Israel-Hamas War Death Toll News

On Saturday, the US House of Representatives passed the long-stalled bill granting $26 billion aid package.

 Despite stiff opposition from the hostages' families, who voiced their concerns over their delayed release, Netanyahu has stood firm in his commitment.

Netanyahu also cited a survey that found 82 per cent of Palestinians in the West Bank justified the October 7 attacks on Israel, adding that the Palestinian Authority has yet to condemn the assault.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed shock over the killing of 3 Israeli hostages in Gaza and called it an ''unbearable tragedy”.

The proposed Two-State Solution framework calls for establishing an independent state for Palestinians alongside Israel, a concept supported by the US for decades

The cease-fire, scheduled to commence at 7 am local time, will witness the release of 13 women and children hostages at 4 pm.

The IDF spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, said that Israeli forces found a “command centre with an armoury of weapons including grenades, suicide vests and other explosives”

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), paints a dire picture, emphasizing a "perilous" situation in Gaza's hospitals. Tragically, more patients, including premature babies, are succumbing to the worsening conditions.

PM Netanyahu has also issued a stern warning to Iran-backed Hezbollah, stating, "It will be making the mistake of its life" if it opens a new front in the conflict from its base in Lebanon.

The White House, through National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, stressed that a reoccupation by Israeli forces would not be in Israel's or its people's best interests.

PM Netanyahu has asserted that Israel would maintain the "overall security responsibility" in Gaza for an "indefinite period" once the war concludes. He reiterated that a general ceasefire would only be considered when all hostages held by Hamas are released.

Each SSGN can carry 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles, 50 per cent more than US guided-missile destroyers pack and almost four times what the US Navy's newest attack subs are armed with, CNN reported.

The Palestinian health ministry said more than 9,700 Palestinians have been killed in the territory in nearly a month of war, more than 4,000 of them children. That toll likely will rise as Israeli troops advance into dense, urban neighbourhoods.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has once again said that the elimination of Hamas is now a matter of survival.

During the operation, the Israeli troops struck numerous terrorists, targeted infrastructure, and disabled anti-tank-guided missile launch positions

Israeli PM Netanyahu has confirmed that the Israeli ground invasion of the Gaza Strip serves two primary goals: a) the destruction of Hamas and 2) the safe rescue of all hostages.

WSJ has claimed that officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran's powerful military, had been working with Hamas since August to devise their multi-prong attack on Israel by land, air and sea.

Interestingly, the IDF had on Tuesday said that its ground personnel massing on the southern border were ready to 'invade' Gaza,

Blinken also called for "humanitarian pauses" in the Gaza conflict to protect Palestinian civilians. This falls short of a ceasefire, which the US has refrained from endorsing, in order to ensure Israel's right to respond to the October 7 attack on Hamas.

The IDF has offered money, confidentiality, and protection to anyone with information that would lead to the rescue of hostages taken by Hamas.