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- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- 2023 Israel–Hamas war
- October 2023 Hezbollah strike
- October 2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
- An estimated one million Gazans have been displaced, according to the United Nations Palestinian agency, as aid groups said the situation in the besieged enclave is "catastrophic". (The Economic Times)
- At least 50 families in the Gaza Strip have been wiped out from the civil registry after Israeli shelling and air strikes, the Palestinian health ministry says. (LBC International)
- The Palestinian Ministry of Health says that about 70 percent of people in Gaza are deprived of health services. So far, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been able to deliver medical supplies for 2,000 patients in Gaza. (Reuters)
- According to Human Rights Watch after verifying some footage, Israel has used white phosphorus in Gaza and Lebanon. The footage shows multiple uses of artillery-fired white phosphorus over the Gaza City port and two rural locations along the Israel-Lebanon border. (France 24)
- Military rules of engagement have been "loosened" for Israeli soldiers who take part in the expected ground invasion of Gaza, reports The New York Times, citing senior Israeli military sources. (The Telegraph)
- Israel conducts military operations in Ramallah in the West Bank, arresting more than 50 individuals. (Al Jazeera)
- The Israel Defense Forces kill senior Hamas commander Billal Al Kedra. (NDTV)
- 2023 Israel–Hamas war
Disasters and accidents
- Earthquakes in 2023
- 2023 Herat earthquakes
- Afghanistan's Herat Province is struck by another magnitude 6.3 earthquake, killing four people and injuring over 150 others, several days after a series of powerful earthquakes killed over 1,000 people in the province. (ITV)
- 2023 Herat earthquakes
International relations
- Afghanistan–China relations
- The Taliban government confirms that it will attend the Belt and Road Initiative forum in Beijing, China, next week, as the countries form closer economic ties, including the potential construction of a large copper mine in Logar Province, eastern Afghanistan. (Reuters)
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- 2023 Israel–Hamas war
- International reactions to the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
- The heads of the Arab League and African Union release a joint statement stating that Israel's planned ground invasion of Gaza "could lead to a genocide of unprecedented proportions". (Arab News)
- Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi tells US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Israel's reaction to Hamas's attack "went beyond self-defence and amounted to collective punishment". (Reuters)
- Yara Hawari, a senior policy analyst at the pro-Palestine Al-Shabaka think tank accuses US Secretary of State Antony Blinken of facilitating ethnic cleansing in Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
- International reactions to the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
- Protests on the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
- Thousands of people attend rallies in support of Palestine in Australia's state capitals Adelaide and Melbourne, with the largest held in Sydney with more then 5,000 people. (ABC News Australia)
- 2023 Israel–Hamas war
Law and crime
- A man brutally kills a 6-year-old boy and seriously injures his mother in Illinois. Detectives confirmed that the victims were targeted due to them being Palestinian Muslims and was tied to the Israel-Hamas conflict. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- 2023 Ecuadorian general election
- Ecuadorians vote in the second round of their presidential election, choosing between the candidates Luisa González and Daniel Noboa. (The Guardian)
- 2023 Polish parliamentary election
- Poles go to the polls to elect members of the Senate and the Sejm. Votes are also cast in a referendum on migration, removal of the border wall between Belarus and Poland, and the retirement age. (AFP via Barron's) (The Guardian)
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