Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant says Israeli troops are "in the heart of Gaza City".

"They came from the north and the south. They stormed it in full coordination between land, air and sea forces," Gallant said in a televised news conference, according to the Reuters news agency.

"They are manoeuvring on foot, armoured vehicles and tanks, along with military engineers from all directions and they have one target - Hamas terrorists in Gaza, their infrastructure, their commanders, bunkers, communication rooms."

Paul Adams
Diplomatic correspondent

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Israel says its grip on Gaza City is tightening.

The army says it’s taken control of a Hamas stronghold and is fighting its way deep into the city, capturing large quantities of military equipment as it moves forward.

This seems to have triggered a fresh exodus of civilians, heeding Israeli warnings to get out of the city and head south.

Pictures show hundreds, perhaps thousands of people on the move, most of them on foot.

Israelis, meanwhile, have been marking a month since the attacks of the seventh of October in which around 1,400 people were killed.

There was a minute’s silence in Tel Aviv where a giant table was set for 240 people – the number of hostages, Israelis and foreigners, still being held inside the Gaza Strip.

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Rishi Sunak says the government will do "whatever it takes" to keep the Jewish community safe, following a rise of antisemitic incidents in the UK.

The prime minister, who was addressing the Commons after the King's Speech, said it sickened him to think that British Jews "are looking over their shoulder in this country".

Sunak also said he had spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and confirmed that more than 100 British citizens had left Gaza via the Rafah crossing in recent days.

The "level of death and suffering" in the Israel-Gaza war is "hard to fathom", the World Health Organization has said.

Speaking in Geneva, the organisation's spokesman Christian Lindmeier said there had been more than 100 strikes on health facilities since the conflict began.

He noted the death tolls of more than 1,400 in Israel, and said the figure of more than 10,000 people killed in Gaza was "a half percent of the population".

"An average of about 160 children are killed every day. Nothing justifies the horror being endured by the civilians in Gaza."

Earlier, Lindmeier said people in Gaza were having operations, including amputations, without anaesthesia.

Suneth Perera
BBC World Service

Fathers Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian Muslim, and Rami Elhanan, an Israeli Jew, have both lost their young daughters to the Middle East conflict.

After their daughters were killed, they joined the Parents Circle Families Forum, a peace and reconciliation group for people who have lost their children to the conflict.

They say "unbearable pain" has led them to forge an inseparable friendship between "brothers" - the term they use to describe their close relationship.

"Even if you kill the rest of the Jewish population on Earth - not only the Israelis - you will never, ever meet my daughter again," Bassam says.

Following the recent Hamas attack and Israeli retaliation, Rami says discussing peace is particularly challenging.

"The atmosphere is very heavy," he adds.

We reported earlier on people gathering in cities across Israel to mark one month since the Hamas attacks on the country on 7 October.

Other countries have also held events to remember the 1,400 people killed, and more than 200 people taken hostage by Hamas in attacks that targeted communities in southern Israel, near the Gaza border.

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More than a dozen hospitals in Gaza are no longer operating, a doctor from the World Health Organization has said.

Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari, WHO director for the Eastern Mediterranean, said around 15 hospitals in Gaza are no longer working, out of a total of 35.

He said they'd gone out of service because of "direct attacks" and "the lack of fuel".

"The other remaining hospitals... are functioning partially," he told BBC News. "(In) the last two days many of them closed their services because there is no fuel."

The father of an Irish-Israeli girl who was thought to be dead after Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October said his family can only hope they can get her back alive.

Emily Hand, who is eight, is now believed to be a hostage of Hamas in Gaza.

Her Dublin-born father Tom Hand was initially told she was among a group of people killed in an attack on a kibbutz.

Speaking to BBC News in Israel, Hand said his family now lived in hope after they were told by the Israeli Defense Forces that it was likely she was being held hostage.

"She'll still be living their in terror everyday - we want her back to love her again, hug her again - and never let her out of my sight," he said.

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says 10,328 people have been killed - including more than 4,100 children - in the territory since Israel launched its retaliatory campaign.

It is an addition of more than 300 people to yesterday's toll. Some politicians have questioned the accuracy of the Gaza health ministry's figures, but the World Health Organization says it believes the numbers are reliable.

Israel began attacking Gaza after Hamas killed more than 1,400 people in Israel and kidnapped more than 200 others on 7 October.

Joe Inwood
Reporting from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Israel

As Israel marks a month since the massacres of 7 October, we have travelled to one of the worst-hit communities.

The only way to get to Kibbutz Kfar Aza is on a media tour organised by the government's press office.

As you enter the settlement, once home to 800 people, most of whom worked in agriculture, the destruction slowly becomes more evident. An abandoned board game lies on a picnic table.

Before moving to the worst-affected part of the Kibbutz, we hear from one of the first responders who arrived after the massacre.

Simcha Grienman's voice cracks as he tells us how he found an entire family, murdered, holding each other in a circle.

As we travel further in, the level of destruction is hard to comprehend.

Nearly every house has been burned, with personal belongings scattered everywhere. More than 100 people died here.

Others were taken hostage by Hamas, including Yafa Adar, an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor.

The bodies of the victims have been moved, but the remnants of the lives they once lived have been left untouched.

Israel's tense relationship with the UNpublished at 13:36 Greenwich Mean Time 7 November 2023

13:36 GMT 7 November 2023

Imogen Foulkes
Reporting from Geneva

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In the month since Hamas attacked Israel, the UN has repeatedly condemned the brutal violence, and demanded the release of the hostages. It did so again today.

But senior UN officials, including UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, have also infuriated Israel by warning of war crimes in Gaza.

Depriving civilians of water, food, and electricity is a violation of international law, the UN says. So is attacking hospitals - even if Israel suspects Hamas fighters are hiding there.

The UN wants all sides, in all conflicts, to obey international law. But what its aid agencies want most right now is access to Gaza, where thousands of civilians are hungry, thirsty, and homeless - and where, the WHO said today, 160 children are being killed every day.

But with some Israeli diplomats even calling for Guterres’ resignation, it’s not clear the UN has any meaningful dialogue with Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

As we reported earlier, UN human rights chief Volker Turk is on five-day tour of the Middle East. But his office says only that he has asked to visit Israel and Gaza – not that he will be allowed to do so.

Events have been held across Israel to mark one month since Hamas launched its attack from the Gaza Strip.

Watch some of the commemorations in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem here.

Pain is still raw a month after Israel's deadliest daypublished at 13:21 Greenwich Mean Time 7 November 2023

13:21 GMT 7 November 2023

Yolande Knell
Reporting from Jerusalem

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Saturday 7 October - one month ago - was a day that shattered Israel's sense of its own invincibility and military might, undermining the security felt by every one of its citizens.

But it did not seem so extraordinary at the start.

When I saw the early morning "red alerts" on my phone warning of incoming rocket fire from Gaza, we had no idea of the scale of the assault.

I messaged my colleagues - some of whom were away for the end of the Jewish holidays - to say that I would head to the office.

Soon I was struggling to absorb the impact of what I was saying on-air, even as the words left my mouth.

The intense missile fire which had me running in and out of the office air raid shelter turned out to be a cover for an unprecedented, complex, long-planned series of attacks.

We saw shocking images of Hamas fighters riding motorbikes through holes cut in Gaza's perimeter fence, paragliding into southern Israel, storming heavily fortified military bases and filming themselves in the gardens of overrun kibbutzim.

Over painful hours, partygoers called into Israeli TV stations describing massacres as they hid from gunmen at the now notorious Nova Music Festival.

Terrified residents shared videos of armed Palestinian squads on the streets of Sderot.

It was to prove to be the deadliest day in Israel's 75-year history, with people murdered systematically and ruthlessly.

• Read more of Yolande's reflections here

An average of 33 lorries a day make it through the Rafah crossing into Gaza, the Palestinian Red Crescent says.

A total of 569 lorries have entered Gaza since 21 October, including 93 on Monday, the group reported. , external

Earlier, Israeli authorities said 70 lorries made it to Gaza today.

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Israel's assurances on Gaza will sound hollow to somepublished at 12:49 Greenwich Mean Time 7 November 2023

12:49 GMT 7 November 2023

Paul Adams
Reporting from Israel

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This morning’s Israeli assurances of no humanitarian crisis in Gaza will sound hollow to those watching the daily scenes of appalling suffering inflicted by more than a month of relentless Israeli bombardment.

The UN says it no longer has any idea what’s going on in Gaza City and its immediate surroundings.

Aid hasn’t reached the north since the crisis began, and the UN says it has no information on the needs or conditions of an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 civilians thought to be there.

Aid reaching the Gaza Strip, UNRWA said in its latest update, is a "drop in the ocean compared to the overwhelming needs of over two million people trapped in Gaza".

The latest report , externalalso says:

• Almost 1.5m people have been displaced across the Gaza Strip since 7 October

• Bodies decomposing under collapsed buildings have raised "humanitarian and environmental concerns"

• No fuel has entered Gaza since the start of the conflict, which is impacting hospital, bakeries, water plants and Unrwa's own operations

Rushdi Abualouf
Reporting from Khan Younis

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Fighting continues in eight main fronts in the northern Gaza Strip - the most violent in the north-west and south-west - where Israeli troops control the highway leading to Gaza City and the parallel coastal road.

The ground operation coincides with intense air strikes on the vicinity of the Beach refugee camp and near Al-Shifa Hospital and Al-Quds Hospital in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood, south-west of Gaza.

The humanitarian situation in northern Gaza is severe, with most large bakeries closing their doors due to lack of flour and fuel.

Despite the presence of many artesian wells, the task of pumping water is almost impossible in light of severe shortages of fuel. Half a million Palestinians still live in the northern regions, despite the Israeli authorities’ repeated warnings to residents to evacuate to the south for security.

"We could not go out because the road was destroyed, and I cannot walk five kilometers because I suffer from a weak heart muscle," Hamdi Al-Hato says.

"We are a family of nine people. I used to sell selling coffee and earn 20 shekels a day. Today, I have no money left, and we have no food, water, or anything, my children are starving."

In the southern Gaza Strip, it was a bloody night in which dozens were killed in air strikes concentrated in the cities of Rafah, Khan Younis, and Deir al-Balah, all of which are within the safe zone where three-quarters of the population lives.

Here in Khan Younis, I visited the city's main market, where residents struggle to find food, medicine, and clean water.

Conditions may be a little better in the south, but the humanitarian crisis is worsening in light of the war.

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It's just gone 14:15 in Gaza and Israel. Here's the latest:

• Dozens of deaths have been reported after blasts in the southern Gaza Strip - at least 23 people were killed in two separate Israeli air strikes in Rafah and Khan Younis, the Hamas-run health ministry said
• A Palestinian journalist has been killed alongside 42 of his family members by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, his news agency Wafa reported
• People across Israel are marking one month since Hamas's 7 October attacks that killed 1,400 and saw over 200 taken hostage
• The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 10,000 people have been killed in Israel's retaliatory attacks
• The IDF said it took control of a Hamas stronghold in the northern Gaza Strip overnight
• Around 600 foreign nationals are on the daily list to leave Gaza to Egypt via the Rafah border today. Israel says 70 more aid trucks have crossed the border into Gaza

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The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is on a five-day tour of the Middle East - but whether that includes Israel is unclear.

Volker Turk's office could only say he had sought access to Israel and Gaza. His trip began in Egypt and he's also due to visit Jordan.

Two weeks ago, Israel said it would stop issuing visas to key UN officials after UN chief Antonio Guterres said the Hamas attacks on 7 October did not occur "in a vacuum".

Guterres - who condemned the Hamas attacks in the same speech - later said his "vacuum" remarks were misrepresented.

Speaking in Cairo about the war in Gaza, Turk said "human rights play a central role in finding a way out of this vortex of pain".

Families of bereaved, abducted and missing Israelis are planning to protest outside the Knesset in Jerusalem this evening, showing anger at Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his government.

As we've been reporting, today marks one month since the attacks which killed 1,400 in Israel and saw more than 200 kidnapped.

A WhatsApp group for the families posted: "Netanyahu did not attend any funerals, did not attend any Shiv’a (wake/mourning), did not call the bereaved families. Tomorrow - we are coming to him."

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We've been bringing you pictures of Israelis holding ceremonies to remember the victims of the Hamas attacks on Israel one month ago.

In Jerusalem, crowds gathered with flags and lit candles to honour the 1,400 killed in Israel on 7 October.

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