GAZA/JERUSALEM: Israeli forces carried out their biggest Gaza ground attack overnight (Oct 26) in their 20-day-old war with Hamas as anger grew in the Arab world over&n
Palestinians, who fled their houses amid Israeli strikes, take shelter at a tent camp at a UN-run centre, after Israel's call for more than 1 million civilians in northern Gaza to move south, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Oct 26, 2023. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had said Israeli troops were still preparing for a full ground invasion, while the US and other countries urged Israel to delay, fearing it could ignite hostilities on other Middle East fronts.
The US State Department said Washington knows that a significant number of people have died in Gaza but does not have independent confirmation of numbers, and it does not trust figures released by Hamas. "Tanks and infantry struck numerous terrorist cells, infrastructure and anti-tank missile launch posts," it said.
They also criticised Israel's occupation of Palestinian areas and called for more efforts to implement a two-state solution to the decades-long conflict - an idea at the heart of long-moribund peacemaking. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Bloomberg that Washington was looking for more ways to reduce the flow of financing to Hamas.
A Qatari negotiator told Sky News that a pause in fighting could help get more hostages released in the coming days. Around midday on Thursday, Nasser hospital officials said, Israel bombed an area not far from an UNRWA shelter for displaced people, killing at least 18 people.
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