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Israel Kills More Than 100 in Strikes After Soldier’s Death, Says It Still Backs Ceasefire https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5202706-israel-kills-more-100-strikes-after-soldier%E2%80%99s-death-says-it-still-backs

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Israel Kills More Than 100 in Strikes After Soldier’s Death, Says It Still Backs Ceasefire

A Palestinian man reacts next to the body of a man, who according to medics was killed in an Israeli strike earlier today, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, October 28, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer

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Israel Kills More Than 100 in Strikes After Soldier’s Death, Says It Still Backs Ceasefire

Israel said on Wednesday it was still committed to the US-backed ceasefire in Gaza, despite pounding the enclave in retaliation for the death of an Israeli soldier with a day of bombardment that Gaza health authorities said killed 104 people.

Even as the military affirmed it still intended to uphold the truce, it announced it had carried out another airstrike in the north of Gaza where it said weapons had been stored. Medics said two people were killed in that attack.

The killing of an Israeli soldier in Gaza on Tuesday has triggered the worst escalation in Gaza since the ceasefire came into effect on October 10.

Israel says the soldier was killed in an attack by gunmen on territory within the "yellow line" where its troops withdrew under the truce. Hamas has denied blame.

Israel described its latest attack on Wednesday as a targeted strike in the area of Beit Lahia in the north of the strip, where it said weapons had been stored. It said it would continue to uphold the ceasefire agreement while responding firmly to any violation.

AIRSTRIKES TARGETED HAMAS COMMANDER, ISRAEL SAYS

In response to the soldier's death, the military launched what it described as strikes targeting dozens of Hamas fighters across the enclave, as well as weapons depots and tunnels belonging to the group.

It named 24 militant targets, including one it described as a Hamas commander who took part in an attack on a kibbutz during the October 7, 2023 assault on southern Israel that triggered the war.

The Gaza health ministry said 46 children and 20 women were among the 104 people killed in the airstrikes.

In Nusseirat in the central Gaza Strip, neighbors said the entire Abu Dalal family had been wiped out in an airstrike that flattened their home overnight.

A boy in a wheelchair wailed as the family's bodies in white plastic body bags were loaded into the back of a flatbed truck. Crowds followed as the bodies were driven through the streets to a cemetery.

"It was erased from the civil registry: an entire family. About nine people: the father, the son, his wife, his son's wife, and all the children were completely removed from the civil registry," said neighbor Wael Najem, 52.

Despite the bombardments, US President Donald Trump said the US-backed ceasefire was not at risk.

"As I understand it, they took out an Israeli soldier," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. "So the Israelis hit back and they should hit back. When that happens, they should hit back," he added.

"Nothing is going to jeopardize" the ceasefire, Trump added. "You have to understand Hamas is a very small part of peace in the Middle East, and they have to behave."

Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, who has acted as a mediator, said on Wednesday that the attack on the Israeli soldier and the subsequent Israeli airstrikes had been "very disappointing and frustrating for us".

RESIDENTS DESCRIBE NIGHT OF BOMBARDMENT

Displaced Palestinians feared the truce could fall apart.

"The sounds of explosions and planes made us feel as if war had started again," Ismail Zayda, 40, living in tents in western Gaza City with his 25-member family, told Reuters via a chat app.

Under the accord, Hamas released all living hostages in return for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and wartime detainees, while Israel pulled back its troops and halted its offensive.

Hamas also agreed to hand over the remains of all dead hostages yet to be recovered, but has said that it will take time to locate and retrieve them. Israel has accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire by stalling in handing over bodies.

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MSF Ordered to Leave Libya by November 9 https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5202946-msf-ordered-leave-libya-november-9

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MSF Ordered to Leave Libya by November 9

People walk in Martyrs' Square, Tripoli, Libya, September 22, 2021. (Reuters)

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MSF Ordered to Leave Libya by November 9

People walk in Martyrs' Square, Tripoli, Libya, September 22, 2021. (Reuters)

The medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Wednesday it had been ordered to leave Libya by November 9, with no reason given for its expulsion.

MSF had already been forced to suspend its activities in the country in March and said it was told to leave in a recent letter from the Libyan foreign ministry.

"No reason has been given to justify our expulsion and the process remains unclear," Steve Purbrick, who heads MSF's programs in Libya, said in a statement.

"We believe that MSF still has an important role to play in Libya, particularly in the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, in supporting the Libyan health system, but also in providing access to healthcare for refugees and migrants who are excluded from care and subject to arbitrary detention and serious violence," he said.

Purbrick said MSF's registration with the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU) remained valid, and the Geneva-based organization still hoped to find a "positive solution" to the situation.

MSF said that in collaboration with the Libyan health authorities, it had carried out more than 15,000 medical consultations last year.

In 2023 it provided emergency medical aid following flash floods in the coastal city of Derna that killed thousands of people.

Libya is split between the GNU in Tripoli, led by Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah, and a rival administration in the east.

In March, MSF's premises were closed by Libya's Internal Security Agency, and several of its staff faced "interrogation", it said.

"This wave of repression also affected nine other humanitarian organizations operating in the west of the country," said MSF.

"In a context of increasing obstruction of NGO intervention, drastic cuts in international aid funding, and the reinforcement of European border policies in collaboration with the Libyan authorities, there are now no international NGOs providing medical care to refugees and migrants in western Libya," it said.

Founded in 1971, MSF says it has more than 67,000 staff working in more than 70 countries.

UN Chief 'Strongly Condemns' Fresh Israeli Strikes in Gaza https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5202937-un-chief-strongly-condemns-fresh-israeli-strikes-gaza

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UN Chief 'Strongly Condemns' Fresh Israeli Strikes in Gaza

Palestinian children look out from their family's destroyed house following an Israeli airstrike targeting a residential block in Al Shatea refugee camp in Gaza City, 29 October 2025. (EPA)

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UN Chief 'Strongly Condemns' Fresh Israeli Strikes in Gaza

Palestinian children look out from their family's destroyed house following an Israeli airstrike targeting a residential block in Al Shatea refugee camp in Gaza City, 29 October 2025. (EPA)

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres "strongly condemns" Israel's latest deadly military strikes in Gaza, his spokesman said Wednesday.

"The Secretary General strongly condemns the killings due to Israeli airstrikes of civilians in Gaza yesterday, including many children," spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.

Earlier, the UN called the deaths "appalling", as it urged all sides not to let peace "slip from our grasp".

Israel said it had carried out strikes on dozens of Hamas targets following the death of a soldier, with the Gaza Strip experiencing its deadliest night of bombing since a US-brokered truce went into effect earlier in October.

UN rights chief Volker Turk said the attacks had reportedly hit schools, homes and tents for internally displaced people within the Palestinian territory.

"Reports that over 100 Palestinians were killed overnight in a wave of Israeli airstrikes mainly on residential buildings, IDP tents and schools across the Gaza Strip, following the death of an Israeli soldier, are appalling," he said in a statement.

"The laws of war are very clear on the paramount importance of protecting civilians and civilian infrastructure."

Turk said Israel must comply with its obligations under international humanitarian law, and would be accountable for any violations.

"It is distressing that these killings occurred just as the long-suffering population of Gaza started to feel there was hope that the unrelenting barrage of violence may be at an end," he said.

Turk called for all parties in the conflict to act in good faith and implement the ceasefire, and urged other countries, particularly those with influence in the region, to do everything in their power to ensure compliance.

"The past two years have brought untold suffering and misery, and the near wholesale destruction of Gaza," he said.

"We must not allow this opportunity for peace and a path towards a more just and secure future to slip from our grasp."

Israel Army Says Struck Weapons Site in Northern Gaza https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5202935-israel-army-says-struck-weapons-site-northern-gaza

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Israel Army Says Struck Weapons Site in Northern Gaza

Palestinians observe the destruction following an Israeli airstrike targeting a residential block in Al Shatea refugee camp in Gaza City, 29 October 2025. (EPA)

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Israel Army Says Struck Weapons Site in Northern Gaza

Palestinians observe the destruction following an Israeli airstrike targeting a residential block in Al Shatea refugee camp in Gaza City, 29 October 2025. (EPA)

The Israeli military said it conducted a strike on a weapons storage site in northern Gaza on Wednesday, which the Hamas-run territory's civil defense agency said killed one person.

The strike came hours after Israel announced it was renewing its enforcement of the US-brokered ceasefire following a wave of overnight bombing.

"A short while ago, the Israeli military conducted a precise strike in the area of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip targeting a terrorist infrastructure site where weapons and aerial means were stored, intended to be used for the execution of an imminent terror attack against soldiers and the State of Israel," a military statement said.

Mahmud Bassal, the spokesman for Gaza's civil defense agency, told AFP that one person "was killed in an Israeli air strike on the Atatra area in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, and was transferred to Al-Shifa Hospital."

The civil defense agency operates as a rescue force under Hamas authority.

The Israeli military launched a wave of bombing on Tuesday after one of its soldiers was killed in Gaza on the same day, but by mid-morning on Wednesday it said it had begun "renewed enforcement of the ceasefire" -- while reserving the right to defend its troops.

Gaza's civil defense agency said more than 100 people were killed, including many children, but both US President Donald Trump and regional mediator Qatar said they expected the US-brokered ceasefire to hold.

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