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18 October 2023 - Israel Special Weapons News
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- Daily Recap: Hamas - Israel War October 18th, 2023 (19:00) - Day 12 Israel Defense Forces 18 Oct 2023
- Al-Ahli (Al-Ma'amadani) Hospital: Initial IDF Aftermath Report IDF 18 Oct 2023 -- The IDF has concluded an After Action Review and can confirm that the Islamic Jihad was responsible for the strike on the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza on October 17th, 2023.
- Increase in Failed Hamas/Islamic Jihad Rocket Launches Falling in Gaza Israel Defense Forces 18 Oct 2023
- 2 Additional Hamas Operatives Neutralized; Idf Continues to Strike Dozens of Terrorist Targets in Gaza Israel Defense Forces 18 Oct 2023
- Readout of Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III's Call with Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant DoD 18 Oct 2023
- Statement by PM Netanyahu Israel - Prime Minister 18 Oct 2023
- PM Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden Issue Additional Joint Statements at the Start of their Expanded Meeting Israel - Prime Minister 18 Oct 2023
- Statement by PM Netanyahu at the Start of his Meeting With US President Biden Israel - Prime Minister 18 Oct 2023
- Statement from the Prime Minister's Office Israel - Prime Minister 18 Oct 2023
- Statement by PM Netanyahu Israel - Prime Minister 18 Oct 2023
- Readout of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and the War Cabinet The White House 18 Oct 2023
- Remarks by President Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel Before Expanded Bilateral Meeting | Tel Aviv, Israel The White House 18 Oct 2023
- Remarks by President Biden and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel Before Bilateral Meeting | Tel Aviv, Israel The White House 18 Oct 2023
- Increase in Failed Hamas/Islamic Jihad Rocket Launches Falling in Gaza Israel Defense Forces 18 Oct 2023
- Islamic Jihad rejects Israel's 'downright lies' over Gaza hospital missile strike Press TV 18 Oct 2023 -- The Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement has roundly dismissed the Israeli military's allegations that the Gaza-based group was responsible for a strike on a packed hospital compound in central Gaza, rejecting the claims as "downright lies."
- Hezbollah hits another Merkava tank, causing casualties among Israeli soldiers Press TV 18 Oct 2023 -- Hezbollah fighters have hit an Israeli Merkava tank near the border area in southern Lebanon, according to a statement posted on the resistance movement's Telegram channel.
- In Tel Aviv, Biden Sides With Israel on Responsibility for Gaza Hospital Blast VOA 18 Oct 2023 -- U.S. President Joe Biden, who arrived in Tel Aviv Monday, appeared to side with Israel on who was responsible for a massive explosion at a Gaza hospital that killed hundreds and prompted accusations of blame and protests across the region.
- US, Israel: Intel From Gaza Hospital Blast Points to Palestinian Group VOA 18 Oct 2023 -- The United States is standing by Israel, pushing back against accusations by Hamas and other Palestinian officials that Israel is to blame for an explosion at a hospital that has left hundreds of people dead.
- UNRWA Situation Report #8 on the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, 18 October 2023 UNRWA 18 Oct 2023
- Security Council meets over Israel-Gaza: 'Very real risk' of conflict expanding warns top envoy UN News 18 Oct 2023 -- UN Middle East envoy Tor Wennesland on Wednesday highlighted the need for an inquiry into the strike against a Gaza hospital that killed hundreds, including patients, staff and displaced people seeking shelter.
- UN Security Council Fails to Ease Suffering in Gaza VOA 18 Oct 2023 -- As the death toll and suffering mounts for Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, the U.N. Security Council remained blocked Wednesday on trying to bring any relief to them, while the Israeli and Palestinian envoys traded accusations.
- Israel-Gaza: UN chief urges ceasefire; humanitarian supplies given green light to enter enclave UN News 18 Oct 2023 -- UN chief António Guterres called on Wednesday for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Middle East to ease the "epic human suffering" in the Israel-Gaza conflict. The head of the UN health agency (WHO) said he welcomed the reported agreement between the US and Israel, which would allow food, water and medical aid into the battered enclave via the Egyptian border.
- Israel-Gaza crisis: US vetoes Security Council resolution UN News 18 Oct 2023 -- The United States on Wednesday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have called for "humanitarian pauses" to deliver lifesaving aid to millions in Gaza. The failure by the Council to make its first public intervention on the Israel-Gaza crisis followed the rejection of a Russian-backed draft on Monday evening.
- World News in Brief: Funds dry up for Afghan quake survivors, child deaths alert in Sudan, diphtheria outbreak in Guinea UN News 18 Oct 2023 -- In Afghanistan, urgent funding is needed to feed some 100,000 people left hungry and homeless by a series of deadly earthquakes, amid a broader and already underfunded humanitarian crisis.
- UN human rights body concerned over Gaza humanitarian crisis People's Daily 18 Oct 2023 -- With thousands of people killed and over one million displaced in just ten days, and large areas in the Gaza Strip reduced to rubble, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Office said on Tuesday that it had "grave fears about the toll on civilians in the coming days."
- UN agencies, ICRC strongly condemn hospital attack in Gaza People's Daily 18 Oct 2023 -- United Nations (UN) human rights chief Volker Turk on Tuesday night issued a statement saying that the massive strike at Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City that killed hundreds of people is totally unacceptable.
- Press Gaggle by President Biden and NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby | Ramstein Air Base, Germany The White House 18 Oct 2023
- US votes UNSC resolution demanding humanitarian pause in Gaza Press TV 18 Oct 2023 -- The United States has blocked a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution that would have established humanitarian pauses in the ongoing Israeli war on the blockaded Palestinian Gaza Strip.
- Readout of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Call with President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi of Egypt The White House 18 Oct 2023
- Secretary Blinken's Call with Counterparts from G7 Countries US Dept. of State 18 Oct 2023
- Remarks by President Biden at Community Engagement to Meet with Israelis Impacted or Involved in the Response to the October 7th Terrorist Attacks | Tel Aviv, Israel The White House 18 Oct 2023
- Remarks by President Biden on the October 7th Terrorist Attacks and the Resilience of the State of Israel and its People | Tel Aviv, Israel The White House 18 Oct 2023
- U.S. Announcement of Humanitarian Assistance to the Palestinian People The White House 18 Oct 2023
- Secretary Blinken's Call with Palestinian Authority President Abbas US Dept. of State 18 Oct 2023
- Designating Hamas Operatives and Financial Facilitators US Dept. of State 18 Oct 2023 -- The horrific attacks that Hamas terrorists perpetrated on October 7 against civilians in Israel shocked the world. The United States has expressed our unconditional support to the people of Israel as they go through these tragic times. We continue to condemn these acts of terrorism that resulted in numerous lives lost and families shattered.
- Following Terrorist Attack on Israel, Treasury Sanctions Hamas Operatives and Financial Facilitators US Treasury 18 Oct 2023 -- Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on ten key Hamas terrorist group members, operatives, and financial facilitators in Gaza and elsewhere including Sudan, Türkiye, Algeria, and Qatar.
- Iran FM calls on Muslim regional officials to take action as Israel presses ahead with war on Gaza Press TV 18 Oct 2023 -- Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has asked his regional counterparts to take more action to end the escalating situation in the small Palestinian territory of Gaza.
- Iran FM calls for political, economic sanctions on Israel, trial of its leaders over Gaza strikes Press TV 18 Oct 2023 -- Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has called on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states to impose political and economic sanctions on Israel and set up a tribunal to prosecute Israeli leaders for their war crimes in the besieged Gaza Strip.
- Every drop of Palestinian blood brings Israel closer to downfall: Iran president Press TV 18 Oct 2023 -- Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi says the Israeli regime is only accelerating its demise by killing innocent Palestinian women and children in besieged Gaza.
- Strike on Gaza Hospital Sparks Protests Across Mideast VOA 18 Oct 2023 -- Protests erupted Wednesday throughout the Middle East against Israel and its key ally, the United States, after an explosion killed hundreds of Palestinians at a Gaza hospital in the single deadliest incident of the Israel-Hamas war.
- Outrage over Gaza hospital attack: China 'shocked' as Russia calls it 'act of dehumanization' Press TV 18 Oct 2023 -- China and Russia have issued condemnations of a bombing that targeted a crowded hospital in the small blockaded Palestinian territory of Gaza, with Moscow challenging the Israeli regime to provide facts to prove its claims it was not involved in the attack.
- Security of Israel is the prime motivation for Germany Germany - Federal Government 18 Oct 2023 -- Following the Hamas attack on Israel, the Federal Government is putting all its efforts into preventing the situation from escalating. Federal Chancellor Scholz has now travelled to Israel and Egypt in what Scholz refers to as an expression of solidarity in practice.
- Speech by President von der Leyen at the EP Plenary debate on the despicable terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel, Israel's right to defend itself in line with humanitarian and international law and the humanitarian situation in Gaza European Commission 18 Oct 2023
- 'Civilians must be protected' Government of Norway 18 Oct 2023
- Foreign Minister's participation in the urgent open-ended Ministerial Meeting of Executive Committee of OIC Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs 18 Oct 2023 -- Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani led the Pakistan delegation to the urgent open-ended Ministerial Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation held in Jeddah today. The meeting was co-convened by Pakistan and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to discuss the crisis in Gaza and the humanitarian situation of the besieged civilians there.
- Pakistan strongly condemns Israeli attack on a hospital in Gaza Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs 18 Oct 2023 -- Pakistan condemns in the strongest possible terms the Israeli attack on Al-Ahly Al-Mamadany Hospital in Gaza resulting in hundreds of casualties. Attacking a hospital, where civilians were seeking shelter and emergency treatment is inhumane and indefensible. The indiscriminate targeting of civilian population and facilities is a grave violation of international law and constitutes war crimes.
- Foreign Ministry Spokesperson's Remarks on Deadly Attack on Al Ahli Arab Hospital in the Gaza Strip PRC MofA 18 Oct 2023
- Foreign Ministry statement on the tragedy in Gaza Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 18 Oct 2023
- The UK will continue work to break the cycle of violence across Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: UK statement at the UN Security Council UK FCDO 18 Oct 2023 -- Statement by Ambassador Barbara Woodward at the UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East.
- The UK supports Israel's right to self-defence in line with the UN Charter: UK statement at the UN Security Council UK FCDO 18 Oct 2023 -- Explanation of vote by Ambassador Barbara Woodward at the UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East.
- Taliban Leaders Conspicuously Silent on Israel-Hamas War in Gaza VOA 18 Oct 2023 -- Amid heightened tensions in the Middle East, the Taliban's supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, has been notably quiet on the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza — in sharp contrast to the fervent, daily anti-Israel comments from neighboring Iran.
- South African Foreign Minister's Phone Call With Hamas Sparks Ire VOA 18 Oct 2023 -- South Africa's foreign minister has been criticized for holding a phone call with the leader of Hamas just 10 days after the Palestinian militant group launched a deadly attack on Israel. While the South African government has long expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people, a South African Jewish organization says the phone call indicates the minister "supports" Hamas.
- Israel-Hamas War Creates Prospects, Problems For Russia As It Invades Ukraine And Seeks Clout In Mideast RFE/RL 18 Oct 2023 -- The invasion of Israel by the Palestinian militant group Hamas has shattered the illusion of stability in the Middle East and triggered a war that could reshape great-power influence in the region and beyond.
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