Israel-Palestine Conflict LIVE: Israel-Palestine Conflict LIVE: Israel Moves Hundreds of Tanks Towards Gaza Border as 3-hr Deadline Ends

Pope Francis called for humanitarian corridors to help the ones under siege in Gaza. He also appealed to release the hostages that have been held by Hamas, the militant Islamist group.

In his weekly address addressed to thousands of people in St. Peter’s square, he said, “I forcefully ask that children, the sick, the elderly and women, and all civilians do not become the victims of the conflict.”

He further said that humanitarian rights should be respected above all in Gaza and humanitarian corridors to help the entire population should be guranteed. whereever urgent and necessary.

(Source: Reuters)

Israel has started evacuating the elderly people from nursing homes in the southern city of Ashkelon. The total population of the city is nearly 150,000.

(Source: i24 News)

The residents of Ofakim have received an ‘all-clear’, following a suspected infiltration, said local authorities.

(Source: The Times of Israel)

Following a suspected terrorist infiltration, residents of a neighborhood in Ofakim were ordered to take shelter as forces carried out searches.

The municipality also told residents of the Shapira neighborhood located in the southern part of the city to keep staying in their bomb shelters and lock their homes until further notice.

(Source: The Times of Israel)

A spokesman for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said on October 14 that the first evacuation flight for Ukrainian citizens has left Israel carrying 207 Ukrainians, including 63 children.

He also said that the flight departed for Bucharest from Tel Aviv.

The next flight has been scheduled for October 15 and will go to the Romanian city of Cluj.

(Source: The New York Times)

The Navy in Israel is currently striking targets along the coast of Gaza. The Israeli tanks have started gathering ahead of an ‘imminent’ ground invasion into Gaza.

(Source: The Spectator Index and Sky News)

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has condemned the horror and barbarism of the Palestinian militant group Hamas. He pledged continued support to Israel in restoring security as he marked one week of the conflict in the Middle East.

Sunak, in a statement issued by 10 Downing Street and also on social media on Saturday evening, he reiterated his commitment to the Jewish community in the country. He further ensured that all protective measures would be deployed.

The town of Sderot is currently being evacuated,ahead of a possible Gaza ground operation. Rocket alers can be heard in a number of Gaza border towns, including Sderot.

No immediate injuries or damage has been reported.

Explosions could be heard from either impacts or interceptions by the missile defense system.

Earlier today, fire sparked from a rocket hit a house in Sderot.

(Source: The Times of Israel)

The Foreign Affairs Minister of France, Catherine Colonna made a support visit to Israel. The Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, Eli Cohen thanked her for the visit and said that she met the family members of abductees, talked with the wounded, and the ones exposed to the atrocities of Hamas.

Convoys of humanitarian aid stacked up near Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip on Sunday, unable to enter the Palestinian enclave being bombarded by Israel, witnesses told AFP.

The Rafah crossing — the only passage in and out of the Gaza Strip not controlled by Israel — has been closed since Tuesday, after three Israeli air strikes on the Palestinian border post within 24 hours.

On Saturday, an American official confirmed to AFP that Egypt and Israel had reached an agreement to allow American citizens to leave Gaza via Rafah.

A Syrian opposition war monitor and a pro-government media outlet say Israel’s military has attacked the international airport of the northern city of Aleppo, putting it out of service. Al-Watan daily said the Saturday night strike hit the runway of Aleppo airport — putting it out of service just hours after it was fixed following a similar Israeli strike on Thursday.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported that the strike also hit the runway at Aleppo airport. The attack on Aleppo airport came shortly after a rocket was reportedly fired from Syria into the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.

On Thursday, Israeli struck the runways in Aleppo and Damascus International Airport. Aleppo was fixed within a day before it was again targeted Saturday.

The Israeli army said it was striking inside Lebanon on Sunday after anti-tank missile fire towards a border community, in the latest incident of cross-border shelling.

“Following the anti-tank missile fire in the area of Shtula, the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) struck the origin of the fire with artillery fire,” the army said.

“Furthermore, additional anti-tank missile fire was carried out toward an IDF military post on the Lebanese border. In response, the IDF is currently striking in Lebanese territory.”

Anti-tank missile fire from Lebanon killed a civilian and wounded several others on Sunday in a northern Israel border community, Israel’s army said.

“The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) responded with fire and destroyed Hezbollah positions and the source of the fire,” an army spokesman said.

“In addition, there was fire at an Israeli military position. There were no casualties. The IDF responded with fire to the source of fire there too.”

Amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, BJP MP from Salempur Ravindra Kushwaha has said that those supporting the militant group are working to spread disorder in India, and the Centre as well as the Uttar Pradesh government will deal with them with full force. “The policy of India and that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is that we will oppose terrorism in any form and at any place in the world. The way Hamas committed acts of terror in Israel, killing women and children brutally, it is a matter of shame for the entire humanity,” he said.

Keeping all these things in mind, there should not be any kind of sympathy for terrorists. The Modi government has supported Israel.

Hamas started it and Israel, in self-defence, is now attacking with full might, the Lok Sabha MP told reporters on Saturday evening when the Pune-Gorakhpur Express halted at the Belthara Road railway station. Kushwaha said

Cross-border fire erupted between Israel and Lebanon early Sunday, killing at least one person on the Israeli side of the border. Both the Israeli military and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah acknowledged the fighting.

Hezbollah said it shelled Israeli military positions in the northern border town of Shtula. The group said in a statement the attack was in retaliation for Israeli shelling that killed Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah on Friday and two Lebanese civilians on Saturday.

Israel has responded by targeting the outskirts of the town of Ait el-Shaab, the Israeli military said.

Iran’s foreign minister says that if Israel does not change course, the ‘resistance’ will ‘change the map of the region’, reported The Spectator Index. 

The United States government has organised a ship to take Americans out of Israel to Cyprus on Monday, the US embassy said.

With Israel moving toward a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, the ship will leave from the Israeli port of Haifa taking “US nationals and their immediate family members with a valid travel document”, the US embassy said in a security alert.

The Israeli military is preparing for a ground offensive in Gaza, after giving Palestinians a little more time to flee northern areas it has vowed a ground incursion to retaliate against Hamas’ deadliest attack in its history.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited troops on the border front line, raising expectations of an imminent invasion. “Are you ready for what is coming? More is coming,” he was heard telling several soldiers on a video released by his office.

The fighting, which has gone on for over a week, resulted in the death of more than 1,300 people in Israel and killed over 2,200 in Gaza. READ MORE

The German government on Sunday urged its nationals not to travel to Israel, the Palestinian territories or Lebanon because of “an escalation of violence” following the Hamas attacks on Israel.

The travel warning is at the highest level given by the German government. In its statement, the foreign ministry also said it would “do its utmost” to support citizens wishing to leave Israel or the Palestinian territories.

“Following the anti-tank missile fire in the area of Shtula, the IDF struck the origin of the fire with artillery fire. Furthermore, additional anti-tank missile fire was carried out toward an IDF military post on the Lebanese border. In response, the IDF is currently striking in Lebanese territory,” IDF said in a post on X.