Current events: 2023-11-12

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2023 Israel–Hamas war
  • War crimes in the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
    • South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor urged the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling on the prosecutor to explore war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. (News 24)
    • The UN Development Programme office in Gaza is shelled, with reports of a significant number of deaths and injuries. Office chief Achim Steiner says "civilians, civilian infrastructure and the inviolability of UN facilities must be always protected". (Dawn)
    • As the Israeli army surrounds multiple hospitals in northern Gaza, the United Nations issues a reminder that "hospitals are explicitly entitled to specific protection under international humanitarian law". (The Business Standard)
    • The United Nations says several hospitals in Gaza have been directly hit, as Israel intensifies its shelling and ground attacks around hospitals in Gaza City and northern Gaza. (OCHA)
    • Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital's cardiac ward has been destroyed by Israel's ground offensive. The Intensive Care Unit in al-Shifa Hospital has been severely damaged by Israeli army bombing.
    • The World Health Organization says it has lost communication with its contacts inside Al-Shifa Hospital. (The Journal) (Al Jazeera)
    • The World Health Organization says that there are reports that people who fled Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital "have been shot at, wounded and even killed" and calls for a humanitarian ceasefire, saying they are concerned about the safety of workers and patients who remain inside Al-Shifa hospital. (WHO) (Al Jazeera)
    • Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong calls on Israel to cease its attacks on hospitals, expressing concern about the number of civilian deaths from its assault on Gaza, saying international humanitarian law does require the protection of hospitals, of patients and of medical staff". (Sydney Morning Herald)
    • Palestinian Minister of Health Mai al-Kaila says Israeli forces "are not evacuating people from hospitals; instead, they are forcibly evicting the wounded and patients onto the streets, leaving them to face inevitable death". (Al Jazeera)
    • UNICEF spokesperson Toby Fricker has said the situation inside hospitals across the Gaza Strip is a tragedy, noting how premature babies inside Al-Shifa Hospital are struggling to stay alive due to the lack of electricity and water. (Al Jazeera)
    • Thirteen people are killed in the attack on a residential building in eastern Khan Younis, with many more injured. (Anadolu)
  • More than 11,100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since the war began. Israeli forces intensify their raids in the West Bank with the number of raids increasing to about 40 per day in the past week. (Al Jazeera)
  • The Palestine Red Crescent Society announces that Al-Quds Hospital is no longer operational due to a lack of fuel and a power outage. (Anadolu)

• War in Sudan
  • Battle of Geneina
    • The death toll after clashes in Geneina rises to 800 people. The UNHCR also confirms that around 8,000 people have fled to Chad from Geneina just this week. (ABC News)
    • The death toll rises again to 1,300 people, it is also confirmed that 2,000 people are injured. While the number of missing has risen. (Al Jazeera)
  • Battle of Khartoum
    • Heavy fighting is reported in Jabal Awliya, south of Khartoum, as the Rapid Support Forces attempt to capture the Jebel Aulia Dam. (Sudan Tribune)

Disasters and incidents

• At least 40 construction workers are trapped under the debris of a collapsed tunnel they were building in Uttarakhand, India. (AFP via Dawn)

International relations

• International reactions to the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
  • The Biden administration contacts Israeli officials for clarification over comments Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu made saying Israel will not agree to give up security control of Gaza, after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken suggested that the Palestinian Authority should take over Gaza once the conflict is over. (Al Jazeera)
  • Médecins Sans Frontières says that Gaza hospitals "will become a morgue if action isn't taken right now" as "electricity in a hospital is a lifeline and we know without it patients die". They also called for the "bloodshed" to end "immediately with a ceasefire or at the bare minimum a medical evacuation of patients". (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime 2023 Israel–Hamas war protests Large marches calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza are held in cities around the world including New York City, London, Paris, Baghdad, Karachi, Berlin, Edinburgh, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. (Al Jazeera)

• • • Sports'''
• Mamelodi Sundowns F.C. wins the inaugural African Football League after they defeat Wydad AC in the final.bein sports

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