Israel Palestine news LIVE: Israel’s military orders more than 1million Northern Gaza citizens to evacuate as army is accused of using white phosphorus by rights group

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has today accused Israel of using white phosphorus munitions in its military operations in Gaza and Lebanon, saying the use of such weapons puts civilians at risk of serious and long-term injury

Israel’s military said it was ‘currently not aware of the use of weapons containing white phosphorous in Gaza’ when asked for comment on the allegations by Reuters news agency
Irseal did not provide comment on the rights watchdog’s allegations of their use in Lebanon
HRW said it verified videos taken in Lebanon on October 10 and Gaza on October 11 showing ‘multiple airbursts of artillery-fired white phosphorus over the Gaza City port and two rural locations along the Israel-Lebanon border’
It provided links to two videos posted on social media that it said show ‘155mm white phosphorus artillery projectiles being used, apparently as smokescreens, marking, or signalling’. Both show scenes near the Israel-Lebanon border, it said
The group did not provide links to videos showing their alleged use in Gaza

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Here’s what you need to know today:

Israel’s military hs ordered more than one million civilians living in Gaza City to evacuate Friday ahead of a feared Israel ground offensive
The directive came on the heels of what the United Nations said was a warning they received from Israel to evacuate 1.1 million people living in northern Gaza within 24 hours
Suffering in Gaza has been rising dramatically with Palestinians desperate for food, fuel and medicine and the territory’s only power plant shut down for lack of fuel as Israel’s blockade of the enclave continues
The morgue at Gaza’s biggest hospital overflowed as bodies came in faster than relatives could claim them
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was set to visit on Friday, a day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The war has claimed at least 2,800 lives on both sides since Hamas launched an incursion on Oct. 7
Last night, Israel released harrowing images of tiny babies who had been slaughtered by Hamas during Saturday’s attack