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BBC OS: 2023/10/24 16:06 GMT: Israel-Hamas war: Call for immediate ceasefire

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Hamas-run health ministry says Israeli strikes killed 700 Gazans in 24 hours

2023/10/24 16:06 GMT

2023/10/24 16:06 GMT: Israel-Hamas war: Call for immediate ceasefire

Israel-Hamas war: Call for immediate ceasefire

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The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for a humanitarian ceasefire

The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for a humanitarian ceasefire.

More than 700 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the Hamas-run health ministry says. Israel's military said it had struck 400 "terror targets" and killed several Hamas commanders over the same period. It also declared that it would not reduce its attacks despite Hamas's release of another two hostages.

The main UN agency in Gaza has warned that it will stop work on Wednesday night if it does not receive urgent deliveries of fuel. We hear what's been said at a meeting of the UN Security Council in New York and speak to our chief international correspondent in Jerusalem about the two hostages who were released by Hamas on Monday night. 

The father of a 21-year-old Tanzanian, who has been missing since Hamas militants attacked the kibbutz he was living on in Israel, has told the BBC of his anguish, naming his son publicly for the first time.

500 miners in South Africa remain underground after a shift that was due to end on Sunday night, amid a union dispute.

Presenter: James Reynolds.

(Photo: Palestinians search among the rubble of a destroyed house following an airstrike in Gaza, 24 October 2023. Credit: Mohammed Saber/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

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