Live Updates: Over 8,000 People Evacuated From Gaza Via Rafah Crossing - Egypt's Information Service

On October 9, a day after Hamas' attack on Israel, the European Commission said it would revise its assistance to Palestine to prevent the armed group from getting funding from the EU’s programs. On the same day, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell said that the EU would not halt its assistance to the Palestinian people as it might damage the EU’s interests in the Middle East.

"We don’t know their status," the MSF said.

The hospital’s patients and doctors will be transported to medical facilities in southern Gaza, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday. However, those hospitals are already overburdened, WHO said, adding that the influx of new patients will place even greater strain on them.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that no agreement on the release of hostages had been reached at the moment.

"Nikolai Patrushev and Falih Alfayyadh discussed some issues of Russian-Iraqi cooperation in the field of security, as well as the situation in the Middle East," the council said in a statement.

Earlier in the day, the South African government said that President Cyril Ramaphosa, the bloc's 2023 chair, would convene a BRICS Extraordinary Joint Meeting on the Middle East Situation in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. The leaders of the bloc's countries, new member countries and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will participate in the meeting, the government said, adding that participants were expected to adopt a joint statement on the situation in the Gaza Strip at the end of the meeting.

Hochstein last year brokered a maritime boundary agreement between Israel and Lebanon, paving the way for gas exploration in the area.

Last week, UN Children's Fund Executive Director Catherine Russell said that one million children still remained in the Gaza Strip, and many of them were believed to be missing or buried under the rubble of collapsed buildings.

A senior Israeli source and a high-ranked member of Hamas told the The Jerusalem Post there was nothing of that kind reached between the sides.

The discussion of the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict comes as a delegation of top diplomats from the Palestinian Authority, Indonesia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan meet in Beijing to discuss ways to put an end to it.

The Rafah crossing is the only route in and out of Gaza for the civilian population there, as well as the main artery for humanitarian aid into the Palestinian enclave.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) entered Gaza's largest hospital complex, Shifa, last Wednesday, after air strikes and a ground operation against Hamas. According to IDF, a Hamas tunnel was found under the complex.

Israel shelled the school near the Al Bureij camp in the central part of the Gaza Strip, where displaced persons from the northern part of the enclave are sheltering, the news agency reported, adding that there were about 2,000 people in the school at the moment of the strike.

In October, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian urged the executive committee of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to impose political and economic sanctions, including an oil embargo, on Israel and sever diplomatic ties with the country. He also suggested that the Israeli government face an international tribunal over its "war crimes."

Last week, UNRWA said that 160,000 liters of fuel is required daily to carry out humanitarian works in Gaza.

She added that Beijing is concerned that children in the Gaza Strip were repeatedly attacked. China is calling on both sides to abide by international humanitarian law, cease fire immediately and protect children’s lives and rights, Mao said.

He added, " The resistance countries in the region are not subject to Iran's orders and represent their countries, and Washington, instead of accusing Iran, should see why it has become alienated by the peoples of the region."