Crisis in Gaza as Israel warns of long war with Hamas

By Kathleen Magramo, Christian Edwards and Ed Upright, CNN Updated 8:22 a.m. ET, November 2, 2023

 

Gaza Strip under Siege
  • Gaza's hospitals are struggling to treat severely injured patients due to a lack of medical supplies and dire conditions, aid workers say. The head of a key medical facility in the north of the strip said its main generator has gone out of service. And Israeli airstrikes in the vicinity of the Al Quds hospital in Gaza City have continued into Thursday, its director told CNN, as the Israeli military urged civilians to move south.
  • Israel bombed the densely-populated Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza for the second time in two days Wednesday, in what the Civil Defense in the Hamas-run enclave described as a "second massacre." The Israeli military said the strike targeted a Hamas command and control complex.
  • The UN warned that the strikes raised “serious concerns that these are disproportionate attacks that could amount to war crimes.”
  • In the first sanctioned exodus from Gaza in weeks, injured Palestinians and hundreds of foreign nationals started entering Egypt through the Rafah border crossing Wednesday.
  • Here's how to help humanitarian efforts in Israel and Gaza.


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