Thailand's foreign ministry says the remains of seven nationals killed in Hamas' attack in Israel will arrive in Bangkok on Thursday.

A total of 34 Thais were killed during or since the attack on 7 October. Another 24 Thai people are among the captives held by Hamas.

Thail officials say they have been in talks with Qatar, Iran and Eygpt authorities to negotiate their release.

Thailand provides almost all the foreign farm labour in Israel, with tens of thousands of people working on farms and orchards.

Read more about how they have been caught up in the war here.

The Israeli military advance into Gaza City has triggered a fresh exodus of civilians, heeding Israeli warnings to leave their homes and head south.

The Israeli military said it opened an evacuation route south on Tuesday.

For several hours, hundreds of people were on the move, some on carts pulled by donkeys but most on foot.

G7 foreign ministers including US Secretary of State Antony Blinken have been meeting in Tokyo today - where they're hammering out a consensus line on Gaza.

The group will release a communique shortly - it is expected that it will call for temporary pauses in fighting to allow aid into the Strip but stop short of urging a ceasefire.

Israel's leader Netanyahu has also rejected calls for a ceasefire which he says would allow Hamas to regroup - but has said he will consider "tactical little pauses".

The joint statement from the group of wealthy nations - the US, the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the European Union- will be only the second from the group since the fighting began last month.

Philippines President Marcos Jr. has announced 40 Filipino nationals have safely crossed into Egypt from Gaza through the Rafah border crossing.

He said he hoped more Filipinos would be able to make the crossing in coming days. The Philippines foreign ministry last week said it had 135 citizens trapped in the Strip.

The Philippines leader thanked Israeli and Eyptian government authorities for allowing the crossing and cited "mediation" by Qatar which led to "reopening of borders".

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A Palestinian-Canadian father has decided to stay behind in Gaza, despite finally being allowed to leave the embattled enclave.

Mansour Shouman told the BBC he feels a responsibility to remain and document the events around him.

He said his five children and wife are among the first Canadians who managed to cross safely into Egypt on Tuesday.

Of the 80 Canadians approved to leave Gaza so far, 59 have gotten out safely.

Global Affairs Canada has said that they are aware of more than 400 Canadian citizens, permanent residents and their family members who want to leave through the Rafah crossing into Egypt.

Read the full article here.

Yvette Tan
Live page editor, Singapore

Welcome back to our coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict. It's just past 06:00 in Israel and Gaza - here's more on what's happened over the past few hours.

• Israel's PM Netanyahu has said the Israel Defense Forces are encircling and "operating inside" Gaza City
• The US would oppose a reoccupation of Gaza by Israel's military when the conflict ends, the White House has said
• White House national security spokesperson John Kirby on Tuesday told reporters that while Israel and the US were friends, they did not have to agree on every single issue
• An Israeli official clarified earlier comments made by Netanyahu about the future of Gaza, saying that when the PM said Israel would take "overall security responsibility" for Gaza, he meant it would ensure it remained a demilitarised area
• He added that Israel would not reoccupy or govern the area
• The US State Department has said more than 400 US citizens have now left Gaza through the Rafah crossing into Egypt
• More than 10,300 people have been killed in Gaza according to the Hamas-run health ministry - including more than 4,100 children

Together with my colleague Frances Mao, I'll be bringing you more updates on the war - stay with us.

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We're pausing our live coverage for the next few hours, so until then, here's a quick recap on where things stand in the war between Israel and Hamas.

Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said its troops are "in the heart of Gaza City", as the nation marked one month since Hamas's 7 October attack.

Gallant said Israeli soldiers "stormed it in full coordination between land, air and sea forces".

We also heard from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said troops were encircling and "operating inside" Gaza City.

Netanyahu called on the people of Gaza to "please go south".

Comments Netanyahu made on Monday, when he said Israel would take "overall security responsibility" for Gaza after the war, were clarified by a member of his war cabinet on Tuesday.

Ron Dermer, the Minister of Strategic Affairs, told the BBC World Service's Newshour that Netanyahu meant Israel would ensure the enclave remained a demilitarised area, and that the military would carry out security operations there to combat what he called any new terror threat. He said Israel would not reoccupy or govern the area.

The US State Department said more than 400 US citizens have now left Gaza through the Rafah crossing into Egypt.

Earlier, dozens were reported killed by air strikes in the southern Gazan cities of Khan Younis, Rafah and Deir al-Balah.

More than 10,300 people have been killed in Gaza according to the Hamas-run health ministry, including more than 4,100 children. In Israel, 1,400 people were killed, and more than 200 people have been taken hostage.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization said that the "level of death and suffering" in the Israel-Gaza conflict was "hard to fathom".

The organisation's spokesman Christian Lindmeier said there had been more than 100 strikes on health facilities since the war began.

The latest episode of The Conflict: Israel-Gaza podcast is now available.

Adam Fleming speaks with John Simpson, the BBC’s world affairs editor, who reflects on what’s happened since Hamas launched its deadly attacks on 7 October and asks what might happen next.

Listen to the podcast here.

A member of Israel's war cabinet has sought to clarify comments made last night by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the future of Gaza after the current conflict.

Ron Dermer, the Minister of Strategic Affairs, told the BBC World Service's Newshour that when Netanyahu said Israel would take "overall security responsibility" for Gaza, he meant it would ensure the enclave remained a demilitarised area, and that the Israel Defence Force (IDF) would carry out security operations there to combat what he called any new terror threat.

But he said Israel would not reoccupy or govern the area.

Earlier the United States said it opposed a “reoccupation” of Gaza by Israel and that the territory must remain Palestinian land.

US President Joe Biden says he asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a pause in the fighting in Gaza.

A White House spokesperson had previously stated that the US and Israeli leaders had discussed "tactical pauses" in Israel's offensive in Gaza for humanitarian reasons and the possible release of hostages during their conversation on Monday.

Biden was asked by a reporter whether he had suggested a three-day pause, but he did not comment on the length of it.

Washington, along with many other Western powers, has backed Israel's position that a ceasefire would help Hamas militarily.

Yogita Limaye
reporting from Jerusalem

Rafah is at Gaza’s southern edge by the border with Egypt. It’s a so-called safer area. But today there was an explosion in a residential neighbourhood in Rafah.

People used their bare hands to pull survivors from the rubble.

A little girl was rushed to the Al Najjar hospital by one rescuer. She had burns on her face, and a severe injury in her back, which was bleeding. Mahmoud Bassam, who’s been working with the BBC, filmed video of her.

A short while later he found a woman outside the hospital looking for her child.

Rana Al-Sundy said her daughter was in her neighbour's house when it was "bombed".

"There’s nothing left anymore. I don’t know where my daughter is. I want to see her,” she said, distraught and crying.

Mahmoud showed her the footage he’d taken and from it she identified her seven-year-old girl Mira. By then Mira had been moved to another hospital for treatment.

We haven’t been able to reach them to find out if Rana found her, but Mahmoud believes it’s likely she did.

Image source, BBC/Mahmoud Bassam

Paul Adams
Diplomatic correspondent

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New polling by Tel Aviv University gives a sense of how Israelis are feeling, about the war and their own government.

The Peace Index survey was conducted by the Israeli company iPanel and was completed by 609 interviewees in Israel who are made up of a nationally representative sample of the entire adult population (aged 18 and over).

In the survey, conducted two and a half weeks after the devastating Hamas attacks of 7 October and just before the start of the Israel’s ground operation in Gaza, respondents gave high ratings to the performance of the Israeli public and the Israel Defense Forces, but had stunningly low opinions of the government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Opinions varied between supporters and opponents of the coalition government, and between the country’s Jewish and Arab citizens.

But with only 39% of the government’s own supporters giving it a good or very good rating (and 5% of opposition voters), the lack of trust is stark.

Respondents also expressed uncertainty about the government’s goals in Gaza, with 58% saying they were not clear.

But there was better news for Netanyahu’s stated priorities, with 63% of Jewish citizens saying that eliminating Hamas in Gaza was the most important goal.

Only 33% said that releasing hostages was more important.

The military wing of Hamas claims it has been inflicting heavy losses on Israeli forces and damaging Israeli military vehicles.

It said that over the past day it had completely or partially destroyed a number of military vehicles near Beach refugee camp in western Gaza City and near Beit Hanoun in the north-east corner of Gaza.

The Israeli military says it is operating deep inside Gaza City and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says thousands of Hamas fighters have been killed.

The BBC is unable to verify the battle claims made by either side.

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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said that two trucks were damaged and a driver was wounded as it tried to deliver humanitarian aid in Gaza City today.

The ICRC says a convoy of five trucks and two other vehicles were on their way to deliver "lifesaving medical supplies to health facilities," including the Palestinian Red Crescent Society's Al-Quds hospital, when it was "hit by fire".

The humanitarian organisation was not able to immediately identify the source of the fire.

It added that it changed its route after the incident, to ensure it was able to successfully deliver medical supplies to the Al-Shifa hospital.

The convoy later accompanied six ambulances carrying critically wounded patients to the Rafah crossing but the head of the ICRC stressed how difficult delivering aid has become during the war.

“These are not the conditions under which humanitarian personnel can work,” said William Schomburg, who heads up the ICRC sub-delegation in Gaza.

"Ensuring that vital aid can reach medical facilities is a legal obligation under international humanitarian law," he added.

It's currently just gone 23:00 in Gaza - marking a few hours since Israel said its troops were in the heart of Gaza City.

We're watching a live feed of the skyline from our London newsroom - which is mainly a very dark picture. It's very difficult to get information from the ground - and we're yet to get a clear picture of what's going on in the city this evening.

In such a dense urban environment - what might the fighting look like in the coming days?

Major General Yaakov Amidror - a former Israel Defense Forces commander and national security advisor - has previously acknowledged that fighting Hamas will be tough.

They will have laid booby traps and Improvised Explosive Devices at entrance points and along narrow streets, he said.

Israel believes Hamas has around 30,000 troops and it's unclear how many have been killed so far in strikes that have also killed thousands of civilians. Their weapons include automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and anti-tank missiles.

Hamas has also been producing its own small drones - including suicide ones, said Israeli military expert and former newspaper editor Yaakov Katz. They may also have a very limited supply of short-range shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles, but what they do not have are armoured vehicles, tanks and artillery - unlike Israel.

However the challenge for Israel will be close-quarters fighting in densely populated urban areas. While many civilians have fled, hundreds of thousands of people are reported to still remain in northern Gaza, which includes Gaza City.

Israel has specialist teams for tunnel warfare, including an engineering unit called Yahalom, and Oketz which specialises in canine combat.

Katz says Israeli troops will avoid going into tunnels unless they have to, not least because Hamas will know them better. Instead tunnels will be destroyed by pouring down explosives.

Joe Inwood
Reporting from Tel Aviv

As we sat on our rooftop editing for tonight’s Newsnight, we could hear thunderous explosions above us. We are in central Tel Aviv, Israel’s biggest and most prosperous city.

The first round - louder than any we’ve heard in recent days - were accompanied by tell-tale puffs of smoke in the sky; a sign of Israel’s Iron Dome air defence system in action. But, there were no sirens.

The second barrage, which sounded even closer, came with a warning, sending us down to the apartment’s safe room.

While most of the rockets, fired by Hamas from the Gaza Strip, are intercepted, it seems some are still making it through.

Unverified footage on the messaging app Telegram shows a house in the wealthy Savyon suburb that had taken a direct hit. Another reportedly landed in the middle of a street south of Tel Aviv.

There are no reports of casualties, but this city remains on high alert.

Israel's leaders make bold claims on their progress in Gazapublished at 20:01 Greenwich Mean Time 7 November 2023

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Paul Adams
Diplomatic correspondent

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Israeli leaders are starting to make bold claims for their military progress in Gaza.

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

The US says it has helped 400 of its citizens, residents and their relatives leave Gaza through the southern Rafah crossing into Egypt.

"We have assisted more than 400 US citizens, lawful permanent residents and other eligible individuals to depart Gaza," said state department spokesman, Vedant Patel.

That figure is an update from the 300 given at the weekend - it's not clear how many other Americans are still waiting to leave.

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In the last few minutes, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters he hopes more US citizens will leave Gaza today.

The US is opposed to a new long-term re-occupation of the Gaza Strip by Israel, a spokesperson for the US state department has said.

Speaking at a daily news briefing, Vedant Patel told reporters that the US did not support any forced relocation of Palestinians outside Gaza.

"Our viewpoint is that Palestinians must be at the forefront of these decisions and Gaza is Palestinian land and it will remain Palestinian land," he said.

The spokesman was responding to a question about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's comments to ABC, in which he said Israel would have "security responsibility" for Gaza after the fighting ends.

As a reminder, Israel withdrew troops from Gaza in 2005 after 38 years there.

Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel's military was encircling Gaza City.

"Gaza city is encircled, we are operating inside it", the Israeli PM said at a press conference.

Netanyahu said there would be no ceasefire or fuel delivery until Israeli hostages taken by Hamas on 7 October are released.

He also called on the people of Gaza to "please go south".

"We will not stop," he said.