Israel-Hamas war live: Israeli forces target convoy carrying medical supplies in Gaza City, says Palestine Red Crescent Society

In the UK, a Labour frontbencher has resigned in order to “be able to strongly advocate for a ceasefire”.

Imran Hussain, the member for Bradford East, posted his resignation letter to X a short while ago:

It’s 1am in Gaza City and Tel Aviv. Here’s a recap of the latest developments:

• Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) are encircling Gaza City and operating inside it. In a televised statement on Tuesday, Netanyahu said there would be no ceasefire before hostages were released and urged people in Gaza to move south “because Israel will not stop”.

• Netanyahu said Israel may consider “tactical little pauses” in fighting to allow the entry of aid or the exit of hostages from the Gaza Strip. The Israeli prime minister told ABC news in an interview broadcast on Monday night: “Israel will for an indefinite period … have the overall security responsibility [in Gaza] because we’ve seen what happens when we don’t have that security responsibility.”

• The US does not believe Israel should reoccupy Gaza, the White House said following Netanyahu’s comments that Israel will “have the overall security responsibility” in Gaza for an “indefinite period” after the war ends. National security spokesperson John Kirby added on Tuesday that “Hamas cannot be part of the equation” about who will administer Gaza.

• Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, also said the IDF are operating in the heart of Gaza City and “tightening the chokehold” around the city. In a televised statement on Tuesday, Gallant rejected any humanitarian pauses without the return of hostages.

• Joe Biden urged Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to a three-day pause in fighting to allow progress in releasing some of the hostages held by Hamas, according to a report, citing two US and Israel officials. The US president and Israeli prime minister spoke in a call on Monday. In a readout of the call, the White House said the two leaders “discussed the possibility of tactical pauses”.

• The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said a humanitarian convoy carrying lifesaving medical supplies came under fire in Gaza City on Tuesday. The convoy of five trucks and two Red Cross vehicles was carrying supplies to health facilities, including to Al-Quds hospital, when it was hit, an ICRC statement said. The ICRC did not specify who had fired at its convoy or from what direction the fire came. The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) accused Israeli forces of targeting the convoy.

• Waving white flags and holding their hands above their heads, Palestinian families fled past tanks waiting to storm Gaza City. Israel’s military gave civilians inside the encircled city a four-hour window to leave on Tuesday, as its forces prepared to retake the biggest city in the strip. The IDF said they would allow residents to leave from 10am until 2pm local time, and published a video of dozens of people along a main road. Hundreds of thousands of people are feared to still be trapped.

• Israel’s military claims to have captured a Hamas military stronghold and detonated a Hamas weapons depot “in a civilian area” adjacent to al-Quds hospital. Israel has repeatedly claimed that Hamas is using hospital buildings to carry out military operations. Israeli forces on Monday said they had severed northern Gaza from the rest of the besieged territory.

• The Israel Defence Forces military spokesperson Daniel Hagari has said that on Tuesday Israel again fired into Lebanon in response to an attack. The IDF also claimed it intercepted “a suspicious aerial target” near the blue line which marks the UN-drawn boundary between Israel and Lebanon.

• At least 10,328 Palestinians – including 4,237 children – have been killed within the Gaza Strip by Israeli military actions since 7 October, the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said on Tuesday. The number of people wounded has risen to 25,965, according to the health ministry spokesperson Dr Ashraf al-Qudra. It has not been possible for journalists to independently verify the casualty figures being issued in Gaza.

• A moment’s silence was held on Tuesday to mark 30 days since the Hamas attack on Israel in which 1,400 people were killed. Vigils have been held around the world. Outside the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, a crowd gathered for a vigil to remember the dead and the estimated 240 hostages still held by Hamas.

• A Palestinian journalist has been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza and another was wounded, the official Palestinian news agency reported. Mohammad Abu Hasira was killed along with 42 members of his family “in an Israeli bombing that targeted his house located near the fishermen’s port west of Gaza City”, the WAFA news agency reported.

• Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has said one of its staff members in Gaza was killed along with his family in northern Gaza. Mohammed Al Ahel had been a laboratory technician for the organisation for two years and was at his home in Al-Shati refugee camp when the area was bombed and his building collapsed on Monday, MSF said.

• At least 89 people who worked for the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, have been killed since 7 October. A World Health Organization spokesperson said on Tuesday that more than 160 healthcare workers had died while on duty in Gaza. It makes the conflict the deadliest ever for UN workers.

• The level of death and suffering in the Israel-Palestine crisis is “hard to fathom”, a World Health Organization spokesperson (WHO) has said. “Every day, you think it is the worst day and then the next day is worse,” Christian Lindmeier told journalists on Tuesday. “Nothing justifies the horror being endured by civilians in Gaza.” The WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, urged all parties involved to agree to a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and “work toward a lasting peace”. “History will judge us all by what we do to end this tragedy,” he said.

• Civilians are Gaza are “drinking water from a swimming pool” and children are “crying for lack of bread”, the international humanitarian organisation Care said as it urged an immediate ceasefire in the Palestinian territory. More than half a million people in northern Gaza face death by starvation as food supplies run “perilously” low, ActionAid Palestine warned. The UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, has described the situation in Gaza as a “tragedy of colossal proportions”.

• The UN high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, began a five-day visit to the Middle East on Tuesday to engage with government officials and civil society groups on human rights violations taking place amid Israel’s escalation in Gaza. “It has been one full month of carnage, of incessant suffering, bloodshed, destruction, outrage and despair,” Türk said in a statement.

• At least 500 people, most of them foreigners or dual nationals and their dependents, were evacuated from Gaza through the Rafah border crossing on Tuesday. A dozen Palestinian children who have cancer were allowed to leave Gaza on Tuesday for treatment in Egypt. In total, more than 400 US citizens, lawful permanent residents and other eligible people have been evacuated from Gaza, and more than 100 French nationals and their dependents have crossed the Rafah border.

• The British army is “posturing” itself for the prospect of a “non-combatant evacuation operation” in the Middle East in the event the Israel-Hamas conflict expands, the UK’s chief of the general staff told parliament’s defense select committee on Tuesday.

• The German government has decided to release €91m (£79m) for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) after a review launched in response to the Hamas attacks on Israel.

• The Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, has defied calls for a ban on a pro-Palestinian march through London on Armistice Day. Scotland Yard does not believe it has grounds to support a ban on the planned pro-Palestine demonstration, the Guardian has learned.

At least 500 people, most of them foreigners or dual nationals and their dependents, left the Gaza Strip through Egypt today, Reuters reported, citing Egyptian security sources.

Jordan’s foreign ministry said 262 Jordanians were evacuated on Tuesday, out of a total of 569 that had been stuck in Gaza.

Canada said 59 of its citizens, permanent residents and family members had been evacuated.

A medical source said 19 Palestinians in Gaza needing medical treatment were also allowed through to join dozens of others who are being treated in Egyptian hospitals.

Other countries with citizens cleared to leave on Tuesday included Romania, Germany, Moldova, Ukraine, the Philippines and France, according to the Gaza border authority.

Egyptian security sources said Egypt was continuing to press for increased aid and fuel into the strip and security for ambulances.

Chris Stein

The Michigan Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian American member of Congress, defended her criticism of the country and urged lawmakers to join in calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

In remarks on the House floor minutes after Democrats failed to block an effort to censure her for remarks her detractors say disparaged Israel, Tlaib said:

I will not be silenced and I will not let you distort my words. No government is beyond criticism. The idea that criticizing the government of Israel is antisemitic sets a very dangerous precedent, and it’s been used to silence diverse voices speaking up for human rights across our nation.

Tlaib, who was first elected in 2018 and is a prominent member of “the Squad” of progressive female lawmakers, grew emotional as she said:

I can’t believe I have to say this, but Palestinian people are not disposable.

She continued by saying she was against attacks on both Israeli and Palestinian civilians alike:

The cries of the Palestinian and Israeli children sound no different to me. What I don’t understand is why the cries of Palestinians sound different to you all. We cannot lose our shared humanity, Mr Chair. I hear the voices of advocates in Israel and Palestine across America and around the world for peace.

I’m inspired by … the courageous survivors in Israel who have lost loved ones, yet are calling for a ceasefire and the end to violence. I am grateful to the people in the streets for the peace movement with countless Jewish Americans across the country standing up and lovingly saying ‘not in our name’.

We will continue to call for a ceasefire, Mr Chair, for the immediate delivery of critical humanitarian aid to Gaza, for the release of all hostages and those arbitrarily detained and for every American to come home. We will continue to work for real, lasting peace that uphold human rights and dignity of all people and centers … peaceful coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians and censures no one – no one – and ensures that no person, no child has to suffer or live in fear of violence.