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Israel Defense Forces say they have carried out a strike in Syria.

The IDF said on social media platform X that they had targeted launchers in the country, external.

They added that the strike was in response to launches from that area against Israel last night.

A tweet from the IDF a few hours ago said that theyhad also carried out strikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanese territory.

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As we mentioned earlier, the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor has been speaking about the situation in Gaza.

He has just come back from visiting the Rafah crossing with Gaza and Egypt.

Karim Khan said that impeding aid deliveries for Gaza could constitute a war crime and that there must be an effort by Israel to ensure vital supplies are allowed in.

“Civilians must receive food and water,” he said. “I saw trucks full of goods, full of humanitarian assistance, stuck in Egypt where no one needs them. Stuck in Egypt, away from hungry mouths and bleeding wounds. These supplies must get to civilians in Gaza without delay".

He said that Israel had “clear obligations in its war with Hamas. Not just moral obligations but legal obligations to comply with the laws of armed conflict".

Khan added that “this principle applies to Hamas, in firing indiscriminate rockets into Israel”.

He said he was also concerned about a spike in the number of reported incidents of attacks by settlers against Palestinian civilians on the West Bank.

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A good way of seeing where countries stand is through their votes in Friday’s UN General Assembly over a resolution calling for a ‘humanitarian truce, external’ in Gaza: 120 countries voted in favour, 45 abstained and 14 were against.

Many Western states publicly back Israel. The US voted against Friday’s resolution, while Canada and the UK abstained. The EU (which cannot vote as a bloc) expressed support for Israel, but its members are split. Germany and Italy, which support Israel’s right to defend itself, abstained. Others such as Spain have urged European leaders “not to make us complicit in genocide., external”

Russia, which hosted Hamas recently, external but also pursues good relations with Israel, voted for the truce.

Most Middle Eastern states voted in favour, and many have strongly denounced Israel’s military operation. Iraq and Tunisia were the two abstentions.

Most countries in South America also voted in support of the resolution. Colombia has threatened to break ties, external with Israel, while Brazil has issued stern statements against Israel’s bombing of Gaza. Paraguay was the only South American country that voted against Friday’s resolution.

Nearly all of Asia – including China, which is trying to position itself as a peace broker in the Middle East – voted for the truce. India abstained, amid speculation that the government was strengthening ties with Israel.

We've been reporting throughout the day on the bombing in the area of the Al-Quds Hospital, a major facility in northern Gaza.

The Israeli military earlier issued an evacuation order for the hospital, but staff have said that moving the hundreds of patients currently being treated there would not be possible.

BBC News tonight received a message from an unnamed doctor at the clinic saying that “heavy bombardment has now begun in the vicinity of Al-Quds Hospital”.

“Everyone, Everyone, especially the children, is terrified," he said. "They bomb the [residential] towers behind the hospital."

We also earlier received a voice note from an unnamed Gaza resident who said: “They have bombed two residential towers and now they're bombing the third one. God protect us."

Footage thought to have been shot from inside the hospital showed rooms filled with dust and windows blown out.

Scores of rioters stormed an airport in the Russian region of Dagestan on Sunday, reportedly ahead of the arrival of a flight from the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.

Unverified footage on social media showed crowds, some carrying Palestinian flags, running through a terminal at the Makhachkala airport, forcing open doors and making their way on to a runway. Others were seen stopping cars outside the site and demanding to see documents in an apparent search for Israeli passports.

It is thought the mob intended to attack Israeli or Jewish passengers because of anger over the conflict in Gaza. Dagestan is a constituent republic of Russia, but is located in the country’s far south and has a majority Muslim population.

In a statement, the Israeli government said that it viewed with “utmost gravity attempts to harm Israeli citizens and Jews anywhere”.

“Israel expects the Russian legal authorities to safeguard the well-being of all Israeli citizens and Jews wherever they are and to take strong action against the rioters and against the wild incitement being directed against Jews and Israelis,” it said.

Dagestan's health ministry said a number of people had been injured in the incident and were receiving medial help, though did not provide any further details.

Regional governor Sergei Melikov said that “all Dagestanis empathise with the suffering” of people in Gaza but called the riot “outrageous” and said it would “receive the appropriate assessment from law enforcement”.

A criminal case has now been opened for civil disorder.

Authorities said on Sunday evening that all "unauthorised citizens" had been removed from the airport but that it was expected to remain closed until 6 November.

Patrick Jackson
BBC News

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Here in London, I've just taken over from the evening editor and will be with you through the night, as our reporters bring you updates and analysis on the war between Israel and Hamas.

It's coming up to midnight in the Gaza Strip and Israel after a day of further air strikes and anxiety over the fate of patients and civilians sheltering at Gaza City's Al-Quds hospital, where doctors say they have been told by the Israelis to evacuate.

The hospital is treating hundreds of people, some of whom are seriously ill. Israel's continued bombardment has damaged nearby buildings. Some patients have been given masks to protect themselves from huge amounts of smoke and dust.

US President Joe Biden has told Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that the flow of aid into Gaza needs to be considerably increased. Ten trucks carrying relief supplies were allowed into Gaza from Egypt on Sunday but Egypt says hundreds more are being held up by Israeli checks.

Protests are continuing outside the region as feelings run high more than three weeks into a conflict which has seen so much death and injury. The picture below shows a demo in Barcelona, Spain, demanding the release of Israeli minors held hostage by Hamas in Gaza.

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A group representing the families of Israeli hostages and missing people has told the government that victory in the war with Hamas means bringing their loved ones home.

Representatives of the group met President Isaac Herzog, who insisted returning hostages was the government's "top priority", according to an account of the meeting issued by the group.

Families of some of the 230 people missing since the 7 October attack have been critical of the Israeli government's efforts to free them.

Jackie Levy, who has three relatives being held captive in Gaza, said he did not "feel the issue is a top priority for the state".

He accused the Israeli government of taking too long to act to free hostages and accused the country's leaders of being "engaged in petty politics" while families were left "without any real help".

Gal Hirsch, the government’s appointed envoy on hostages and missing persons, said: "There is no lock in negotiations that we don't try to break in order to get to the hostages and receive information."

He said a "tremendous intelligence and operational effort that history has not seen before" was under way to return them.

Deirdre Finnerty
BBC News

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On Friday night, as Israel intensified its bombardment of Gaza, Ibrahim AlAgha, his wife Hamida and their three young children huddled together in the Khan Younis farmhouse they are sheltering in and hoped they would make it through the night.

The children - already frightened by weeks of air strikes and explosions - were more scared than he had ever seen them.

"They hugged their mother so tightly and didn't let go until they fell asleep,” Ibrahim says.

As the hours passed and communications to the territory remained cut off Ibrahim says he felt “alone… disconnected from the whole world.”

Today, as connections slowly returned, his phone has been pinging and buzzing with messages from people checking to see if he is safe. And as Gazans flee south to escape the bombing, he says he has been asked to take in other people to his parents’ four-bedroomed house in Khan Younis. But with 90 friends and relatives already staying there, he has had to refuse.

This morning, the water supply came back on and the group has been filling water tanks and bottles so they can shower and wash clothes. But life for the household is getting harder and harder.

“People are really tired, exhausted,” Ibrahim says.

“We just need to stop all this madness... Every night I think this is maybe my last night."

Read more about Ibrahim's story here.

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Damian Grammaticas
Political correspondent

US President Joe Biden has spoken with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in what’s thought to be their first conversation since Israel stepped up its military assault on Gaza.

Both the White House and the Israeli Prime Minister’s office said a call had taken place on Sunday.

No details were released about what the leaders discussed, but earlier National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Biden would reiterate that Israel had a responsibility to protect the civilian population of Gaza and "should be taking every possible means available to them" to distinguish between Hamas and civilians.

Marwan Jilani, the director general of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, has been speaking about the situation inside Al-Quds hospital, the Gaza City hospital the Israeli authorities have said should evacuate.

He says the area around the hospital has been under attack, causing panic among the many displaced people sheltering in the grounds.

You can hear his description in the video below.

Here's a short re-cap of today for those of you just joining us:

• Reports that the Israeli military have told a hospital in Gaza to evacuate has left the World Health Organization “deeply concerned”
• WHO chief, Dr Tedros said in a social media post that it was “impossible” to evacuate patients from the Al-Quds hospital without putting them in danger
• The Palestinian Red Crescent working at the hospital responded to the calls with a video statement saying, “Evacuating them means killing them.”
• The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres repeated his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during a trip to Nepal. He also again expressed his "utter condemnation of the appalling attacks" perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October
• Ten trucks carrying relief supplies have been allowed into Gaza from Egypt

• People with friends and families in Gaza began hearing from them again, following a communications blackout that lasted for around 30 hours

Israeli Defence Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari has just been speaking in Tel Aviv.

He says "dozens of terrorists" were killed during bombing in the Gaza Strip on Sunday.

He said they were from "tactical command". "They were those who command the people and direct them in the field," he said.

The Israeli military had been “massively bombarding from the air”, he said, in order to ensure the safety of its ground forces and eliminate the “terrorist infrastructure”.

“The ground campaign is extremely complex. We will do everything possible… in order to ensure that our troops will be safe,” he said.

He accused militants inside Gaza of "carrying out war crimes" and "using the Palestinians in a cynical manner".

"They are using schools, hospitals, and others. They do not want anything other than to use them as a human shield," he said.

Anna Holligan
BBC News Hague correspondent

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Standing on the edge of the compound just beyond the Rafah Crossing, the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan has warned that a dire humanitarian situation is developing across the border in Gaza.

Speaking in a video shared on X, Khan said he hopes to be able to visit Gaza and Israel on his current mission.

He pointed out the ICC has active investigations ongoing with regard to crimes allegedly committed in Israel on 7 October, and also in relation to Gaza and the West Bank. The court’s jurisdiction goes back to 2014.

The prosecutor also cautioned there should not be any impediment to humanitarian relief supplies reaching civilians.

Rushdi Abualouf
Reporting from Gaza

It’s quieter tonight here in southern Gaza compared to recent days, but what is making headlines is the Al-Quds hospital in the north.

A lot of air strikes hit the area around the hospital throughout the day, damaging most of the nearby buildings and a residential tower.

The shops in the area were also destroyed, as were all the roads leading to the hospital.

Some of the strikes landed within around 10 meters of the hospital’s outside gates, affecting parts of the building in which thousands of civilians have sought refuge.

Medical teams have been distributing masks to help people protect themselves from the huge amounts of dust and smoke getting inside.

Tonight is going to be very hard. Some of the patients at the hospital have been severely injured by this war and eight of them are still connected to life support machines.

Footage posted on Telegram appears to show the aftermath of an explosion near Al-Quds Hospital in northern Gaza.

Doctors and the Palestinian Red Crescent working at the hospital said earlier on Sunday that they had been told by the Israeli military to evacuate immediately.

However, the Red Crescent said that there were 400 patients being treated inside the hospital and that moving them would be impossible.

Katherine Da Costa
Live reporter

Bring them home, bring them home - that’s the chant coming from a crowd of more than 200 members of the kidnapped from Israel group outside the Qatar embassy in central London.

One man on a megaphone speaking to the crowd says “every minute feels like an eternity”, adding that the group will continue to protest and shout this message until every one of the 230 Israeli hostages held by Hamas is released.

There are large Israeli flags and hundreds of posters being held up of the faces of some of those held captive.

Qatar is playing a key role in the negotiations for the release of hostages - so far 4 women have been freed.

Hamas says it has hidden the hostages in "safe places and tunnels" within Gaza.

While the Israeli military expands its operation in Gaza, families of some of the hostages being held by Hamas have expressed concern about the intensifying attacks.

Lyse Doucet
Chief international correspondent

"We told everybody: support Israel. But you are not supporting Israel by supporting this war," insisted Jordan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Ayman Safadi when I asked him about the backing many western states, key allies of Jordan, are now giving to Israel’s military operations.

“We recognise the pain of Israel on 7 October,” he said. But he added “you support Israel by supporting peace and only peace will bring support to every Palestinian and every Israeli.”

Asked what Jordan was saying to its allies, including the United States, he said “we're telling everybody what they need to hear. And we're telling everybody that if this war continues, it's dragging the whole region into a regional war whose consequences will be devastating for everyone.”

“Violence will only make things worse,“ he added. “The amount of hatred that will come out of this amount of misery will not lead to peace.”

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We've been trying to establish the extent of Israeli military activity around Al-Quds hospital, the medical facility from where Israeli forces have ordered an evacuation.

The Palestinian Red Crescent posted on X, external that there have been "raids 50 meters away from the hospital" since this morning. It is unclear what kind of raids these were.

Marwan Jilani, the group’s director general, told BBC News that, until around 17:40 local time (15:40 GMT), there was “very intense bombardment around the hospital” and that one rocket had fallen “only metres away”, damaging windows and forcing people sheltering in one section of the building to move to another.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (the umbrella organisation of the Palestinian Red Crescent) said in a statement that health workers in the hospital report ‘violent attacks and shelling very close to the hospital’.

Mr Jilani also said that his organisation had been told by the Israeli government via UN officials that the order to evacuate the hospital had been rescinded, but that the message came at a time when the bombing around the hospital “was still ongoing”.

“[The UN] is trying to clarify, and they’re trying to make sure that, if truly there is an order to rescind, to communicate it to the military that this hospital is protected.”

Damian Grammaticas
Diplomatic correspondent

President Biden will speak with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later today, according to White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.

Speaking on CNN, Sullivan said Israel’s government and its military forces “should be taking every possible means available to them to distinguish between Hamas - terrorists who are legitimate military targets - and civilians, who are not."

Later, on ABC’s This Week programme, he said Hamas “is hiding behind the civilian population, which puts an added burden on Israel to differentiate between the terrorists and innocent civilians, but it doesn't lessen their responsibility under international humanitarian law and the laws of war to do all in their power to protect the civilian population."

He also told CNN that Hamas was preventing Americans and other foreign nationals, who were not hostages but had been in Gaza when the attacks on Israel happened, from leaving.

He said Hamas had made “a series of demands” which he claimed he could not detail in public, but said “negotiations” on the issue were “ongoing.”