Main points for November 3rd
- Israel’s military continued its bombardment of the Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinians in Gaza City and four more in Jabalia a day after killing 35 people in attacks across the enclave.
- The Palestinian Civil Defence appealed for international intervention, accusing the Israeli military of preventing rescue operations in northern Gaza, where ongoing attacks and a siege have trapped 100,000 people without access to food, water and medicine.
- In Lebanon, Israeli forces killed two paramedics in a raid on a health facility in southern Bazouriyeh, while Hezbollah claimed that it fired a barrage of missiles at an Israeli military base in the coastal city of Haifa.
- Israel’s military also said its forces carried out a ground raid and seized a Syrian citizen it accused of spying for Iran. The announcement came a day after Israeli soldiers abducted a Lebanese man from a town on Lebanon’s coast in a similar operation.
- Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said that if Israel accepts a ceasefire and stops “massacring the oppressed and innocent people of the region, it could affect the intensity and type” of Iran’s response to Israel’s attacks on the country.
- Turkey said it has delivered a letter to the United Nations, signed by 52 countries, calling for an end to arms deliveries to Israel. The signatories included Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Algeria, China, Iran and Russia.
Harris promises to end war in Gaza if elected
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has made a final pitch to Arab Americans while campaigning in the state of Michigan, two days before the US’s presidential election.
In an apparent acknowledgement of the anger over her support for Israel, she said “this year has been difficult, given the scale of death and destruction in Gaza and given the civilian casualties and displacement in Lebanon”.
“It is devastating, and as president, I will do everything in my power to end the war in Gaza”, she said to applause, “to bring home the hostages, end the suffering in Gaza, ensure Israel is secure and ensure the Palestinian people can realise their right to dignity, freedom, security and self-determination”.
Harris’s remarks echoed what she has been saying on the campaign trail for weeks, and critics have slammed her for failing to condition US assistance to Israel as it wages war on Gaza and Lebanon.
