(Bloomberg) — Saudi Investment Minister Khalid Al-Falih said negotiations to normalize relations with Israel remain on the table, though they have been “subordinated to a path leading to a nonviolent solution to the Palestinian issue. “
Israel said its troops were fighting inside Gaza City as they headed toward its center from the north and south. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel could simply maintain its security over Gaza for an “indefinite period,” suggesting a longer-term role in the fighting. besieged territory.
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Netanyahu spoke to ABC News as the war against Hamas, designated a terrorist organization by the United States and Europe, entered its second month. The UN warned that more maternity supplies, fuel and water are needed in Gaza, where it estimates around 180 give birth daily.
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(All timestamps are in Israeli time)
Saudi minister on talks to normalize ties with Israel (3:47 am)
Khalid Al-Falih, Saudi Arabia’s investment minister, said negotiations to normalize relations with Israel remained on the table but had been “subordinated to a path leading to a non-violent solution to the Palestinian issue. “
“It was on the table, it’s still on the table, and obviously last month’s setback clarified why Saudi Arabia was so adamant that the resolution of the Palestinian conflict had to be part of a broader normalization in the Middle East,” he added. Falih said on a panel at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore.
Asked if Saudi Arabia would use economic instruments such as the value of oil for a ceasefire, Al-Falih laughed and replied: “It’s not on the table today. Saudi Arabia is seeking to achieve peace through nonviolent talks.
Humanitarian convoy attacked, Red Cross says (00:30)
The International Committee of the Red Cross said a humanitarian aid convoy was attacked in the Gaza Strip. The ICRC did not specify the origin of the shooting, but said it was “deeply disturbed” by the episode.
One driver suffered minor injuries and two of the five trucks were damaged. The trucks were carrying medical supplies to the fitness facilities, in addition to the Al Quds hospital in Gaza City, which Israel has demanded be evacuated amid shelling near the medical center. Thousands displaced Palestinians have sought safe haven in hospitals. The convoy changed course and delivered aid to the city’s Al-Shifa hospital, according to the Red Cross.
U. S. holds “tough talks” with Israel over Gaza bombing (21:19)
Biden’s leadership is discussing with Israel respecting humanitarian law and maintaining proportionality in its airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, Pentagon deputy spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said, amid growing condemnation of the civilian death toll.
“We’re going to continue to have those kinds of conversations,” Singh said at a briefing. “That’s what makes a smart spouse — it’s also having complicated conversations. “
Singh declined to say whether Israel had violated international or humanitarian law with its measures in the Gaza Strip, saying the U. S. does not impose any situation on the use of the weapons it sends to Israel. But the U. S. has been “very transparent that any intervention in Gaza will have to take into account the law and proportionality,” he said.
Israel says displaced Gazans can return: WSJ (8:47 p. m. )
Gazans who leave the domain or are internally displaced will be allowed to return once the fighting ends, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
“After getting rid of Hamas, everyone will go home,” Cohen said. Israel bombed crossings in Gaza shortly after the fighting began on Oct. 7, adding residential areas.
Israeli troops advance towards the center of Gaza City, says Gallant (8:15 p. m. )
Israeli troops are advancing from the north and south toward the center of Gaza City, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said at a news conference on Tuesday. Soldiers are fighting in the built-up area of the city, he said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated in another televised address that there will be no ceasefire until the 240 hostages taken from Israel are released.
UN says 180 women in Gaza are giving birth because materials are limited (8:06 p. m. )
So far, only two trucks carrying maternity products have entered Gaza, according to Natalia Kanem, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund. The UN estimates that there are around 50,000 pregnant women living in the region. More than 5,500 children have been born since the war began, about 180 women give birth every day, he said.
It is mandatory to allow access to fuel and water to Gaza in order to meet certain delivery conditions, Kanem said Tuesday at the U. N. headquarters in New York.
U. S. says it has helped another 400 people leave Gaza (6:56 p. m. )
The U. S. has helped “more than 400 U. S. citizens, lawful permanent citizens, and other eligible Americans leave Gaza,” State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said, offering additional details.
Global Affairs Canada said the first organization of about 20 to 25 Canadians crossed the Rafah border into Egypt and expects up to 80 eligible citizens, permanent citizens and their family members to leave Gaza on Tuesday.
Earlier in the day, the U. N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said the Rafah border crossing reopened on Monday, when some foreigners and dual nationals, such as “a handful of wounded people,” were allowed to enter Egypt from Gaza.
Israel sells a record $1 billion in retail bonds since the war began (17:18)
Israel Bonds, a separate company registered in the U. S. affiliated with the Department of Finance, has sold more than $1 billion in retail bonds since Oct. 7. This is a record for a monthly generation and nearly doubled the organization’s emissions for the year. . year to date.
There has been “the biggest increase in investment ever,” Dani Naveh, head of Israel Bonds, told Bloomberg.
IDF Identifies Launches from Lebanon (4:57 p. m. )
The Israeli military said it was aware of 20 launches from Lebanon into Israel and their origin from the bombings. He did not elaborate in a brief text.
Earlier in the day, the army fired on an organization in Lebanon that sought to launch missiles and said it had attacked a Hezbollah position.
U. S. diplomat in Beirut calls for calm on Israel-Lebanon border (3:40 p. m. )
Hochstein said preventing hostilities on the border “should be the most sensible precedent for both Lebanon and Israel” and said the U. S. “needs to see the confrontation in Gaza escalate and spill over into Lebanon. “
His comments came after his meeting in Beirut with Lebanese House of Representatives Speaker Nabih Berri, the Iranian-backed Hezbollah’s best friend in the country. Hezbollah, a militant organization in Lebanon, has been involved in cross-border attacks. with Israel since the beginning of the conflict.
Hochstein, special presidential coordinator for infrastructure and energy security, is credited with effectively brokering a landmark agreement that demarcated the disputed maritime border between Lebanon and Israel last year.
Israel announces rapprochement with Gaza City, focused on tunnels (2:15 p. m. )
The Israel Defense Forces will destroy Hamas tunnels as troops close in on Gaza City, spokesman Lt. Col. Richard Hecht told a news conference with reporters.
While it appears that the airstrikes “affect their ability to retaliate to some extent,” underpasses are still a threat, Hecht said. “We know they come out of the tunnels and they come out of the tunnels. “
The army last advanced on Gaza City on Monday. Also on Monday, troops located several tunnels inside an apartment in a civilian community and destroyed them, the army said in a text message.
Israeli reserves fall to $7. 3 billion in October (1:38 p. m. )
Israel’s foreign exchange reserves fell more than $7 billion in October to $191. 2 billion as the central bank sought the shekel after the war began.
At the start of the conflict, the Bank of Israel pledged to sell up to $30 billion of its roughly $200 billion in foreign exchange reserves (and offer up to another $15 billion through swaps) to prop up the shekel.
Netanyahu stirs up debates on Gaza’s long-term (12:50 p. m. )
Netanyahu sparked a debate about a long-term security regime in Gaza with his comments on ABC.
“Israel, for an indefinite time, will assume the general duty of security because we have noticed what happens when we don’t,” Netanyahu said, according to excerpts from an interview broadcast Monday night. “Security duty, we are facing an eruption of Hamas terror on a scale we might have imagined. “
Asked about the minister’s statement, his foreign policy adviser, Ophir Falk, said: “A number of features for the post-Hamas era are being discussed. “
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