Israel war on Gaza live: Strike on Gaza school kills eight

British charity Medical Aid for Palestinians has provided the following update summary from Nebal Farsakh, a spokesperson for the Palestine Red Crescent Society:

• Our medical teams in Tubas, Tulkarem, and Jenin are facing obstruction by Israeli forces while trying to perform their humanitarian duties in reaching the injured Palestinians.
• In Far’a refugee camp [near Tubas], our teams were prohibited from operating, so volunteers within the camp’s medical point had to handle cases and provide first aid until ambulances could arrive, where they dealt with four people killed and eight injured Palestinians.
• Israeli forces stormed the medical point in Far’a camp, detained the medical teams and prevented them from any communication tools.
• They continued firing shots inside the medical point and assaulted the director of the Tubas Emergency Centre before leaving.
• In Jenin, the situation is equally bad. Jenin Governmental Hospital is being blocked, where medical teams and ambulances are prevented from entering and/or leaving the hospital making it hard to deliver healthcare services to the injured.
  

  ‘Anxiety and fear’ for residents of West Bank

  Israeli rhetoric about this (West Bank) operation is that it might last for days. There is a lot of anxiety and fear here where the Israeli forces say they are working to crack down on Palestinian fighting groups.

  The feeling here is that there has been a lot of incitement and at the core of it is Israeli media telling the Israeli security establishment that it has failed to thwart certain Palestinian attacks that targeted Israeli settlers.

  What Palestinians want the world to know is that there is a lot of collective punishment, collective pain inflicted on around 80,000 people here in these three locations in the occupied West Bank.

  These places have already been subjected to lots of raids and they tell you that the main goal is to push them out of their land and remind them who has the ultimate power and control, who can make their lives more and more difficult if they even think about resisting Israel’s occupation.

  Israeli soldier’s remains returned from Gaza: Municipality

  The remains of an Israeli soldier killed in Hamas’s October 7 attack that triggered the war in Gaza have been recovered and returned to his family, authorities in his home city say.

  “The mayor and residents of Migdal Haemek share in the heavy grief of the Dahan family, who have recovered the body of their son Shaked, murdered on October 7 while defending the people,” the municipality said on its Instagram account.

  “His body was recovered in Gaza and returned to his family last night,” it said.

  The Israeli army said it could not confirm the report.

  Creating hope for Gaza’s student doctors amid Israeli bombardment

  Amid the loss and destruction, Ezz ad-Din Lulu felt driven to volunteer at al-Shifa Hospital, despite knowing that meant he may be “surrounded or targeted at any moment, especially since [Israel] … said al-Shifa was a target”. His family was supportive despite their own fears.

  On October 10, Ezz was listed on the emergency roster as a doctor, a challenging overnight transition.

  “This was when people needed me the most, but I didn’t realise how hard it would be,” Ezz said. “But pride overwhelmed me, knowing I was able to help.

  “We either didn’t have supplies or we didn’t have enough. In some cases … even if we had the capabilities, there was no treatment for [someone] due to the hopelessness of their cases,” he said.

  Freed Israeli captive returns home: Reports

  The Israeli captive rescued yesterday from Gaza has been released from the hospital and returned home, according to Israeli media reports.

  Fifty-two-year-old Kaid Farhan al-Qadi, who Israel’s military says troops recovered yesterday in a tunnel in southern Gaza, was greeted by cheering family and friends as he arrived by motorcade to his village near the southern Bedouin town of Rahat, said The Times of Israel.

  Upon his arrival, al-Qadi said he feels “100 percent” and urged for the release of the rest of the Israeli captives, according to The Times of Israel.