The Israeli army is advancing in the Gaza Strip. The IDF claimed, Monday, October 30, to have killed “dozens of terrorists who had barricaded themselves in buildings and tunnels” in this Palestinian territory. A plane guided by troops on the ground targeted a building “with more than 20 Hamas terrorists inside”she added, ensuring that she had hit “more than 600 targets” in 24 hours. Hamas, for its part, reported “intense fights” in the northern Gaza Strip for the third night. According to witnesses, Israeli tanks entered a neighborhood on the edge of Gaza City on Monday, cutting the main road between the north and south of the Gaza Strip. Follow our live stream.
A new aid convoy in Gaza. Thirty-three humanitarian aid trucks forming the largest convoy since the start of the war entered Gaza on Sunday via the Rafah crossing point on the border with Egypt, the UN announced. “While this increase is welcome, a much greater volume of aid is needed on a regular basis in order to avoid a further deterioration of the dire humanitarian situation, including civil unrest.”underlined the United Nations in its daily report on the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
The ICC’s warning. “Prevent access to humanitarian aid” towards the Gaza Strip could constitute a “crime”said the head of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, on Sunday in Cairo, after visiting the Rafah border post, where international aid for Palestinian civilians is piling up. “In Rafah, I saw stranded trucks, filled with goods and humanitarian aid, far from hungry mouths and wounds” of the inhabitants of besieged Gaza, he was indignant.
An invaded airport in Russia. In the predominantly Muslim Russian republic of Dagestan, an airport was closed after being stormed by a crowd searching for passengers on a flight from Israel. These incidents were denounced by the Dagestan authorities, while the United States condemned “anti-Semitic demonstrations”. According to Moscow, 60 “active participants” were arrested and nine police officers injured during these clashes.