After being told for days by President Joe Biden and the United Nations to halt its invasion of Gaza, Israel began its ground operations against Hamas Friday, Oct. 27. The U.S. also conducted airstrikes on bases in Syria against Iranian-backed militias Friday morning.
- The Palestinian death toll had surpassed 7,000 as of Friday since the outbreak of the war, according to statistics released by the Health Ministry in Gaza. Over 110 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank. Over 300 members of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have died according to their own numbers. As of Sunday, it had surpassed 8,000.
- The U.S. conducted an airstrike on two facilities run by an Iranian-backed militia group called Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Syria on Thursday evening. The strike was in retaliation to multiple attacks carried out by such militias sustained by bases harboring U.S. troops over the last several days. The Department of Defense made clear that the strikes were purely retaliatory in nature and did not intend to be an escalation of America’s role in the conflict.
JUST IN — U.S. warplanes have conducted air strikes against Iranian proxies in multiple locations in Syria. pic.twitter.com/agKA4sc0Kx
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) October 27, 2023
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- The Israeli military said it will ramp up its ground activities in Gaza Friday night. This follows two grounds raids carried out by Israeli forces in northern Gaza.
- As of 5:45 PM EST, Israel said it was “increasing its ground operation” and that its bombings of Gaza has already “increased.”
- The IDF claims a “terrorist headquarters” exists in Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital. Some 10,000 citizens are thought to have taken refuge there.
- Gaza is running low on food, medicine, and fuel, the latter of which is highly important for its medical facilities and food preparation.
- As of Sunday, Oct. 29, thousands of Gazans began breaking into aid warehouses looking for food and basic supplies.
- Gaza was virtually without internet and cell service as of Friday, according to companies that track global connectivity. Cell service was said to have been restored by Sunday.
- A former Israeli chief of intelligence named Amos Yadlin claimed Netanyahu “got all the warnings” that his attempt to overhaul the judiciary of Israel was distracting the country from monitoring Hamas prior to the Oct. 7 attack.
- Hedge Fund billionaire Leon Cooperman said college students have “s**t for brains” and will be revoking his donations to Columbia University unless they take action against pro-Hamas professors.
- The United Nations voted 120 to 14 to call for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, with 45 countries abstaining. Israel and the United States voted “No.”
- On Sunday, Netanyahu announced a “second stage” of the war and vowed to rescue 229 hostages taken by Hamas.
- The Israeli ground invasion will have to deal with a vast web of underground tunnels as they enter the Strip.
- The corpses of Palestinians now need to be dumped in mass graves without funerals due to the cemeteries filling up.
- An Israeli settler in the West Bank shot and killed a Palestinian man harvesting olives near the city of Nablus on Sunday. This is the seventh reported Palestinian killed by Israeli settlers in the West Bank since the conflict began. Palestinians have also reported attacks on their properties and claim they have been denied access to their lands.
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