Israel's military has said it has encircled Gaza City, but on Saturday offered a three-hour window for residents trapped by the fighting to flee south.
in the Gaza Strip as the assault intensified on the besieged enclave's Hamas rulers amid growing international uproar over the soaring death toll and deepening humanitarian crisis.
With wide swaths of residential neighbourhoods levelled in airstrikes, most of northern Gaza's remaining residents, estimated at around 300,000, have sought shelter in UN-run schools and in hospitals where they hope they'll be safe. But deadly Israeli strikes have also repeatedly hit and damaged those shelters.
Also Saturday, two people were killed in a strike by the gate of Nasser Hospital in Gaza City, according to Medhat Abbas, spokesman for the Health Ministry. "The humanitarian situation in Gaza is horrific," Guterres said late Friday in an unusually blunt statement. "An entire population is traumatised, nowhere is safe."
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Lebanese Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati at his hotel amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. During the operation the military said fighters were seen exiting a tunnel and they were killed by Israel troops. Throughout the war, Israel and Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, have traded fire almost daily along the Lebanese border, raising fears of a new front opening there.On Friday in Tel Aviv, on his third trip to Israel since the war began, Blinken pushed President Joe Biden's calls for a brief halt in the fighting to address the worsening humanitarian crisis. But Netanyahu said there could be no humanitarian pause until Hamas releases all the hostages it holds.
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