Israel-Hamas war LIVE: Fourth aid convoy enters Gaza – as UN warns its relief operations will have to end tonight

Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner of the IDF said that his forces have ‘no patience for nonsense’ on northern border with Lebanon as fighting with Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah continues.

‘Hezbollah has been aggravating the situation on the northern front with Lebanon, and there is a concern the northern front in itself from Syria, all the way across to Lebanon, will increase its hostility towards Israel,’ he told Sky News.

Discussing strikes on Syria overnight, he also said that Israel sees the border with Lebanon and Syria as ‘one large front’.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will no longer visit Israel as was previously planned and has criticised the country’s war on Hamas.

In a speech to parliament he said:

• Hamas is not a terrorist organisation but a liberation group waging a battle to protect its land.
• He criticised western support saying: ‘tears shed for Israel is manifestation of fraud’.

• A fourth convoy of 20 aid trucks has passed into Gaza from Egypt early this morning, an aid official said.
• The Palestinian Red Crescent and the UNRWA received the aid supply, Khaled Zayed, the head of the Egyptian Red Crescent in North Sinai said.

Pictured: Members of the Palestine Red Crescent Society distribute aid to people in the southern Gazan city of Khan Younis

An Israeli ground operation into Gaza would turn the fighting there into a massacre, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has said.

In a news conference with his Qatari counterpart in Doha, Fidan said those supporting Israel’s actions under the pretence of solidarity are ‘accomplices to its crimes’.

• The UN’s children’s agency has said it is deeply concerned about the high child casualty rate in Gaza.
• Over the course of the conflict, 2,360 children have reportedly been killed and 5,364 injured, UNICEF said last night.

Adele Khodr, regional director for the Middle East and North Africa said:

The situation in the Gaza Strip is a growing stain on our collective conscience. The rate of death and injuries of children is simply staggering.

Even more frightening is the fact that unless tensions are eased, and unless humanitarian aid is allowed, the daily death toll will continue to rise.

The head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah met leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad to discuss what their alliance must do to ‘achieve a real victory for the resistance’, the group said.

Navine Abu Owdah’s apartment in Khan Younis was hit by an airstrike yesterday, badly injuring the pregnant 30-year-old.

Owdah was quickly rushed to the nearby hospital of al-Amal, where thankfully doctors managed to deliver a healthy baby girl.

‘A cesarean section was performed in the emergency department, and her baby girl, who is in good condition, was delivered,’ Dr. Salim Saqer said.

The mother, who suffered multiple fractures and has abdominal bleeding, remains under observation and is receiving treatment.

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations said his country would deny visas to officials after secretary-general Antonio Guterres said ‘the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum’.

‘Due to his remarks we will refuse to issue visas to UN representatives,’ Gilad Erdan told Army Radio this morning.

‘We have already refused a visa for under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs Martin Griffiths,’ Erdan said, adding: ‘The time has come to teach them a lesson.’

• More than 100 Palestinians have been killed across the occupied West Bank since war erupted between Israel and Hamas on October 7, the health ministry said.
• Many of the deaths came in raids by Israeli troops, with Ramallah authorities saying the Palestinian were killed by Israeli ‘bullets and missiles’.
• There has also been a rise in violence between Palestinians and Israeli settlers which has seen civilians as well as fighters killed on both sides.

• Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the war on Hamas is costing around 1 billion shekels a day (over £200million or $245million).
• He said the national budget is ‘no longer relevant’ and would be amended as the country is on a war-footing.
• He appeared unfazed by S&P Global’s downgrade of Israel’s outlook to ‘negative’ from ‘stable’.

Home Office minister Robert Jenrick said the government does not agree with the assessment of UN chief Antonio Guterres that ‘clear violations of international humanitarian law’ had been committed in Gaza.

If he is referring to what has happened over the course of the last two weeks, we don’t believe Israel has broken international law. There is a clear right in international law for a nation to defend itself, and that is what Israel is doing.

We do want to see Israel, wherever practical – and it is immensely difficult to do – to surgically degrade and eradicate Hamas. That is what they are trying to do and we obviously hope they succeed because the world will be a better place… it will be a blessing if we can rid the world of Hamas.

Dr Mads Gilbert from the Norwegian Aid Committee is waiting to enter Gaza from Egypt with aid.

He spoke to the BBC about the ‘horrific scene’ his colleagues have witnessed in the bombarded enclave:

• ‘Imagine a hospital with 5,000 to 15,000 civilian refugees, overcrowded with patients needing surgical care, and then the lights are going out’ he said.
• He said the stress of the bombing is triggering premature labour in pregnant women.
• Poor sanitation and and lack of clean water and food means disease outbreaks are likely.
• Key equipment is stalling and doctors are having to work through their own grief and fear as they cope with the bombing.
• He added: ‘It makes Dante’s Inferno look like a tea party.’

Here is what you need to know as the Israel-Palestine conflict enters its 19th day:

• Israel has launched an intensive bombardment of southern Gaza overnight, with Hamas claiming that at least 80 people have been killed
• Eight Syrian military personnel have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on the country, according to Syrian state media
• The UN agency which looks after Palestinians has said they will need to end operations tonight amid fuel shortages
• UK minister Robert Jenrick has said Britain is ‘not asking for a ceasefire’ in the Middle East
• US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Blinken has urged members of the UN Security Council to consider ‘humanitarian pauses’ in the conflict
• Remarks made by the UN chief Antonio Guterres, that the October 7 attacks by Hamas ‘did not happen in a vacuum’, are continuing to draw anger from Israel