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Grandmother and 12-year-old who were taken hostage found dead

The Israeli minister of foreign affairs has announced that two of the hostages taken captive by Hamas on 7 October have been found dead.

Carmela Dan, 80, and her 12-year-old granddaughter Noya Dan were taken prisoner in Kibbutz Nir Oz. Israel did not say where the bodies were found.

In a message on X, Israel said: “We are devastated to announce that Noya and her grandmother Carmela’s bodies were discovered yesterday.

“Thank you to all of you who shared her story to help us bring her home. Our hearts are broken.”

Gaza hospital attack ‘appears to have been done by the other team’ – Biden

US President Joe Biden has told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last night’s hospital attack in Gaza “appears” to have been caused “by the other team”

Israel says the blast on Tuesday evening was caused by a rocket misfired by Palestinian militants

The IDF says its evidence shows a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket, fired from a cemetery, landed in the hospital car park

Hamas, Palestinian authorities, and other countries blame Israel for the explosion, which Hamas says killed 500 people

Israel has carried out air strikes on targets across Gaza since the Hamas attacks on 7 October

The IDF says at least 450 rockets fired from Gaza since then have  landed on Gazan territory

As many as 500 feared dead in Gaza hospital blast

Hundreds of Palestinians are feared dead after a huge blast at a hospital in Gaza City, blamed by the Hamas group on an Israeli air strike.

It’s thought that as many as 500 people were killed – patients and people sheltering in the grounds, thinking the hospital was safe.

The Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas – based in the West Bank, not Gaza – has blamed Israel, calling it an unforgivable crime. He’s declared three days of mourning.

Israeli officials insist the carnage was caused by a Palestinian rocket which misfired. They’re promising to provide evidence to back up their claim. All around the region, furious protestors have taken to the streets.

In the West Bank, Palestinians clashed with their own security forces, throwing stones and chanting against Abbas, who many blame for not being able to protect them. But there were protests too in Lebanon, Jordan, Libya and Iran.

Speaking in Beijing, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, to ease what he called the “epic suffering” we are witnessing.

US sends second aircraft carrier ‘to deter hostile actions against Israel’

The United States is sending a second aircraft carrier strike group to the eastern Mediterranean “to deter hostile actions against Israel or any efforts toward widening this war following Hamas’s attack,” Secretary of Defense  said Saturday. Continue reading US sends second aircraft carrier ‘to deter hostile actions against Israel’

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