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Eleven bakeries in Gaza have been struck and destroyed since 7 October, according to an update from the UN relief agency UNOCHA. Six of the destroyed bakeries were in Gaza City, two in Jabalia, two in the Middle Area and one in Khan Younis, UNOCHA added. With only nine bakeries left operating in Gaza as of Wednesday, people are being “exposed to air strikes” while standing in “hours-long queues”, UNOCHA said. The bakeries are receiving flour from UNOCHA, but are struggling to continue operating due to fuel shortages, the relief agency added. Source: AlJazeera

Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno says 10 Japanese citizens who wanted to leave Gaza with their eight Palestinian family members had been successfully evacuated. Matsuno told reporters in Tokyo that one Japanese national remains with their family in the enclave. Foreign nationals were allowed to leave the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after the southern Rafah border crossing to Egypt was opened for the first time to civilians. Source: AlJazeera

At least three Palestinians have been killed and many injured in the bombing of a house in the camp. Almost 200 people were killed and at least 777 wounded in the first two bombings of the camp on Tuesday and Wednesday. Another 120 people are still missing, according to a report published by Gaza’s Government Media Office. Jabalia Camp Before After Source: AlJazeera

We’ve more on Biden’s comments on a humanitarian “pause” in Gaza. He made the comments in Minneapolis on Wednesday night after he was interrupted in the midst of a campaign speech. “Mr President, if you care about Jewish people, as a rabbi, I need you to call for a ceasefire,” a woman stood up and shouted. “I think we need a pause,” Biden replied. Biden went on to say he understood the emotions motivating the woman who was quickly shouted down by others in the room and taken away. She later identified herself to reporters as Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg. When…

Israeli warplanes began a series of raids in the vicinity of the Al-Quds Hospital at dawn, according to the Palestinian news agency, Wafa, citing the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. The medical facility is affiliated with the Red Crescent and is located in the Tal Al-Hawa neighbourhood south of Gaza City. Israeli forces have threatened more than once to bomb the hospital, where about 14,000 civilians are currently seeking shelter, in addition to hundreds of sick and wounded people. The Red Crescent Society had previously confirmed that it would not evacuate the hospital, calling on the international community to intervene immediately…

From beatings to withholding medication, testimonies point to growing rights violations in Israeli jails since October 7. Ramallah, occupied West Bank – On the morning of October 8, one day after Hamas’s attack, Israeli special forces units raided the cells of Gilboa prison and violently beat Palestinian prisoners held there. “The revenge attack began that morning,” Salah Fateen Salah, a former prisoner who was released from Gilboa on October 24 after five years in prison, told Al Jazeera. “They shouted through the speakers telling all the prisoners to get inside their rooms, kneel down on their knees, put their hands on their heads,…

The thousands of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza Mahmoud wanted to be a journalist, just like his father. Determined to share the stories of his homeland with the world, the 16-year-old, known as “young Wael” together with his sister Khuloud, started recording videos during Israel’s most recent bombings of Gaza. “In Gaza, there is no place safe … this is the [fiercest] and most violent war we have lived [through] in Gaza. Help us to stay alive,” the young Dahdouh duo pleaded in unison. Help us to stay alive BY MAHMOUD AND KHULOUD DAHDOUH On the night of October 25, Mahmoud…

NICOSIA: Cyprus offered more detail Wednesday on its initiative to create a sea corridor for the steady flow of humanitarian assistance from Cyprus to Gaza, saying that aid-laden ships would sail directly to the enclave, where United Nations personnel would receive it for eventual distribution. Cyprus government spokesman Constantinos Letymbiotis said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “saw the initiative in a positive light” during a long telephone conversation Tuesday evening with Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides. Cyprus is still sketching out with fellow European Union member countries and Arab states the logistical details of its plan to ferry aid from…

GAZA STRIP: Hamas said on Wednesday that seven hostages from its Oct. 7 attacks, including three foreign passport holders, were killed in Israel’s bombing of Gaza’s largest refugee camp. Dozens of bodies were seen on Tuesday at the Jabalia camp where Israel said it killed a Hamas military commander in a strike on a tunnel complex. “Seven detainees were killed in the Jabalia massacre yesterday, including three holders of foreign passports,” said a Hamas military wing statement. The military wing, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, previously announced that “almost 50” hostages had been killed in earlier raids. Israel says that 240 hostages…

RAFAH, Palestinian Territories: Injured residents and foreigners escaped Gaza to Egypt Wednesday, the first evacuations from the war-torn Palestinian territory pounded by Israeli warplanes in retaliation for an unprecedented Hamas attack. The brief glimmer of hope sparked by the temporary opening of the Rafah border crossing was quickly snuffed out as a fresh strike pulverised buildings in Gaza’s biggest refugee camp for a second consecutive day, killing dozens according to the Palestinian health ministry. 36 seconds of 1 minute, 12 secondsVolume 0% Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to “continue until victory” over Hamas, whose brutal October 7 attack sparked the…