“Hamas is ready to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip if a ceasefire proposal is presented and on the condition that it is respected” by Israel, Hamas political bureau member Bassem Naim told AFP. “We call on the US administration and Trump to pressure the Israeli government to end the aggression.”
Canada warns of ‘catastrophic’ humanitarian conditions in Gaza
Canada’s foreign minister has expressed deep concern about “catastrophic” humanitarian conditions across Gaza and warned about “the life-threatening levels of acute malnutrition.”
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly cited a November 8 report by the Famine Review Committee that found a strong likelihood that famine is occurring or imminent in areas within the northern Gaza Strip. The committee has previously found that 133,000 people in Gaza were facing catastrophic food insecurity.
“This means that civilians – men, women and children – are dying because of the lack of humanitarian assistance allowed into Gaza,” she said in a joint statement with International Development Minister Ahmend Hussen.
The statement said not enough aid is reaching those who rely on it for survival and humanitarian agencies and humanitarian workers continue to face preventable impediments.
Israel must abide by its obligations under international humanitarian law and provide a significant and sustained increase to humanitarian assistance for the civilian population, it added.
Hezbollah claims to have attacked Israeli base in southern Haifa
The Lebanese armed group says its fighters launched missiles at the Tira al-Carmel military base in southern Haifa, Israel, reported Al Jazeera.
Israeli strike hits edge of Beirut suburbs, say witnesses
An Israeli strike on Friday morning hit a building on the edge of Beirut’s southern suburbs, near a central park in the city, witnesses told Reuters.
The strike followed about 50 minutes after an evacuation warning for the area, which is a densely packed neighbourhood that includes residential apartment buildings, businesses and a police centre.
UK complicit in Gaza genocide: Britain’s former Labour leader
The UK’s former Labour Party leader and independent MP Jeremy Corbyn has said “there is a very simple reason why the UK government refuses to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza.”
“If it did, they would be admitting their own complicity in one of the greatest crimes of our time,” he said, reported Al Jazeera.
Five paramedics killed in Israeli attack on southern Lebanon: report
Israeli military has carried out several deadly raids on Lebanon over the past day, including a strike on a civil defence centre in the village of Arabsalim in the Nabatieh district, southern Lebanon, reported Al Jazeera.
The Lebanon News Agency (NNA), citing Lebanon’s Ministry of Health, earlier reported that six people had been killed in that attack, including four paramedics.
The NNA has now updated that information, stating that five of the six killed were paramedics.
