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US bases in Iraq and Syria have been hit 38 times since a wave of attacks began on 17 October, according to a Pentagon briefing a few hours ago.

Most of these were attacks by rockets and drones, and believed to be carried out by groups linked to Iran, Pentagon spokesman Brig Gen Pat Ryder said. Iran backs Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

At least 45 US personnel have sustained injuries from the attacks, including 24 reporting traumatic brain injuries.

The US now has four main objectives in the Middle East, Ryder added.

These are: protecting US forces and citizens in the region; providing "critical security assistance" to Israel's defence against the Hamas group; helping Israel to secure the release of hostages; and strengthening its "force posture" in the region to deter the crisis from escalating beyond Gaza.

It's past 08:00 in Gaza. In the last few hours we've been seeing reports on social media and Palestinian news outlets of explosions in Khan Younis, a city in Gaza's south.

Hundreds of thousands of Gazans moved to the city after the Israeli military ordered communities in the north to evacuate southward for their safety. But Israel has continued to launch air strikes across the whole of the Strip, including the south.

There are also reports of deaths and buildings collapsing in Rafah in the south of Gaza, attributed to Israeli air strikes.

Palestinian news outlets also reported Israeli soldiers entering cities in the occupied West Bank, including Jenin and Tulkarm. Violence in the West Bank has risen sharply since Hamas launched its attack on Israel on 7 October.

There have also been reports of Palestinian fighters firing rockets towards Israel and launching attacks on the Israeli military in Gaza.

We're expecting to hear from the Israeli military soon when they hold their regular morning briefing - stay with us as we bring you more updates.

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The Israel-Hamas war is "growing hatred" among youths in the region as well as around the world, says Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi.

The war's effect on young people is "very, very dangerous...it can cause a sense of rebellion, a sense of taking revenge or hatred. So that hatred is growing due to that. And that is the reason we have to take strong measures right away,” Mr Satyarthi told BBC’s Newsday programme.

"Children have never caused wars and armed conflicts, but they are forced to bear the highest cost. They are not responsible for the crime. But they have to pay the price for all their life,” he said.

Mr Satyarthi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for his work in safeguarding children around the world, was among more than 100 Nobel Laureates who published a statement last month calling for the protection of children living in Israel and Gaza.

"Palestinian children are our children. Israeli children are our children. We cannot consider ourselves civilised if this is what we do," the statement, conceived by Mr Satyarthi, said.

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The Indonesian Hospital in Gaza was built to serve the medical needs of Palestinians in the enclave, Indonesia's foreign ministry said in response to Israel's claim it has been used by Hamas to launch attacks.

"[The facility was] built by Indonesians fully for humanitarian purposes and to serve the medical needs of Palestinians in Gaza," the ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

It added that the hospital has been treating more patients than it can handle since the war started.

A volunteer group which built the hospital described Israel's claim as "a precondition so that they can attack the Indonesian hospital".

Hamas has also denied Israel's claim.

The Israeli military said in recent days that the Indonesian Hospital was one of several medical facilities which Hamas was operating from. They claimed there was a tunnel network underneath the hospital as well as rocket launchers near the building.

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The daughter of two people taken captive by Hamas on 7 October has spoken to BBC Newsnight after returning to the UK from Israel.

Sharone Lifschitz’s mother, Yocheved, 85, was freed two weeks ago – her father, Oded, 83, is still missing.

Sharone described has mother as a “ray of light”, but said there’s also “great darkness”, and that she’s still waiting for news about her father.

“I don’t even know if he’s dead or alive. We know he was injured, we know he has been shot, but we don’t know if he survived,” she said.

She called for the hostages held by Hamas to be released, and also described the “suffering of the children” of the Gaza Strip as “horrific”.

“Any human being will find that horrific because we share humanity,” she said, adding that she wanted the communities “to work towards the possibility of life together”.

Tessa Wong
Live page editor, Singapore

Welcome to our continued coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict. You can read our previous posts here.

In case you missed it, here's a brief recap of newslines from the past few hours:

• Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will have “overall security responsibility” for the Gaza Strip for “an indefinite period” once the fighting is over, in an interview with US channel ABC News
• He also dismissed calls for a ceasefire without the release of the more than 200 hostages taken by Hamas in their 7 October attacks on Israel, which killed more than 1,400 people
• But he added that it might be possible to have "tactical little pauses" for humanitarian aid to enter Gaza or for hostages to leave
• As the conflict reaches its one-month mark, UN chief António Guterres has warned the situation in Gaza has become "a crisis of humanity" and a "graveyard for children"
• More than 10,000 people have been killed in Gaza - including more than 4,100 children - since Israeli retaliatory air strikes began. Those strikes have intensified in recent days

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