Israel-Hamas war LIVE: Communications are shut off again in Gaza as Israel announces 11 IDF troops were killed fighting Hamas yesterday

The BBC will start an emergency radio service for the people of Gaza, the British broadcaster’s World Service arm has announced.

The programme will aim to provide the latest information plus safety advice on where to access shelter, food and water supplies, said the BBC.

‘BBC News Arabic are extremely well-placed to offer this vital service for the people of Gaza at a time of greatest need,’ BBC World Service Director Liliane Landor said in a statement, reported on by Reuters news agency.

Produced in Cairo and London, the Gaza radio service will run one programme from November 3 and begin a second daily broadcast from Nov. 10.

The BBC World Service, which represents the British broadcaster’s non-commercial international broadcasting services, has a previous track record of launching emergency broadcasts.

In the summer of 2014 it launched a service for Gaza following an escalation in hostilities there.

It also launched an emergency radio service during the conflict in Sudan in May, and ran extended TV bulletins in Ukraine following the invasion of the country last year.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has ordered his officials to find a way of supporting Palestine amid the on-going war, according to South Korea’s spy agency.

South Korea’s National Intelligence Agency’s director Kim Kyou-hyun told lawmakers Kim is believed to have instructed ‘a wide range of support’ for Palestine.

This could include selling weapons to the terror group in the Middle East, the Wall Street Journal reports.

North Korea is known to have already sent artillery shells to Russia to boost Putin’s on-going war in Ukraine. The NIS said the supply could last two months.

Hamas fighters already likely used North Korean weapons during their October 7 assault on Israel, experts have said, after analysing video of weapons seized by Israel in the afterman of the attack.

IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari said Israeli troops arrested 46 people suspected of being involved in terrorist activity in the West Bank last night. He said 30 of those arrested are part of Hamas and seized their weapons.

Two Filipino doctors with medical aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) are among the first group of foreigners selected to leave Gaza and cross into Egypt, a Philippine foreign ministry official said on Wednesday.

‘The crossing should happen anytime now,’ undersecretary Eduardo De Vega has told Reuters news agency.

The head of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Ghebreyesus, said he ‘welcomed’ Egypt’s decision to accept some of the sick and injured from Gaza so that they can receive treatment.

An online gaming platform aimed at children exposes under 18s to disturbing instances of vile anti-Semitism including the burning of Israel flags and avatars named ‘Hatred of Jews’ , it can be revealed today.

Roblox, a gaming space in which users can create worlds from scratch and visit others, allows anyone to log into spaces and see images of avatars made to look like anti-Semitic caricatures dressed in clothing commonly worn by the Jewish community.

MailOnline has seen evidence of Israeli flags being burned next to what appear to be Jihadist flags, avatars dripping in blood while saying ‘I won’t rest until Palestine is free’ and statements such as ‘Israel are dogs’ or the Israeli flag followed by the poo emoji.

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In the UK, a third McDonald’s has been hit by a pro-Palestine mice attack.

A masked gang hurled dozens of rodents at staff whilst chanting and waving the Palestinian flag.

Shocking footage shared on social media shows a group of men clad in black storming into the fast food chain shouting ‘free Palestine’.

One protestor then steps forward and catapults mice from inside a container towards a group of workers behind the service counter.

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In the United States last night, a 21-year-old native of New York State was arrested and charged with threatening to carry out a mass shooting and violence against Jewish students at Cornell University.

Patrick Dai, a junior engineering student at Cornell, was arrested on a federal criminal complaint charging him with posting threats to kill or injure another using interstate communications, according to the US Department of Justice.

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Pictured are coming through of ambulances rushing wounded Palestinians out of Gaza for urgent medical care in Egypt, with hundreds of desperate foreign passport holders also poised to flee the territory.

The evacuation of the first people to escape war-torn Gaza provided a rare glimmer of hope in an otherwise desolate humanitarian crisis.

The latest Israel-Hamas war has quickly become the deadliest and most destructive of the five wars fought between the sides since Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip in 2007 from the Palestinian Authority.

The fighting erupted Oct. 7 when Hamas carried out a bloody attack in southern Israel. Since then, Israel has relentlessly pounded the Gaza Strip with airstrikes that have wrought unprecedented destruction, flattening entire neighborhoods.

Here’s a look in numbers at the toll of the war as of Nov. 1, sourced from the Gaza Health Ministry and Israeli officials as well as international observers and aid groups:

• Number of people killed in Israel: 1,400
• Number of Palestinians killed in Gaza: 8,525
• Number of Palestinians killed in West Bank: 125
• Number of Israelis injured: 5,431
• Number of Palestinians injured in Gaza: 21,543
• Number of Palestinians injured in the West Bank: 2,050
• Number of Israelis displaced: 250,000
• Number of Palestinians displaced in Gaza: Over 1.4 million
• Soldiers and civilians being held hostage in Gaza: 240
• Hostages released or rescued: 5
• Aid trucks let into Gaza: 217
• Residential units destroyed in Gaza: 33,960

The World Health Organisation in Palestine has posted a graphic showing the damage the on-going siege of Gaza is having on healthcare there.

In the data shared in the graphic, the UN organisation says:

• Just 29 percent of primary care services are functioning in Gaza.
• Only 66 percent of hospitals are functioning.
• 45 percent of medicines had less than a month’s supply remaining before the bombardment began on October 7 after the Hamas terror attack.
• 100 patients per day need access to healthcare outside of Gaza.

The post came as the first ambulances carrying wounded Palestinians from war-torn Gaza entered Egypt via the Rafah crossing, according to an Egyptian official who spoke to AFP news agency on condition of anonymity.

Top US diplomat Antony Blinken will hold talks in Israel again on Friday then visit other regional players as Washington seeks ‘urgent mechanisms’ to reduce regional tensions over the Israel-Hamas war, the State Department has said.

The White House said President Joe Biden and Jordan’s King Abdullah II had spoken yesterday and ‘discussed urgent mechanisms to stem violence, calm rhetoric and reduce regional tensions’.

They also agreed it was ‘critical to ensure that Palestinians are not forcibly displaced outside of Gaza’.

Israel’s air force chief has accused Hamas of using civilians as part of its war against the Jewish state, after the IDF admitted carrying out an airstrike of a refugee camp.

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Shani Louk’s heartbroken brother has revealed his ‘whole family crashed’ when they saw the abducted festivalgoer being paraded by Hamas terrorists on a truck where they were ‘spitting on her like she was nothing’.

Amit Louk, 20, said he was horrified to watch the video of his 23-year-old sister lying motionless and half-naked in the back of a truck, with one leg at an unnatural angle, while being surrounded by four terrorists shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’.

The last time he had heard from Shani was on the phone, as she frantically tried to escape the Nova electronic festival near Kibbutz Re’im in her car on October 7 as Hamas gunmen shot at anyone they saw.

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The first group of injured evacuees from the Gaza strip entered Egypt on Wednesday via ambulances through the Rafah crossing, Egyptian local media and a source at the Egyptian border told Reuters.

• Live footage shown on television stations showed Egyptian nurses and first-aiders examining wounded Palestinians then carrying them on stretchers to Egyptian ambulances.
• At least one child was visible in one of the ambulances, with officials saying around 90 of the most seriously wounded would be allowed to cross for treatment in Egyptian hospitals.
• On the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing, an AFP correspondent saw 40 ambulances enter the terminal, each one carrying two people.
• The patients were to be taken to several locations, including a field hospital in Sheikh Zuweid, some 15 kilometres (nine miles) from Rafah. Media reports said others would be taken to a hospital in El Arish, 30 kilometres to the west with the most complex cases referred to Cairo.
• After the transfer of the wounded, Egypt was to allow hundreds of foreign passport holders to cross for the first time since the Israel-Hamas war began on October 7.
• Some 400 foreigners and dual nationals were expected to make the crossing on Wednesday.

Foreign passport holders and wounded Palestinians who were trapped in Gaza have started leaving the war-torn territory as the Rafah crossing to Egypt reopened for the first time since Hamas’s bloody October 7 attacks.

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on Muslim states to cease oil and food exports to Israel, demanding an end to its bombardment of the Gaza Strip, state media reported.

‘The bombings on Gaza must stop immediately … the path of oil and food exports to the Zionist regime should be stopped,’ Khamenei said in a speech, according to Iranian state media.

Israel has vowed to wipe out Tehran-backed Hamas, which rules Gaza, in retaliation for an October 7 attack that killed 1,400 people and saw hundreds taken hostage.

Israel has launched an unprecedented bombardment of Gaza and imposed a siege of the enclave. Palestinian authorities say more than 8,000 people have been killed.

Iran’s clerical rulers have warned Israel of an escalation if it failed to end aggressions against Palestinians, with authorities indicating Tehran-backed proxies in the Middle East were ready to act.

Britons trapped in Gaza may be able to leave through the border crossing with Egypt.

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said teams are ready to help British nationals able to flee the territory, which has been subjected to bombardment by Israel and shortages of food, water and fuel.

As Tel Aviv’s forces step up operations against the Hamas group, which carried out the October 7 atrocities in Israel, Mr Cleverly stressed the need for humanitarian aid to get into Gaza.

Dozens of people were seen using the Rafah crossing from Gaza to Egypt on Wednesday, the first time foreign passport holders have been allowed to leave the besieged territory since the start of the conflict.

Mr Cleverly said: ‘UK teams are ready to assist British nationals as soon as they are able to leave. It’s vital that lifesaving humanitarian aid can enter Gaza as quickly as possible.’

Hamas’ armed wing al-Qassam Brigades has said seven civilian hostages were killed in Israeli strikes on Jabalia refugee camp, including three foreign passport holders.

Hamas, the terrorist Islamist group that governs Gaza, has so far released four civilians among the 240 believed to be held in the enclave.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said ‘the entire nation of Israel embraces’ the families of soldiers killed in the country’s fight against Hamas.

In a video message posted to X (formerly Twitter), he said: ‘We are in a tough war. It will be a long war. We have important achievements in it, but also painful losses.

‘We know – each of our soldiers is a whole world. The entire nation of Israel embraces you, the families, from the bottom of our hearts. We are all with you in your time of great sorrow. Our soldiers fell in an unjust war, the war for the house.

‘I promise you citizens of Israel: we will continue until we fulfill the mission – we will continue until victory.’

The message comes after Israel announced 11 IDF soldiers were killed fighting Hamas terrorists yesterday (see 07:34 update).

Israel’s air strikes on the Jabalia refugee camp, targeting a Hamas commander, are part of the ‘terrible nature’ of the conflict in the Middle East, Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden said today.

Asked by Sky News whether Israel had broken international law with the strikes, he said: ‘This is the reality of the conflict with an organisation like Hamas.

‘Hamas is a terrorist organisation that has murdered in cold blood over 1,000 innocent Israeli men, women and children, and now seeks to hide amongst the civilian population. This is a very difficult conflict.

‘We continue to urge the Israeli government to abide by international law. I believe that the Israeli government is continuing to do so against an enemy that hides among civilians. It is the terrible nature of this appalling conflict.’

Hundreds of foreign passport holders and wounded trapped in Gaza have started leaving the war-torn territory through the Rafah crossing to Egypt, AFP correspondents have reported.

The crossing has opened for the first time since the October 7 Hamas attacks.

Convoys of desperately needed aid have passed between Egypt and Gaza but no people have been allowed through the Rafah crossing until today.

The Daily Mail’s Richard Pendlebury and Jamie Wiseman heard the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old Palestinian man who attacked policemen in the city of Jerusalem.

They discovered a story that epitomises the seemingly endless cycle of violence that hangs over Israel….

Israel has slammed Bolivia’s decision to cut diplomatic ties over its war in Gaza after a deadly Hamas attack as a capitulation to ‘terror’.

‘The government of Bolivia’s decision to cut diplomatic ties with Israel is a surrender to terrorism and to the Ayatollah’s regime in Iran,’ foreign ministry spokesman Lior Haiat said in a statement.

‘By taking this step, the Bolivian government is aligning itself with the Hamas terrorist organisation.’

• Bolivia said Tuesday it was severing relations with Israel over ‘the aggressive and disproportionate Israeli military offensive’ in the Gaza Strip.
• Two other Latin American countries – Colombia and Chile – recalled their ambassadors to Israel over the war and its mounting humanitarian crisis.

Here’s what you need to know on the 26th day of the Israel-Hamas conflict:

• Palestinians reported another widespread outage of internet and phone service in Gaza early this morning.
• Israeli airstrikes leveled apartment buildings near Gaza City and ground troops battled Hamas militants inside the besieged territory.
• The Palestinian telecoms company Paltel reported a “complete disruption” of internet and mobile phone services.
• This came after a barrage of airstrikes leveled apartment buildings in a refugee camp near Gaza City on Tuesday. Rescuers frantically dug through the destruction to pull men, women and children from the rubble.
• Israel said the strike, which targeted senior Hamas military leader Ibrahim Biari, destroyed a militant command centre and an underground tunnel network, and killed dozens of other terrorists.
• In recent days, Israeli troops have advanced toward the outskirts of Gaza City from the north and east as the IDF continues its efforts to eradicate Hamas and free the roughly 240 hostages being held in the enclave.
• Israel has been vague about its operations in Gaza, but residents and spokesmen for militant groups say troops appear to be trying to take control of the two main north-south roads – suggesting the IDF is trying to split the territory in two.
• An estimated 800,000 Palestinians have fled south from Gaza City and other northern areas following Israeli orders to evacuate, but hundreds of thousands remain in the north.
• Israel has allowed international aid groups to send more than 200 trucks carrying food and medicine to enter from Egypt over the past 10 days. Aid workers say a minimum of 100-per-day is needed to supply the population.
• More than 8,500 Palestinians have been killed in the war, mostly women and minors, the Gaza Health Ministry said Tuesday.
• Over 1,400 people have died on the Israeli side, mainly civilians killed during Hamas’ initial attack, also an unprecedented figure.

The Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza is ‘likely’ to open to foreign nationals on Wednesday, Britain’s Foreign Secretary says.

In a post on X (Twitter), James Cleverly said: ‘The Rafah crossing is likely to open today for a first group of foreign nationals.

‘UK teams are ready to assist British nationals as soon as they are able to leave.

‘It’s vital that lifesaving humanitarian aid can enter Gaza as quickly as possible.’

Israeli missile ships were deployed in the Red Sea on Wednesday as reinforcements, the military said in a statement, following long-range missile and drone attacks claimed by Yemen’s Houthis.

Images disseminated by the military appeared to show Saar-class corvettes patrolling near Eilat port in the Red Sea, which Israel sees as a new front as its war in Gaza draws retaliation from Iran-aligned pro-Hamas forces elsewhere in the region.

The Israeli military said 11 soldiers were killed fighting against Hamas in Gaza on Tuesday, the biggest one-day loss for the armed forces since the terrorists attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing about 300 soldiers and some 1,100 civilians.

Israel’s Army Radio said most of the dead were infantrymen whose vehicle was struck by an anti-armour missile.

All of the 11 soldiers who died yesterday were aged between 19 and 24.

The Gaza Strip was plunged into a communications blackout again today after internet and phone networks were cut.

‘To our good people in the beloved country, we are sorry to announce that communications and internet services have been completely cut off in Gaza,’ the Palestine Telecommunications Company (Paltel) said on X.

Global network monitor Netblocks confirmed that Gaza ‘is in the midst of a new internet blackout with high impact to the last remaining major operator, Paltel.

‘The incident will be experienced as a total loss of telecommunications by most residents,’ it said in a post on X.

Internet and phone networks were completely cut last week but were restored at the weekend.

Humanitarian aid agencies have warned that such blackouts severely disrupt their work in an already dire situation in Gaza.