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☆ Israel Presses Assault on Hamas’s Last Major Gaza Bastion
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Dov Lieber | Margherita Stancati | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TEL AVIV—Israeli forces closed in on the city of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, engaging in close combat with Hamas fighters in what could be the decisive battle of the two-month-old war, while residents fled from the fighting amid a worsening humanitarian plight. Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist group, is defending its last major bastion in Gaza, where Israel believes the group’s leaders are hiding and holding hostages, after Israeli forces drove the militants and much of the population out of Gaza City in the enclave’s north.

Persons: Khan Younis Organizations: Hamas Locations: TEL AVIV, Khan, Gaza, U.S, Israel, Gaza City

☆ Palestinians Abandon Villages Following West Bank Settler Violence
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Palestinians Abandon Villages Following West Bank Settler ViolenceThe U.N. said Israeli settler attacks in the West Bank have doubled since the Israel-Hamas war began, prompting many Palestinians to abandon their homes. WSJ’s Margherita Stancati visited the village of Zanuta to find out more. Photo Illustration: Marina Costa/Tanya Habjouqa

Persons: Margherita Stancati, Marina Costa, Tanya Habjouqa Organizations: Bank Settler, West Bank, Hamas Locations: Israel, Zanuta

ZANUTA, West Bank—Hanaa Abul-Kbash was home with her children in this tiny village in the occupied West Bank when she says an Israeli settler, armed with a military-style rifle, barged in telling her she had to go. “I told him this has been my home for 21 years and that I would not leave,” recalls 43-year-old Abul-Kbash of the encounter in late-October. The man grabbed her by the collar, shook her violently, cocked his weapon and left, Abul-Kbash says. Days later, on Oct. 28, she and the roughly 250 other residents of Zanuta abandoned the Palestinian village.

Persons: West Bank — Hanaa Abul, Kbash, “, ” Organizations: West Bank —, West Bank Locations: Zanuta

Hamas released 17 Israeli and foreign hostages on Sunday, including a 4-year-old-girl with dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship, as negotiators remained locked in talks over a possible extension to the four-day deal that halted fighting. Israeli authorities said that 14 Israelis were freed Sunday afternoon and left the Gaza Strip. Egyptian and Qatari officials involved in the negotiations to free the hostages said that three Thai citizens were also released. Among them is a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, four-year-old Abigail Mor Idan, whose parents were killed on Oct. 7.

Persons: Abigail Mor Idan Locations: Gaza, U.S

Israeli forces said they were engaged in fierce fighting early Saturday around Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, where Israel says Hamas has positioned fighters near thousands of displaced people and hundreds of patients amid worsening conditions at the facility. Hospital officials said doctors were using scant remaining medical supplies to treat wounded people as the battle in the area intensified, the hospital largely operated without electricity and water ran desperately low. There were no indications that Israeli troops had entered the hospital complex as of Saturday morning or whether Hamas fighters were inside it.

Organizations: Shifa, Hamas Locations: Gaza, Al, Israel

Israeli forces said they were engaged in fierce fighting Saturday around Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, where Israel says Hamas has positioned fighters near thousands of displaced people and hundreds of patients amid worsening conditions at the facility. Hospital officials said that doctors at Al-Shifa were using scant remaining medical supplies to treat wounded people, that the hospital was largely operating without electricity and water was running desperately low.

Organizations: Shifa, Hamas, Al Locations: Gaza, Al, Israel

☆ ‘They Have Nowhere to Go’: A Gaza Hospital Braces for Fighting
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Margherita Stancati | Chao Deng | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

At the sprawling Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, families pack the hallways inside, while others have set up makeshift tents outside, with bed sheets hung up for privacy. Doctors, short on space and supplies, tend to bloodied patients on the floor. About a mile away, a much bigger problem is approaching: The Israeli army is engaging in firefights with Hamas militants. Palestinians have been told to evacuate the 700-bed hospital, but many believe it’s the safest place they can go. Between 50,000 and 60,000 people are sheltering inside and around the grounds of the hospital, according to the Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, with 2,500 patients in need of care.

Organizations: Shifa, Hamas, Health Ministry Locations: Gaza City, Gaza

☆ Netanyahu Says Israel Will Control Gaza Security Indefinitely
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Margherita Stancati | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would seek to assume overall responsibility for security in Gaza, in an early indication that Israel plans to occupy the strip after the war, raising more questions about its exit strategy. “I think Israel for an indefinite period will have the overall security responsibility, because we’ve seen what happens when we don’t have it,” Netanyahu said on ABC News overnight. “When we don’t have that security responsibility, what we have is the eruption of Hamas terror on a scale that we couldn’t imagine.”

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, we’ve, ” Netanyahu Organizations: ABC News Locations: Gaza, Israel

☆ Israeli Siege Leaves Gaza Without Clean Water, Causing Disease
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Margherita Stancati | Fatima Abdulkarim | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

At Rami Hijjo’s home in Gaza City, showering is a luxury of the past. The taps are running dry and he spends hours each day trying to procure rationed drinking water that isn’t even clean enough to make tea. “Sometimes the water is salty and the tea we prepare with it is murky,” said the father of three, a former humanitarian worker.

Persons: Rami Hijjo’s, ” Locations: Gaza City

☆ Israel Faces Growing International Pressure to Pause Gaza Strikes
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Margherita Stancati | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

International pressure for a cease-fire or pause in Israeli strikes in Gaza grew Friday as hospitals in the enclave began to run out of fuel and displaced Palestinians struggled to find clean drinking water. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday morning arrived in Israel, where he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and was expected to raise the issue of a pause in fighting, among other measures, U.S. officials said. Before leaving Washington, Blinken said that, in conversations with Israeli officials, he would address “concrete steps that can and should be taken to minimize harm to men, women and children in Gaza.”

Persons: Antony Blinken, Benjamin Netanyahu, Blinken, ” Organizations: Israeli Locations: Gaza, Israel, Washington

☆ Netanyahu Rejects Calls for a Temporary Israeli Cease-Fire in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Vivian Salama | Margherita Stancati | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TEL AVIV—Israel’s prime minister resisted pressure from the U.S. to pause strikes on Hamas after Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged more actions to protect civilians in Gaza. The U.S. is stepping up pressure on Israel, saying it has a moral imperative to pause the fighting while humanitarian relief—and particularly fuel—is delivered to Gaza, U.S. officials say. France, Spain and other European countries have issued similar appeals.

Persons: Antony Blinken Locations: TEL AVIV, U.S, Gaza, The U.S, Israel, Gaza , U.S, France, Spain

☆ Netanyahu Rejects Calls for a Temporary Israeli Ceasefire in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Vivian Salama | Margherita Stancati | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TEL AVIV—Israel’s leader rejected pressure for a pause in Israeli strikes on Hamas following a visit with Secretary of State Antony Blinken that urged more actions to protect civilians in Gaza. “Israel refuses a temporary ceasefire that does not include the freeing of our hostages,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters after meeting with Blinken on Friday. “Israel does not allow the entry of fuel into the Gaza Strip and is opposed to transferring money to the strip.”

Persons: TEL AVIV — Israel’s, Antony Blinken, “ Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Blinken, “, ” Organizations: TEL AVIV —, ”, Gaza Locations: TEL AVIV, Gaza, “ Israel

☆ Israel Hits Hamas Tunnels as Ground Offensive Intensifies
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Margherita Stancati | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israeli ground troops, backed by tanks and jet fighters, are expanding their operations against Hamas in Gaza, carrying out more raids, exchanging fire with militants and calling in strikes on the group’s vast tunnel network, as pressure grows on the remaining civilians in the northern part of the enclave to flee the battlefield. The war entered a new, delicate stage on Friday, when Israeli ground troops and heavily armored vehicles entered the Gaza Strip with the goal of eradicating Hamas from the enclave following the group’s assault on Israel on Oct. 7.

Locations: Gaza, Israel

Israel said Tuesday it hit a Hamas command and tunnel network in northern Gaza, causing widespread damage in a crowded Palestinian refugee camp. Israel said it killed dozens of militants, including a commander who it said led the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel. Hamas said hundreds were dead or wounded but didn’t say how many were militants, while hospital officials in Gaza reported receiving scores of bodies.

Persons: Israel Locations: Gaza, Israel

☆ Dozens Killed in Israeli Airstrikes in North Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Margherita Stancati | Omar Abdel-Baqui | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israeli airstrikes rocked a densely populated area north of Gaza City on Tuesday, flattening entire apartment blocks, leaving deep craters and causing hundreds of casualties, according to hospital officials, in what the Israeli military said was a strike targeting Hamas infrastructure and militants, including a commander. The Israeli military has been conducting frequent airstrikes on Jabalia as its ground offensive to topple Hamas picks up speed. The military Tuesday night said its ground troops have killed about 50 militants in Jabalia in the past day. It said the airstrike killed a commander that helped lead the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel. A Hamas official didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Persons: didn’t Locations: Gaza City, Jabalia, Israel

☆ Israeli Forces Make Major Advance Toward Gaza City
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Margherita Stancati | Dov Lieber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TEL AVIV—Israeli tanks and infantry pushed into the outskirts of Gaza City on Monday and blocked one of the main roads connecting the northern part of the Gaza Strip to the south, witnesses said, in a major advance that appeared aimed at encircling the enclave’s biggest population center. The push came three days after Israeli ground troops moved into Gaza, marking an escalation of its efforts to eliminate Hamas militants who on Oct. 7 killed some 1,400 people and kidnapped more than 220 in a series of attacks inside Israel.

Locations: TEL AVIV, Gaza City, Gaza, Israel

Three weeks into Israel’s massive bombing campaign in the Gaza Strip, the exact scope of Palestinian casualties has become yet another controversy after President Biden questioned statistics published by the Hamas-run Gaza health authorities. The Gaza-based Palestinian Health Ministry said Saturday that the death toll has topped 7,703, including 1,863 women and 3,195 children, information it says is based on data compiled by hospitals. The United Nations, which verified and documented deaths in previous conflicts in Gaza, says it is unable to do so now because of the sheer scope of violence.

Persons: Biden Organizations: Hamas, Palestinian Health Ministry, United Nations Locations: Gaza

☆ World Leaders Press Israel to Minimize Civilian Casualties in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Margherita Stancati | Noemie Bisserbe | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

French President Emmanuel Macron traveled to Israel in a show of support on Tuesday as world leaders press Israel to rethink how it goes about achieving its war objectives and do more to protect civilians in Gaza. Macron said France would stand “shoulder to shoulder” with Israel but cautioned that its fight should stay focused.

Persons: Emmanuel Macron, Israel, Macron Locations: Israel, Gaza, France

☆ Israel Steps Up Gaza Bombing as Biden Urges It to Protect Civilians
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Margherita Stancati | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israel intensified its aerial bombing campaign on the Gaza Strip, striking more than 300 targets in the enclave over the past day, as President Biden and other Western leaders expressed support for Israel while urging it to protect civilians. The Israeli airstrikes, aimed at Hamas militants and their operational infrastructure following their Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, have mostly focused on northern Gaza ahead of a planned Israeli ground offensive. As the Israeli military stepped up its bombing campaign there, it again called on civilians to leave, warning that residents who remain could be considered allies of Hamas.

Persons: Israel, Biden Organizations: Israel Locations: Gaza, Israel

☆ Israel Evacuates City Near Lebanon Border as It Hits Scores of Targets in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Margherita Stancati | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israel ordered the evacuation of a city close to the Lebanese border, reflecting the Israeli military’s growing concern that a second front could open up to the north as it continues its bombing campaign in Gaza, including a strike on a church compound overnight. Israel’s Defense Ministry said residents of Kiryat Shmona, a city of some 22,000 people, will be moved to guesthouses provided by the state. The decision, announced Friday, comes as the security situation along the Lebanese-Israeli border deteriorates.

Persons: Israel Organizations: Israel’s Defense Ministry Locations: Lebanese, Gaza, Kiryat Shmona

☆ Israel Lays Out Case It Didn’t Attack Gaza Hospital
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Margherita Stancati | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israel on Wednesday offered what it said was proof that it wasn’t responsible for the deadly explosion at a Gaza hospital compound, an incident that has caused widespread outrage in the Middle East and complicated a visit to Israel by President Biden. Israelis and Palestinians blame each other for the explosion at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City Tuesday night, an event the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said killed at least 500 people. If the toll is confirmed, it would be the single deadliest incident in the enclave since the start of the war.

Persons: Biden Organizations: Wednesday, Ahli Arab Hospital, Gaza Health Ministry Locations: Gaza, Israel, Al, Ahli, Gaza City

The U.S. has collected “high confidence” signals intelligence showing that the explosion at a Gaza hospital compound on Tuesday was caused by the militant group Palestinian Islamic Jihad, U.S. officials said, buttressing Israel’s contention that it wasn’t responsible for the blast. The U.S. assessment drew, in part, on communications intercepts and other intelligence gathered by the U.S., defense officials said.

Persons: buttressing Organizations: U.S, Palestinian Locations: Gaza, Jihad, U.S

Israel, the U.S. government and independent security experts cast doubt Wednesday on Palestinian claims that an Israeli airstrike was responsible for a deadly explosion at a Gaza hospital compound, saying the preliminary evidence pointed to a local militant group. Independent analysts poring over publicly available images of Tuesday’s explosion at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza and its aftermath say the blast site doesn’t bear the hallmarks of a strike with a bomb or missile of the types usually used by Israel.

Persons: poring Organizations: Ahli Arab Hospital Locations: Israel, U.S, Gaza, Al, Ahli

☆ Israel Aims to Destroy Hamas. What Comes Next for Gaza Is Unclear.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-14 | by ( Margherita Stancati | Dion Nissenbaum | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Dow Jones Locations: israel, gaza

☆ Italy Is Cracking Down on Surrogacy—Even if It Happens in the U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Margherita Stancati | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Dow Jones Locations: italy

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