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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Urooba Jamal

Will Israel’s ‘humanitarian pauses’ mean much for Gaza? No, say experts

Palestinians carry a casualty of Israeli attacks at Al-Shifa Hospital [Doaa Rouqa/Reuters]

On Thursday, the White House announced that Israel has agreed to daily four-hour pauses in fighting in northern Gaza to allow people to flee hostilities and for humanitarian aid to be let in.

Yet, within hours, Israel’s bombing campaign had targeted Gaza’s largest hospital, al-Shifa, and Israeli tanks had surrounded four other hospitals in the northern part of the besieged enclave.

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