World News | Updates | Israeli Troops Briefly Enter Gaza as Wider Ground Incursion Looms
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. The Israeli military said its troops and tanks briefly entered northern Gaza overnight into Thursday, hitting several militant targets as a wider ground incursion loomed after more than two weeks of war.
Jerusalem, Oct 26 (AP) The Israeli military said its troops and tanks briefly entered northern Gaza overnight into Thursday, hitting several militant targets as a wider ground incursion loomed after more than two weeks of war.
Israeli airstrikes have devastated parts of the Gaza Strip, leaving neighbourhoods in rubble and hospitals struggling to treat masses of wounded with diminishing resources.
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The United Nations warned it's on the verge of running out of fuel in the Gaza Strip, forcing it to sharply curtail relief efforts in the blockaded territory.
And the UN Security Council failed again to address the Israeli-Hamas war, rejecting rival resolutions by the United States and Russia.
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The war is the deadliest of five Gaza wars for both sides. The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said Thursday that more than 7,000 Palestinians have been killed so far — more than three times the number killed in the six-week-long Gaza war in 2014.
In the occupied West Bank, more than 100 Palestinians have been killed in violence and Israeli raids following Hamas' surprise rampage on Oct. 7 in southern Israel.
The Associated Press couldn't independently verify the death tolls cited by Hamas, which says it tallies figures from hospital directors.
The fighting has killed more than 1,400 people in Israel, according to Israeli officials, mostly civilians who died in the initial Hamas attack.
Israel's military has raised the number of remaining hostages in Gaza to 222 people, including foreigners believed captured by Hamas during the incursion. Four hostages have been released so far.
US and other officials fear the fighting could spill over into a wider regional conflict.
Currently:
1. An increase in harassment against Jewish and Muslim Americanshas been reported since Hamas attacks
2. Al Jazeera Gaza correspondent loses family members in an Israeli airstrike
3. Florida orders state universities to disband pro-Palestinian student group, saying it backs Hamas
4. Biden condemns retaliatory attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank
5. Leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah holds talks with senior Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad figures
6. Israel accuses UN chief of justifying terrorism for saying Hamas attack didn't happen in a vacuum.
Here's what's happening in the latest Israel-Hamas war:
ISRAELI STRIKES HIT A REFUGEE CAMP IN SOUTHERN GAZA STRIP, KILLING AT LEAST 15 PEOPLE
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Israeli airstrikes hit a densely populated refugee camp in Gaza's southern city of Khan Younis on Thursday, levelling more than eight homes belonging to an extended family and killing at least 15 people.
Ambulances raced to the scene as dust from the collapsing buildings hung in the air.
The blast zone was like so many others in Gaza, a chaotic wasteland of crumbled concrete and twisted metal. People shouted instructions while others praised Allah as they searched through the rubble for casualties.
The injured, covered in gray dust, were carried on stretchers and in the arms of rescuers, who hustled to get them to vehicles waiting in the street. One body was covered in a blanket.
A lifeless body of a boy was dug out from beneath a concrete slab, where his head had come to rest next to the foot of a person entombed in the wreckage.
TURKISH PRESIDENT SLAMS EU, ACCUSES WEST OF INDIFFERENCE TOWARD SUFFERING OF MUSLIMS
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan slammed the European Union on Thursday for failing to call for a cease-fire in Gaza and accused the West of indifference toward the suffering of Muslims.
“How many more children must die before the EU Commission calls for a cease-fire,” he said in a televised speech.
“How many more tons of bombs must fall on Gaza before the United Nations Security Council can take action?”
Erdogan accused the West of failing to see the violence unfolding in Gaza “because the blood being shed is Muslim blood.”
In his speech, Erdogan also said Turkiye has so far dispatched 10 planeloads to Egypt carrying humanitarian aid, including generators, destined for Gaza. Twenty five Turkish medical personnel have also left for Egypt, he said. (AP)
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