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Gaza health ministry says death toll surpasses 5,000; EU foreign ministers talk Israel-Hamas in Luxembourg: Live updates
CNBC ^ | UPDATED MON, OCT 23 20238:34 AM EDT | Ruxandra Iordache, Matt Clinch

Posted on 10/23/2023 5:43:10 AM PDT by Red Badger

Health authorities in Gaza said over 5,000 people were killed since the Oct. 7 start of the war between Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel. More than 15,000 have been injured, the authorities said.

It is over two weeks since the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched its assault on Israel, killing at least 1,400 people and taking over 200 hostage.

CNBC could not independently verify these numbers.

A full surrender of Hamas and the return of Israeli hostages could end Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip, Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Jonathan Conricus told ABC Radio Melbourne.

“The aim here is to totally dismantle Hamas from its military capabilities. If that can be done from the air, and with standoff measures, with very limited exposure to our troops and less damage on the ground, that would be great,” he added.

Meanwhile, the European Union’s top diplomat Josep Borrell on Monday called for a pause in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas, to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.

32 MIN AGO Gaza says more than 5,000 people killed Hamas-run health authorities in Gaza said over 5,000 people were killed since the Oct. 7 start of the war between Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel.

The figures, released by Health Ministry spokesperson Dr. Ashraf Al-Qudra, include 2,055 children. Some 15,273 people remain injured.

The enclosure has been under perpetual bombardment from Israeli forces, which are pursuing the forces of Hamas, following the Palestinian militant group’s multi-pronged terror attacks of early October. Israel has sealed off the Gaza Strip, depriving it of its water, fuel, food and electricity resources, and these shortages — combined with the absence of medical equipment — are bringing the Gaza health system near collapse, human rights group and the Palestinian health ministry have previously said.

At least 1,400 Israeli people have been killed since the start of the conflict, according to official figures out Friday. Roughly 222 hostages remain abducted by Hamas in Gaza, Israeli military says.

CNBC could not verify the figures supplied by either side of the conflict.

— Ruxandra Iordache

2 HOURS AGO Gaza Strip urgently needs fuel, UN relief agency says The blockaded Gaza Strip needs fuel supplies as urgently as it does water and food resources, an official for the U.N. Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said Monday.

“No fuel has come into Gaza for the last two weeks,” UNRWA Director of External Relations Tamara Alrifai told CNN in a TV interview, “And without fuel, it’s not going to be possible to go around Gaza in our trucks and distribute assistance or to power the water desalination plants and get clean drinking water or to power hospitals and their live-saving machines.”

She added that the convoys of humanitarian aid that have entered the Gaza Strip since the weekend represent a “trickle” of the volume of supplies needed to support the civilian population of the region.

“These trucks really only contain a fraction of what is needed, given the immense, immense humanitarian needs,” she said, noting that the Gaza Strip previously received roughly 100 trucks of humanitarian aid and fuel per day.

Israel cut off its own deliveries of water, fuel, food and electricity to the Gaza Strip and refuses to reinstate them, on the premise that they would support the forces of Palestinian militant group Hamas stationed within the territory.

— Ruxandra Iordache

2 HOURS AGO Israeli military says it fired on ‘aerial target’ from Lebanon The Israeli military said on Monday it had launched an interceptor missile at a “suspicious aerial target” that crossed in from Lebanon, and that sirens had been sounded in areas of the border as a precaution.

-Reuters


TOPICS: Egypt; Foreign Affairs; Government; Iran; Israel; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: egypt; gaza; hamas; iran; irgc; israel; qudsforce; syria; uae; unitedarabemirates; unitednations; unrwa; untiednations; unwra; waronterror
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To: Red Badger

I was just thinking today how after the horrible cowardly sneak attack by hammas on israel, how they got their act together and waged a war agaisnt their attzckers rather than cower in fear.

Compare that with the feckless morons in this country who were “so traumatized” about Trump beco ing president that they actually had to have “safe rooms” and “therapy pets” to console them in their “hour of need”

What a bunch of pansies the left, and their supporters have become in this country!


21 posted on 10/23/2023 6:34:51 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Red Badger

Wake me up when its 500,000.


22 posted on 10/23/2023 6:38:35 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Inter arma enim silent leges! - Cicero )
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To: Red Badger

The Gaza enclave voted in masse to support the existence of Gaza. When women make a conscious decision to remain where they have been told to leave, they become Hamas body guards. As Bodyguards, they and their children lose the protection of innocence.

The Gazans that die are casualties of war that they promoted and supported. The fact they are dead mans fewer enemies to harass Israel from the Gaza infection

The old game is over. The new game is being played and Gaza is losing their very being.


23 posted on 10/23/2023 6:40:27 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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To: Red Badger
So it's really 500?

Or 50?

24 posted on 10/23/2023 6:49:29 AM PDT by Sooth2222 (“Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite.” /"Every nation has the government it deserves.” )
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To: Red Badger

1,995,000 to go.


25 posted on 10/23/2023 6:57:31 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: Lurker

I don’t believe Hamas either - but looking at some of the destruction that the Israelis have caused in Gaza City and adding a power and fuel embargo on top of that and also factoring in that it’s the most densely populated area in the world- I’m amazed it’s not more than 5,000.
I’m hoping they just carpet bomb a few sectors.


26 posted on 10/23/2023 7:02:27 AM PDT by Palio di Siena (P01135809)
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To: Red Badger

BS. They lie daily, the lie shamelessly, they lie recklessly


27 posted on 10/23/2023 7:07:01 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: Red Badger

“Gaza health ministry says death toll surpasses 5,000...”

Who is counting numbers? Just let me know when it gets to 100%.


28 posted on 10/23/2023 7:16:26 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Red Badger

Cleanse the earth of Islam.


29 posted on 10/23/2023 7:17:09 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Red Badger

“”It’s very worrisome,” particularly since disruptions to the RyR2 receptor are directly linked to sudden cardiac death, Dr. McCullough said.”

SAFE and effective?


30 posted on 10/23/2023 7:21:11 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: faucetman

Sorry wrong thread


31 posted on 10/23/2023 7:21:52 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Red Badger

I am unmoved.

FAFO, Hamas.


32 posted on 10/23/2023 7:31:13 AM PDT by TheWriterTX (🇺🇸✝️🇮🇱)
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To: metmom

Neither do I.


33 posted on 10/23/2023 7:33:03 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: Red Badger

“She added that the convoys of humanitarian aid that have entered the Gaza Strip since the weekend represent a “trickle” of the volume of supplies needed to support the civilian population of the region. “

The “civilian” population better start rounding up Hamas, and turning them over, with whatever is left of the hostages, or it’s going to get a lot worse for them.


34 posted on 10/23/2023 7:57:42 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Red Badger
Hamas, I don't care. Start behaving like normal human beings instead of evil savages I might care. Until then, you started this and Israel will end it.
35 posted on 10/23/2023 8:01:11 AM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: Lurker
2. Don’t start wars and your people won’t be killed.

There you go, making sense again.

36 posted on 10/23/2023 9:13:18 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: Red Badger

BS mussie propaganda


37 posted on 10/23/2023 2:59:24 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: Red Badger
Health authorities in Gaza said over 5,000 people were killed since the Oct. 7 start of the war

Oh man. Reading just the headline, I was half-expecting this to be the new tally from the hospital parking lot that got hit :p
38 posted on 10/23/2023 5:45:16 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: Red Badger
“These trucks really only contain a fraction of what is needed, given the immense, immense humanitarian needs,” she said, noting that the Gaza Strip previously received roughly 100 trucks of humanitarian aid and fuel per day.

Why would anyone be supporting a population that is so self-insufficient they need 100 trucks of aid per day?! And that's before the war went hot again, when they could have easily been working on self-supporting themselves?
39 posted on 10/23/2023 5:53:47 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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