#FarhanHaq, a #UN spokesperson, said the new smaller numbers reflected those bodies which had been fully identified. The bigger figures included corpses for whom identification has so far not been completed.
A long-festering split at the heart of #Israel’s #WarCabinet has burst into the open with the defence minister, #YoavGallant, challenging the prime minister, Benjamin #Netanyahu, to come up with plans for the “day after” the war in #Gaza, and saying he would not permit any solution where Israeli military or civil governance were in the territory.
Warrants could be issued this week against Netanyahu, Defense Minister #YoavGallant and army chief #HerzlHalevi. Some legal experts say the attorney general and army lawyers are partly to blame for not doing enough to prevent Israeli violations of #InternationalLaw
The Israeli military has conducted missile strikes against Iran, a snr #UnitedStates#military ofcl told NPR Thurs. There are also reports of explosions in #Iraq & #Syria.
Iran's Fars News Agency says explosions were heard in the central city of #Isfahan, according to the Reuters News Agency.
The extent of Israel's strikes & the weapons used weren't clear.
They also spoke about the importance of increasing & sustaining the flow of #humanitarian#aid to #civilians in #Gaza, including via the new route from Ashdod Port in #Israel.
A snr US ofcl on Thurs night declined to say whether #Gallant gave #Austin any advance warning of an impending strike.
#DefSec’s Oct 13 arrival in #TelAviv coincided w/rising WH anxiety that events could spin out of control. When #Austin made his low key entry to #Israel#Defense Ministry via underground parking, he embraced his counterpart, Def Min #YoavGallant.
Austin, who knew well the challenges of #UrbanWarfare from his 4★Gen days overseeing the campaign to root out #ISIS in #Iraq & #Syria, had knowledge to share. In private, he urged #Gallant to “think thru what they are trying to achieve” & how to do it.
Earlier, a spox for #Hamas’s military arm, the #IQB, warned #Israel that attacks “without prior warning” on people sheltering in their homes in the #Gaza Strip would result in retaliatory #executions of captured Israeli civilians. The threat came after Israel announced a siege of Gaza on the third day of fighting since Hamas’s attack began, w/ #MOD Minister #YoavGallant saying there would be “no #electricity, no #food, no #fuel.”