This image taken from video released by Israeli Defense Forces, Thursday, Nov 16, 2023, shows an explosion that Israeli military says is the residence of Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in the Gaza Strip early Thursday, Nov. 16.
Police officers detain a protester blocking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge while demonstrating against the APEC summit Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023, in San Francisco.
Naama Doplet, left, is comforted at the grave of her, Israeli Army Capt. Kfir Franco, who was killed in combat in the Gaza Strip, during his funeral at Mt. Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023.
Israeli police stand at a checkpoint leading to the West Bank in Jerusalem Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. Six people were wounded in a shooting attack by three Palestinians at the checkpoint who were all shot dead on the scene, according to Magen David Adom Emergency Services.
Families and friends of about 240 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza call for their return as they participate in a five-day "March for the Hostages" from Tel Aviv to the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, near the village of Beit Hashmonai, Israel, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. The hostages, mostly Israeli citizens, were kidnapped during the Oct. 7 Hamas cross-border attack in Israel and have been held in Gaza since then.
Mourners gather around the grave of Israeli soldier Capt. Shlomo Ben Nun, during his funeral in Modiin, Israel, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. Ben Nun, was killed during a military ground operation in the Gaza Strip.
Live updates | With communications down, UNRWA warns there will be no aid deliveries across Rafah
Despite the dire need for humanitarian aid in Gaza, there would be no deliveries across the Rafah border crossing from Egypt on Friday, according to the communications director for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees
Palestinians ride on a donkey cart in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023.
Hatem Ali - stringer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Destroyed buildings stand in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023.
Leo Correa - stringer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this image taken from video released by Israeli Defense Forces, Thursday, Nov 16, 2023, an Israeli soldier fires his weapon in Gaza.
Uncredited - hogp, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Flares rise over the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023.
Leo Correa - stringer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
This image taken from video released by Israeli Defense Forces, Thursday, Nov 16, 2023, shows an explosion that Israeli military says is the residence of Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in the Gaza Strip early Thursday, Nov. 16.
Uncredited - hogp, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Police officers detain a protester blocking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge while demonstrating against the APEC summit Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023, in San Francisco.
Noah Berger - freelancer, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Naama Doplet, left, is comforted at the grave of her, Israeli Army Capt. Kfir Franco, who was killed in combat in the Gaza Strip, during his funeral at Mt. Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023.
Maya Alleruzzo - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Israeli police stand at a checkpoint leading to the West Bank in Jerusalem Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. Six people were wounded in a shooting attack by three Palestinians at the checkpoint who were all shot dead on the scene, according to Magen David Adom Emergency Services.
Mahmoud Illean - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Families and friends of about 240 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza call for their return as they participate in a five-day "March for the Hostages" from Tel Aviv to the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, near the village of Beit Hashmonai, Israel, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. The hostages, mostly Israeli citizens, were kidnapped during the Oct. 7 Hamas cross-border attack in Israel and have been held in Gaza since then.
Ohad Zwigenberg - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mourners gather around the grave of Israeli soldier Capt. Shlomo Ben Nun, during his funeral in Modiin, Israel, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. Ben Nun, was killed during a military ground operation in the Gaza Strip.
Ohad Zwigenberg - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS
A flare drifts over the Gaza Strip as it illuminates the nigh sky, as seen from southern Israel, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023.
Despite the dire need for humanitarian aid in Gaza, there would be no deliveries across the Rafah border crossing from Egypt on Friday, according to the communications director for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees.
Gaza appeared to be left with downed communications systems for a second day Friday, halting cross-border deliveries of humanitarian supplies even as aid agencies warned that most people in the Gaza Strip already do not have adequate food or clean water. A severe lack of fuel in the Gaza Strip shut down all internet and phone networks Thursday, the main Palestinian telecom provider said, effectively cutting off the besieged territory from the outside world.
“We have seen fuel and food and water and humanitarian assistance being used as a weapon of war,” Juliette Touma, a spokesperson for UNRWA, the aid agency for Palestinian refugees, said Thursday.
At least 11,470 Palestinians — two-thirds of them women and minors — have been killed since the war began, according to Palestinian health authorities, who do not differentiate between civilian and militant deaths. About 2,700 people are reported missing.
Israel vowed to wipe out Hamas after the militant group launched its Oct. 7 incursion. Some 1,200 people have been killed in Israel, mostly during the initial attack, and around 240 were taken captive by militants.
Here’s what's happening in the latest Israel-Hamas war:
AFGHANISTAN DENOUNCES ISRAEL'S ONGOING STRIKES IN GAZA
ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s Taliban-led administration denounced the ongoing Israeli strikes in Gaza, including the raid on Shifa Hospital. In an overnight statement, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Israeli forces were continually breaking all rules of war.
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan called on the United Nations and other human rights bodies, saying that “if they genuinely believe in their stated values, they must prevent the ongoing brutalities by adopting an honest, transparent & just position vis-a-vis crimes against humanity carried out by the zionists against the people of Gaza," the statement read, referring to Jews who seek to regain and retain their biblical homeland.
It also asked Arab and Islamic countries “to respond to the cries of the oppressed Muslims of Gaza, & to fulfill their religious & human responsibility through effective & meaningful positions & steps.”
The Taliban-led administration seized power in 2021, and since then the U.N. and other human rights groups have blamed it for human rights violations.
In September, the U.N. said it documented more than 1,600 cases of human rights violations committed by authorities in Afghanistan during arrests and detentions of people. At the time, it urged the Taliban government to stop torture and protect the rights of detainees. The report by the mission’s Human Rights Service covered 19 months — from January 2022 until the end of July 2023 — with cases documented across 29 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces. It said 11% of the cases involved women.
SEVERAL ISRAELI AIRSTRIKES HIT NEAR DAMASCUS, SYRIA'S STATE NEWS AGENCY SAYS
DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s state news agency says Israel’s military has carried out strikes that hit several posts near the capital, Damascus, causing material damage but no casualties.
SANA quoted an unnamed military official as saying that Syrian air defenses shot down most of the missiles before they reached their targets early Friday.
There has been no confirmation from the Israeli military.
In the weeks since the latest war between Israel and Hamas broke out, Syria reported Israeli airstrikes that hit the international airports in Damascus and the northern city of Aleppo, damaging their runways and putting them out of service.
Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of Syria in recent years, including attacks on the Damascus and Aleppo airports, but rarely acknowledges or discusses the operations.
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