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As we've just reported, the Hamas-run health ministry says Israeli strikes have killed more than 100 people in the southern Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours.

A man who says he witnessed an Israeli air strike in the south says two elderly people and several others are buried under the rubble.

Speaking to Reuters in a hospital, Mohammed Abu Daqa says the bombing of three homes in Khan Younis came without warning.

"People were just coming and going. Civilians, all of them civilians. An old woman, an old man and there are others still missing under the rubble, still haven’t been found yet," he says.

The IDF hasn't commented specifically on any recent strike in Khan Younis. As a reminder, it says its air strikes are targeting Hamas fighters and infrastructure.

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More now from the Hamas-run health ministry's update, which says Israel carried out 27 attacks in the past day, in which 241 people died.

Almost half of those were killed in the southern Gaza Strip, the ministry says - areas that Israel says are safer than the north.

The ministry also says 18 hospitals and 40 health centres are out of service, and that 193 health personnel have been killed in conflict.

Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry says the number of people killed there has risen to 10,569, including 4,324 children, since Israel began its retaliatory attacks after 7 October.

That's an increase of 241 deaths in Gaza since the figure published yesterday.

US President Joe Biden has previously questioned the health ministry's figures - but the World Health Organization believes the figures are trustworthy.

CBS, the BBC's US partner, has sent us this report from its correspondent who is travelling with Israel Defense Force (IDF) paratroopers inside Gaza.

Charlie D'Agata is embedded with the troops - meaning he is allowed to follow the military unit during the conflict.

CBS says the IDF viewed its raw footage as a condition of entry to Gaza, but had no control over the final report.

"The military objective is to destroy Hamas," D'Agata asks an Israeli soldier. "But you destroyed everything."

Nine years on from Israel's last ground war in Gaza, its aim is much more ambitiouspublished at 10:19 Greenwich Mean Time 8 November 2023

10:19 GMT 8 November 2023

Yolande Knell
Reporting from Jerusalem

Image source, Reuters

Shaky footage released by the Israeli army shows a tank moving slowly along what appears to be the coastal road deep in Gaza City.

Psychologically and strategically, the presence of Israeli forces here is hugely important.

In Israel’s limited ground invasion of Gaza in the 2014 war, we only saw Israeli soldiers and armoured vehicles in the north of the Strip and advancing from the east.

At the edge of Gaza City, the main focus was Shejaiyah, a densely populated neighbourhood which the military said had been turned into a “terrorist fortress” riddled with tunnels.

Back then, Israeli forces were drawn into bloody urban warfare with heavily armed Palestinian fighters. Memorably, our BBC armoured car was shot by a sniper.

Nearly a decade on, the war goal of Israel is much more ambitious: to dismantle Hamas completely and deal with the bigger underground labyrinth of tunnels it is thought to have in the heart of Gaza City.

This feels like a dangerous moment not just for Israeli soldiers and Palestinian armed fighters, but also for the hundreds of thousands of ordinary people still thought to be living in Gaza’s biggest city and further to the north.

Many Gazans remember only too well how dozens of civilians, and more than a dozen Israeli soldiers were killed in Shejaiyah back in 2014.

Then as now, Israel had told residents to leave the area before moving in - but many were unwilling or felt unable to go.

Finally, at the last minute, after fierce battles broke out, many fled in desperate scenes.

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The names of more than 600 foreign nationals and their dependents who are allowed to leave Gaza via the Rafah crossing to Egypt have been published by the Palestinian authorities.

The list is divided into nationalities, including the Philippines, Ukraine and Canada - with names generally described as being Palestinian, dual or international citizenship.

There does not appear to be UK nationals on today's list.

The Rafah crossing - currently the only way in and out of Gaza - reopened to civilians on 1 November. It closed on Saturday and reopened on Monday, allowing foreigners and some injured Palestinians to leave.

On the Gaza border, Israeli families reunite briefly with their sonspublished at 09:54 Greenwich Mean Time 8 November 2023

09:54 GMT 8 November 2023

Jeremy Bowen
Reporting from southern Israel, near the Gaza Strip

Image source, EPA

This morning, I’m at the edge of the Gaza Strip, outside an Israeli military base. There are a lot of soldiers around, but overall, everyone seems pretty relaxed.

The army has set up several checkpoints near the base and, at each stop, there are volunteers serving coffee to the soldiers on guard.

We’ve also seen small family reunions with parents who've travelled down here to see their sons for a quick breakfast break before heading back to duty.

But on the other side in Gaza, we are hearing about the shortage of food.

One of my colleagues has an associate in Gaza who texted this morning, saying he and his family of seven have only had four pieces of pita bread to share among themselves in the past 24 hours.

The humanitarian situation in Gaza is getting "worse and worse every day" says aid charity American Near East Refugee Aid (Anera).

Saddam Sayyaleh, an aid coordinator for Anera, says just 500 trucks of aid have entered Gaza in the last 32 days - equivalent to the daily total before the war.

Speaking from Cairo, Sayyaleh tells BBC News that aid is not reaching the north of Gaza after entering from the south.

"There is no fuel for that aid to be able to reach Gaza City and the north," he says. "People are not getting food, no water, no water, nothing."

Sayyaleh also says hospitals in Gaza are "almost shutting down" because there is no electricity.

As a reminder, the Hamas-run Palestinian Interior Ministry says , external600,000 people remain in "Gaza City and North governorates".

As we have been reporting, the Israeli military said this morning they killed Mohsen Abu Zina, a Hamas leader in charge "of the production of strategic ammunition and rockets".

On 3 November, the IDF said more than 8,000 rockets had been fired towards Israel since 7 October.

We've just had footage, via Reuters news agency, of a house in the central Israeli district of Savyon, which was reportedly hit by a rocket fired from Gaza last night.

The householder, Matti, said her family made it to a safe room before the rocket went through the roof and the first floor's ceiling.

Blinken says key elements of a future peace include "no forcible displacement of Palestinians from Gaza".

"Not now, not after the war," he says, adding that other conditions include:

• No use of Gaza as a platform for terrorism or violent attacks
• No reoccupation of Gaza after the conflict ends
• No attempt to blockade or besiege Gaza
• No reduction in the territory of Gaza
• Ensuring "no terrorist threats can emanate from the West Bank"

Blinken goes on to address steps to bring about "sustained peace", including putting "Palestinian voices and aspirations at the centre of post-crisis governance in Gaza".

He says plans must include Gaza being unified with the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority.

Blinken adds it "must include sustained mechanism for reconstruction in Gaza" and a "pathway to Israelis and Palestinians living side-by-side" in two separate states.

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Blinken says the US and Israel agree there is "no going back to 6 October before the barbaric attacks by Hamas".

"All of us want to end the conflict as soon as possible and minimise civilians' suffering," he says.

"[But] Those calling for an immediate ceasefire have an obligation to explain how to address the unacceptable result it would likely bring about - Hamas left in place with more than 200 hostages, with the capacity and stated intent to repeat 7 October again, and again, and again."

Blinken adds "the only way to ensure this crisis never happens again is to begin setting the conditions for durable peace and security".

The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is currently speaking in Tokyo after that G7 statement.

We'll bring you the top lines soon. You can watch the news conference by clicking play at the top of the page.

Here are some more details on the G7 statement coming out of Japan.

"We stress the need for urgent action to address the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Gaza," it says.

"We support humanitarian pauses and corridors to facilitate urgently needed assistance, civilian movement, and the release of hostages."

The statement did not call for a ceasefire. As a reminder, "humanitarian pauses" are shorter than ceasefires, which are generally longer and part of a political process.

The G7 group of nations - including the UK and US - has just issued a statement, saying it supports humanitarian pauses and corridors in Gaza.

The statement from foreign ministers - who have been meeting in Tokyo - also recognises Israel's right to defend itself "in accordance with international law".

We'll have more from that statement soon.

As we reported earlier, officials in Gaza say homes in the north were bombed by Israeli strikes last night.

The Wafa news agency reported deaths in Gaza City and across the territory.

As a reminder, the Israeli military has for weeks told people to leave Gaza City and the north of the strip, but thousands remain.

Image source, Reuters

Image source, Reuters

Tuesday marked a month since the Hamas attacks on Israel that left 1,400 people dead, with more than 240 people taken hostage.

Members of the US House of Representatives in Washington held a vigil last night outside the Capitol building.

Tributes and commemorations were also held around the world, including in Tel Aviv.

Image source, EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock

Image source, EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock

The Hamas-run Palestinian Ministry of Interior in Gaza says "citizens' homes" in Gaza City were bombed by Israeli strikes last night.

The Palestinian news agency, Wafa, says "dozens" of civilians were killed by strikes in Gaza City and other parts of the Strip.

We'll bring you more details when we have them. The IDF hasn't commented specifically on those air strikes.

As a reminder, Israel has for weeks warned people to leave Gaza City and the north of the strip, but thousands remain.

On Tuesday, local authorities said 600,000 people still lived in "Gaza and north governorates".

Image source, IDF

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says it has killed Mohsen Abu Zina, a Hamas leader who was the head of intelligence and weapons department and "one of the leaders in the production of strategic ammunition and rockets".

In a morning update, the IDF says it continues to operate "deep in the Gaza Strip, eliminating terrorists and directing aircraft" to attack Hamas infrastructure.

We're getting reports of air strikes in Gaza City damaging homes and killing civilians - we'll have more on that soon.

This does not mean Gaza City is on the verge of collapsepublished at 06:49 Greenwich Mean Time 8 November 2023

06:49 GMT 8 November 2023

Paul Adams
Reporting from Israel

Image source, Rex Features

Israel's military "are in the heart of Gaza City", Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told reporters on Tuesday evening.

It’s not an easy claim to verify, but Israeli forces are clearly now well established in some of the most built-up areas of the city.

The army has released video of Israeli armoured vehicles operating along the coast road well to the south of the city centre, underlining that Israel now has the entire area encircled.

The Israel Defense Forces's chief spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, said 14,000 “terror targets” and 100 tunnel shafts had been destroyed in the past month.

But none of this means that Gaza City is on the verge of collapse.

It’s regarded as Hamas's biggest stronghold, full of tunnels and bunkers. Israel says some of these are under major hospitals, including the city’s largest, Al-Shifa.

"Gaza is the biggest terror base ever built by man," Gallant said.

Alice Cuddy
Reporting from Jerusalem

Israel had been bombing Gaza for 12 days straight when Mahmoud Shaheen received a call at dawn.

He'd been in his third-floor, three-bedroom flat in a middle-class area in the north of the Gaza Strip. Until now, it had been largely untouched by air strikes.

He'd heard a rising clamour outside. "You need to escape," somebody in the street shouted, "because they will bomb the towers".

As he left his building and crossed the road, looking for a safe place, his phone lit up.

"I'm speaking with you from Israeli intelligence," a man said down the line, according to Mahmoud.

The voice addressed Mahmoud by his full name and spoke in flawless Arabic.

"He told me he wanted to bomb three towers… and ordered me to evacuate the surrounding area."

During this conflict, the Israeli military has phoned Gazans sometimes to warn them ahead of air strikes - Mahmoud's account gives an insight into one such phone call in an unprecedented level of detail.