Israel-Hamas war live updates: Israel says it’s preparing Gaza ground attack

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Israel-Hamas war live updates: Israel says it’s preparing Gaza ground attack
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The IDF said Saturday that it would be establishing a second route for those in northern Gaza to head south.

NBC News’ Lester Holt, Richard Engel, Raf Sanchez, Kelly Cobiella, Matt Bradley, Ellison Barber, Chantal Da Silva and Josh Lederman are reporting from the region.Fifteen medical centers have been damaged, two hospitals have stopped providing service, and 28 health staff have been killed and dozens more injured, according to Palestinian Health Minister Mai Al-Kaila.

The IDF said that in recent days soldiers have been fighting to regain control of towns and outposts, capturing “many weapons that were in the possession of the terrorists, while evacuating the wounded who were hit.” Hanegbi also said that when it came to its intelligence failure ahead of the attacks and protecting its citizens, “We failed and no one thinks differently, and it will be investigated, but all efforts now are for war.”Israeli soldiers prepare armed drones stationed close to the Gaza Strip, from a field near the southern Israeli city of Sderot on Saturday.

Israeli soldiers walk near houses that were destroyed during a Hamas attack on the kibbutz in Be'eri, Israel, on Saturday.The foreign minister said priority needs to be placed on stopping "further civilian suffering."Blinken agreed that civilians need to be protected."We’re working together to do exactly that," he said.

As soldiers conducted maintenance on their vehicles, the sounds of small-arms fire could be heard in the distance. Smoke rose from the mountaintops from what Israel’s military says were roughly 30 mortar shells fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory. Israeli forces responded by shelling the site from which the mortars were fired.

Three young men sit in “The Sira,” one of the only few bars in town open on a Saturday. They say they are"depressed, scared, anxious, all of the above.” Al-Manar TV reported that Hezbollah fighters pounded Israeli positions in the Chebaa Farms and Kfar Chouba hills area on Saturday. Rabbi Meir Azari said that he was supposed to be officiating four bar mitzvahs on Saturday, three weddings this week and four next week — but all of them have been canceled given that so many young people have been mobilized to join the war.

"For security reasons, the Musée du Louvre is closing its doors today, Saturday, October 14. Those who have booked a visit during the day will be reimbursed," the gallery posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.The closure comes after Macron called for the mobilization of 7,000 soldiers for increased security patrols after a teacher was fatally stabbed and two more people injured in an Islamist attack on a school in Arras, northern France.

The department has advised Americans not to travel to Gaza, due to the threats of armed conflict, civil unrest and terrorism, and has also advised citizens to"reconsider travel" to Israel and the West Bank.Thousands of people have turned out to a protest in central London over the Israeli siege of Gaza.

The State Department told Americans that the crossing might only be open for a short period of time and with very little notice. "Everyone was killed, only my mother survived," he said via WhatsApp. Images from the scene show him kissing her hand as she was pulled from the wreckage alive.showing a group of people who died while fleeing northern Gaza on Friday. Among the dead in the convoy were children and women, lying in pools of blood near vehicles.Seventy were killed after Israeli airstrikes hit convoys of Palestinian evacuees heading south in Gaza.

“Lots of people are waiting here, outside the Palestinian gate. They are all waiting to get out of here, but the Palestinians are not here to open the gate, and the Egyptians are not there on their side too. Nobody has any information, any update,” she said. “We need to truck fuel into Gaza now. Fuel is the only way for people to have safe drinking water. If not, people will start dying of severe dehydration, among them young children, the elderly and women. Water is now the last remaining lifeline,” he added.SDEROT, Israel — In the small Israeli city of Sderot, on the border with northern Gaza, the steady booms of outgoing Israeli artillery can be heard. Small arms are firing in the distance.

Biden assured her that “they consider the hostages missing as U.S. citizens, as their own, and that they will do everything they can — but that this is unchartered territory,” she said. The officials said the blast walls were erected as part of “precautionary measures” Egypt has taken in recent days over growing concerns about a mass exodus of Palestinians.

The grim scene unfolded at the kibbutz Re’im on the morning of Oct. 7 and was recorded by a dashboard camera. Hecht added that he was “aware of talk of a humanitarian exit” for Americans in Gaza and said there would be more details to come.A plane carrying WHO medical supplies has landed near the Rafah crossing in Egypt, according to the organization's director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

France was put on its highest security alert on Friday after a 20-year-old man fatally stabbed a teacher and gravely wounded two other people in an attack at a school in the city of Arras in northern France. “We will never erase Gaza from the map. We will never kill 2.8 million people because that’s not us. We won’t do that,” he said.The IDF said fighter jets conducted"wide-scale strikes throughout the Gaza Strip" last night, including against dozens of Hamas terror targets and “Nukhba” operatives, referring to a special forces unit within Hamas that it said helped lead last week's unprecedented attack.

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