Israel-Hamas Conflict Escalates: Live Updates and Full Coverage

The chairman of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, criticizes the Israeli ambassador to the UN for wearing a yellow star during a Security Council meeting, saying it "disgraces both Holocaust victims and Israel." Meanwhile, Israel's Prime Minister rejects calls for a ceasefire as the ground operation intensifies in Gaza, and a female Israeli soldier who was abducted by Hamas on October 7 is "actively rescued" in a special operation. The number of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza is now up to 240, and at least 13 people have been killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike in central Gaza. The wave of global antisemitism directed against Jews, intensified by the conflict, threatens to further destabilize societies and exacerbate existing tensions.