The Israeli military
said on Tuesday it had taken operational control of the
Palestinian side of Gaza s southern Rafah Crossing, which
borders Egypt and has been pivotal for the delivery of aid.
Israeli forces advancing into the southern Gaza Strip's main city pounded areas near the biggest hospital still functioning in the enclave on Thursday, sending patients and residents fleeing a battle they feared would lay the city to waste. The heaviest battle of the year so far was under way in Khan Younis, sheltering hundreds of thousands of people who fled the north earlier in the war, now in its fourth month. The Israeli military said a brigade in Khan Younis, now operating further south than troops had ventured before, had "eliminated dozens of terrorists in close-quarters combat and with the assistance of tank fire and air support".
(Bloomberg) The head of the World Health Organization said Israel ordered it to empty medical warehouses in the southern Gaza Strip, sounding the alarm about an impending humanitarian crisis as Israeli forces expand their war against Hamas. Israel rejected the charge. Most Read from BloombergHow Suspects Laundered Billions in Singapore for YearsHarvard Alumni Rebuke Its Israel Response With Mere $1 DonationsBitcoin Surges Past $42,000 Even as Stocks and Bonds Take a HitStocks Mixed on China C
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