By Kathleen Magramo, Adam Renton, Christian Edwards, Ed Upright, Aditi Sangal, Dakin Andone, Elise Hammond, Maureen Chowdhury, Christina Maxouris, Kaanita Iyer and Tori B. Powell, CNN
From CNN’s Richard Allen Greene in Jerusalem
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office Thursday released “horrifying photos of babies murdered and burned by the Hamas monsters.”
“Hamas is inhuman. Hamas is ISIS,” a social media post from Netanyahu’s office said.
The three photos showed two babies whose bodies had been burned beyond recognition and a third blood-stained infant’s body.
Netanyahu’s post said the pictures were some of the photos that Netanyahu showed US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on his visit to Jerusalem on Thursday.
From CNN's Sharon Braithwaite in London
Gaza likely only has enough fuel for a few more hours and it is needed to power generators for hospitals, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned on Thursday.
"What’s certain, is that if we can’t get supplies in and if we can’t distribute what we have inside Gaza, I wanted to say we are going toward a catastrophe, but we are already in the catastrophe, but here, we are going well beyond that and the humanitarian situation will become unmanageable," said Fabrizio Carboni, the ICRC regional director for the Middle East.
He told reporters during a briefing in Geneva that the team's capacity to move safely is greatly challenged in the current conditions.
"When it comes to our supplies, we still have supply in Gaza, the problem is that we can’t move. We have fuel, we have chlorine for essential water infrastructure, we still have medical supplies, the challenge we face is our capacity to move safely in Gaza. You probably follow what happened to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society ambulance who was hit and three of our colleagues, three of the volunteers of the PRCS (Palestine Red Crescent Society) were killed. So, very dire situation within Gaza," Carboni said.
As the situation unfolds, the ICRC is preparing "for the worst," he said.
“What we have seen since Saturday is quite awful. You know, even in humanitarian standards, the level of violence, the disrespect for human dignity, basic principle of humanity is quite shocking and it continues," he added.
From CNN’s Sugam Pokharel, Claudia Rebaza, Tanushree Pandey and Martin Goillandeau
Officials around the world are working to evacuate their citizens from Israel following the attacks by Hamas, organizing repatriation flights in an effort to get them home as the crisis unfolds.
India: A charter flight scheduled to land in Tel Aviv on Thursday evening will collect approximately 230 Indian nationals, Arindam Bagchi, a Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson, said in a news conference Thursday. The flight will "likely" return to India Friday morning.
Nepal: Nepal's foreign ministry has so far evacuated 253 Nepali students who were in Israel, saying on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that a flight carrying the students took off from Tel Aviv on Thursday.
Ten Nepali agriculture students were killed when Hamas attacked a kibbutz in southern Israel, Nepal's Ambassador to Israel Kanta Rizal has told CNN. Three students were injured in the attack and are recovering in a hospital, while one student remains missing, per the ambassador.
Around 200 of the approximately 4,500 Nepali nationals working as caregivers for the elderly in Israel have so far registered with their government to be evacuated, Rizal told CNN.
Colombia: A plane carrying 110 Colombian nationals has left Tel Aviv, the country's foreign ministry said Thursday, adding the passengers would change planes in Lisbon before arriving in Colombia. The government will continue to coordinate evacuation efforts, the ministry said in a statement.
From CNN's Clare Sebastian and Oren Liebermann
The Israeli airline El Al will fly on the Sabbath for the first time since 1982 this Saturday, when it plans to operate two free flights for reservists, medical teams and members of security forces.
El Al said in a statement it had received the necessary religious authorization to operate the flights from New York and Bangkok, saying they are being paid for by El Al and "American financial bodies."
From CNN's Sharon Braithwaite in London
The humanitarian situation in Gaza is "dire," with food and water in limited supply and "quickly running out," the deputy head of emergencies of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) Brian Lander said Thursday.
The UN agency is on the ground and is "responding and we're providing food to thousands of people that have sought shelter in schools and elsewhere across the territory. But we're going to run out very soon," Lander warned.
"We don't have access to the Gaza Strip that's been closed down. We're looking to ensure that we can have means to deliver to these people as the crisis evolves," Lander said.
Lander said that WFP is "very worried" about how the situation will evolve, particularly if the humanitarian situation is not addressed.
"The people that are seeking shelter and striving to survive in this environment are only going to get worse and worse situations as time goes on. And I think our concern is that unless we're able to access those communities, the people that are in need, the civilian population, there's going to be an extreme situation for them, both in terms of having the food to survive, the water to survive and the other services even shelter over their heads," he added.
Lander said WFP is calling on the parties "to abide by international humanitarian law to allow for those supplies to be brought to the communities that are in need."
From CNN’s Amy Cassidy in London
Two London-based Israeli citizens say they have not received any information from British or Israeli governments about the condition or whereabouts of their parents who are being held hostage by Hamas.
The mother of 53-year-old Noam Sagi and the parents of 52-year-old Sharone Lifschitz were kidnapped from the Nir Or kibbutz on Saturday, they said.
“I should have been on my way to Heathrow to pick up my mom who's going to celebrate the 75th birthday today with her family here in London,” Sagi said.
He said he last communicated with his mother at about 9:20 a.m. UK time on Saturday, when she went into the safe room inside her house where she lived alone after his father died just a year ago.
“Can someone remind me what my mom’s crime was? For being Jewish and living in her own home?” Sagi asked.
Lifschitz said her parents, both peace activists aged 85 and 83, are on vital medication.
Her mother was taken from her bed, disconnected from her oxygen machine and loaded onto a vehicle, she said.
Sagi and Lifschitz grew up together in the Nir Oz kibbutz, one of Israel’s several kibbutzim or small farming enclaves, that bore the brunt of Hamas’ ground assault. About 125,000 people live across approximately 250 kibbutzim in Israel, according to the Jewish Agency for Israel. Sagi’s mother was Lifschitz’s Arabic teacher.
From CNN's Eve Brennan and Svitlana Vlasova
The number of Ukrainian nationals killed in Israel following Hamas’ attacks over the weekend has risen to seven, Oleg Nikolenko, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry, said in a statement on Facebook Thursday.
All the victims have been identified and their relatives have been notified, Nikolenko added. Steps are being taken to repatriate the bodies.
In addition, nine Ukrainian nationals have sustained injuries “of varying severity,” while another nine are still missing, Nikolenko said, adding the Ukrainian embassy is cooperating with the Israeli security services to search for those missing.
Evacuation efforts: More than 1,000 Ukrainian citizens have requested assistance in leaving Israel due to flight cancellations, Nikolenko said. Officials are preparing for the first evacuation flight on Saturday, with an aim to organizing additional flights.
"Details will be sent to citizens who have provided their details to the Ukrainian Embassy in Tel Aviv,” Nikolenko said.
About 200 Ukrainians have expressed a desire to be evacuated from Gaza, according to Nikolenko.
“However, due to the lack of security, it is currently impossible to leave. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ukrainian embassies in Israel, Egypt and Jordan, as well as other Ukrainian agencies involved, are making active efforts to get our people out as soon as possible,” he added.
From CNN’s Abeer Salman
At least 1,417 Palestinians, including 447 children and 248 women, have been killed since Israel started strikes on Gaza following the deadly Hamas attack last Saturday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
An additional 6,268 people have been injured, the Palestinian Health Ministry added.
From CNN staff
Gaza’s humanitarian crisis deepened Thursday as Israeli jets continued to pound the densely populated enclave in response to Hamas’ brutal terror attacks, in the sixth day of the conflict.
At least 1,354 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Saturday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Israel has reported at least 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’ attacks over the weekend. Hamas is also holding as many as 150 people hostage in Gaza, according to Israeli authorities.
Israel’s energy minister Israel Katz said Gaza will not be provided with any electricity, water or fuel until the hostages are returned home.
“No electrical switch will be turned on, no water hydrant will be opened, and no fuel truck will enter until the Israeli abductees are returned home. Humanitarian for humanitarian. And no one will preach us morals,” Katz said Thursday.
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