Pro-Palestine march: Police say they will ‘likely have to use force’ as protesters banned from Cenotaph

The chief director of Israeli media advocacy group HonestReporting has stated he accepts as “satisfactory” denials by 4 main media organisations that they’d no earlier data of the 7 October Hamas assault on Israel, including he was “so relieved”.

Reuters, the Related Press, CNN and The New York Occasions issued adamant denials after HonestReporting revealed an article on Thursday questioning whether or not Palestinian photojournalists had tipped off the 4 shops, which had used their photos.

HonestReporting’s Gil Hoffman instructed Reuters his organisation had not claimed to know that there had been any prior data by the information teams of the Hamas assault.

“I used to be so relieved when all 4 of the media organisations stated they didn’t have prior data,” Mr Hoffman stated. “We raised questions, we didn’t give solutions,” he added. “I nonetheless very a lot suppose that the questions have been legit and the solutions have been satisfactory from the media organisations themselves.”

The Canadian wing of Docs With out Borders stated it had misplaced contact with its medical workers on the Al Shifa hospital following an air strike.

“We’re presently unable to contact any of our workers inside Al Shifa hospital. We’re extraordinarily involved concerning the security of sufferers and the medical workers,” the non-profit wrote in a publish on X.

“Sufferers are nonetheless within the hospital, some in crucial situation and unable to maneuver, there are caretakers nonetheless inside the ability.

“We urgently reiterate our calls to cease the assaults towards hospitals and for the safety of medical services, medical workers and sufferers.”

Journalist Ash Sarkar stated she and her buddies have been compelled out of a pub by males who have been threatening them with violence for carrying a Palestinian scarf and carrying a Palestinian flag.

“Simply been compelled out of a pub by males threatening me and my buddies with violence, and hurling abuse,” she wrote on X, previously referred to as Twitter.

“Workers have been very apologetic about it, however the truth is the media and politicians have whipped up a frenzy of hate.”

She stated one of many males threatening them had been “waving round a duplicate of the Night Normal which had a picture of a poppy at odds with a Palestinian flag”.

“When he noticed my buddies, he accused them of spitting within the face of people that fought for this nation,” she stated.“

Others joined in. There was additionally a definite undertone of racism,” she added.

Israel should cease bombing Gaza and killing civilians, Emmanuel Macron has instructed the BBC in an interview revealed late on Friday.

The French president stated there was “no justification” for the bombing and saying a ceasefire would profit Israel.

He stated that France “clearly condemns” the “terrorist” actions of Hamas, however that whereas recognising Israel’s proper to guard itself, “we do urge them to cease this bombing” in Gaza.

When requested if he needed different leaders – together with within the United Sates and Britain – to affix his requires a ceasefire, Macron stated: “I hope they’ll.”

The final month of Israel’s invasion of Gaza has been the deadliest but for journalists in additional than 30 years.

Retaliatory strikes within the wake of Hamas assaults on 7 October have killed not less than 35 Palestinian journalists and media staff, as of 10 November, marking the deadliest interval for the press for the reason that Committee to Shield Journalists started documenting the killing of journalists in 1992.

Inside the previous month, Gaza journalists have additionally reported violent threats, arrests and cyberattacks, whereas Israel’s ongoing bombardments have destroyed places of work and houses, and meals and water shortages and energy and communications outages have compounded a rising humanitarian disaster within the area.

Greater than 11,070 Palestinians have been killed for the reason that conflict started, with two-thirds of them girls and youngsters, based on the Gaza well being ministry.

One other 2,650 folks have been reported lacking.

US secretary of state Antony Blinken stated on Friday that “far too many” Palestinians have died and suffered. Whereas latest Israeli steps to attempt to minimise civilian hurt are constructive, he stated, they aren’t sufficient.

Assistant secretary of state Barbara Leaf instructed American lawmakers this week that it was “very attainable” the demise toll was even increased than the Gaza well being ministry’s tally.

At the least 1,200 folks have been killed in Israel, primarily within the preliminary Hamas assault, and 41 Israeli troopers have been killed in Gaza for the reason that floor offensive started, Israeli officers stated.

The overseas ministry had beforehand estimated the civilian demise toll at 1,400, and gave no purpose on Friday for the revision.

The World Well being Organisation stated that 20 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are not functioning, together with a pediatric hospital that stopped operations after a reported Israeli strike within the space. “If there’s a hell on earth right now, its identify is northern Gaza,” the UN humanitarian company spokesperson, Jens Laerke, instructed reporters in Geneva. Greater than two-thirds of Gaza’s inhabitants of two.3 million have fled their properties for the reason that conflict started. Within the south, they’re crowded into shelters with dwindling provides of meals and water because the conflict enters its second month.

A missile landed within the courtyard of Al Shifa, the enclave’s largest hospital, within the early hours of Friday, damaging the Indonesian Hospital and reportedly setting fireplace to the Nasser Rantissi paediatric most cancers hospital.

Israel’s army stated {that a} misfired projectile launched by Palestinian militants in Gaza had hit Shifa.“Israel is now launching a conflict on Gaza Metropolis hospitals,” stated Mohammad Abu Selmeyah, director of Al Shifa hospital.

“We’re extraordinarily disturbed by studies of airstrikes within the neighborhood of Al Shifa hospital in Gaza,” wrote Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Well being Organisation.

He continued: “Many well being staff we have been in touch with have been compelled to depart the hospital looking for security.“

Others report being unable to maneuver attributable to grave insecurity. Most of the 1000’s sheltering on the hospital are compelled to evacuate attributable to safety dangers, whereas many nonetheless stay there.”

The UN physique documented 5 assaults on 5 hospitals in someday in Gaza, he stated, including that in “the previous 48 hours alone, 4 hospitals have been put out of motion”.