NSC Spokesperson John Kirby confirms the USS Dwight D Eisenhower carrier strike group will be headed to the Mediterranean but says it will not join the USS Gerald R. Ford strike group as a second strike group, but will be available in the area if needed.

The Israeli army attacked an apartment in Al-Ashqar building west of Al-Shifa tower in Gaza.

Airstrikes continue in Gaza.

Member of Hamas's political wing Ali Barakah:

"If a ground invasion takes place in Gaza, the Israeli army will understand how truly we are not alone in this war."

Preliminary reports indicate senior Islamic Jihad member Mousa Naseer was killed in an airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip tonight, after visiting his house leaving the place he was hiding at.

📝 The UN just has reported that 11 UN staffers have been killed in Gaza, 18 UN buildings have sustained damage, their schools are at over capacity with the displaced. They are hosting a couple hundred thousand Gazan refugees.

🌹 As of tonight, 326 Palestinian children have been killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.

On Oct 9, Israeli warplanes targeted, without prior warning, a building west of Beit Lahia, killing at least 14 Palestinians, including at least 6 children

An Israeli airstrike targeted without prior warning a residential building in Jabalia refugee camp around 9 a.m. on 10 October killed 4 children.

An Israeli airstrike on Jabalia refugee camp killed 7 Palestinian children on 10 October.

Since 2000, Israeli forces and settlers have killed more than 2,400 Palestinian children as of October 11, 2023, according to documentation collected by DCIP.

Israeli PM Netanyahu in a speech tonight: "We are now on the offensive. Every Hamas terrorist will die.

To the IDF, the whole country is with you... Am Yisrael Chai! We will win!"

Israeli DM Yoav Gallant: "We have now gone on the offensive. We will destroy the ISIS Hamas. We shall win!"

Defence Minister Gallant in press conference: “We will wipe Hamas off the face of the earth."

Former DM Gantz: Hamas “an enemy that needs to be exterminated by all means”

The Israeli cabinet convenes again after the top three officials in it finish their conference.

The government might approve the land invasion of Gaza tonight.

‏إِذْ جَآءُوكُمْ مِّن فَوْقِكُمْ وَمِنْ أَسْفَلَ مِنكُمْ وَإِذْ زَاغَتِ الاَْبْصَارُ وَبَلَغَتِ الْقُلُوبُ الْحَنَاجِرَ وَتَظُنُّونَ بِاللَّهِ الظُّنُونَاْ* هُنَالِكَ ابْتُلِيَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَزُلْزِلُواْ زِلْزَالاً شَدِيداً

ٱلَّذِينَ قَالَ لَهُمُ ٱلنَّاسُ إِنَّ ٱلنَّاسَ قَدْ جَمَعُواْ لَكُمْ فَٱخْشَوْهُمْ فَزَادَهُمْ إِيمَٰنًا وَقَالُواْ حَسْبُنَا ٱللَّهُ وَنِعْمَ ٱلْوَكِيلُ

🚨 IDF says it is carrying out a new wave of airstrikes against "many" Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip.

"In memory of all those who fell in Be'eri" is seen written on a JDAM before being loaded onto an Israeli Air Force fighter jet.

🚨 Hamas released one Israeli woman and her two children.

This is announced as the death toll in Gaza reached more than 1,100.

Earlier today, Turkey confirmed it is undertaking negotiations with Hamas over hostages.

Israeli media hints this happened on the first day of the war.

(Update: photo)

Photo of when Hamas released an Israeli mother and her kids back to Israel.

This was done during the first day, as she was kidnapped by locals in Gaza, not the group.

PIJ's Military Spox issues a message updating on the current situation, stating that Saraya Al-Quds has prepared for this battle inside and outside Palestine.

He added that what was witnessed through the Lebanese border raid, was only a small example of their will and ability.

The Israeli army released footage of some of its airstrikes on various buildings and infrastructure in Gaza throughout the past 24 hours.

During that time frame, several hundred Palestinians were killed.