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Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who heeded the Israeli military’s order to evacuate portions of the Gaza Strip are confronting deadly airstrikes from Israeli warplanes even after they’ve moved. And a grim question hung over the enclave on Tuesday: Was there anywhere safe to go? Last week, after the deadly Oct. 7 cross-border attacks by Hamas, Israel ordered all of Gaza’s northern residents — some 1.1 million people — to abandon their homes ahead of an expected ground invasion of the strip and to head south. Hundreds of thousands obeyed, leaving by car, motorcycle and even on foot. He added that southern Gaza was relatively safer than the north, but not entirely safe.

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☆ Netanyahu deleted a post on X about a struggle against 'children of darkness' around the time of a tragic hospital explosion in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Netanyahu's office posted on X that the Israel-Hamas conflict is a "struggle between the children of light and the children of darkness." It was deleted on Tuesday, around the time news emerged of a deadly blast at a Gaza hospital. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . It was deleted on Tuesday, when reports of a hospital explosion in Gaza began to emerge that the Hamas-run health ministry said killed hundreds of people. Since Israel launched its counteroffensive, more than 2,800 Palestinians have died, including hundreds of children, according to Gazan health officials.

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☆ Opinion: What comes after Hamas?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Sheena Mckenzie | Opinion Seth Moulton | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Twenty years ago this month, I was a young Marine lieutenant marching down a California street in an Iraq War victory parade. It was the right decision to kill insurgents without losing more Marines, but leveling a school doesn’t win you a lot of hearts and minds. To be sure, there are some fundamental differences between Israel’s war with Hamas and America’s war in Iraq. Our First Marine Division motto in Iraq, under General Mattis, was “no better friend, no worse enemy.” I want Hamas to know no greater enemy than the Israeli Army, and I want to see every Hamas fighter defeated. There are a lot of peace-loving Palestinians in Gaza who loathe Hamas, but it’s up to the Israeli Army to prove themselves better friends.

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Multiple airstrikes have been reported around the Rafah Crossing since the war started, including one on Tuesday. Located in Egypt’s north Sinai, the Rafah Crossing is the sole border crossing between Gaza and Egypt. That has left the Rafah Crossing with Egypt as the territory’s only entrypoint to the outside world. Israel then opened the Rafah Crossing, which it controlled until it withdrew from Gaza in 2005. The entrance of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on August 27.

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Having seen several previous Israeli strikes, Shawa told CNN they were certain it would be targeted. Born in Seattle to an American mother and Palestinian father, Shawa is one of an estimated 500-600 Palestinian-Americans in Gaza. It’s an impossible situation to be in.”Trapped with no way outEven if Shawa decided to leave Gaza, he can’t right now. “We anticipate that the situation at the Rafah crossing will remain fluid and unpredictable,” the US State Department advised US citizens. Despite the dire situation the Palestinian-Americans face, they at least have some hope of being able to leave Gaza soon – a remote prospect for those without alternative passports.

Persons: Jason Shawa, Shawa, Zainab, Malak, Najla, we’re, Abdulla Okal, Haneen, –, Nabil Alshurafa, Naela Elshorafa, Nabil Alshurafa “, ” Alshurafa, “, haven’t, ”, Ahmad Hasaballah, I’ve, Lena Beseiso, Beseiso –, Haneen Okal, Abdulla, ” Shawa, aren’t, Shawa’s, Jason Shawa's, Jason Shawa “, Alshurafa Organizations: CNN, Israel Defense Forces, US Embassy, US State Department, Palestinian Ministry of Interior, US, Department’s, State Department Locations: Gaza City, Palestinian, Gaza, Seattle, American, Rafah, United States, New Jersey, Kuwait, Camarillo , California, Egypt, Jerusalem, Salt Lake City, Israel, U.S

☆ Woman Missing After Hamas Abducted Her From Kibbutz Is Found Dead
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

An 18-year-old Israeli woman who was taken hostage by Hamas from a kibbutz in Israel and has been missing since Oct. 7 was found dead, her uncle said in a telephone interview on Tuesday. The woman, Celeste Fishbein, lived in the Kibbutz Be’eri near the Gazan border, where more than 100 people were found dead after the Hamas incursion. “A woman from the Israeli army, who has the hardest job in the world, came to our home today to inform us of Celeste’s death,” her uncle, Mario Fishbein, said in a telephone interview from Israel.

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☆ Why Invading Gaza Is a Mistake - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Farah Stockman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

That military operation against Hezbollah was seen as a success — so punishing that it bought 17 years of relative quiet. But it also nurtured resentments that could help turn an invasion of Gaza into a wider regional war. Hamas appears to want to lure Israelis into Gaza and has been preparing for this battle for years. Israel’s military is not a paper tiger; it is one of the most technologically sophisticated militaries in the world. Without power, many Gazans will lose the ability to pump water from wells or treat the wounded in hospitals.

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☆ A Blast Killed Hundreds at a Hospital in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Matthew Cullen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

An explosion killed hundreds of people today at a hospital in Gaza that was packed with civilians sheltering there, Palestinian officials said. Palestinians and Israelis blamed each other for the blast, and the tragedy could reshape the conflict just as President Biden is expected to arrive in Israel tomorrow. The Gazan health authorities said that the explosion, which occurred at Ahli Arab Hospital, had been caused by an Israeli airstrike. The explosion immediately raised the stakes for Biden’s trip to Israel and Jordan, where he was expected to try to de-escalate the crisis. The hospital explosion compounded the escalating humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.

Persons: Biden, Mahmoud Abbas Organizations: Arab Hospital, Palestinian Authority Locations: Gaza, Israel, Palestinian, Jordan

☆ Water in Southern Gaza remains 'limited' despite US urging Israel to end the shutoff
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Israel's officials told Jake Sullivan they 'they have in fact turned the water pipe back on in Southern Gaza.' In fact, the restoration of water service remains "limited," a US official told Insider the following day. "Israeli counterparts agreed to restore water in south Gaza," a US national security official told Insider on Monday. AdvertisementAdvertisementIsrael's energy minister reportedly confirmed that Israel would resume supplying water to Southern Gaza after a discussion with the Biden administration. Children fill boxes with clean water from a dispenser as water shortage happens following the suspension of water flow from Israel to Gaza, in Deir-Al Balah, Gaza on October 15, 2023.

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☆ Opinion: Hamas doesn’t speak for Gaza Palestinians
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Yasmine Mohammed | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

At the hands of Hamas, the Jewish people have endured horrors not seen since the Holocaust. My father hated that Hamas had dominated the conversation and positioned itself as the face of Gaza worldwide. Like many people from Gaza, my father knew that if you spoke up against these tyrannical oppressors, you were swiftly dealt with. Among the hard right, many people are conflating Palestinians with Hamas to justify the flattening of Gaza. The truth is, Hamas is not Gaza, and Gaza is not Hamas.

Persons: Yasmine Mohammed, “, ”, Gazans, Israel, Qaeda, Bassem Organizations: Free, CNN, Hamas, Brotherhood, ISIS, Twitter Locations: Gaza, Israel, Egypt, San Francisco, Montreal, al Qaeda, Iran

☆ Opinion: War didn’t look like this when the Geneva Conventions were written
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Sheena Mckenzie | Opinion Mukesh Kapila | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Fatima Shbair/APHowever, modern urban warfare sets new records of ruination because more than half of us live in built-up areas. This is not illegal under the UN Charter but the concept of ’just’ war in international law requires protecting non-combatants. In urban war, fighters and civilians intermingleOften, the frontlines of urban conflicts cannot be clearly demarcated when fighters and civilians are intermingled. War has changed since the Geneva ConventionsThese new-style warriors were unknown when the Geneva Conventions emerged over a century ago. That violates international humanitarian law and is contrary to a UN political declaration on explosive weapons in populated areas.

Persons: Mukesh Kapila, “, Mukesh, Khan, Fatima Shbair Organizations: UN, Global Health, Humanitarian Affairs, University of Manchester, CNN, United Nations, Islamic, Hamas, International, International Committee, Cross, Food Program Locations: United, Sarajevo, Kabul, Kigali, Huambo, Goma, Gaza, Khartoum, Port, Jerusalem, Britain, Germany, Stalingrad, Beirut, Khan Younis, Geneva, Russian, Ukraine, Islamic State, Afghanistan, Yemen, Australia, Iraq, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Libya, Al, Aqsa, Israel

☆ Analysis: US is mounting a frantic effort to head off a wider Middle East war
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

CNN —US leaders are mounting an urgent effort to prevent Israel’s war against Hamas and a resulting civilian catastrophe in Gaza from escalating into a widening regional conflict that could snowball into an even greater geopolitical crisis after this month’s horrific attacks. If we look at the issue of water – we all know water is life – Gaza is running out of water, and Gaza is running out of life,” Lazzarini said. Hamas has urged civilians to ignore Israeli warnings to evacuate the northern part of Gaza. Back in Washington, the administration is expected to offer a full classified briefing on the situation to senators Wednesday. “Whether it is 24 hours, 48 hours, whether it is by next week, the fact is, it’s coming,” he said.

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☆ China says Israel's actions in Gaza are 'beyond self defense' as U.S. races to avert wider conflict
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Clement Tan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Children crying because of Israeli raids on October 15, 2023 in Khan Yunis, Gaza. Many Gazan citizens have fled to the south following warnings from the Israeli government to do so. Israel has sealed off Gaza and launched sustained retaliatory air strikes, which have killed at least 1,400 people with more than 300,000 displaced, after a large-scale attack by Hamas. Israel's actions have gone beyond self-defense and it should heed the call of the international community. "As I said in Tel Aviv, as President Biden has said, the way that Israel does this matters.

Persons: Ahmad Hasaballah, Antony Blinken, Wang Yi, Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Wang, Hakan Fidan, Wang's, Blinken, Ebrahim Raisi, Emmanuel Macron, Biden Organizations: Getty, Getty Images, U.S, United, Turkish Locations: Khan Yunis, Gaza, Israel, Getty Images China, East, Kippur, Jewish, Wang Yi Chinese, United Nations, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Cairo, Tel Aviv

☆ A mediator who worked on a 2011 Israeli prisoner exchange says Hamas' hostage-taking is 'unprecedented': 'What do they even do with them now that they have them?'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Gershon Baskin helped secure the release of an Israeli soldier from Hamas in 2011. He says Hamas' hostage-taking campaign is "unprecedented," per The Wall Street Journal. AdvertisementAdvertisementA mediator who helped negotiate the 2011 exchange of an Israeli soldier said Hamas' hostage-taking in its recent terror attacks was "unprecedented" due to the sheer number of people involved, according to The Wall Street Journal . "It's unprecedented, there's no doubt," Gershon Baskin, the Middle East director for International Communities Organization, a UK-based peace-building NGO, told the newspaper. Baskin, an American-Israeli peace activist, helped secure the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from Hamas in 2011.

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☆ Gaza is using ice cream trucks to store bodies because morgues are running out of space: report
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Gazan authorities have started using ice cream trucks to store dead bodies, Reuters reported. AdvertisementAdvertisementHealth officials in Gaza are storing bodies in ice cream trucks as morgues and cemeteries run out of space, Reuters reported on Sunday. As the Israeli air strikes continue, officials have started using freezer trucks as temporary morgues, per Reuters. Reuters reported that ice cream trucks are also being used to store bodies because it's too risky to move the corpses to hospitals. Doha-based Al Jazeera, which is owned by the Qatari state, also reported on Saturday that ice cream trucks and refrigerated food vehicles were being used to store bodies.

Persons: —, Israel, Dr, Yasser Ali, Nidal Al, Ali, Al Organizations: Reuters, Service, Hamas, News Agency, Borders, Israeli Air Force, Israel Defense Forces, United Nations Locations: Gaza, Israel, Deir al, Gaza City, Doha, Al Jazeera, Qatari

☆ The ‘Gaza metro’: The mysterious subterranean tunnel network used by Hamas
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( Joshua Berlinger | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —The myriad tunnels under Gaza are best known as passageways used to smuggle goods from Egypt and launch attacks into Israel. Hamas in 2021 claimed to have built 500 kilometers (311 miles) worth of tunnels under Gaza, though it is unclear if that figure was accurate or posturing. If true, Hamas’ underground tunnels would be a little less than half the length of the New York City subway system. It’s unclear how much the tunnel network would have cost Hamas, which governs the impoverished coastal strip. The IDF is expected to go after the network in its forthcoming ground incursion into Gaza, as it has in recent years gone to extreme lengths to eliminate Hamas’ tunnels.

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☆ Gaza conditions a ‘complete catastrophe,’ official warns as Israel prepares for imminent offensive
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( Helen Regan Hadas Gold Nadeen Ebrahim Abeer Salman Hamdi Alkhshali Jessie Gretener Sara Smart | Helen Regan | Hadas Gold | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The clock is ticking for residents fleeing south through the battered streets of Gaza after the Israeli military told civilians to leave northern areas of the densely populated strip. Richard Brennan, a World Health Organization official in Cairo, told CNN that 60 percent of those killed in Gaza the last week were women and children. MSF’s Benoit told CNN Saturday there is a serious water shortage in Gaza with many people beginning to suffer from severe dehydration. The agency said it was the first official meeting between Iranian officials and Haniyeh since surprise Hamas attack on Israel that Hamas called Al-Aqsa storm. For days, Lebanon-based Palestinian militants have launched rockets into Israel, leading to Israeli attacks on Lebanese territory, including Hezbollah positions.

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☆ Israel-Hamas war updates: Israel renews calls for north Gaza residents to evacuate; prepares next stage of offensive on Hamas
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( Christine Wang | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Palestinian citizens inspect damage to their homes caused by Israeli airstrikes on October 14, 2023 in Gaza City, Gaza. Many Gazan citizens have fled to the south following warnings from the Israeli government to do so. Israel's military continued to urge residents to move from northern Gaza to the south as it pledged to counter Hamas with "an even greater force." The United Nations' relief agency in the area (UNRWA) warned that fresh water is running out in Gaza, putting 2 million people at risk. The UNRWA called on Israeli authorities to protect civilians, including those at its shelters in northern Gaza and Gaza City who are unable to flee.

Organizations: Israel Defense Forces, United Nations, UNRWA Locations: Gaza City, Gaza

☆ Gazan Civilian Convoy Hit By Airstrikes, Say Palestinian Media, Paramedics
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-14 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israeli airstrikes hit a convoy of Gazans moving south Friday, killing civilians whose bodies lay scattered on the road, according to Palestinian media and video testimony shared widely from paramedics at the scene. Israel said it is not targeting civilians and the military said it had no indication it was behind the bombing. In the past, militants in Gaza have fired rockets that have landed within the enclave, killing civilians.

Persons: Israel Locations: Gaza

☆ Who is El Deif, alleged mastermind of the Hamas’ attack?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-14 | by ( Sam Kiley | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

He’s now in charge of Hamas’ military wing, the Al Qassem Brigades. And on the ground, in private conversations, it’s been difficult to find people who are genuinely behind Hamas military campaigning. Men like El Deif, the bomb makers and decision takers, were hunted by Israel. Key to this change, too, was another major figure in Hamas’ military wing, Yahya Sinwar. I think this will spell the end of Hamas.”That may be a zero-sum option that not even the shadowy El Deif had guessed at.

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Israel Ziv, a former general, reached a nearby battle in his Audi. “We are brought up to run as fast as possible toward the fire,” said General Goldfus. The camera mounted on the Hamas commander’s head captured the moment he was shot and killed. By the time the video stops, the commander can be seen slumped on the ground, revealing his long beard and thinning hairline. In other parts of southern Israel, the first formal reinforcements came from an Israeli commando unit that arrived in helicopters, according to the senior Israeli officer.

Persons: Israel Ziv, Yair Golan, ”, Goldfus Organizations: Audi, Hamas Locations: Gaza, Israel

☆ A brief history of Gaza's centuries of war
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +9 min

1950s & 1960s - Egyptian military ruleEgypt held the Gaza Strip for two decades under a military governor, allowing Palestinians to work and study in Egypt. 1967 - War and Israeli military occupationIsrael captured the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Middle East war. An Israeli census that year put Gaza's population at 394,000, at least 60% of them refugees. Hamas formedTwenty years after the 1967 war, Palestinians launched their first intifada, or uprising. Israeli air strikes crippled Gaza's only electrical power plant, causing widespread blackouts.

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☆ How US tax dollars have supported Israel and its military for 75 years — and what's next for American aid
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Biden said this week he will ask Congress to send Israel additional aid in the wake of Hamas' terror attacks. Between 2001 and 2020, Israel received more military aid from the US than all other nations combined. Despite concerns that Israel will continue killing civilians and children in Gaza, there is bipartisan support for aid to Israel. In 2016, the US signed its third 10-year Memorandum of Understanding on military aid to Israel, pledging to send it $38 billion between 2019 and 2028. In 2022, the US spent a total of $4.8 billion on military, economic, and missile defense aid for Israel.

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☆ We've been posting our way through the Israel-Hamas war. But should we be?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementThe past six days on social media have been a heartbreaking and deeply disturbing experience. "Trying to explain the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in one picture is almost like a Second City sketch. Before social media, conversations like this would typically happen over coffee or at the workplace — likely still with some disagreement. But many social media users fall victim to misinformation, which has spread like wildfire even in the first week of this war. Dagnes said that just by virtue of posting something, anyone can be an expert to social media users — never mind that person's actual qualifications or life experience.

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☆ 'There is nowhere to hide from the bombs': Civilians trapped in Gaza can't escape Israel's siege
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Natasha Turak | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Israeli occupation aircraft launch white phosphorus bombs west of Gaza City on October 11, 2023 in Gaza City, Gaza. Palestinian citizens inspect damage to their homes caused by Israeli airstrikes on October 13, 2023 in Gaza City, Gaza. watch now"The airstrikes have been wiping out entire families and neighborhoods within the Gaza Strip," Afaf Ahmed, a 21-year-old student from northern Gaza, told CNBC via social media. "He knows that the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip can't leave." "Before the war, the Gaza Strip only got six hours of electricity on a daily basis.

Persons: Mohammed Abed, Omar, Ahmad Hasaballah, Afaf Ahmed, Israel, Afaf, Netanyahu, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's, Tor Wennesland, Mohammed Ashraf Organizations: Getty, CNBC, Israel, Monday, Palestinian Health Ministry, Israel Defense Forces, IDF, World Health Organization, Gaza CNBC Locations: Gaza City, Gaza, Palestinian, Israel

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