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1<\/span> of 1<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Good morning, David Estcourt<\/b> here.<\/p>\n Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip.<\/span>Credit: <\/span>AP<\/cite><\/p>\n I\u2019ll be bringing you the latest developments from the conflict in Israel and Gaza. Here\u2019s a summary of where things stand:<\/p>\n We will be bringing you updates throughout the day, thanks for joining us this morning.<\/p>\n United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres said at a meeting of the Security Council that the October 7 attacks by Hamas \u2014 which he described as appalling \u2014 cannot justify \u201cthe collective punishment of the Palestinian people.\u201d<\/p>\n The attacks by Hamas, which Israeli officials said killed more than 1,400 people and led to the abduction of more than 200 others, \u201cdid not happen in a vacuum,\u201d Guterres said, adding that Palestinians had been subjected to 56 years of \u201csuffocating occupation.\u201d<\/p>\n His comments prompted fierce backlash from Israel\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, who called on Guterres to resign in a post on social media.<\/p>\n Israeli military officials say they are well prepared for a ground assault in Gaza, but it remains unclear when and if such an invasion will occur.<\/p>\n US officials have said Israel\u2019s military is not yet ready with a plan for a successful invasion, and have also urged Israel to give more time for hostage negotiations and aid deliveries.<\/p>\n New York Times<\/p>\n The Israeli military said Tuesday that it had stepped up its bombardment of the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian officials said that hundreds of people had been killed, adding to the devastating toll as Israel faces pressure to delay a ground invasion in response to the October 7 assault by Hamas.<\/p>\n Israel said it had struck more than 400 targets in the past 24 hours \u2014 on top of more than 320 a day earlier \u2014 in some of the most intense aerial attacks on Gaza in recent days.<\/p>\n Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations.<\/span>Credit: <\/span>Getty<\/cite><\/p>\n The Gaza Health Ministry, which is controlled by Hamas, said that it had recorded the highest single-day death toll of the war: at least 704 people killed in dozens of strikes on homes, a refugee camp and other places. It was not possible to independently verify the toll.<\/p>\n The attacks by Hamas, which Israeli officials said killed more than 1,400 people and led to the abduction of more than 200 others, \u201cdid not happen in a vacuum,\u201d Guterres said, adding that Palestinians had been subjected to 56 years of \u201csuffocating occupation.\u201d<\/p>\n New York Times<\/p>\n Jerusalem<\/strong> \u2014 Eighty-five-year-old Yocheved Lifshitz spoke of a \u201chell that we never knew before and never thought we would experience\u201d as she described the harrowing Oct. 7 assault on her kibbutz by Hamas militants and the terror of being taken hostage into the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n Lifshitz was the first of the four hostages released so far to speak of their experience, from the initial attack through the more than two weeks of captivity.<\/p>\n Yocheved Lifshitz speaks to the media outside Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv after being released by Hamas.<\/span>Credit: <\/span>Getty<\/cite><\/p>\n \u201cMasses swarmed our houses, beat people, and some were taken hostage,\u201d said Lifshitz, speaking softly from a wheelchair as she briefed reporters on Tuesday at Tel Aviv\u2019s Ichilov Hospital, a day after Hamas released her and 79-year-old Nurit Cooper. \u201cThey didn\u2019t care if they were young or old.\u201d<\/p>\n Her 83-year-old husband, Oded, remains a hostage in Gaza.<\/p>\n Lifshitz, a member of Kibbutz Nir Oz, was among the more than 200 Israelis and foreigners seized after heavily armed Hamas militants broke through Israel\u2019s multibillion-dollar electric border fence and fanned across southern Israel, overrunning nearly two dozen communities, military bases and a desert rave. More than 1,400 people died in the daylong killing rampage that followed.<\/p>\n Israel\u2019s military has launched a devastating war on Gaza in an effort to crush Hamas and its airstrikes into Gaza after the attack have killed more than 5,000 people, according to the Hamas-led Gaza Health Ministry. Lifshitz\u2019s captors hustled her onto a motorcycle, removed her watch and jewelry and beat her with sticks, bruising her ribs and making it difficult to breathe, she said.<\/p>\n Once in Gaza, she walked several kilometers to a network of tunnels that she described as \u201clooking like a spider web.\u201d She reached a large room where 25 people had been taken but was later separated into a smaller group with four others.<\/p>\n The people assigned to guard her \u201ctold us they are people who believe in the Quran and wouldn\u2019t hurt us.\u201d<\/p>\n Lifshitz said captives were treated well and received medical care, including medication. The guards kept conditions clean, she said. Hostages were given one meal a day of cheese, cucumber and pita, she said, adding that her captors ate the same.<\/p>\n AP<\/p>\n Good morning, David Estcourt<\/b> here.<\/p>\n Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip.<\/span>Credit: <\/span>AP<\/cite><\/p>\n I\u2019ll be bringing you the latest developments from the conflict in Israel and Gaza. Here\u2019s a summary of where things stand:<\/p>\n We will be bringing you updates throughout the day, thanks for joining us this morning.<\/p>\n 1<\/span> of 1<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\nWelcome to our rolling coverage of the conflict<\/h2>\n
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Israel\u2019s ambassador to the UN calls on Secretary-General to resign over ceasefire call<\/h2>\n
Death toll climbs in Gaza as Israel intensifies airstrikes <\/h2>\n
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Israeli hostage describes the \u2018hell\u2019 of harrowing Hamas attack and capture<\/h2>\n
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Welcome to our rolling coverage of the conflict<\/h2>\n
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