Israel-Palestine live: Thousands in state of panic as Israel continues to strike hospitals

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected calls for a ceasefire in Gaza until all of the more than 240 captives are returned.

"There will be no ceasefire without the return of our hostages, we say this to both our enemies and our friends. We will continue until we beat them," Netanyahu told air and ground crews at the Ramon air force base in southern Israel on Sunday.

Turkey and Egypt have agreed for around 1,000 cancer patients and other wounded civilians needing urgent care in Gaza to be sent to Turkey for treatment, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Sunday.

He added that work was underway to plan the move to bring patients from the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in Gaza, the enclave's only cancer treatment hospital, which went out of service after running out of fuel this week.
 

In their meeting in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah today, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the Palestinian Authority was ready to take responsibility in Gaza only if a “comprehensive political solution” is found.

During the meeting, Blinken said that the Palestinian Authority should play a central role in "what comes next in Gaza".

"We will fully assume our responsibilities within the framework of a comprehensive political solution that includes all of the West Bank, including east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip," the Wafa news agency reported Abbas as telling Blinken.
 

Saudi Arabia has condemned "in the strongest terms" the statements issued by Israeli cabinet minister Amichai Eliyahu, who said  dropping a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip was "an option".

Saudi Arabia said that saying such statements showed the penetration of "extremism and brutality" among members of Israel's government.
 

Israel has bombed the al-Biraj camp and school in central Gaza, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.

This is the third refugee camp to have been hit in the last 24 hours after al-Maghazi and Jabalia.
 

Palestine’s Ministry of Health has issued a report on the effects of Israeli aggression on Gaza since the start of the war on 7 October. 

Here are some of the main points.

- Three major hospitals - al-Shifa, Nasser children’s hospital and al-Quds hospital - have been bombed.

- Israeli bombing targeted the main electricity generator in al-Shifa hospital.

- Over 73 percent of the 9,770 people killed are children and women.

- Over 70 percent of Palestinians in Gaza have been displaced.

- Over 2,000 cancer patients who are referred for regular treatment in Jerusalem have not been able to go since the start of the war.

- Overcrowding in hospitals is causing severe health issues and taking a heavy toll on peoples’ mental health.

- Damage to water and sanitation services has caused respiratory infections, diarrhoea and chicken pox.

- At least 25 sewage points have stopped working.

- 175 medical personnel have been killed along with 34 civil defence crew members.

- More than 54 ambulances have been damaged, with 31 totally destroyed in bombings. 

- There are urgent calls for blood donations.

The ministry states that over 200,000 housing units have been destroyed, equivalent to 50 percent and that 42 buildings of the UN agency Unrwa have been damaged. 

At least seven churches and 55 mosques have been damaged.
 

One person was wounded after a rocket that was fired from Lebanon landed near Kibbutz Yiftah, next to the Israel-Lebanon border, according to Israeli media.

Palestine's Ministry of Health announced on Sunday that the death toll in Gaza has now reached 9,770 since the start of the war on 7 October. The figure includes 4,800 children. 

More than 24,000 others in Gaza have been wounded in the bombing there.

In the occupied West Bank, 152 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers in the same timeframe, while 2,100 have been wounded. 
 

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday that there must be an "immediate ceasefire" and humanitarian aid be allowed to enter the Gaza Strip, his spokesperson, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, told Reuters.

The meeting took place in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, where the pair met for under one hour. 

Blinken is now on his way to Turkey, where protests are expected to take place upon his arrival. 
 

French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said in Doha on Sunday that too many civilians have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza.

In a joint press conference with Qatar's prime minister, who is also the foreign minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, she said that schools, hospitals, humanitarian workers and journalists must be protected.

Colonna added that an international humanitarian conference, to be hosted by France on 9 November, will cover respecting international law and basic needs such as health, water, energy and food, and will call for concrete action for civilians in Gaza.
 

A well-known far-right Israeli activist and civil defence team member, Yoav Eliasi, was seen on Saturday patrolling around Tel Aviv with an assault rifle. 

The move was condemned on social media by residents who said they did not feel safe.

Eliasi is a supporter of the current secretary of National Homeland Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, who personally gave him an assault rifle when he enlisted. Eliasi is also known for his violent rhetoric on social media.

The activist is known by his stage name "the shadow". 
 

Translation: An extreme right-wing activist who had the honour of establishing the Tel Aviv-Jaffa armed alert squad, under the hand of Ben Gvir, began patrolling Tel Aviv, armed with a rifle and a protective vest. Feel safe?

There are not enough words to explain why this is simply illogical and completely insane. How dangerous it is. This is what the spirit of the times looks like.
 

Wounded Palestinians and foreign passport holders attempting to evacuate through the Rafah crossing have been prevented from doing so, due to Israeli bombings, according to medical and security sources who spoke to Reuters.

One of the security sources and the medical source said the evacuations were suspended after an Israeli strike on Friday on an ambulance in Gaza being used to transport wounded people.
 

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. 

The meeting comes after Blinken’s visit with regional ministers in Jordan on Saturday. 
 

Israel's war on Gaza will cost as much as 200bn shekels ($51bn), the Calcalist financial newspaper reported on Sunday, citing preliminary finance ministry figures.

The daily said the estimate, equal to 10 percent of gross domestic product, was premised on the war lasting between eight to 12 months; on it being limited to Gaza, without full participation by Lebanon's Hezbollah, Iran or Yemen; and on some 350,000 Israelis drafted as military reservists returning to work soon.

Calcalist said half of the cost would be in defence expenses that amount to some 1bn shekels a day. Another 40-60bn shekels would come from a loss of revenue, 17-20bn for compensation for businesses and 10-20 bn shekels for rehabilitation.
 

Israeli bombing overnight killed 21 Palestinians from one family in Gaza, the Palestinian health ministry announced on Sunday.

"The victims belong to the family of Abu Hasira when the Israeli shelling targeted their house, full of women and children," the ministry said in a post on its Facebook page.