Imogen Foulkes
Geneva correspondent

Image source, Getty Images

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has now weighed in on the hospital situation in northern Gaza.

In a statement, it warned that hospitals in the Palestinian enclave have "reached a point of no return", risking the lives of thousands of people.

The ICRC said its staff attempting to deliver medical supplies had witnessed "horrendous" scenes, and described the destruction as "unbearable".

It also highlighted attacks on children's hospitals, including Al-Rantisi, which we've been reporting on today, saying they had "not been spared from violence."

The humanitarian organisation, which is the guardian of the Geneva Conventions, repeated its demand that hospitals and healthcare workers, under international law, must be protected.

Image source, Reuters

We've continuing to receive information about the situation at or near various Gazan hospitals - including the enclave's largest, Al-Shifa.

Videos circulating on social media show what appears to be the aftermath of a missile or mortar striking the courtyard at Al-Shifa.

The Hamas government reported 13 deaths at Al-Shifa, while a doctor at the hospital said he knows of one fatality but can not confirm any others.

Now a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Colonel Peter Lerner, has confirmed to BBC Newshour that its troops are there, saying:

Hamas's "hub of operations is in Gaza City and that's where their centre of gravity is," Lerner added.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Red Crescent says Israeli snipers have fired at Al-Quds hospital, also in Gaza City.

Image source, Reuters

The head of the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) is calling for an end to the fighting in Gaza, saying it could lead to "a new generation" of violence.

"The present course chosen by the Israeli authorities will not bring the peace and stability that both Israelis and Palestinians want and deserve," says Philippe Lazzarini.

He continues: "To the contrary, it is creating a new generation of aggrieved Palestinians who are likely to continue the cycle of violence."

Israel's retaliatory offensive in Gaza following the Hamas attacks on 7 October which killed 1,400 people in Israel, has resulted in more than 10,800 people being killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.

Lazzarini concluded his statement saying: "The carnage must simply stop".

Khader Zanoon
Reporting from Gaza

Image source, Reuters

I'm outside the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, just a few hundred metres away from Israeli tanks approaching from the north and south. The vicinity is every now and then subjected to Israeli airstrikes, artillery shelling and gunshots.

I can hear the sounds of explosions and shelling, and have seen bodies being brought here in vehicles and carts drawn by horses and donkeys.

Inside this hospital there are tens of thousands of injured people, many of whom are still in a critical condition due to the serious injuries they have sustained. They cannot leave the hospital because of their wounds.

Many in the hospital are there to stay with their loved ones, even in such terrible conditions.

There is a shortage of fuel and medicine and the Israeli tanks are coming closer and closer.

Thousands have left this hospital to go to places they deem a bit safer. However, there is no real concept of safety here in Gaza.

Joel Gunter
Reporting from Jerusalem

The Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, which was struck by at least one projectile on Friday, has less than 24 hours of fuel left to stay operational, says Dr Ashraf al-Qudra, a spokesman for the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza.

Speaking on the phone from Al-Shifa, Dr Al-Qudra says there are Israeli forces around the hospital and that two others nearby, the Rantisi and Al-Nasr, are surrounded by Israeli tanks.

He says the area around Al-Shifa - Gaza’s largest - has been hit by up to five strikes today, damaging the maternity ward and other parts of the complex. The number of strikes has not been independently confirmed, but verified video footage showed one projectile hitting the hospital’s courtyard and appearing to badly wound at least one person.

“If Shifa hospital goes out of service it will be a disaster for the people of Gaza City,” Dr Al-Qudra says, adding staff are afraid.

There have been reports of at least one fatality at Al-Shifa from a strike on Friday. The Hamas government claims there have been 13. Dr Al-Qudra says he knows of one fatality but can not confirm any others. He also says tens of people had been injured.

The Israeli military says that Hamas uses the Al-Shifa hospital for cover and operates from tunnels underneath the hospital complex.

It's just gone 16:00 in Israel and Gaza. Here are the latest developments on the 35th day of the war:

• The Hamas-run health ministry says 11,078 people have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war and more than 27,000 others are injured
• Eyewitnesses have told the BBC that Israeli forces are close to key Gaza hospitals - Al-Shifa, Al-Quds and the Indonesian Hospital - and there have been reports of explosions inside or near them
• Israel has confirmed that its military is operating close to Al-Shifa, but it has not commented on the latest incident
• Footage has emerged of Israeli tanks positioned outside Al-Rantisi Paediatric Hospital in Gaza City. Witnesses said troops had been using loudhailers to order anyone who wasn't medical staff or a patient to leave

Image source, .

• According to the US, four-hour military pauses in areas of northern Gaza will begin to be implemented each day to allow civilians to flee. It is not clear when this is expected to start

• Away from Gaza in the West Bank, dozens of people attended the funerals of 11 Palestinians killed in a reported Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp

• It all comes after Israel launched a retaliatory offensive in Gaza as a response to Hamas's deadly 7 October attacks, which killed at least 1,400 people while more than 240 others were taken hostage

Image source, Get

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says the death toll from the war there has risen to 11,078.

This includes 4,506 children and more than 3,000 women, the ministry posted on Telegram. More than 27,000 people have been injured, it added.

In comparison, the UN says about 5,400 people were killed in Gaza in all of Israel's previous conflicts with Hamas since it took control of the territory in 2007.

The US and Israel have previously said that figures from the Hamas-run ministry should be treated with caution, but the World Health Organization (WHO) has previously said the figures provided are trustworthy.

Amos Yadlin, the former head of Israeli military intelligence, has told BBC News that "everybody knows" that Hamas has placed command posts under Gaza hospitals to use them as shields.

Yadlin, who now runs a security consulting firm that advises the Israeli government, says members of Hamas who were caught following the 7 October attacks have revealed that the group’s main command post is under the Al-Shifa hospital.

We've been hearing reports recently about explosions inside or near three hospitals in the north of the Gaza Strip, including Al-Shifa.

Yadlin says the Israeli military believes there are command posts under every hospital in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas has previously denied the claims and has urged the United Nations to come in and check.

Image source, Getty Images

Two women in Tel Aviv have been injured by shrapnel as Hamas launched a fresh barrage of rockets at the Israeli city, according to reports.

“Around 2 o’clock there was a siren in Tel Aviv. There (were) two places that got (hit) by rockets," Reuters news agency quoted a paramedic as saying. "A woman got hit in her car, in her thigh."

Hamas says latest attacks are a response to mounting civilian deaths in Gaza.

The Israeli military says some 9,500 missiles, rockets and drones have been fired at Israel from Gaza and other fronts since 7 October. About 12% of rockets fired from inside Gaza have fallen short within Palestinian territory, the military says.

In the West Bank, dozens of people have attended the funerals of 11 Palestinians killed in a reported Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp.

The territory's health ministry - separate to the one in Gaza that's run by Hamas - said yesterday that 14 people had been killed in total.

Twenty others were injured in the assault, the ministry added. It's one of the deadliest recent incidents of its kind in Jenin - in the occupied West Bank - which has been repeatedly raided by Israel as part of a drive against militants.

Image source, Reuters

Image source, Reuters

Israeli military has been straightforward about plan for actionpublished at 12:38 Greenwich Mean Time 10 November 2023

12:38 GMT 10 November 2023

Jeremy Bowen
International editor, in southern Israel

The situation at Al-Shifa hospital is difficult from a humanitarian perspective but from a military perspective, Israel has been straightforward about what they will do: take action.

The Israeli military says it has warned Hamas that 'we’re going to do it, and we will do it'. The Israelis have also opened up the main road that connects northern Gaza to the south, for several hours a day, which they say will allow people in the north - including those at Al-Shifa - to evacuate.

When I went into Gaza a couple of days ago with the Israeli army, they continuously made the point that Hamas hides themselves behind the civilian population.

It’s an old tactic of insurgencies in asymmetric warfare, to hide away, and swim in the sea of the people.

Earlier, we wrote about reports of explosions in or near hospitals in northern Gaza – including the territory’s largest, Al-Shifa.

Reports are now coming in from various media sites of at least one fatality at Al-Shifa hospital. Reuters quoted Palestian officials saying one person had been killed. Meanwhile, Gaza's Hamas government said 13 had been killed.

We're continuing to hear reports of activity outside various Gazan hospitals, some of which you can read about in our last few posts.

As we wait for more information, our visual journalism colleagues have made a map showing where the hospitals are located and how close Israeli ground operations are known to be to them.

Image source, .

A little earlier, we outlined the situation at or near three hospitals in the north of the Gaza Strip: Al-Shifa, Al-Quds and the Indonesian Hospital. We're also now hearing about some activity outside Al-Rantisi Paediatric Hospital in Gaza City.

Eyewitness have told the BBC that Israeli troops are using loudhailers to order anyone inside the children's hospital, who isn’t medical staff or a patient, to leave.

Israel has repeatedly said it's targeting Hamas's labyrinth of tunnels built underneath the Gaza Strip - some of which, according to the Israel Defense Forces, sit beneath hospitals.

Below is some verified footage of tanks in operation outside the Rantisi.

Video verification reveals projectile that may have hit hospital courtyardpublished at 11:21 Greenwich Mean Time 10 November 2023

11:21 GMT 10 November 2023

BBC Verify has been investigating a video posted on social media showing an incident in the vicinity of the Al-Shifa hosital - the largest in Gaza - where people have been seeking shelter.

The footage - shared on the messaging app Telegram - shows the front of the facility's Special Surgery unit, followed by the sound of something whistling through the air, then people shouting and running . It goes on to show a man with a severe leg injury - sitting in a pool of blood - in front of the building.

BBC Verify slowed down the very start of the video and you can make out (circled in red) something which looks like a projectile moving very quickly through the night sky, diagonally downwards. It disappears from view, and straight afterwards you can hear the whistling sound and people shouting.

We have asked weapons experts to try to identify the projectile. The video has been verified by matching the front of the building to existing images of the hospital and by taking key frames from the video and searching for any previous versions - there aren’t any.

Jessica Parker
Berlin correspondent

Image source, EPA

Here in Berlin, Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he's "ashamed and outraged" at recent antisemitic attacks in Germany.

The German capital's staunch diplomatic support for Israel is often described as a matter of historic responsibility.

But, as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas, social discord is emerging in Germany.

Fears about a rise in antisemitism, since the outbreak of hostilities between Hamas and Israel, are widespread across Europe.

For Germany, incidents such as two petrol bombs being thrown towards a Berlin synagogue in October spark acute anxiety due to the nation's Nazi past.

• Read more here

Image source, Reuters

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has been speaking, saying he welcomes Israel's plan for daily pauses in fighting in Gaza - but "more can and should be done".

He said the move showed progress had been made - and it would "help in enabling people to get out of harm's way ... [and] get greater access to humanitarian assistance".

However, he also suggested the pauses didn't go far enough, telling reporters:

Yesterday, White House spokesman John Kirby said the US understood Israel was planning to start the pauses imminently.

The Israeli military has said there will be "tactical, local pauses for humanitarian aid for Gazan civilians" but "no ceasefire".

As we said in our last post, we're yet to hear reports of the pauses taking place.

There have been no immediate reports of a lull in fighting in northern Gaza, despite the US saying yesterday that Israel had agreed to begin four-hour daily military pauses to allow civilians to flee.

The Israeli military says there will be "tactical, local pauses for humanitarian aid"... but "no ceasefire".

Meanwhile, Cogat, a unit of the Israeli Ministry of Defence, says an evacuation corridor has opened for civilians to move from northern Gaza, which is the focus of Israel's attacks on Hamas.

Posting on X, external, it said "tens of thousands of Gazans" were moving to southern Gaza "for their safety". The evacuation corridor would be open from 09:00 to 16:00 today, it added.

Palestinians have been seen walking through the streets of Gaza City this morning, some carrying white flags.

We've been hearing reports about explosions inside or near three hospitals in the north of the Gaza Strip: Al-Shifa, Al-Quds and the Indonesian Hospital. It comes as Israeli forces push deep into Gaza City in their operation to destroy Hamas.

Here's what we know about the situation at all three hospitals:

Al Shifa Hospital

Israeli forces are now present on all four sides of Gaza City's largest hospital, people in the city have told the BBC's Gaza correspodent Rushdi Abualouf. The forces are said to be about 250m away from the facility.

Earlier today the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said an Israeli strike had hit the hospital's courtyard overnight. We will continue to bring you information on this as we get it.

Al Quds Hospital

Al-Quds hospital, also in Gaza City, is reported to be surrounded. One person inside the hospital told the BBC: “There are no tanks inside the hospital, but the hospital is surrounded by tanks on all sides, and I hear continuous clashes and explosions.”

Indonesian Hospital

Earlier Indonesia's foreign ministry said explosions near the hospital overnight damaged parts of the hospital.

Image source, Reuters

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has warned again of serious violations, amounting to war crimes, being committed by both sides in Gaza.

Volker Türk urged Israel and Hamas to seek peace and to stop punishing civilians.

Türk said the "atrocious attacks by Hamas against Israel on 7 October should outrage each and every one of us". The hostages must be released, the rockets attacks must stop, he said.

"But it is clear that enduring peace and security cannot be delivered by the exercise of fury and pain against people who have no responsibility for the crimes that were committed."