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An amber warning for strong wind has been issued for northwest England and Northern Ireland as Storm Debi hits the UK.

The Met Office said gusts of 70-80mph are possible on the coasts and on higher ground, and 55-65mph inland.

The warning stretches from just north of Liverpool and covers most of Lancashire and areas of Cumbria from 10am until 4pm.

Parts of Co Armagh and Co Down are also under an amber wind warning until noon.

The Met Office warns buildings could be damaged and travel disrupted, as well as a potential danger to life on the coast due to large waves.

A less serious yellow warning for wind stretches across much of Wales and northwards across England, as far as Newcastle, until 6pm.

Jonathan Vautrey, from the Met Office, urged people to “take care before you travel” as the morning rush hour is expected to be affected.

A yellow alert for heavy rain is also in force in Aberdeenshire from 10am until 9pm.

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However, it’s the Republic of Ireland that’s expected to be hit hardest by Storm Debi.

A red alert for a potential danger to life and “severe and damaging gusts” is in force in eastern areas – including around Dublin – until 9am.

The rest of the country is either under an amber or yellow warning, with some schools closing as a precaution.

“The strongest winds are expected to affect parts of the Republic of Ireland early on Monday, possibly coinciding with the morning commute, before affecting parts of north Wales and northern England into the afternoon,” said Met Office chief meteorologist Jason Kelly.

“Whilst the very strongest winds will have eased somewhat before reaching the UK, we are still expecting some significant impacts, and a wind warning has been issued.”

Storm Debi was officially named by Met Eireann on Sunday and is the earliest in the season that a storm in alphabetical sequence beginning with ‘D’ has ever hit the British Isles.

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The storm season begins in September and, until now, the earliest ‘D’ storm named by them was 2015’s Storm Desmond, which arrived on 4 December.

Debi’s arrival comes just weeks after Storm Ciaran brought winds of over 80mph in southern England and 104mph gusts in the Channel Islands.

As the conflict between Israel and Gaza enters its 38th day, these are the main developments.

Here is the situation on Monday, November 13, 2023:

Latest on human impact and fighting

• The collapse of medical centres and communication services across Gaza has left the Ministry of Health unable to update casualty figures since 2pm (12:00 GMT) on November 10. On Sunday, however, the government media office in Gaza updated the figures, raising the death toll to 11,100, including more than 8,000 children and women.
• An Israeli air raid near Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Monday killed at least seven people, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.
• The United States carried out two air strikes in Syria against Iran-linked facilities, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Sunday. Six to seven pro-Iran fighters were also killed, Fox News reported quoting a Pentagon source.
• Two Israeli soldiers were killed and one severely injured during clashes with Palestinian fighters in Gaza on Sunday, according to Israel’s military.
• Israel’s military said on Sunday that its jets hit Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon in response to antitank missiles that wounded Israelis near the border.

Situation in Gaza’s hospitals

• Gaza’s second largest hospital, al-Quds, ceased operations because of fuel shortage, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said on Sunday.
• Three nurses were killed at al-Shifa Hospital, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said on Sunday. Staff at the hospital has been struggling to bury at least 100 decomposing bodies of those killed in Israeli bombardment across the enclave, Gaza’s health minister told the Palestinian Wafa news agency on Monday. The hospital has also shut its doors to new patients.
• The World Health Organization has managed to restore communication with staff at al-Shifa Hospital, the agency’s director-general said on Sunday.
• In an interview with NBC News on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hamas refused an offer of fuel for al-Shifa Hospital. The Palestinian group denied the claim and any association with al-Shifa management or decision-making in a statement on Sunday.
• The US is having “active consultations” with Israel’s military about its concerns around “firefights in hospitals where innocent people, patients receiving medical care, are caught in the crossfire”, White House NSA Jake Sullivan told CBS News’s Face the Nation programme on Sunday.
• European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has called for “pauses” to evacuate hospital patients in Gaza who need urgent medical care.

Diplomacy

• Six UN offices across East Asia lowered their flags to half-mast on Monday in memory of colleagues killed in Gaza. Other UN headquarters around the world are expected to hold similar memorials on Monday.
• US President Joe Biden held a phone call with Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on Sunday. The two discussed the protection of civilians and the need for humanitarian aid in Gaza. Biden thanked the emir for Qatar’s efforts to rescue captives in Gaza, according to a White House readout of the call. The emir called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during the call.
• On Sunday, Hamas said it was suspending hostage negotiations because of how Israel handled al-Shifa Hospital, a Palestinian official told Reuters news agency.

Attacks in West Bank

• A man in al-Hawuz neighbourhood of Hebron was fatally shot in the head by Israeli forces while driving his vehicle early on Monday, according to Wafa. At least 186 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank since October 7, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported on Sunday.
• Al Jazeera Arabic reported overnight clashes in Nablus and an explosion in Qalqilya on Monday.

Israeli air strikes in Gaza have killed more than a dozen people and destroyed the main hospital’s cardiac ward, Gaza officials say, as fighting continues in the besieged strip for the 37th consecutive day.

At least 13 people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a home in Khan Younis, Gaza officials reported on Sunday. Israeli forces also continued their siege around Gaza’s largest hospital, al-Shifa, where health officials said thousands of staff, patients and displaced people remain trapped with no electricity and dwindling supplies.

The spokesperson for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf al-Qudra, has told Al Jazeera that al-Shifa Hospital is completely out of service, and cannot provide any treatment even to the patients inside the facility, due to constant Israeli attacks.

Israeli bombing has been targeting the vicinity’s external surroundings as well as anyone walking inside the courtyard and between its various buildings, and those wanting to reach the gate of the complex.

“We have deaths in the nursery after the life support machines stopped working inside the section that includes 37 other children who may be on the verge of death,” al-Qudra said.

He added that there were five deaths among the wounded as the medical teams were unable to perform surgical operations on them due to the power outage and lack of fuel.

More than 11,000 Palestinians, two-thirds of them women and children, have been killed since the war began, according to the Health Ministry in Gaza. About 2,700 people have been reported missing and are thought to be trapped or dead under the rubble.

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami says rescue teams working to free trapped workers ‘safely soon’.

Indian rescue workers have made contact with about 40 workers trapped in a tunnel collapse in Uttarakhand state and confirmed that all of them are safe, officials have said.

“All the 40 workers trapped inside the tunnel are safe,” Karamveer Singh Bhandari, a senior commander in the National Disaster Response Force, said in a statement on Monday. “We sent them water and food.”

The initial contact was made via a note on a scrap of paper, but later rescuers managed to connect using radio handsets.

The tunnel collapse occurred early on Sunday morning during a shift change at the construction site of the Yamunotri national highway.

Local media reported that nearly 200 metres (14.8 feet) of the tunnel, which will connect the Hindu shrines of Uttarkashi and Yamunotri, appeared to have caved in.

Photographs released by government rescue teams over the weekend showed huge piles of concrete blocking the tunnel, with twisted metal bars protruding in front of the rubble.

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said authorities were working to remove concrete debris in order to get the workers free.

“Contact has been made with the workers trapped in the tunnel through a walkie-talkie,” he said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. “Efforts are being made to get them out safely soon.”

Authorities began their rescue efforts on Sunday, pumping oxygen into the collapsed section of the tunnel to help workers breathe.

Accidents on large infrastructure projects are not uncommon in India.

In January, Indian authorities evacuated hundreds of people from their homes in Joshimath, also located in Uttarakhand state, after buildings in the area popular with pilgrims and tourists developed cracks.

Anti-coup forces say they shot down plane, but military says crash was result of a technical problem.

A fighter jet has crashed in eastern Myanmar amid increasing pressure from anti-coup forces on the generals who seized power in a coup in 2021.

The Sit-Tat jet crashed in Kayah State near the border with Thailand on Saturday with the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF) claiming it had shot down the plane.

However, military spokesperson Zaw Min Tun told state-run MRTV the aircraft came down because of a technical issue and that both pilots ejected safely. He said it had been on a training flight.

The crash comes with the military facing the most serious challenge from anti-coup forces since it seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021.

An alliance of ethnic armed groups in northern Shan state launched an offensive two weeks ago that has captured a series of towns and dozens of military outposts near the border with China, emboldening groups in other parts of Myanmar to step up their campaigns against the generals.

About 50,000 people have been displaced in Shan State, and 40,000 in neighbouring Sagaing and Kachin states, according to the United Nations.

A statement posted on the KNDF’s Facebook page said fire from heavy machine guns hit the fighter in its fuselage and a wing before it crashed far from the battlefield leaving a trail of smoke.

The KNDF and the Karenni Army — the armed wing of the Karenni National Progressive Party — credited their members for bringing down the plane.

Mizzima, a Myanmar news outlet, posted images of what it said were the abandoned helmet and parachute of one of the pilots.

The KNDF is among dozens of groups that have been battling to restore democracy in Myanmar following the military’s removal of Aung San Suu Kyi’s government.