Latest information on Gaza battle

A U.N. report paints a stark image of the collapsing Palestinian economic system after a month of warfare and Israel’s close to complete siege of Gaza.

The gross home product shrank 4% within the West Bank and Gaza within the warfare’s first month, sending over 400,000 folks into poverty — an financial impression unseen within the conflicts Syria and Ukraine, or any earlier Israel-Hamas warfare.

At least 45% of all housing within the Gaza strip has additionally been broken or destroyed by Israeli bombardment, in keeping with the evaluation launched Thursday by the U.N. Development Program and the U.N. Economic and Social Commission for West Asia.

If the warfare continues for a second month, the U.N. initiatives that the Palestinian gross home product, which was $20.Four billion earlier than the warfare, will drop by 8.4%. That’s a lack of $1.7 billion. And if the battle lasts a 3rd month, Palestinian GDP will drop by 12%, with losses of $2.5 billion and greater than 660,000 folks pushed into poverty.

UNDP Assistant Secretary-General Abdallah Al Dardari mentioned a 12% GDP loss on the finish of the 12 months can be “massive and unprecedented.” By comparability, he mentioned, the Syrian economic system used to lose 1% of its GDP per 30 days on the peak of the battle which started in 2011, and it took Ukraine 18 months of combating to lose 30% of its GDP.

— Associated Press

The U.S. humanitarian envoy for the warfare described bettering assist supply for central and southern Gaza, however described no such effort within the northern battle zone aside from to assist civilians flee the intensifying Israeli assault there.

Envoy David Satterfield mentioned Thursday that the worldwide group had been in a position to get gas to show again on water desalination vegetation within the south, and that assist into the south was averaging 100 vans a day. Two pipelines supplying clear consuming water to the south from Israel had been turned again on.

“We do see the ability in the coming days we hope to meet the minimum requirements of the population in the south,” he mentioned.

Satterfield additionally mentioned within the on-line briefing that agreements being labored out would come with a technique to transfer wounded from the north.

The U.N. estimated on Wednesday that a whole lot of hundreds of individuals had been nonetheless in northern Gaza, however couldn’t instantly present an up to date determine.

— Associated Press

Israel’s army mentioned a drone exploded Thursday within the yard of a home within the Red Sea metropolis of Eilat, inflicting no accidents, and a long-range surface-to-surface missile was intercepted earlier than coming into Israeli airspace.

Later, Yemen’s Houthi rebels mentioned they fired a batch of ballistic missiles at Israeli targets, a few of which had been heading for Eilat, acording to Houthi army spokesman Yahya Sare’e.

Thursday’s spherical of missile hearth is one in every of not less than 5 ariel assaults the Houthis have launched towards southern Israel since Oct. 7. The Iran-backed drive, who management Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, are staunch enemies of Israel and have vowed to proceed their army operations in assist of Palestinians.

— Associated Press

U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq and Syria have been focused a number of occasions within the final day, with three minor accidents reported, U.S. protection officers mentioned Thursday.

The assaults befell because the U.S. carried out one other airstrike towards an Iranian weapons storage space Wednesday to attempt to persuade Iranian-backed militant teams to stop the hostilities and keep away from spurring a bigger battle.

Within the previous day, militants have launched two separate assaults utilizing a number of rockets towards U.S. and coalition forces working at Green Village, Syria; a one-way drone assault was launched towards U.S. and Coalition forces at Mission Support Site Euphrates, Syria; U.S. and coalition convoy encountered a roadside bomb close to the Mosul Dam, in Iraq; and a one-way assault drone was launched at U.S. and coalition forces on the al Asad air base in Iraq.

There had been three minor accidents reported within the Green Village assaults however all personnel returned to obligation.

No different accidents or harm was reported within the strikes, in keeping with protection officers who offered particulars of the assaults on the situation of anonymity to debate particulars not but made public.

According to deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh, U.S. and coalition forces have been attacked 46 occasions since Oct. 17, injuring 56 personnel. All have returned to obligation, Singh mentioned.

— Associated Press

Egyptian and Qatari Red Crescent members and different employees unload a cargo of humanitarian assist certain for the Gaza Strip off a Qatar Emiri Air Force C-17 Globemaster III army transport plane after touchdown at Arish International Airport in North Sinai province in northeastern Egypt amid ongoing combating between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. 

Nearly half of Democrats disapprove of how President Joe Biden is dealing with the Israel-Hamas battle, in keeping with a brand new ballot from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research — displaying a deep divide inside his get together over the warfare.

The ballot discovered 50% of Democrats approve of how Biden has navigated the battle whereas 46% disapprove — and the 2 teams diverge considerably of their views of U.S. assist for Israel. Biden’s assist on the difficulty amongst Democrats is down barely from August, as an AP-NORC ballot carried out then discovered that 57% of Democrats accepted of his dealing with of the battle and 40% disapproved.

The Oct. 7 Hamas assault that killed greater than 1,400 folks and Israel’s responding incursion into Gaza have created a political tightrope for Biden, who has supported Israeli sovereignty for the reason that assault but in addition pressured Israel’s authorities to attempt to restrict civilian casualties and permit humanitarian assist into Gaza. More than 10,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s offensive, in keeping with Gaza’s Health Ministry.

— Associated Press

A Palestinian nurse working at Nasser Hospital mourns after he receives a name that his brother was killed after an Israeli assault in Khan Younis, Gaza.

-Abed Zagout | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images

The Israeli army emphasised that there isn’t a cease-fire in Gaza because the White House mentioned Israel has agreed to place in place four-hour every day humanitarian pauses in northern Gaza.

“There are tactical, local pauses for humanitarian aid for Gazan civilians,” the Israel Defense Forces mentioned on X, previously generally known as Twitter. “These tactical pauses are limited in time and area. We are also providing humanitarian corridors for civilians in Gaza to temporarily move south to safer areas where they can receive humanitarian aid.”

In a separate assertion, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s workplace mentioned, “The fighting continues and there will be no ceasefire without the release of our hostages.”

— Michele Luhn

President Joe Biden advised reporters that he has requested Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a pause within the hostilities in Gaza, pushing for one thing longer than three days.

“You know, I’ve been asking for a pause for a lot longer than 3 days,” he mentioned. “I asked for even a longer pause,” he added, after a follow-up query.

Recent stories recommend the U.S. is in talks with Israel and Qatar over a proposed pause — of as much as three days. NBC News reported that the break in combating can be in trade for the potential launch of some hostages held by Palestinian militant group Hamas, citing sources.

—Matt Clinch

Displaced Palestinians line up for meals ready by volunteer Palestinians within the metropolis of Rafah, Gaza, on Nov. 9, 2023. Volunteers ready meals for households who needed to migrate from the northern and central elements of town to the south as a result of Israeli assaults. 

-Abed Rahim Khatib | Anadolou Agency | Getty Images

The White House mentioned Israel has agreed to place in place four-hour every day humanitarian pauses in its assault on Hamas in norther Gaza beginning on Thursday, because the Biden administration mentioned it has secured a second pathway for civilians to flee combating.

President Joe Biden had requested Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to institute the every day pauses throughout a Monday name.

U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby mentioned that the primary humanitarian pause can be introduced Thursday and that the Israelis had dedicated to saying every four-hour window not less than three hours prematurely.

Biden additionally advised reporters that he had requested the Israelis for a “pause longer than three days” throughout negotiations over the discharge of some hostages held by Hamas, although he dominated out the probabilities of a normal cease-fire.

— The Associated Press

Police in Brazil have arrested two folks in reference to an alleged plot to assault Israeli and Jewish targets, Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office mentioned in a submit on social media web site X.

“The Brazilian security services, together with the Mossad and its partners in the Israeli security community, alongside additional international security agencies, foiled a terrorist attack in Brazil, planned by the Hezbollah terrorist organization, directed and financed by Iran,” the submit on X mentioned.

The prime minister’s workplace described Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based Shiite militant and political group funded by Iran, as “an extensive network that operated in additional countries.”

“The Mossad thanks the Brazilian security services for the arrest of a terrorist cell that was operated by Hezbollah in order to carry out an attack on Israeli and Jewish targets in Brazil,” an additional submit by the prime minister’s workplace learn.

CNBC was not instantly in a position to independently confirm the data.

— Natasha Turak

Israel Defense Forces mentioned Thursday that an unidentified drone had hit a civilian constructing within the southern Israeli metropolis of Eliat.

“The identity of the UAV and the details of the incident are under review,” the army mentioned in a post on social media.

— Karen Gilchrist

At least 10,812 Palestinians — 4,412 of them kids — have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct. 7, Gaza’s Hamas-run well being ministry mentioned Thursday in its newest replace.

At least 1,400 have been killed and extra 7,198 have been wounded in Israel, the Israeli authorities mentioned on Nov. 7.

CNBC couldn’t independently confirm the figures.

— Karen Gilchrist

Nine Palestinians had been killed and 15 had been injured in combating with Israel Defense Forces contained in the West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp, the Palestinian Authority well being ministry mentioned Thursday.

The IDF mentioned it had carried out a drone strike towards a gaggle of armed Palestinians within the space who had been taking pictures at Israeli forces through the clashes within the late morning, in keeping with the Times of Israel.

— Karen Gilchrist

Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant mentioned Thursday that his nation is in a “prolonged war” with Hamas and {that a} key purpose is to return stability to the Israeli economic system.

“We need to resolve things quickly, even if not perfectly,” Gallant mentioned throughout a gathering with administrators normal of presidency ministries and native officers, in keeping with the Times of Israel.

“We are in a prolonged war, and the issue of the [Israeli] civilian economy is a main factor in the management of the war,” he was quoted as saying,” he added.

— Karen Gilchrist

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his country is prepared to act as a guarantor to resolve the war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas.

“Underlining that Turkey is able to resolve the difficulty by taking up the duty of guarantor, President Erdoğan mentioned that the Islamic world ought to take a typical stance and improve the strain on Israel,” Turkish state-run agency Anadolu reported, according to a Google translation.

Erdogan spoke at the end of a meeting with Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi in Uzbekistan, where the leaders adjourned for the 16th Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization.

Erdogan has repeatedly called for an end to the violence in the Gaza Strip, at times accusing Israel of crimes against Palestinian civilians.

Iran — a stalwart supporter of Hamas — has called for coordinated Arab action against Israel for its offensive in the Gaza Strip. Israel says it only seeks to demilitarize Hamas.

— Ruxandra Iordache

The current conflict between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas is a “wildfire that might utterly devour the complete area,” U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths warned during a Paris humanitarian conference for the Gaza Strip, according to a CNBC translation.

Describing the situation in the Gaza enclave as “insufferable” and “inconsolable,” he urged all parties to the war to respect “worldwide rights and humanitarian dignity” in order to protect civilians.

The conflict has already scaled up tensions between Israel and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, Yemeni Houthis, and the Syrian administration of Bashar al-Assad. There have also been calls for Arab countries to unite in an embargo against Israel from Iran, which supports all three actors inimical to Israel, and Hamas.

— Ruxandra Iordache

The World Health Organization said the increasing cases of infectious diseases in the Gaza Strip are “very regarding” and pose an added hazard to the folks at present residing within the enclave.

It described the situation as particularly worrying for the 1.5 million Palestinian people who have been internally displaced since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in early October, as many are living in overcrowded shelters.

“Lack of gas has led to the shutting down of desalination vegetation, considerably rising the danger of bacterial infections like diarrhea spreading as folks devour contaminated water,” the WHO said in a release Thursday.

“Lack of gas has additionally disrupted all strong waste assortment, creating an setting conducive to the speedy and widespread proliferation of bugs, rodents that may carry and transit ailments.”

The WHO said over 33,550 cases of diarrhea had been reported since the middle of last month, with over half of the cases occurring among children under the age five. For comparison, there were on average 2,000 cases among young children over the previous two years.

“The present illness traits are very regarding,” WHO added.

— Katrina Bishop

The Israel Defense Forces said it has killed another senior commander and taken control of a stronghold of Palestinian militant group Hamas.

The military said on social media that it killed Ibrahim Abu-Maghsib, head of Hamas’ anti-tank missile unit in the Central Camps Brigade, during a fighter jet strike. In a separate Google-translated update, it said it had taken a Hamas outpost near Jabalia, where the IDF previously hit a refugee camp.

CNBC could not independently confirm developments on the ground.

The IDF has reported killing several senior Hamas military figures and assuming control of the group’s positions since the early-October start of its aerial and land campaign in the Gaza Strip. It says it is exclusively targeting Hamas and its military posts.

— Ruxandra Iordache

French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a cease-fire in Israel’s war with Palestinian militant group Hamas, citing humanitarian grounds.

“Today the scenario is extreme, and it deteriorates extra day by day. Therefore, instantly, it’s towards the safety of civilians that we should work. We should … impose a really speedy humanitarian pause and we should open a cease-fire,” Macron said at the start of a humanitarian aid conference for Gaza in Paris, according to a CNBC translation.

He recognized Israel’s “proper to defend itself and the obligation to guard its residents,” while stressing the country also has “an eminent duty, which is that of all democracies: respecting the regulation and defending civilians.”

He added: “Civilians have to be protected, it’s completely indispensable. It just isn’t negotiable. It is an instantaneous necessity and, on the long term, additionally it is a situation for the efficacy of our battle towards terrorism.”

The French leader further noted the need to create safety conditions for humanitarian workers to continue working in the Gaza Strip.

His comments build on increasing international pressure — including calls from Israel’s long-term ally the U.S. — for a humanitarian pause to the conflict, to allow aid to be delivered and discuss the potential release of hostages held by Hamas.

— Ruxandra Iordache

Israel’s economy took a weekly hit of $2.3 billion shekels ($596 million) in the three weeks following the Oct. 7 terror attacks carried out by Palestinian militant group Hamas, the Israeli bank said in a Google-translated report on Thursday.

Israel launched a war campaign targeting Hamas following the attacks.

“The absence of employees resulted from the whole closure of instructional establishments (1.25 billion NIS), evacuations of residents from areas that had been broken or are at excessive threat of being broken (0.6 billion NIS) and in depth recruitment of reserve personnel (0.5 billion NIS),” the bank said, referring to the New Israeli Shekel.

The bank said this does not reflect the total impact of the war on the labor market and overall economy. In addition to these losses, the institution noted costs resulting from a decline in demand and the absence of Palestinian and foreign workers.

The damage to the labor market is expected to decrease as education facilities reopen, employees adapt to activity from evacuation zones, and the threat of missiles lowers.

— Ruxandra Iordache

The al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City has received its second delivery of medical supplies and medicines since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, the World Health Organization and U.N. Agency for Palestine Refugees said in a joint statement Wednesday.

A first bath of medical supplies was delivered to the hospital — the largest in the Gaza Strip — on Oct. 24, the agencies said. They described conditions at the medical facility as “disastrous,” with “overflowing” emergency wards, depleting supplies and almost two patients for every bed available.

“The northern areas of Gaza can’t and shouldn’t be remoted nor disadvantaged of the supply of humanitarian help. Patients there can’t be denied the well being care to which they’re entitled and urgently want,” the agencies said, stressing the need for additional fuel deliveries to operate medical equipment and desalinate water.

WHO and UNRWA further called for the protection of medical facilities and personnel, unimpeded passage of supplies and for the medical evacuation of the critically sick and injured.

— Ruxandra Iordache

The Israel Defense Forces has announced another evacuation window for Palestinian civilians to leave Gaza City and head southward.

In a Google-translated social media post, Avichay Adraee, IDF spokesperson for Arab media, said the Israeli military will allow free movement through the main Salah al-Din road between 10:00 a.m. and 4 p.m. local time.

Roughly 50,000 residents of the northern Gaza Strip headed south of the Wadi Gaza wetlands on Wednesday, the spokesperson said. CNBC could not independently verify these numbers.

The humanitarian corridors come amid increasing fears that the Israeli military is preparing to storm Gaza City.

— Ruxandra Iordache

The U.S. is in talks with Israel and Qatar over a proposed pause in the hostilities in the Gaza Strip of up to three days, in exchange for the potential release of some hostages held by Palestinian militant group Hamas, NBC News reports two foreign diplomats and a U.S. official as saying. The news organization did not name its sources.

The pause would allow the delivery of further humanitarian aid and create opportunities for the safe passage of Palestinian civilians looking to flee the north of the Gaza Stirp southward.

A final agreement has yet to be brokered. Qatar, which hosts the Hamas political bureau on its territory, has been in talks with the Palestinian militant group over the past two weeks over the proposal, NBC News says.

“We are at a vital stage of the negotiations,” a senior Arab source told NBC News.

Israel has previously said it is unwilling to pause its offensive in the Gaza Strip until hostages are released and Hamas is fully demilitarized. An official of the Palestinian militants has meanwhile said that captives will not be returned before a cease-fire is instituted. Hamas has only released four of the over 200 hostages it took captive on Oct. 7, with another rescued by the Israel Defense Forces.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration has been facing increasing pressures from the international community over the exacerbating humanitarian crisis for civilians stranded in the Gaza Strip, with even close ally U.S. President Joe Biden now floating the possibility of a humanitarian pause.

CNBC has reached out to the Israeli prime minister’s office, IDF, U.S. State Department and Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

— Ruxandra Iordache

The Palestine Red Crescent Society said on Wednesday that it received 106 trucks from the Egyptian Red Crescent branch that delivered humanitarian aid, along with five ambulance vehicles from Kuwait.

The latest trucks carried food, water and medical supplies.

The organization said 756 trucks — or about 39 trucks per day — have entered the resource-deprived and besieged Gaza enclave since Oct. 21, when humanitarian deliveries started. No fuel has been allowed in so far, the PRCS says.

Israel sealed the Gaza Strip off from its own supplies of water, food, fuel and electricity in the early days of the conflict, and the Israeli military has repeatedly accused the Palestinian militant group Hamas of denying stocks of fuel to the population and rerouting them toward its war efforts.

The Gaza Strip received roughly 500 trucks of supplies per day before the conflict, the U.N. noted in the past.

— Ruxandra Iordache

The Israel Defense Forces said in a social media update they have discovered water and oxygen storage in the wide-spanning tunnel network beneath the Gaza Strip, which “signifies Hamas’ preparations for extended stays underground.”

This comes after the Israeli military on Wednesday announced it had destroyed 130 tunnel entrances, amid a broader refocus on eliminating Hamas’ underground infrastructure. CNBC could not independently confirm this figure.

A key advantage in the Gaza territory in the event of a ground incursion, the tunnel network can facilitate transport, weapons and explosives storage and ambushes for Hamas operatives.

— Ruxandra Iordache

Israel carried out an aerial attack targeting military sites in southern Syria leading to some material losses, Syrian state media said on Wednesday, citing a military source.

The source quoted by state media said missiles flying over Lebanon’s Baalbek region had targeted several sites, but it did not identify them.

Israel has for years carried out attacks on what it has described as Iran-linked targets in Syria, where Tehran’s influence has grown since it began supporting President Bashar al-Assad in a civil war that started in 2011.

The strikes are believed to have targeted Syrian army air defence base and a radar station in Tel Qulaib and Tel Maseeh in the Sweida province in southwestern Syria, according to two Syrian military defectors familiar with the matter.

— Reuters

The U.N. human rights chief said collective punishment by Israel of Palestinian civilians and their forced evacuation, as well as atrocities committed by Palestinian armed groups on Oct. 7 and their continued holding of hostages, amount to war crimes.

Volker Türk, standing in front of Egypt’s Rafah border crossing into Gaza, told reporters Wednesday: “These are the gates to a residing nightmare.”

“We have fallen off a precipice. This can’t proceed,” he said later in Cairo.

Türk said international human rights and humanitarian law must be respected to help protect civilians and allow desperately needed aid to reach Gaza’s beleaguered population of some 2.3 million people.

He said the U.N. rights office received reports in recent days about an unspecified orphanage in northern Gaza with 300 children who need urgent help, but communications were down and access were impassable and unsafe, so “we can’t get to them.”

“I really feel, in my innermost being, the ache, the immense struggling of each individual whose beloved one has been killed in a kibbutz, in a Palestinian refugee camp, hiding in a constructing or as they had been fleeing,” Türk said. “We all should really feel this shared ache — and finish this nightmare.”

Hospitals in Gaza are nearing collapse under Israel’s wartime siege, which has cut power and deliveries of food, fuel and other necessities to the territory.

Inside the maternity department at Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis, the workload has doubled because of the mass displacement from Gaza’s north. That’s according to neonatal specialist Dr. Asaad al-Nawajha, who said Wednesday his team has seen an increase in premature births as the monthlong war intensifies.

Shouq Hararah is one of those mothers. She says her delivery took place with “no correct delivery procedures, no anesthesia, painkillers or something.”

“I gave delivery to twins. The boy was discharged, however the lady stays within the maternity ward,” she said.

Standing before a row of beeping incubators, al-Nawajha emphasized the war’s life-threatening consequences.

“All of our work depends upon electrical energy; all of the machines you see right here depend on it,” the doctor said. “When the electrical energy is lower, these gadgets cease working, and all of the infants will face sure demise.”

— Associated Press

A U.S. military MQ-9 drone was shot down on Wednesday by Yemen’s Houthis, two U.S. officials and the Iran-aligned Houthi movement said.

While U.S. drones have been shot down by Houthis in the past, this incident comes at a particularly tense time in the region.

Washington is on heightened alert for activity by Iran-backed groups as regional tensions soar during the Israel-Hamas war.

The U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the drone, made by General Atomics, had been brought down off the coast of Yemen. They did not say if it was taken down in international airspace.

In a statement, a Houthi military spokesperson said they shot down the drone in airspace over Yemeni territorial waters.

In 2019, U.S. drones were brought down on two separate occasions by the group in Yemen.

The Pentagon has surged thousands of troops to the region to try and contain the conflict, including two aircraft carriers. Some of those troops have been in the Red Sea aboard military vessels.

Last month, a U.S. Navy warship intercepted four cruise missiles and more than a dozen drones launched by the Houthis from Yemen headed toward Israel.

— Reuters