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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has strongly condemned the killing of a Filipino journalist and ordered the police to conduct an investigation to bring the perpetrators to justice.

“I want the war to end and to go back to Gaza,” said Mohammed Abu Seef, a wide-eyed, 11-year-old boy, holding back his tears. “Please stop this. We are losing our loved ones.”

As United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken was meeting with Israeli leaders to urge “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza, Israel intensified its bombing of the Palestinian territory, hitting hospitals, ambulances and civilians fleeing to safety.

Village after village is under attack, with communities forcibly displaced. But some are holding on, refusing to move.

A barrage of Israeli air strikes on a densely populated refugee camp near Gaza City has drawn condemnation from governments and NGOs across the globe.

On the morning of October 8, one day after Hamas’s attack, Israeli special forces units raided the cells of Gilboa prison and violently beat Palestinian prisoners held there. “The revenge attack began that morning,” Salah Fateen Salah, a former prisoner who was released from Gilboa on October 24 after five years in prison, told Al Jazeera.

"I was encouraged in the last days by what seemed to be a growing consensus in the international community, including the countries supporting Israel, for the need of at least a humanitarian pause in the fighting to facilitate the release of hostages in Gaza, the evacuation of third-country nationals and the necessary massive scale-up of the delivery of humanitarian aid to the people in Gaza," Guterres said in a statement, CNN reported.

Syrian sources announced early Sunday morning that the Zionist regime has targeted the outskirts of Syria's Quneitra province with artillery.

Israeli air strikes in Gaza resulted in the deaths of 7,000 Palestinians and the destruction of over 40 percent of the enclave's residents, resulting in the displacement of 1.4 million people.

The US Justice Department has launched a federal hate crime investigation into the tragic murder of 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy, Wadea Al-Fayoume, who was brutally stabbed to death in Illinois this weekend, Anadolu Agency reports.