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SvennoJ 18 hours ago
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Main points for November 13th

  • At least 33 people were killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza on Wednesday, including five in a strike on the Maghazi camp in central Gaza and two in an attack on a tented camp west of Nuseirat.
  • The UN special rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri, said Israel’s military has used “starvation as a tool to kill people and to forcibly displace people” in north Gaza, which has been under a deadly weeks-long siege.
  • Israel’s military continued to bombard Beirut’s southern suburbs, where several residential buildings have been levelled over repeated attacks since Wednesday morning.
  • Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem promised to defeat Israel after the group claimed a drone attack, for the first time, on Israel’s military headquarters and the Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv.
  • White House special envoy Amos Hochstein said he thinks “there is a shot” at a truce in Lebanon soon, despite Israel’s new Defence Minister Israel Katz again ruling out a ceasefire.
  • EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, proposed the bloc suspend political dialogue with Israel, citing “serious concerns about possible breaches of international humanitarian law in Gaza”, Reuters reported.