Israel-Palestine live: Week three ends with over 7,000 Palestinians killed

Thousands of people gathered in Bosnia's Sarajevo in a mass pro-Palestine rally.

Protesters waved the Palestinian flag and held posters calling for a ceasefire.

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has raised concerns over the Israeli conflict spreading, and escalating around the region. 

"We're concerned about potential escalation. In fact, what we're seeing... is the prospect of a significant escalation of attacks on our troops and our people throughout the region," Austin told ABC's This Week programme.

"If any group or any country is looking to widen this conflict and take advantage of this very unfortunate situation... our advice is: don't," he said.
 

Israeli forces have shot and killed a 20-year-old Palestinian man, identified as Qatada Salama Ghnaimat, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

Israeli forces shot Ghnaimat in the al-Arroub refugee camp, located in the occupied West Bank, between Bethlehem and Hebron. 
 

A blast was heard at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza, with ambulances arriving at the scene, according to Reuters.

The bombing took place as a second aid convoy entered Gaza from the Egyptian side, an eyewitness told Reuters.

According to Hossam Bahgat, the Executive Director for the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), two Egyptians have been wounded in the attack, and an Egyptian watchtower was also destroyed. 

Initial reports in local Egyptian media state that the aid still entered Gaza.
 

A blast and the sound of ambulances were heard near the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip on Sunday afternoon, witnesses said according to Reuters news agency.

The explosion reports came shortly after a second aid convoy had entered the crossing from the Egyptian side.

The head of the UN World Food Program (WFP) described the situation in Gaza as "catastrophic" as only 0.002 percent of the coastal enclave's immediate relief needs have entered so far. 

Cindy McCain described the 20 aid trucks that were allowed to enter via Egypt on Saturday as a "drop in the ocean". 

Speaking on ABC's This Week programme, McCain said aid agencies needed secure and sustainable access to the enclave.

She added that the WFP is doing its very best to ensure aid gets to the people who need it but that Gaza was a war zone and that "things happen".

Anti-tank guided missiles targeting Israeli forces were reported at the Israel-Gaza frontier, Al Jazeera and Israeli media said.

Hamas's armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, said fighters ambushed an Israeli force east of Khan Younis after crossing the fence separating Israel and Gaza. 

Al-Qassam added they clashed with the Israeli troops and destroyed two military bulldozers and a tank before withdrawing to Gaza.

The Israeli military confirmed that troops came under attack in the Kissufim area. It added that troops returned fire using artillery shelling. 

Kan, the Israeli public broadcaster, said there were casualties among Israeli troops. There was no immediate reports of Palestinian casualties. 

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, the Palestinian health ministry said.

The man, whom the ministry could not immediately identify, was shot near the al-Arroub camp located between Bethlehem and Hebron.

Local media published footage earlier showing a man being shot by Israeli forces near the al-Arroub camp. Middle East Eye could not immediately establish if they were the same incident.

The killing takes the death toll of Palestinians in the West Bank during the past 16 days to 91, a massive surge from the monthly average of 21 this year. 

Translation: young man was shot dead by the occupation forces at the entrance to al-Arroub camp, north of Hebron.

The Palestinian health ministry urged anyone in Gaza who has any amount of fuel to donate it to hospitals to "save lives".

"We call on gas station owners and all citizens who have any amount of diesel to immediately go to hospitals and donate it to save the lives of the wounded and sick," the ministry's spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra said in a statement. 

Palestinian health officials have been warning for days that power is running out in hospitals amid a total Israeli siege blocking the entry of water, food, fuel and electricity needs. 

On Sunday, the UN children's agency warned that the lives of at least 120 newborn babies in incubators in Gaza's hospitals are at risk as fuel runs out. 

Around 20 trucks of aid entered Gaza for the first time since 7 October on Saturday but did not include fuel.

Palestinian officials say the 20 trucks that entered comprise 0.002 percent of the coastal enclave's immediate needs. 

An official at the Rafah crossing and an AFP journalist said six trucks trucks carrying fuel entered Gaza on Sunday. 

There was no immediate confirmation from the Palestinian side but the six trucks of fuel are unlikely to meet the needs of 2.3m Palestinians under siege for nearly two weeks.  

In a break from official British policy, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby on Sunday issued an urgent call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and an end to Israel's bombing of civilians.

The archbishop joined forces with other Christian leaders in Jerusalem to demand an "immediate humanitarian ceasefire so that food, water, and vital medical supplies can safely be delivered to the relief agencies ministering to the hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians in Gaza".

The statement from the leader of England's state church directly contradicts the policy of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who last week ordered Britain to abstain on a United Nations ceasefire resolution.

However, it aligns the Church of England with the estimated 100,000 demonstrators who marched through London on Saturday calling for an immediate end to the Israeli bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip.

Read more: Archbishop of Canterbury calls for Gaza ceasefire in break from UK policy

The Israeli city of Eilat said it plans to set up tents to house 60,000 Israelis evacuated from towns near the Gaza Strip. 

Eilat’s announcement comes after the city said all its hotels are full and unable to house more people who have been evacuated since the conflict started on 7 October. 

"The municipal effort requires governmental aid, and I expect immediate government response so that we can prepare in time," said the mayor, Eli Lankri.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told troops the war in Gaza was "do or die" for Israel on Sunday, according to an official transcript of a briefing he gave to commandos near the Lebanese border.

The premier also warned Hezbollah against entering the war, saying that doing so would bring an "unimaginable" response from Israel that would wreak "devastation" upon Lebanon, Reuters reported. 

However, he told troops that as of now he could not tell if Hezbollah would decide to enter the war fully.

The CEO and co-founder of Web Summit, the organiser of Europe's biggest annual gathering of techies, has stepped down following reaction to his comment on X, formerly Twitter, that "war crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies".

Paddy Cosgrave posted the comment after Israel's military response to Hamas's 7 October attack from the Gaza Strip.

It resulted in the withdrawal from the next gathering, due to start in Lisbon on 13 November, of some of the event's biggest investors and sponsors, including Google, Meta Platforms, Stripe and Intel, Bloomberg reported.

The summit last year attracted 70,000 attendees.

Cosgrave said his comments had become "a distraction from the event".

Israel’s economy minister said Iran and Hezbollah would be attacked if the Lebanese group entered the current conflict between Israel and Hamas.

Nir Barkat told the British Daily Mail newspaper on Saturday that Hezbollah would “get the same treatment” as Gaza and that Israel would go after the "head of the snake, which is Iran".

“Israel has a very clear message to our enemies. We are saying to them, look what’s happening in Gaza – you are going to get the same treatment if you attack us. We are going to wipe you off the face of the Earth," Barkat said.

“The Ayatollahs in Iran are not going to sleep good at night, we are going to make sure they pay a heavy price if, God forbid, they open the northern front."

The Israeli military committed 24 "massacres" in Gaza over the past 24 hours, killing at least 266 people, the Palestinian health ministry said on Sunday. 

The Palestinian health ministry often uses the word "massacre" to refer to Israeli attacks that leave mass deaths of three people or more in a single air raid.

At least 117 children were among those killed in the Saturday and Sunday strikes, which included the targeting of a UN school for Palestinian refugees and a popular food market. 

Israel has killed an average of around 300 Palestinians a day since 7 October, the majority of whom are children, women and elderly people.