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The Latest Breaking News from Gaza City

Hamas isn't the first military group to hide behind civilians as a way to wage war

The Israeli military said on Nov. 15, 2023, that it had found weapons and a Hamas command center at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, after sending troops into the medical facility.

The Conversation

Escape from al-Shifa: How a Gaza medic dodged Israeli patrols, snipers

Jawdat Sami al-Madhoun watched his friend die, consoled a child who wanted to die with her parents, and, finally, fled.

Al Jazeera

Doctors are among the many dead in Gaza. These are their stories

More than 200 medical personnel have been killed since the war started. Their colleagues say there's been no time to mourn. In that spirit, doctors shared details about the lives that were lost.

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Israeli troops enter Gaza's largest hospital and report finding Hamas weapons there

Hamas denounced the actions by the Israeli military. The group denied the assertion by Israel and U.S. officials that militants were embedded in Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital.

WEKU

Israeli troops storm Gaza's al Shifa hospital in hunt for Hamas

Israeli tanks and soldiers entered emergency and surgery departments, an official said

Evening Standard

Israeli forces raid Gaza's largest hospital, where hundreds of patients are stranded by fighting

Israeli forces are raiding Gaza’s largest hospital, where hundreds of patients, including newborns, have been stranded with dwindling supplies and no electricity

The Independent UK

Israel-Hamas war: Al Shifa Hospital becomes focus of conflicting narratives

Fighting has reached the gates of Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza: Israeli ground troops have almost fully encircled the medical buildings which it says sit above Hamas’s underground headquarters in Gaza City. Hamas and hospital staff deny the claims and say Israeli forces have trapped patients and civilians inside in…

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Satellite photos analyzed by the AP show Israeli forces pushed further into Gaza late last week

Satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press show that Israeli tanks and armored vehicles pushed further into the Gaza Strip late last week as part of an offensive squeezing Gaza City as fighting raged between its forces and Hamas militants

The Independent UK

Israel Defense Forces ‘closing In On Hamas’ In Gaza City

The IDF is closing in on Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip and disrupting its command and control systems.

Zenger

Live updates | Thousands more flee northern Gaza as Israeli troops battle Palestinian militants

Fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants in northern Gaza caused another 200,000 people to flee south in the past 10 days, the U.N. humanitarian office said Tuesday

The Independent UK

IDF says it has entered Gaza’s largest hospital – as it happened

IDF forces say they are targeting Hamas ‘in a certain part of the Shifa hospital’ after Gaza’s health ministry said it was warned by Israel that it would raid the facility ‘within minutes’

The Guardian - AU

Families demand Israeli government approve deal to free hostages

Families of hostages held by Palestinian militants in Gaza demanded on Tuesday that the Israeli government approve a deal "tonight" to secure the release of their relatives. The news came after the Israeli army said it had captured the parliament building and other government infrastructure run by Hamas in Gaza…

France 24

‘Patients are dying’: What we know about Gaza hospitals under Israeli siege

All the hospitals in northern Gaza forced to shut down as Israeli forces continue to attack medical facilities.

Al Jazeera

‘It was nearly sunset when I saw death up close’: a Gaza diary

We dash to salvage gas cylinders, shout messages from building to building, make lukewarm coffee. And always, a missile could be only seconds away, says Atef Abu Saif

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France 24

Hamas says ready to exchange 70 hostages for 5-day truce

The armed wing of Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Monday they told Qatari mediators that the group is ready to release up to 70 women and children held in Gaza in return for a five-day truce. The news came after Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said Hamas had "lost…

France 24

Palestinian journalist’s harrowing escape from Gaza City highlights trauma of Israel’s war

As intense Israeli bombardments shook his neighbourhood near Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital, Palestinian journalist Rami Abujamus fled his home with his wife and four-year-old son over the weekend. They were part of a small group of neighbours, waving white flags, as they made a dangerous escape, which Abujamus filmed on…

The Guardian - UK

Under bombardment, Gaza medics fight to save patients with no power, water or food

Just one hospital in the territory is still able to take patients as doctors and nurses try to keep those in their care alive

The Independent UK

Heavy fighting rages near main Gaza hospital as Netanyahu dismisses calls for cease-fire

Israeli strikes pounded Gaza City overnight as ground forces battled Hamas militants near the territory’s largest hospital

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The Guardian - UK

Israeli troops in key battle with Hamas gunmen near Gaza City hospital

Doctors accuse IDF of attacking people trying to flee al-Shifa, the hospital portrayed by Israel as the main command post for Hamas

The Guardian - UK

Middle East leaders hold emergency summit amid siege on Gaza hospital

Al-Shifa chief says Israeli troops firing at complex, which has no medical supplies, power or water for thousands trapped inside

The Guardian - AU

Israel-Hamas war: UN calls Gaza fighting ‘reprehensible’ – as it happened

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The Guardian - UK

Fears for thousands sheltering at Gaza City hospital as Israeli forces close in

Strikes increasing near al-Shifa hospital, where it is said more than 50,000 people may have taken shelter

The Guardian - AU

Israel-Hamas war: what we know on day 36

‘No justification’ for Israeli bombing of babies in Gaza, Emmanuel Macron says; largest hospital in Gaza under bombardment, WHO says

The Guardian - AU

Israel-Hamas war: what we know on day 35

Number of people killed in Gaza rises to 11,078; Gaza’s largest hospital faced bombardment on Friday

The Guardian - UK

Gaza’s largest hospital being bombarded, WHO says

Attack comes as Blinken laments Palestinian death toll and Netanyahu says Israel does not seek to govern territory

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