“Why did Israel kill Abboud?” asks Ahmed Abu Artema from a hospital bed in Gaza. His eldest son, 13, had just returned home from the corner shop when their home was hit by a missile.

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Britain’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign suspended four officers from its Manchester branch – one of its largest and most active – after they posted in support of “Palestinian freedom fighters” in an apparent attempt to quash support for Palestinian resistance.

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Videos showing Israelis abusing the bodies of Palestinian fighters have been shared on a Hebrew-language Telegram channel following the Hamas-led operation of 7 October. The videos depict an Israeli stabbing the body of a resistance fighter and contain threats of sexual violence.

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Rafah Crossing on the Gaza-Egypt border opened for the movement of some people for the third consecutive day, “allowing the exit of 300-400 foreign passport holders,” the UN said. More than 3,000 Palestinian workers were returned to Gaza via the Karem Abu Salem checkpoint after being stranded in Israel and the West Bank since 7 October. “The Israeli authorities had held them in custody for most of the period, allegedly interrogating and subjecting people to ill treatment,” according to UN OCHA’s daily reporting. Fewer than 50 trucks carrying humanitarian aid crossed into Gaza via Rafah. Israel continues to bar the entry of fuel, desperately needed to keep hospitals, ambulances and other essential services running.

One of the generators at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City stopped working due to lack of fuel, the UN said. “Another generator is still operating, covering about half of the hospital’s needs,” the UN added. Meanwhile, the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza has already run out of fuel and is “left with small power generators to keep the ventilation system and ICU units running,” according to Palestinian human rights groups. Al-Shifa and the Indonesian hospitals are the largest healthcare facilities in Gaza and “together have 42 newborn babies on life support systems in incubators, 62 patients and persons injured on ventilation systems in ICU and 650 kidney dialysis patients.”

The UN said that “access to drinking water is uncertain” in Gaza’s north. Israel cut the supply of water on 8 October and “most water trucking operations and distribution of bottled water were suspended” to the area after the intensification of Israeli ground operations and most municipal water wells are no longer operating “after depleting their fuel reserves.”

Israel bombed an ambulance near al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. The ambulance was part of a convoy evacuating injured people. The Israeli military claimed that the targeted ambulance was “being used by a Hamas terrorist cell” but, as Reuters reported, “gave no evidence to support its assertion.” Video footage from the scene published by Reuters showed several people who appear to be injured or killed lying on the road next to several ambulances. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director of the World Health Organization, said he was “utterly shocked by reports” of the attacks on evacuating patients, leading to deaths, injuries and damage. Medical Aid for Palestinians, citing the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza, said that 13 people were killed and 26 were injured in the attack on the convoy.

Representing nearly 70 percent of all fatalities, “women, children and newborns in Gaza are disproportionately bearing the burden of the escalation of hostilities … both as casualties and in reduced access to health services,” warned several UN agencies. “There are an estimated 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza, with more than 180 giving birth every day,” according to the UN agencies, which added that the lives of some 130 premature babies hang by a thread as hospitals run out of fuel needed to keep incubators and other medical equipment running.

Hasan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese resistance group Hizballah, made his first speech since Hamas’ surprise attack in Israel on 7 October. During his nearly 90-minute address, Nasrallah warned the US that the conflict could escalate into a regional war if Israel doesn’t stop its assault on Gaza. “You, the Americans, can stop the aggression against Gaza because it is your aggression,” Nasrallah said, adding that the resistance would not be deterred by Washington’s show of military support for Israel. “Whoever wants to prevent a regional war, and I am talking to the Americans, must quickly halt the aggression on Gaza.”

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made another visit to Israel, during which he said he offered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top Israeli officials “concrete steps” to do more to protect Palestinian civilians. Axios, citing US and Israeli officials with direct knowledge, reported that Blinken told his Israeli counterparts that “agreeing to a humanitarian pause will help the US fend off growing pressure it is facing over its support of Israel’s operation in Gaza and in turn help Israel buy more time for its ground offensive.”

The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza said Israel had perpetrated 16 massacres killing nearly 200 people in recent hours. More than 9,250 people have been killed in Gaza since 7 October, including 3,826 children. The actual number of fatalities is likely much higher, with 2,100 people including 1,200 children missing under the rubble of destroyed buildings. The ministry said Israel was deliberately preventing the evacuation of injured people from hospitals in the northern half of Gaza to the south by blocking roads.