Portal:Current events/2023 November 7

November 7, 2023 (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

2023 Israel–Hamas war
- War crimes in the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
  - At least eight people are killed and dozens wounded in Israeli attacks on the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza City, which includes the Al-Nasser Children's Hospital, suffering direct and indirect hits from Israeli missiles. (Al Jazeera)
  - At least two Palestinians are killed and several others injured in separate Israeli air raids that hit the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Hanoun and Al-Quds Hospital in the Tal al-Hawa district of Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
  - UN monitors say only about 5000 Palestinians moved from north to southern Gaza on Monday, saying that "entire families, including children, elderly people and persons with disabilities" could only make the journey by foot as roads had been heavily damaged. (Al Jazeera)
  - At least eight people are killed after an Israeli air raid hits a house in southern Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
- At least five people, including a woman, are injured following a Israeli raid in the West Bank's Tulkarem district. (Al Jazeera)
- Israel appoints former ambassador Alon Roth-Snir to coordinate efforts for the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. (Jerusalem Post)
Chiapas conflict
- The Zapatista Army of National Liberation announces they are dissolving the autonomous municipalities they established after 1994. (PBS)

Business and economy

2023 Israel–Hamas war
- Job losses in Gaza and the West Bank are costing Palestinians $16m a day, according to the UN’s labour agency, with 182,000 jobs lost in Gaza, equivalent to 61 percent of total employment. A further 208,000 jobs were lost in the West Bank, equivalent to 24 percent of total employment. (Al Jazeera)
2021–2023 inflation surge
- Bangladesh increases the minimum wage for garment workers by nearly 56% to ৳12,500 (US$113) per month, a move trade unions find insufficient against their demand for a ৳23,000 ($208) threshold amid rising costs of living and inflation. (AFP via NDTV)

International relations

International reactions to the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
- Malaysia said it would not recognise unilateral sanctions, responding to a proposed US law to impose sanctions on supporters of Hamas and other Palestinian groups. (Bloomberg)
- UN representatives of China and the United Arab Emirates deliver a joint statement after a UN Security Council meeting, calling for an humanitarian ceasefire, adding that "wars have laws and they must be upheld” as "civilians in Gaza cannot even find safety in UN facilities, hospitals and refugee camps".(Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

2023 Israel–Hamas war protests
- Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators rally at the Port of Tacoma, in Washington state, to block a military supply vessel which will carry weapons from the United States to Israel. (Al Jazeera)