UNICEF spokesperson Toby Fricker has said the situation inside hospitals across the Gaza Strip is a tragedy, noting how premature babies inside Al-Shifa Hospital are struggling to stay alive due to the lack of electricity and water.
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November 12, 2023 (Sunday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Heavy fighting is reported in Jabal Awliya, south of Khartoum, as the Rapid Support Forces attempt to capture the Jebel Aulia Dam.
South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor urges the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling on the prosecutor to investigate war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
The UN Development Programme office in Gaza is shelled, with reports of a significant number of deaths and injuries. Office chief Achim Steiner says that "civilians, civilian infrastructure and the inviolability of UN facilities must be always protected".
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong calls on Israel to stop its attacks on hospitals, expressing concern about the number of civilian deaths from Israel's assault on Gaza, saying that "international humanitarian law does require the protection of hospitals, of patients and of medical staff".
Palestinian Minister of Health Mai al-Kaila says that Israeli forces "are not evacuating people from hospitals; instead, they are forcibly evicting the wounded and patients onto the streets, leaving them to face inevitable death".
Thirteen people are killed and many others are injured in an attack on a residential building in eastern Khan Younis.
More than 11,100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since the war began with Israeli forces currently intensifying their raids in the West Bank with the number of raids increasing to about 40 per day in the past week.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society announces that the Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City is no longer operational due to a lack of fuel and a power outage.
The United Nations says that several hospitals in Gaza have been directly hit, and that "hospitals are explicitly entitled to specific protection under international humanitarian law", as Israel intensifies its shelling and ground attacks around hospitals in Gaza City and northern Gaza.
The cardiac ward of the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, is destroyed by Israel's ground offensive and the hospital's intensive care unit is severely damaged by Israeli army bombing. The World Health Organization (WHO) says that there are reports that people who fled the hospital "have been shot at, wounded and even killed" and calls for a humanitarian ceasefire, saying that they are concerned about the safety of workers and patients who remain inside the hospital. The WHO also says that it has lost communication with its contacts inside the hospital.
At least six people are killed and nine others are injured by gunfire between soldiers and pro-government militiamen near Goma, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Thirty-three people are killed as Allied Democratic Forces gunmen carries out a mass execution of civilians at the Virunga National Park in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo.
The United States launches airstrikes on facilities associated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in eastern Syria in response to rocket attacks on its military bases.
Disasters and incidents
An under-construction tunnel collapses in Uttarakhand, India, trapping at least 40 construction workers under the debris.
Five U.S. service members are killed in a helicopter crash in the Eastern Mediterranean during a routine training exercise.
Six people are killed in a fire at a bungalow in Hounslow, West London, United Kingdom. The fire is believed to have started during Diwali celebrations which led to nearby trees catching on fire.
International relations
Médecins Sans Frontières says that Gaza hospitals "will become a morgue if action isn't taken right now" as "electricity in a hospital is a lifeline and we know without it patients die". They also called for the "bloodshed" to end "immediately with a ceasefire or at the bare minimum a medical evacuation of patients".
The Biden administration contacts Israeli officials for clarification over comments Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu made stating that Israel will not agree to give up security control of Gaza, after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken suggested that the Palestinian Authority should take over control of Gaza once the conflict is over.
The defense ministers of Japan, South Korea, and the United States agree to initiate a real-time data sharing mechanism to monitor North Korea's missile tests.
Law and crime
Marches calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza are held in cities around the world.
Politics and elections
Hundreds of thousands march in Spain to protest Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's law granting judicial amnesties in exchange for political support to retain power.
Sports
In association football, Mamelodi Sundowns F.C. wins the inaugural African Football League after they defeat Wydad AC in the final.
In baseball, the Wei Chuan Dragons defeat the Rakuten Monkeys to win the Taiwan Series in seven games, capturing their fifth championship and their first since reforming as a team in 2019.
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