Netanyahu rejects ceasefire calls, rules out role for PA in post-war Gaza

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• Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Saturday rejected mounting international calls for a ceasefire and ruled out a role for the Palestinian Authority (PA) in post-war Gaza. 
• Arab and Muslim leaders rejected Israel’s “self-defence” claims in Gaza and called for an immediate ceasefire at an emergency joint Islamic-Arab summit on the Gaza crisis in Riyadh.
• Doctors Without Borders said it was “extremely concerned” about patients and medical staff at Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, which lost electricity on Saturday, endangering the lives of patients, according to the hospital director.
• Staff in Gaza City’s major hospitals reported heavy fighting near hospital premises on Saturday. Israel’s army said reports of troops firing on Al-Shifa Hospital were “false”.
• Around 300,000 people attended a pro-Palestinian solidarity rally in London, which passed peacefully despite clashes between right-wing counter-protesters and police before the rally.
• Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators took to the streets in Paris, Marseille and other French cities.
• The Israeli military on Saturday said it will help evacuate babies from the Al-Shifa Hospital on Sunday after hospital staff requested help.
• Nearly 200,000 people fled from northern Gaza to the enclave’s southern districts in the past three days, the Israeli army said Saturday.
• More than 11,000 people, including more than 4,500 children, have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war, according to the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza. The official death toll of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel is 1,200.

Key developments from Friday, November 10:

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that 20 hospitals in the Gaza Strip are now out of action, and the largest hospital in the Palestinian territory was that day coming under bombardment.

Israel has agreed to humanitarian "pauses" in its war on Hamas in Gaza after pressure from the US, President Joe Biden said, welcoming the development as "a step in the right direction".

Health officials in the Hamas-run territory said on Friday that more than 11,078 people, including 4,506 children, have been killed since the start of Israel's military operation. The number of wounded has risen to 27,490, according to the Gaza health ministry.

Israel revised its death toll from Hamas's October 7 attack from 1,400 to "around 1,200" people. Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Lior Haiat said it was "an updated estimate".

More than 100,000 Gaza residents have fled southwards over the last two days as Israeli forces operate "deep in Gaza City", said chief Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari on Friday.

(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP & Reuters)