionally mentioned on Thursday that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Israeli struggle cupboard Minister Benny Gantz, discussing the pressing must de-escalate tensions within the West Financial institution, together with by confronting rising ranges of settler violence.
• Blinken additionally spoke to Egyptian overseas minister Sameh Shoukry about efforts to extend humanitarian support in Gaza, reaffirming Washington’s rejection of the pressured displacement of Palestinians. Nonetheless, requires a ceasefire in Gaza stay off the desk.
• The Elders, a gaggle of former world leaders working in the direction of peace, despatched an open letter to President Joe Biden saying that Israel’s destruction of Gaza and killing of civilians put “US credibility and pursuits internationally” at stake.

Updates within the West Financial institution

• Three Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli drone strike in Jenin within the occupied West Financial institution, the pinnacle of the Palestinian ambulance service informed Reuters on Friday.
• Israeli forces arrested two paramedics and ordered the Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin evacuated whereas launching a raid on the hospital. Ibn Sina is without doubt one of the Palestinian territory’s largest medical amenities and is taken into account a specialised hospital. Armoured autos broken automobiles and roads within the raid.
• Israeli police killed three Palestinians in open hearth at a checkpoint in Bethlehem.