Israel-Hamas battle LIVE: Greater than 30 infants rescued from hospital ‘loss of life zone’ as IDF hammers Gaza with air strikes and Qatar ignites hopes that hostages deal is imminent

• Some 10,000 individuals fled from the north of the Gaza Strip in the direction of the south yesterday, in line with the United Nations.
• That determine relies on estimates by UN observers on the bottom, its Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) mentioned.
• It famous that amongst these fleeing had been unaccompanied minors.

The Palestinian Pink Crescent mentioned in a press release on X (translated):

Right now, Palestinian Pink Crescent ambulance crews, in coordination with the World Well being Group and the United Nations Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), had been in a position to evacuate 31 untimely infants from Al-Shifa Hospital. They had been transported by Pink Crescent ambulances to the south, in preparation for his or her switch to the Emirates Hospital in Rafah.

• Iran’s Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged Muslim states to ‘no less than reduce off political ties with Israel for a restricted time frame’, the Tasnim information company experiences.
• It comes weeks after he referred to as for an Islamic oil and meals embargo on Israel.
• At a November 11 convention, Muslim states didn’t conform to impose wide-ranging sanctions on Israel as requested by Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi.

• The IDF says a paratrooper brigade, supported by tanks and the air forces, are attacking the Sheikh Ejalin and Rimal neighborhoods in Gaza.
• ‘As a part of the preventing, the fighters situated about 35 tunnel shafts, many weapons and eradicated terrorists,’ the Israeli navy mentioned on X.
• Troops raided the houses of senior Hamas officers within the upmarket Rimal space, the IDF mentioned, a lot of which has been destroyed by Israeli airstrikes.

• A spokesperson for the Hamas-run well being ministry has claimed that 30 untimely infants, reportedly evacuated from al-Shifa hospital in Gaza Metropolis are being taken to medical services in Egypt.

• Qatar’s chief has mentioned solely ‘very minor’ particulars stay on a deal between Israel and Hamas to safe the discharge of a few of some 238 Israeli hostages held in Gaza.
• ‘The challenges dealing with the settlement are simply sensible and logistical,’ he mentioned throughout a press convention with EU international coverage chief Josep Borrell.
• The plan is more likely to contain the discharge of hostages in return for the discharge of Palestinian ladies and youngsters held in Israel, it has been recommended.

• Gaza’s Hamas-run Gaza well being ministry claims that 30 untimely infants had been evacuated by a United Nations group from al-Shifa hospital.
• Earlier this morning, a World Well being Organisation report indicated that 32 infants had been left behind in a ‘important’ situation after a mass evacuation from the hospital.

On 18 November 2023, an MSF workers’s relative died and one other one was injured in an assault on an MSF convoy making an attempt to evacuate 137 individuals – MSF Palestinian workers members and their households. They had been trapped for per week in MSF premises situated close to Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza. MSF condemns within the strongest phrases this deliberate assault.

• A World Well being Group (WHO) group is heading to al-Shifa hospital in Gaza Metropolis to evacuate the infants, in line with the Hamas-appointed director of hospitals within the enclave.
• An Related Press reporter mentioned they noticed a convoy of ambulances, escorted by United Nations automobiles, heading north towards Gaza Metropolis.
• WHO has mentioned it hopes to evacuate sufferers to southern Gaza.
• The IDF, which has taken management of the hospital, as mentioned it’s working to evacuate as many sufferers as attainable from the compound, which it claims has been used as a Hamas command centre.

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In a press release, the IDF mentioned:

Following the alert within the north of the nation a short while in the past, the air protection fighters efficiently intercepted a suspicious aerial goal that crossed from Lebanon.

• Yemen’s Houthi militia say they may goal all ships owned and operated by Israeli firms or these carrying the Israeli flag, Reuters experiences citing the group’s Telegram channel account.

Pictured: Houthi fighters conducting navy workouts in Sana’a, Yemen, final month.

• The IDF says its warplanes destroyed Hamas infrastructure within the neighborhoods of Jabalia, Zeytun and Beit Lahia in northern Gaza.
• Troops of the Nahal Brigade fought on the outskirts of the Jabalia refugee camp, the place the IDF mentioned the encountered and eradicated Hamas fighters with the assistance of tanks and air help.

The IDF shared footage of in a single day air assaults, in addition to floor operations right here:

• Israel and Hamas haven’t but reached a deal on a short lived ceasefire, a White Home spokesperson mentioned final evening. The U.S. is constant to work to get a deal between the 2 sides.
• World Well being Group (WHO) officers described al-Shifa hospital in Gaza Metropolis as a ‘loss of life zone’ after a go to to the complicated. They mentioned they noticed a mass grave on the website which they had been informed contained the stays of 80 individuals.
• Numerous individuals left al-Shifa hospital amid conflicting experiences over whether or not an evacuation was ordered by the Israeli navy, which the IDF categorically denied.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dominated out a full ceasefire with Hamas and mentioned he’ll solely contemplate solely a short lived pause in change for the return of hostages.
• The Hamas-run well being ministry inside Gaza mentioned yesterday that the official loss of life toll is 12,300 individuals, together with 5,000 kids.
• Hundreds of Israelis accomplished a five-day march on Jerusalem to demand a gathering with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to debate plans to save lots of hostages captured by Hamas within the October 7 assaults.