October 16, 2023 (2023-10-16) (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Islamic terrorism in Europe
- Islamist insurgency in the Sahel
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israel–Hamas war
- Evacuations during the Israel–Hamas war
- Journalists killed in the Israel–Hamas war
- Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis
- 2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
- The World Health Organization announces that there are only 24 hours of water, electricity, and fuel remaining in Gaza. (CBS News)
- Medical Aid for Palestinians says that hospitals in Gaza are currently facing a "catastrophic" shortage of medical supplies with the United Nations also reporting that at least four hospitals in northern Gaza are no longer operational because of Israeli bombings. (Al Jazeera)
- The chief of the UN agency for Palestine, UNRWA, announces it can no longer deliver assistance to the hundreds of thousands of people in need in Gaza. (The Washington Post)
- Sameh Shoukry, Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs, announces that US-backed efforts to re-open the Rafah border crossing have failed, citing Israel's refusal to guarantee the safety of incoming aid convoys and outgoing foreign nationals. (Reuters) (CNN)
- The United Nations reports that more than 400,000 Palestinians are sheltering in UN schools and buildings in the Gaza Strip and that fourteen UNRWA personnel have been killed in Israeli airstrikes. (Al Jazeera)
- Palestinians protest in several cities across the West Bank calling for an end to Israeli attacks on Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
- The UNRWA retracts its statements concerning looting by Hamas affiliates, clarifying that they have confirmed no theft had taken place, after a prior announcement that men claiming to be from Hamas stole fuel and medicine from their offices in Gaza. Subsequently, Israeli journalist Barak Ravid claims to have received additional confirmation from sources within the United Nations that such theft did, in fact, occur. (Jewish Chronicle) (CBS News) (Times of Israel)
- At least six civilians are killed and eight others are injured in airstrikes near Khan Younis and at least seven people, including five emergency workers, are killed in Israeli airstrikes on two civil defense facilities in Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
- At least four people, including three children, are killed as a result of an Israeli airstrike on the UN Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
- Hamas forces launch missiles at the two largest Israeli cities, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, saying that this was in response to Israel's "targeting of civilians". (BBC News)
- Israeli military forces carry out raids in multiple areas in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Nablus, Bethlehem, and Hebron, arresting around 600 people. Most are held without charges under "administrative detention", where the individuals are not told the reasons for their arrest. (Al Jazeera)
- Hamas Shura Council member Osama Mazini, who was in charge of negotiation affairs concerning the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, is killed in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip. (Israel National News)
- A report by a UN-mandated investigative body has found that Israeli forces used "lethal force without justification" when they shot and killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the West Bank last year. (Al Jazeera)
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