LIVE UPDATES: UN Deputy Chief Says Appalled by Israel's Operation in Shifa Hospital in Gaza

Egypt is ready to receive any number of Palestinian victims from the Gaza Strip, Egyptian Minister of Health and Population Khaled Abdel Ghaffar said Wednesday.

The UN Security Council (UNSC) has approved a resolution on Gaza, Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations Zhang Jun, who presides over the UNSC during the month of November, said on Wednesday.

The resolution calls for "urgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the Gaza Strip for a sufficient number of days to enable, consistent with international humanitarian law, the full, rapid, safe and unhindered humanitarian access for United Nations humanitarian agencies."

In addition, the resolution calls for the unconditional release of hostages by the Palestinian group Hamas, as well as other groups. It further demands all parties comply with their obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law, including with regard to protecting civilians, especially children.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stated on Wednesday that it is continuing its operation against the Palestinian movement Hamas in the Al Shifa Hospital.

The Israeli military added that it found weapons, equipment and a command center of Hamas on the territory of the hospital.

Hospitals cannot be used as battlegrounds under the terms of international law as well as based on humanity, United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Wednesday.

In fact, hospitals cannot be used in any combat situation, Dujarric stressed.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Israeli Defense Forces said that they were carrying out a precise and targeted military operation against the Palestinian movement Hamas in the Al-Shifa hospital. The hospital is the largest medical facility in the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli military has urged on Wednesday the residents of several areas in the southern Gaza Strip to immediately leave their homes and find shelter.

The Israeli military addressed the residents of the eastern part of the city of Khan Yunis by dropping leaflets from planes.

The operations of the Israeli military will move to the south of the Gaza Strip after the destruction of the Palestinian movement Hamas in the north of the enclave, the Sky News Arabia broadcaster reported on Wednesday, citing a representative of the head of the Israeli Cabinet.

The United States did not green light Israel's military operations in and around the Al Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby stated on Wednesday.

Kirby pointed out that Washington does not expect Israel to advise or inform the United States before conducting tactical military operations.

The spokesman also emphasized that US officials are in touch with their Israeli counterparts and talk to them daily.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Israeli Defense Forces said that they were carrying out a "precise and targeted" operation against the Palestinian movement Hamas in the Al Shifa hospital, which is the largest medical facility in the Gaza Strip.

An Israeli Skylark drone has been shot down and captured in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement stated on Wednesday.

The UN Security Council will vote today on a Malta-drafted resolution focusing on the protection of children in Gaza, Malta's Ambassador to the United Nations Vanessa Frazier stated on Wednesday.

Israel will destroy all members of the Hamas movement and bring back hostages that were captured during the October 7 attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated on Wednesday.

Palestinian National Authority Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki welcomes Belize's decision to sever diplomatic relations and suspend consular activities with Israel, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry stated on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, the government of Belize said that it was severing diplomatic relations with Israel over its refusal to implement a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

The first tanker truck with fuel supplies has crossed the Rafah checkpoint from Egypt into the Gaza Strip, Egyptian media reported on Wednesday.

Earlier in the day, the media said that Israel had approved the delivery of 24,000 liters of fuel for trucks involved in UN operations in the Gaza Strip.

It is the first time that fuel trucks have made it into the Gaza Strip since the attack by Palestinian group Hamas against Israel on October 7, the Extra News broadcaster stressed.

The share of Americans who believe the US should back Israel in its conflict with Gaza declined by nine percentage points within a month, with a majority also backing a ceasefire, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Wednesday.

Asked about their view of the US role in the crisis, 32% of respondents said "the US should support Israel" – a drop from 41% measured in a poll conducted October 12-13. The latest poll was conducted on November 13-14.

The percentage of Americans who believe "the US should be a neutral mediator" also rose from 27% to 39% in the latest poll. At the same time, only 4% of Americans said the US should support Palestinians – similar to last month’s result.

The White House, while getting more and more frustrated by Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip and urging it to avoid civilian casualties, covertly ramps up its military aid to the country, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing official sources.

The weapons reportedly requested by Israel are listed in a document labeled "Israel Senior Leader," dated late October, which is circulating in the Pentagon, the news agency said. They include more Hellfire laser-guided missiles for Apache helicopters, 57,000 155 mm shells, 5,000 PVS-14 night vision devices, 75 light tactical vehicles, 20,000 M4A1 rifles and 3,000 M141 hand-held bunker-buster munitions, among other items, the news agency reported.

The requested weapons received what Bloomberg called a quiet approval from the Pentagon to be shipped to Israel, despite a growing frustration in the White House with the Israeli operation's heavy civilian death toll in the Gaza Strip.

The United Nations proposes a 10-point plan to rein in the carnage in Gaza amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths said on Wednesday.

He urged all parties to implement a plan that consists of 10 points, including a humanitarian ceasefire; facilitating a continuous flow of aid convoys; opening additional crossing points for aid and commercial trucks to enter, including Kerem Shalom; improving a humanitarian notification mechanism to help spare civilians and civilian infrastructure from hostilities; and funding the humanitarian response, now amounting to $1.2 billion.

The Jordanian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday accused Israel of violating international humanitarian law by conducting an operation in the Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip against Palestinian movement Hamas.

The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths said on Wednesday that he was "appalled" by reports of Israel's military raids in the Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip, saying that hospitals "are not battlegrounds."

Israeli forces have allegedly killed more than 30 people trying to leave the Shifa hospital, the Hamas-controlled government of the Gaza Strip said on Wednesday.