Hamas calls for Muslims to stand with Palestine on Friday: what we know about Day Four

In the latest update, Hamas has called on people all over to come out in solidarity with the Palestinian cause coming Friday.

🚨BREAKING: Hamas: "We call on our people in the diaspora and the masses of our Arab and Islamic nation to march towards the borders of Palestine next Friday."

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) October 10, 2023

Flee to Egypt

The Israeli military has suggested the Palestinians flee to Egypt to escape air attacks in the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli military suggested on Tuesday that Palestinians fleeing its air strikes in the Gaza Strip head to Egypt, which also borders the blockaded enclave.#Israel | #Gaza | #Egypt

Click on the link below to read more:https://t.co/TiJ2I2UCK3

— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) October 10, 2023

Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Hecht, chief military spokesperson of Israel addressed foreign media, stating, “I am aware that the Rafah crossing (on the Gaza-Egypt border) is still open. Anyone who can get out, I would advise them to get out,”

Just to be clear .

I was asked about exit from gaza I said they should check if Rafah is possibly open .
And that I’m not aware if its still open .

The IDF is not in charge of that crossing .

— Lt. Col. Richard Hecht (@LtColRichard) October 10, 2023

Soon after this, news came in that the Rafah border was closed.

1,500 bodies of Hamas fighters with Israel

The Israeli army has claimed to have about 1,500 bodies of Hamas fighters that they found in Israel and Gaza Strip.
According to Hecht, control over the border has “more or less” been restored along the besieged Gaza Strip.

200 areas in Gaza bombed

The Israeli military has bombed more than 200 targets in Gaza Strip including an alleged weapons storage site inside a mosque as well as an apartment used by Hamas’s antitank guided missile forces.

Situation in Gaza ‘extremely worrying’: UNRWA

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees has revealed in an interview with Al-Jazeera that thousands of people in Gaza who left their homes to escape the Israeli attacks have been “unable to access basic services”.

“It is extremely damaging for people. For us, it is extremely worrying that they cannot access any of these basic services,” al-Rifai said.

14 of UNRWA distribution centres have been bombarded while on the other hand, at least 137,000 people have been displaced and seeking shelter since Saturday.

Israeli forces ‘taking revenge’ by killing civilians

The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor posted on social media that Israeli forces are committing “mass killing crimes against civilians” in Gaza.

“The Israeli forces are taking revenge on Palestinian armed factions by committing mass killing crimes against civilians,” the group said of Israel’s relentless bombardment of densely populated areas, as it posted a photo on social media of a levelled neighbourhood.

“Even in cases of military necessity, Israel must adhere to provisions of international humanitarian law in its attack on Gaza.”

This is the scene that Palestinians in #Gaza woke up to this morning after a long night of relentless Israeli bombing of densely-populated neighborhoods.

The Israeli forces are taking revenge on Palestinian armed factions by committing mass killing crimes against civilians. pic.twitter.com/nfy3taojBL

— Euro-Med Monitor (@EuroMedHR) October 10, 2023

“We will purify the area and attack terrorists wherever they are,”

The Israel Defense Forces’ spokesperson, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, held a press conference, in which he stated that Hamas terrorists are in Israel, and that Israeli troops are on a hunt and killing them.

“We will purify the area and attack terrorists wherever they are,” he says.

Spain and France oppose blockade of aid to Palestine

On Monday, EU Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi’s announced that payments from the development programme for Palestinians would be “immediately suspended”.

This, however, was followed by rejection of the suspension from Spain, Ireland and Luxembourg.

The EU then reconsidered its approach.

“This cooperation must continue; we cannot confuse Hamas, which is in the list of EU’s terrorist groups, with the Palestinian population, or the Palestinian Authority or the United Nations’ organisations on the ground,” said Spain’s acting Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares.

Similarly, the Foreign Ministry in Paris said, “We are not in favour of suspending aid that directly benefits the Palestinian people, and we made this clear to the European Commission yesterday,”

Courtesy: Al-Jazeera News