An airstrike hit a building near Gaza’s Al-Quds hospital on 18 October, a day after an explosion at another hospital in the Strip killed an estimated 500 people
Eight Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank, with clashes reportedly continuing between Israeli forces and gunmen at the Nur Shams refugee camp.
British and US citizens have been warned to leave Lebanon, with the Foreign Office urging them to “leave now while commercial options remain available”.
Meanwhile, road repair machinery has been moved to the Rafah crossing, in preparation for 20 trucks of aid to be brought from the Egyptian border into Gaza. Following talks with the US, Israel agreed to allow the opening for food and medicine, provided it was not diverted by Hamas for their own use.
Hamas media has since reported that one of their top commanders had been killed in an Israeli airstrike on his home. Head of the Hamas-led national security forces, Jehad Mheisen, was reportedly killed alongside his family on Thursday.
Meanwhile, a British-Israeli man has been confirmed to have been murdered in Hamas’ October 7 attack, BBC reports.
During his visit to Israel on Thursday, Rishi Sunak promised Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu that Britain would stand by Israel in “its darkest hour” as he welcomed the decision to allow aid into Gaza and said Israel was doing all it could to limit civilian deaths.
