Updates | Day 19th of the latest Israel-Hamas war

Here's what's happening in the latest Israel-Hamas war: TEDDY BEAR DISPLAY HIGHLIGHTS CHILDREN HELD HOSTAGE BY HAMAS Tel Aviv: Nearly three dozen teddy bears with blindfolds were lined up near a fountain in Tel Aviv to draw attention to the plight of Israeli children being held hostage by Hamas militants.

Each of the brown and white stuffed animals featured a picture of one of the roughly 30 children, some as young as nine months old, who were among the 222 people held hostage in Gaza by Hamas fighters following the militant group's attack on Israel on Oct 7.

The bears were dabbed with fake blood and some were tied together in an arresting display that left some passersby almost speechless.

"It's just unbelievable. There's like no words. Because, even with the blood on it you can see, and the blindfolds...it's very symbolic for me of the captivity of innocent children," Hilary Meyerov said. "It's completely heartbreaking." Off-duty Israeli soldiers carrying rifles were among those who stopped to look and snap photos of the installation.

"Bring them back. Bring them back," said Avigail Ben-Yosef. "I'm sending love to all the families, they are waiting for these children, and to all the other hostages." AMNESTY SAYS ISRAEL'S ORDER FOR CIVILIANS TO LEAVE NORTHERN GAZA MAY VIOLATE INTERNATIONAL LAW Cairo: Amnesty International said Wednesday that the Israeli army's order for residents of northern Gaza to leave may violate international humanitarian law.

The Israeli army has been dropping leaflets in Gaza asking Palestinians to flee the northern half of the besieged enclave or risk being identified as accomplices of Hamas.

The falling leaflets come around a week after the army first called on around 1.1 million residents in northern Gaza to leave their homes and head southwards, as it prepares for a ground invasion of the territory.

"The messages in these leaflets cannot be considered an effective warning to civilians, and instead provide further evidence that Israel aims to forcibly displace civilians in northern Gaza," said Donatella Rovera, Amnesty's senior crisis response adviser.

"Declaring a whole city or region a military target flies in the face of international humanitarian law," Rovera added.

SPAIN'S LEADER PRAISES UN SECRETARY-GENERAL'S ROLE Brussels: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, gave his full support to UN Secretary-General António Guterres for his role in the Gaza conflict.

Sánchez told reporters in Brussels on Wednesday that "I want to express the complete support of the Spanish government and I believe most of Spanish society for our general-secretary of the United Nations, António Guterres, who I believe is giving voice to what the majority of the world wants, which is a humanitarian pause, in favour of humanitarian aid and for the end of this human disaster." Sánchez meanwhile repeated his condemnation of the Oct 7 attack by Hamas, which he called the "clear origin" of the conflict.

HAMAS SAYS 11 KILLED AND DOZENS WOUNDED IN ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE IN NORTHERN GAZA Gaza Strip: The Hamas-run Health Ministry said that 11 bodies were pulled from what remains of a house in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, after it was flattened by an Israeli airstrike on Wednesday.

Dozens more were injured. The Associated Press couldn't independently verify the death tolls cited by Hamas, which says it tallies figures from hospital directors.

EXPLOSION ROCKS AREA NEAR DESTROYED GAZA BAKERY Deir al-Balah: Residents picking through the remains of a bakery destroyed in the Moghrabi refugee camp in Deir al-Balah were startled as another deadly explosion rocked the area Wednesday.

Men ran through rubble-strewn streets carrying people wounded in the blast that killed at least one, according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene.

The initial Israeli airstrike on the bakery and neighboring houses killed at least 10 people, the media office of Gaza's Hamas-run government said.

It was the only bakery in the area and had just received flour from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, the government said.

One resident, Asad al-Bairoti, was describing the attack on the bakery by Israeli warplanes when he looked to the sky and then ducked as a projectile whistled overhead followed by two bangs.

DESTRUCTION AND DEATH TOLL RISE IN SOUTHERN GAZA TOWN Khan Younis: After another night of bombing runs by Israel, rescuers and residents returned Wednesday to search the ruins of about 15 destroyed homes in Khan Younis, where survivors and dead bodies had been pulled from the wreckage a day earlier.

A backhoe peeled away layers of broken concrete tangled with rebar where a home once stood as a group of men watched.

A Civil Defence worker in an orange vest waded into the jumble of rubble and lifted a dead baby from the ruins. He wrapped the infant in a blanket.

A teddy bear lay in the rubble nearby.

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