The conflict has now entered its eleventh day, as both the Israeli military and Hamas keep up a barrage of airstrikes.
Aid for Gazans remains stuck at Egypt's border as humanitarian groups plead for water and food, and hospitals are on the verge of losing electricity.
Mediators have been trying to reach a ceasefire as efforts persist to open the Rafah crossing - Gaza's only connection to Egypt.Hospitals are now on the verge of losing electricity as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced from their homes search for food andThousands of people trying to escape Gaza are gathered in Rafah, which has the territory’s only border crossing to Egypt.
More than 1,400 Israelis have been killed, the vast majority of civilians massacred in Hamas' assault on Saturday, October 7.plans to travel to Israel on Wednesday More than a week after Israel cut off entry of any supplies, all eyes have been on the Rafah crossing - Gaza's only connection to Egypt. Meanwhile, King Abdullah II of Jordan has said at a meeting with German Chancellor OIaf Scholz in Berlin that neither Jordan nor Egypt would be willing to take in any Palestinian refugees.
The combination of airstrikes, dwindling supplies and Israel’s mass evacuation order for the north of the Gaza Strip has thrown the tiny territory’s 2.3 million people into upheavalMore than one million have fled their homes, and 60% are now in the approximately 8-mile area south of the evacuation zone, according to the United Nations.
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