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Israel will have “overall security responsibility” for the Gaza Strip for “an indefinite period” once the fighting is over, the country's prime minister says.

Benjamin Netanyahu made the comments in an interview with US channel ABC News, in which he also dismissed calls for a ceasefire without the release of hostages taken by Hamas in their 7 October attacks.

However, he said humanitarian pauses might be possible.

"As far as tactical little pauses - an hour here, an hour there - we've had them before. I suppose we'll check the circumstances, in order to enable goods, humanitarian goods, to come in, or our hostages, individual hostages, to leave," he said.

Sam Hancock
Live reporter

Gaza is "fast becoming a graveyard for children", the secretary-general of the United Nations (UN) has warned.

Speaking on Monday, António Guterres warned that the situation in the enclave "more than a humanitarian crisis, it is a crisis of humanity".

"Hundreds of girls and boys are reportedly being killed or injured every day," Guterres told a news conference, on the eve of the first full month since Hamas launched its attack on Israel, and the Israeli military responded with retaliatory strikes.

Guterres again called for an immediate ceasefire.

His remarks were criticised by Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, who wrote "shame on you" on X - formerly known as Twitter - tagging the UN boss in the post.

"More than 30 minors - among them a 9 month-old baby as well as toddlers and children who witnessed their parents being murdered in cold blood - are being held against their will in the Gaza Strip," he said, adding:

As the fighting enters its fifth week, it shows no sign of easing, with the latest figures from Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry suggesting 10,022 people have now been killed in the enclave - including 4,104 children - since Israel's campaign began. Israel began bombing Gaza after Hamas killed more than 1,400 people in Israel and kidnapped more than 200 others.

Our colleagues at BBC Verify have been looking at how the figures are collated, which you can read right here.

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The French Ambassador to the United Nations has called for a "humanitarian truce" in Gaza.

Following a closed door meeting of the Security Council, Ambassador Nicolas De Rivière said such a truce should be durable and lead to a ceasefire.

This position seems to differ from other Western allies such as the US and the UK, who say a ceasefire would only benefit Hamas.

Earlier on Monday, John Kirby, US National Security spokesman, said the US did not believe a general ceasefire was "appropriate at this time".

De Rivière also said that France would host a humanitarian conference in Paris on Thursday in an effort to get additional aid for Gaza.

Paul Adams
Diplomatic correspondent

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Even by the grim standards of the long, bitter conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, today marked a staggering new milestone.

Everything about the past month has been unprecedented.

The carnage inflicted on Israelis by Hamas on 7 October was unlike anything they had done before.

And Israel's response has been breath-taking.

This is not “business as usual” in the Gaza Strip, where the two sides have fought several previous wars.

Israel’s determination to eradicate Hamas once and for all has led its military to go way beyond its previous efforts to cut the militant group down to size (what some used to call “mowing the grass”).

Israel argues that it’s response to the massacres of 7 October meets all its legal obligations: it’s acting in self-defence and with the required level of proportionality.

For now, Israel’s most important ally, the United States, seems, by and large, to agree.

But as countless images of children pulled from the rubble are seared on our retinas, and the number of Palestinians killed climbs above 10,000, that argument is being tested to destruction.

While Gaza has been the focus of Israel's retaliation against Hamas for the 7 October attacks, we've also reported that scores of Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank.

In the UK, shadow foreign secretary David Lammy has written to Foreign Secretary James Cleverly raising serious concerns about a "sharp increase in violence and displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank".

He says the UK must condemn this violence and calls on Israel to prevent it.

In a letter posted on X, external, formerly known as Twitter, Lammy writes: "There has been an increase in recordings of instances of settler violence, threats and intimidation against Palestinian communities since 7 October - with homes vandalised, water supplies cut, livestock stolen and civilians threatened at gunpoint."

He writes that "as the occupying power, Israel has obligations under international law that it must uphold".

According to the UN, 141 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank, external since 7 October, most of them during confrontations that followed Israeli search-and-arrest raids or during protests in solidarity with Gaza.

It says eight others have been killed by Israeli settlers, who human rights groups have accused of escalating a campaign of violent attacks on Palestinian communities.

Two Israelis have been killed by Palestinians over the same period.

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Joe Inwood
News correspondent, in Jerusalem

Believed to be the last remaining part of an ancient temple, the Western Wall is one of the most sacred sites in Judaism.

This evening, standing in its shadow, hundreds of Israelis gathered to mark 30 days since the atrocities of 7 October (when Hamas attacked Israel) - events which have shaken this country to its foundations.

They lit 1,400 candles, one for each of those killed by Hamas, and recited the Kaddish,a Jewish prayer of mourning.

They were joined by Benny Gantz, now a leading politician, but once the chief of Israel’s defence staff. He has been a fierce critic of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but now sits in his war cabinet, which you can read more about in this article from last month.

In some Jewish traditions, 30 days marks the end of the official period of mourning. But tonight, as they sang songs and wept, there was no sign that this nation's mourning had ended, nor the suffering it has unleashed upon the people of Gaza.

UN Secretary General António Guterres said this evening that Gaza is "becoming a graveyard for children".

We look closer at the experiences of young children suffering in Gaza, with this special report by the BBC's Fergal Keane.

Where do the Gaza death figures come from?published at 20:55 Greenwich Mean Time 6 November 2023

20:55 GMT 6 November 2023

The ongoing death toll in Gaza is released by the enclave's health ministry, which is run by Hamas.

The ministry says that when a death occurs as a result of an Israeli strike or attack, a hospital registers the details into a computer. The details logged include full name, age, ID number and sex.

This information is transferred daily from individual hospitals into a central computer system and compiled by the ministry. Once processed, the data is provided to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).

The PCBS told the BBC the figures only cover those who have died in hospital - it does not account for those killed under buildings or who cannot be identified.

A specific cause of death is normally logged but this is currently not happening due to the extremely high numbers being processed, PCBS president Ola Awak-Shakshir told the BBC.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said that “any information provided by a terrorist organisation should be viewed with caution”.

But World Health Organization spokesman Richard Brennan said last week he believed the figures were trustworthy, adding: “We’re confident that the information management systems that the ministry of health has put in place over the years stand up to analysis. The data over the years has been quite solid.”

As we've been reporting, the death toll in Gaza today surpassed 10,000 - which includes more than 4,100 children - according to data that's published by the region's Hamas-run health ministry.

Some politicians, including US President Joe Biden, have questioned the accuracy of these figures. But when asked about this, the World Health Organization said it believed they were reliable.

Our colleagues in the BBC's visual journalism team have made a graphic, which gives a clear picture of the deaths and injuries to have happened since the war erupted last month.

Several countries, as well as the United Nations, have called for a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

But countries including the UK, US, Canada and EU have stopped short of calling for a ceasefire, saying it would favour Hamas, which has been designated a terrorist organisation by the US and several Western governments.

The US again rejected calls for a ceasefire this week - instead calling for a pause. But what's the difference?

Compared to a formal ceasefire, humanitarian pauses tend to last for short periods of time, sometimes just a few hours.

They are typically implemented purely with the aim of providing humanitarian support, as opposed to achieving long-term political solutions, according to the UN, external.

Ceasefires, meanwhile, are intended to be long-term, and often have an aim to allow parties to engage in dialogue, including the possibility of reaching a permanent political settlement, the UN says.

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We've been hearing from the UN's António Guterres this evening - he was speaking as he launched a $1.2bn (£970.8m) humanitarian appeal to help millions of Palestinian civilians.

Guterres said the funds would go towards aiding "the entire population of the Gaza Strip and 500,000 Palestinians in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem".

While some aid has been getting into Gaza from Egypt through the Rafah crossing, Guterres was clear that it was not enough, saying "the trickle of assistance does not meet the ocean of need".

He said vehicles carrying aid needed to be allowed to enter Gaza at scale, adding: "Just over 400 trucks have crossed into Gaza over the past two weeks - compared with 500 a day before the conflict."

Gutteres called again for more fuel to be delivered to Gaza, stating that it was a matter of critical urgency: "Without fuel, newborn babies in incubators and patients on life support will die."

Israel's Foreign Minister Eli Cohen has hit out at UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who earlier described Gaza as a "graveyard for children" - and called for an immediate ceasefire.

"Shame on you," Cohen wrote on X, tagging Guterres.

"More than 30 minors - among them a 9 month-old baby as well as toddlers and children who witnessed their parents being murdered in cold blood - are being held against their will in the Gaza Strip.

"Hamas is the problem in Gaza, not Israel's actions to eliminate this terrorist organization."

Fewer than 30 lorries carrying humanitarian aid entered Gaza on Monday, John Kirby, US National Security spokesman, has said.

Aid agencies say hundreds of lorries are needed every day to meet Gaza's needs.

The US will continue to have conversations with Israel about temporary humanitarian pauses, Kirby added, but said the US did not believe a general ceasefire was "appropriate at this time".

As we reported earlier, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has warned about war spreading to the wider Middle East, away from the Gaza Strip.

At Israel's northern border with Lebanon, the cross-border fire - which has been frequent in recent weeks - has continued today.

• Earlier, Hamas said it launched 16 rockets from Lebanon towards northern Israel
• The Israeli military confirmed rockets had been fired, saying approximately 30 had been identified
• Israel said it was "responding with artillery fire toward the origin of the launches"

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres spoke to the media in the past hour.

The head of the UN has also been expressing concern about the "escalation" of hostilities, as a result of the Israel-Gaza war.

António Guterres urges the international community to address "the risks of the conflict spilling over to the wider region".

"We are already witnessing a spiral of escalation from Lebanon and Syria, to Iraq and Yemen," he adds.

Guterres calls for "hateful rhetoric" to stop and says he is "deeply troubled" by "the rise in antisemitism and anti-Muslim bigotry".

"Jewish and Muslim communities in many parts of the world are on high alert, fearing for their personal safety and security," he adds.

Guterres concludes by reiterating the need for a two-state solution and calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.

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We've just been hearing from António Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations (UN), who says the situation in Gaza is a "crisis of humanity" - and that the Palestinian enclave is fast "becoming a graveyard for children".

"Hundreds of girls and boys are reportedly being killed or injured every day," Guterres - who has led the UN since 2017 - tells a news conference.

He adds that the conflict has been "shaking the world" and "destroying so many innocent lives".

Guterres reiterates his condemnation of the "abhorrent acts of terror perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October", saying its fighters have used civilians as "human shields" and continue to strike at Israel.

"Nothing can justify the deliberate torture, killing, injuring and kidnapping of civilians. The protection of civilians must be paramount," he says.

As we've been reporting, there are thousands of people stuck in Gaza who are trying to get out. This includes dozens of British citizens - like Icel Chumlukh's family.

Speaking to the BBC News channel from Cairo, he says his wife, one-year-old son, and 13-year-old stepdaughter are some of those trapped and struggling to get out.

The UK Foreign Office confirmed that his wife and son have been "approved and accepted to leave Gaza from Egypt”, Chumlukh says, but they haven't yet made it out.

They initially waited at the Rafah crossing, before being prevented from leaving and then asked to turn back. “It’s not easy to get to the crossing or to get back to the UN school where they're staying,” Chumlukh says.

An added complication is that his stepdaughter, Dana, is not on the list of people allowed to leave the enclave, he says.

They were at the crossing when Chumlukh spoke to them earlier today - his wife refuses to leave the enclave without Dana.

“She says we either leave together, or we stay in Gaza together. This is the situation I’m in.”

An intense 24 hours with thousands still trying to leave Gazapublished at 17:12 Greenwich Mean Time 6 November 2023

17:12 GMT 6 November 2023

Paul Adams
Diplomatic correspondent, in Jerusalem

The past 24 hours have seen some of the most intense Israeli air strikes so far.

Having cut the Gaza Strip in two, the Israeli military is pushing in towards some the most built-up areas, where at least 300,000 civilians remain, unable or unwilling to move south.

Meanwhile, the Rafah crossing into Egypt reopened, allowing the evacuation of a handful of wounded people and another group of foreign nationals. It’s thought around 7,000 people are trying to get out.

In the north, the Israelis said around 30 rockets were launched across the border from Lebanon. This was one of the largest salvoes so far, although there were no reports of damage.

Israel said the rockets were fired by Hamas, which has a small presence in southern Lebanon, under the umbrella of the much larger Lebanese militia group Hezbollah.