Thousands of Palestinian civilians trudged in a forlorn procession out of the north of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday seeking refuge from Israeli air strikes and fierce ground fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas militants.
G7 foreign ministers, meeting in Tokyo, call for a humanitarian pause in the fighting and a "peace process"
Palestinian health officials said an air strike that hit houses in Nusseirat refugee camp killed 18 people on Wednesday morning. In Khan Younis, six people, including a young girl, were killed in an air strike. The Israeli military said its offensive was targeting Hamas' tunnel network beneath the enclave. Air strikes had killed a Hamas weapons maker and several fighters, it said.
Palestinian officials said 10,569 people have now been killed, 40% of them children. The level of death and suffering is "hard to fathom", U.N. health agency spokesperson Christian Lindmeier said in Geneva.raid on southern Israel on Oct. 7 in which gunmen killed 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and took about 240 hostages, according to Israeli tallies.
Israel's stated intention is to wipe out Hamas, pounding Gaza from air, land and sea while ground troops have moved in to divide the narrow coastal strip in two in fierce urban fighting amid the ruins of buildings. Washington has backed Israel's position that a ceasefire would help Hamas militarily. But U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he had urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to pause fighting for humanitarian reasons.The United Nations says Gaza's health system is close to collapse, battered by air strikes, flooded with patients, and running out of medicines and fuel.
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