A recent interview with an Israeli military spokesperson is emblematic of CNN’s preemptive stenography and its role in helping create a dangerous political atmosphere of rage at Palestinians, according to an analysis by Michael F. Brown.

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The Palestinian health ministry said that more than 8,000 Palestinians in Gaza had been killed since 7 October, including more than 3,300 children. An additional 1,800 people, including at least 940 children, are reported missing under the rubble of destroyed buildings.

The deadliest attacks in Gaza over the past 24 hours “were airstrikes targeting residential structures,” the UN said. In Jabaliya, northern Gaza early 29 October, 26 Palestinians were killed and 14 others were missing under the rubble an airstrike targeted a home. Around the same time, another house was hit in Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza, “killing 16 Palestinians and injuring 25 others.”

The UN said that “at least 33 trucks carrying water, food and medical supplies entered Gaza through the Rafah crossing with Egypt” – the largest aid convoy since 21 October, when limited deliveries resumed after Israel imposed a total siege on the territory. The world body added that “a much larger volume of aid is needed on a regular basis” and that fuel is most urgently required “to operate medical equipment and water and sanitation facilities.”

Two weeks after his death, an initial investigation by Reporters Without Borders determined that Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah was killed in a targeted strike from the direction of the Israeli border while they were clearly marked as press and standing on a hill out in the open in southern Lebanon on 13 October. Other journalists were wounded, including AFP correspondent Christina Assi, who was seriously injured.

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court visited Rafah crossing on the Egypt-Gaza border and said that he hopes to enter both Gaza and Israel during his current mission. Karim Khan said that “we have active investigations ongoing in relation to the crimes allegedly committed in Israel” on 7 October “and also in relation to Gaza and the West Bank and our jurisdiction goes back to 2014.”

Thirty civil society groups in Israel called for urgent international intervention “to stop the state-backed wave of settler violence which has led, and is leading to, the forcible transfer of Palestinian communities in the West Bank.” They said that settlers have exploited the focus on Gaza to escalate the violent displacement of Palestinians, who are particularly vulnerable during the olive harvest that is currently underway.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society said that Israel was striking targets in the immediate vicinity of al-Quds hospital in Gaza City, forcing “medical staff, displaced individuals and patients to evacuate the hospital.” The humanitarian organization published a video showing smoke filling the facility, which it said was significantly damaged by the Israeli strikes. The UN said that the vicinities of both al-Quds and al-Shifa hospitals in Gaza City and the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza were reportedly bombarded “following renewed calls by the Israeli military to evacuate these facilities immediately.”

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director of the World Health Organization, said that the “report of evacuation threats to al-Quds hospital in Gaza is deeply concerning” and reiterated that “it’s impossible to evacuate hospitals full of patients without endangering their lives.” Under the laws of war, “healthcare must always be protected,” he said.

The UK charity Save the Children said that the number of children reported killed in Gaza in just three weeks has surpassed the number of children killed across all the world’s conflict zones in 2022. Since 7 October, nearly 3,200 children have been reported killed in Gaza, 33 in the West Bank and 29 in Israel, according to Palestinian and Israeli health authorities.

The UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, said that several of its Gaza warehouses had been broken into by thousands of people who took “wheat flour and other basic survival items like hygiene supplies.” Thomas White, the director of UNRWA in Gaza, said that people “feel that they are on their own” and called for “a regular and steady flow line of humanitarian supplies into the Gaza Strip.”

Three Palestinian human rights groups – Al-Haq, Al Mezan and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights – said the latest Israeli military evacuation order “requires urgent international intervention” in order to protect civilians. A warning leaflet dropped by the Israeli military in Gaza on 28 October declares that “the Gaza District is officially a battlefield” and that the shelters housing displaced people in the northern half of Gaza “are not safe.”