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Opposition mounts in Arab countries that normalized relations with Israel

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FILE - Thousands of Moroccans take part in a protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and against normalisation with Israel, in Casablanca, Morocco, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. Countries in the Middle East that have normalized or are considering normalizing relations with Israel are coming under growing public pressure to cut those ties because of Israel's war with Hamas. The protesters' demands present an uncomfortable dilemma for governments that have enjoyed the benefits of closer military and economic ties with Israel in recent years. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy, File)

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FILE – Thousands of Moroccans take part in a protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and against normalisation with Israel, in Casablanca, Morocco, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. Countries in the Middle East that have normalized or are considering normalizing relations with Israel are coming under growing public pressure to cut those ties because of Israel’s war with Hamas. The protesters’ demands present an uncomfortable dilemma for governments that have enjoyed the benefits of closer military and economic ties with Israel in recent years. (AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy, File)Read More

FILE - Thousands of Moroccans take part in a protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and against normalisation with Israel, in Casablanca, Morocco, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. Countries in the Middle East that have normalized or are considering normalizing relations with Israel are coming under growing public pressure to cut those ties because of Israel's war with Hamas. The protesters' demands present an uncomfortable dilemma for governments that have enjoyed the benefits of closer military and economic ties with Israel in recent years. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

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FILE – Thousands of Moroccans take part in a protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and against normalisation with Israel, in Casablanca, Morocco, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. Countries in the Middle East that have normalized or are considering normalizing relations with Israel are coming under growing public pressure to cut those ties because of Israel’s war with Hamas. The protesters’ demands present an uncomfortable dilemma for governments that have enjoyed the benefits of closer military and economic ties with Israel in recent years. (AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy)Read More

FILE - Protesters shout anti-Israel slogans during a rally to show solidarity with the people of Gaza after Friday prayers at Azhar mosque, the Sunni Muslim world's premier Islamic institution, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. Countries in the Middle East that have normalized or are considering normalizing relations with Israel are coming under growing public pressure to cut those ties because of Israel's war with Hamas. The protesters' demands present an uncomfortable dilemma for governments that have enjoyed the benefits of closer military and economic ties with Israel in recent years. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

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FILE – Protesters shout anti-Israel slogans during a rally to show solidarity with the people of Gaza after Friday prayers at Azhar mosque, the Sunni Muslim world’s premier Islamic institution, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. Countries in the Middle East that have normalized or are considering normalizing relations with Israel are coming under growing public pressure to cut those ties because of Israel’s war with Hamas. The protesters’ demands present an uncomfortable dilemma for governments that have enjoyed the benefits of closer military and economic ties with Israel in recent years. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)Read More

FILE - Protesters shout anti-Israel slogans during a rally to show solidarity with the people of Gaza after Friday prayers at Azhar mosque, the Sunni Muslim world's premier Islamic institution, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. Countries in the Middle East that have normalized or are considering normalizing relations with Israel are coming under growing public pressure to cut those ties because of Israel's war with Hamas. The protesters' demands present an uncomfortable dilemma for governments that have enjoyed the benefits of closer military and economic ties with Israel in recent years. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

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FILE – Protesters shout anti-Israel slogans during a rally to show solidarity with the people of Gaza after Friday prayers at Azhar mosque, the Sunni Muslim world’s premier Islamic institution, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. Countries in the Middle East that have normalized or are considering normalizing relations with Israel are coming under growing public pressure to cut those ties because of Israel’s war with Hamas. The protesters’ demands present an uncomfortable dilemma for governments that have enjoyed the benefits of closer military and economic ties with Israel in recent years. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)Read More

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BY SAM METZUpdated 4:49 AM GMT+7, November 2, 2023 AP

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Arab nations that have normalized or are considering improving relations with Israel are coming under growing public pressure to cut those ties because of Israel’s war with Hamas.

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Rabat and other Moroccan cities in support of the Palestinians. In Bahrain — a country that almost never allows protest — police stood by as hundreds of people marched last month, waving flags and gathering in front of the Israeli Embassy in Manama.

The demonstrations, which mirror protests across the Middle East, present an uncomfortable dilemma for governments that have enjoyed the benefits of closer military and economic ties with Israel in recent years.

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Gaza and Israel: The cost of war will be counted in children’s lives

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UNICEF OCTOBER 26, 2023 by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell

The true cost of the violence in Gaza and Israel will be measured in children’s lives—those lost to the violence and those forever changed by it.

Less than three weeks on from the horrific attack inside Israel and the start of daily bombings of the Gaza Strip, the devastating tally in Israel and Gaza is quickly adding up. More than 2,700 Palestinian children have been killed and nearly 6,000 injured, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, for a shocking average of more than 480 child casualties per day.

More than 30 Israeli children have reportedly been killed, while at least 20 remain hostage in the Gaza Strip, their fates unknown.

Sadly, more suffering and death is on the horizon.  

Gaza is one of the most densely populated places on Earth—home to more than 2 million people, nearly half of whom are children. More than 1 million people in the north have been warned to move south, ahead of what is expected to be a wide-scale military operation. But with near-constant shelling, closed borders, and little room for movement, they have nowhere truly safe to go.   

Meanwhile, what clean water remains is quickly running out, leaving many Gazans with little choice but to rely on polluted wells. This dramatically increases the risk of waterborne-disease outbreaks. Unless access to safe drinking water is restored, people will die from severe dehydration and illness, with children the most vulnerable.  

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Israel-Hamas War: “Enough Of The Bigotry Against Palestinians!”

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Cenk Uygur, a Turkish-American political commentator and media host. He is the creator of The Young Turks

“We have to have two state solution immediately. I’m asking Israeli not out of hate….So many of my friends I grew up with are Jewish. This is not good for them. This is not good for any body. Please look into your hearts. Look. Be the moral that I know you can be. I’ve been to the Passover dinner where you pray for your oppressors. Now I breaks my heart. But I have to tell you, you have to pray for those you’re oppressing. And saying you’re not oppressing them after brutalizing them for 56-long years. You’re kidding yourself. And as a friend and an ally, I’m trying to get you wake up. You can not keep doing this.

‘Not in our name’: Jewish peace activists across the US call for immediate ceasefire and justice for Palestinians

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CNN.com By Alaa Elassar, CNN Updated 11:38 AM EDT, Mon October 23, 2023

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Jewish peace activists staged a sit-in on Capitol Hill, where they called for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war on October 18.Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA-EFE/ShutterstockCNN — 

As Rabbi Alissa Wise scrolls through social media, her feed is littered with videos of dead Palestinian children, parents holding their lifeless bodies with screams caught in their throats and eyes sunken with grief.

Like millions around the world, she has been haunted by the gruesome scenes flooding out of Gaza, where civilians have endured more than two weeks of an Israeli siege and bombing campaign that has collapsed homes, destroyed vital infrastructure and sparked a humanitarian crisis.

The airstrikes have killed more than 4,600 Palestinians so far, including an estimated 1,900 children, and wounded at least 14,000 others, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza. Another 1.4 million people have been internally displaced, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.

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Israel’s Ground War Against Hamas: What to Know

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By Max Boot, CFR Expert, CFR

Last updated October 23, 2023 9:00 am (EST)

A major ground campaign in the Gaza Strip will display Israel’s overwhelming military force, but the country faces a steep challenge in its goal of eradicating Hamas, as well as in finding a workable post-combat plan for the territory.

What does Israel intend to achieve with a ground war in the Gaza Strip?

Israeli officials have repeatedly said their goal is to eliminate Hamas. By crushing the terrorist organization, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hopes to reassert Israeli deterrence and show Israel’s enemies the high costs of attacking it. Israel has already launched a massive bombing campaign of the Gaza Strip and, more recently, raids on the ground, while signaling that it will soon launch a major ground offensive.

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Barack Obama: Thoughts on Israel and Gaza

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Barack Obama

·It’s been 17 days since Hamas launched its horrific attack against Israel, killing over 1,400 Israeli citizens, including defenseless women, children and the elderly. In the aftermath of such unspeakable brutality, the U.S. government and the American people have shared in the grief of families, prayed for the return of loved ones, and rightly declared solidarity with the Israeli people. Tiếp tục đọc “Barack Obama: Thoughts on Israel and Gaza” →

United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People – NGO ACTION NEWS19 October 2023

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Click here for the PDF version 
Puede encontrar aquí los números de “Noticias de Acción de las ONG” en español. 
Priere de trouver ci-joint les bulletins “NGO Action News” en français. للحصول على الترجمة العربية لأنباء عن أعمال المنظمات غير الحكومية، يرجى زيارة هنا  

Middle East 
On 18 October, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies published an article expressing dismay over the bombing of Al Ahli Arabi Baptist Hospital in Gaza and calling, among other things, for the ICC to implement an investigation into crimes committed by all parties since 7 October and initiate prosecution of those implicated in crimes.  Tiếp tục đọc “United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People – NGO ACTION NEWS19 October 2023” →

Disinformation surge threatens to fuel Israel-Hamas conflict

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By Stephanie Burnett, Stephen Farrell and Hardik Vyas October 18, 20238:39 PM GMT+7 Updated 10 hours ago

Aftermath of Israeli strikes

[1/2]A dove flies over the debris of houses destroyed in Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip October 11, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights

Summary

  • Fake or misleading posts proliferate after Hamas attack
  • Cyber distortions deepen enmity in region and beyond
  • Acrimony online can have real world consequences

AMSTERDAM/LONDON, Oct 18 (Reuters) – As the Israel-Hamas war rages, regulators and analysts say a wave of online disinformation risks further inflaming passions and escalating the conflict in an electronic fog of war.

An explosion at a Gaza hospital that killed hundreds of Palestinians on Tuesday is the latest focus of the surge of activity as supporters of both sides in the battle between Israel and Hamas try to bolster their own side’s narrative and cast doubts on the other’s.

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After blast kills hundreds at Gaza hospital, Hamas and Israel trade blame as rage spreads in region

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Wounded Palestinians wait for treatment in al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, after arriving from al-Ahli hospital following an explosion there, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. The Hamas-run Health Ministry says an Israeli airstrike caused the explosion that killed hundreds at al-Ahli, but the Israeli military says it was a misfired Palestinian rocket. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)

From Nazism to the Creation of Israel vs Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story. Then what is Hamas?

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In 1948, the State of Israel was created. For Jews around the world, it is the end of 2000 years of exile. For the 700,000 Palestinians present on these lands, this is the beginning of injustice.

Documentary

Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story

“A land without a people, and a people without a land” is how the relationship between Palestine and the Jewish people was described by Christian writers in the 1800s. And the 20th-century history of the Middle East has largely been written through these eyes.

But this film from Al Jazeera Arabic looks at Palestine from a different angle. It hears from historians and witness accounts, and features archive documents that show Palestine as a thriving province of Greater Syria and the Ottoman Empire at the dawn of the 20th century. The evidence suggests that its cities had a developing trade and commercial sector, growing infrastructure, and embryonic culture that would enable it to meet the challenges of the decades ahead. However, the political ramifications of the Balfour Declaration, San Remo Conference and British Mandate set in motion a series of events that profoundly affected this vibrant, fledgeling society and led to the events of 1948 and beyond.

This film is the other side of the Palestinian story.

What is the armed Palestinian group Hamas?

Israel has declared war on the Palestinian armed group, Hamas. But where did the group come from, who supports it and what is it fighting for? Here’s what you need to know:

84,000 pregnant women at risk in Gaza with aid stalled at Rafah crossing, World Health Organization says

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From CNN’s Kareem Khadder

A boy carries items salvaged from the rubble of buildings destroyed during Israeli airstrikes in Gaza's Rafah refugee camp, on October 16.
A boy carries items salvaged from the rubble of buildings destroyed during Israeli airstrikes in Gaza’s Rafah refugee camp, on October 16. Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images

Gaza needs international assistance urgently as it faces an “unparalleled humanitarian crisis,” according to the head of the Hamas-controlled government media office.

“The magnitude of casualties, injuries, the destruction of residential units, infrastructure, public facilities, and economic losses has given rise to an unparalleled humanitarian crisis in Gaza, unlike anything seen in previous aggressions,” Salama Marouf said in a statement Tuesday.

As the humanitarian situation worsens, “there is a noticeable decline in [the] international response,” Salama said.

Decisive action was “urgently required” from the international community to halt what he called a campaign of “ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the occupation against the Palestinian people.”  

Earlier on Tuesday, Margaret Harris, spokesperson for the World Health Organization, told CNN’s John Vause that the humanitarian corridor into Gaza remains unsafe due to Israeli bombing, with more than 44 Gaza hospitals targeted and 84,000 pregnant women in need of assistance. 

Israel has vowed to wipe out Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza, in response to the October 7 terrorist attacks that killed 1,400 people. It has laid siege to the enclave and told more than 1 million people to move to southern Gaza from the north.

U.S. students are clashing over the Israel-Hamas war. What can colleges do?

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npr.org October 14, 20235:00 AM ETLISTEN· 4:53

AYESHA RASCOE, HOST:

Tensions over Israel’s war with Hamas have extended all the way to college campuses in the U.S. There have been protests and strong statements and, at times, physical and verbal clashes. What are colleges supposed to do in these moments? To answer that question and tell us about what has been happening, we turn to NPR’s Elissa Nadworny. Hi, Elissa.

ELISSA NADWORNY, BYLINE: Hi, Ayesha.

RASCOE: So walk us through the week. How has this played out at colleges?

NADWORNY: Let’s first go to Harvard. So there, last weekend, a coalition of student groups issued a statement saying they, quote, “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for the unfolding violence.” Now, this statement was met with a lot of anger, pushback and pressure. And since then, some of the student groups have apologized or retracted their endorsements. Across the country, there have been vigils and protests on campus. At Indiana University, the student newspaper reported clashes between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian student groups. And even before the Hamas attack, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been one of the most contentious issues on campus.

RASCOE: And how are the administrations of these universities reacting to all of this turmoil?

NADWORNY: We’ve seen quite a range of responses. The University of Florida president, Ben Sasse, a former Republican senator, came out and said, quote, “we’ll protect our Jewish students from violence.” We’ve also seen other schools, like Vanderbilt and University of Virginia, issue multiple statements, you know? They just can’t quite get it right. I talked with Eboo Patel about this. He’s the president of Interfaith America, which works with campuses around conflict issues.

EBOO PATEL: I got a phone call from a college president this morning telling me that his campus would be hosting a peace vigil, and he was concerned about a disturbance at that peace vigil possibly approaching violence.

NADWORNY: Patel told that campus leader and others, keep your message super clear and simple. Say, look, people are hurting. We care and support our students, and we will be a community of cooperation.

PATEL: We’re not going to minimize the conflict. We are simply going to say that we are not going to allow the conflict to prevent us from cooperating on other things. That’s the genius of American college campuses.

RASCOE: What about schools that have remained quiet, which – I mean, that can feel like a statement in and of itself?

NADWORNY: That’s right. Yeah. You know, surprisingly, some free speech advocates actually like this approach, though they acknowledge it will come with pushback. Here’s Alex Morey, she’s the director of campus rights advocacy at FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.

ALEX MOREY: The commentary is so divisive, and there’s really no right answer for a university. So what is so much better, but unpopular at the moment, for universities to do is to remove themselves from the debate entirely and instead say, we are not going to put our thumb on the scale as the university, one way or another, because that will chill the environment for free expression for scholarly inquiry.

RASCOE: Elissa, I’m guessing that many students right now are feeling like they are in the middle of all of this.

NADWORNY: Yeah. Many students are frustrated both about what student groups are saying and, in some cases, what universities aren’t saying. Here’s Caroline Yaffa. She’s a senior at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

CAROLINE YAFFA: I think it’s the university’s obligation to weigh in on this.

NADWORNY: Yaffa is Jewish, and she told NPR’s Rachel Treisman that she has had moments this week where she doesn’t feel safe on campus. She even changed her name on her Uber account from Yaffa to Smith.

RASCOE: And what about students who have organized pro-Palestine protests or are part of student groups that support Palestine?

YAFFA: Well, the National Organization of Students for Justice in Palestine told NPR that they expect universities to defend and protect a student’s right to speak, assemble and protest. Some students who are part of local chapters didn’t want to talk on the record for fear of retaliation. But I talked with Radhika Sainath, a senior staff attorney at Palestine Legal, an advocacy group that focuses on academic freedom.

RADHIKA SAINATH: So many people have been coming to us as well who just have basic questions of saying, you know, can I say that I support Palestinian rights? Can I say that I stand against Israeli military occupation or for Palestinian freedom? Am I allowed to do this at my university?

NADWORNY: She said she’s heard from professors that say their social media posts are being questioned. Students say they’re facing harassment or doxing, where their names and addresses get released online. And Sainath tells them, look, the First Amendment right in the United States protects speech, even if it’s controversial.

RASCOE: That’s Elissa Nadworny from NPR’s education team. Thank you so much for joining us.

NADWORNY: Thanks, Ayesha.

Experts say Hamas and Israel are committing war crimes in their fight

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Israeli soldiers inspect the site of a music festival near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel, Friday. Oct. 13, 2023. At least 260 Israeli festival-goers were killed during the attack by Hamas gunmen last Saturday. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Israeli soldiers inspect the site of a music festival near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel, Friday. Oct. 13, 2023. At least 260 Israeli festival-goers were killed during the attack by Hamas gunmen last Saturday. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)Read More

Israeli tanks head towards the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel on Friday, Oct.13, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Israeli tanks head towards the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel on Friday, Oct.13, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)Read More

Palestinians evacuate wounded people after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. As Israel escalates its war on Hamas, it will confront many of the same dilemmas it has grappled with over decades of conflict with the Palestinians. It will want to punish Hamas like never before, but without killing so many Palestinian civilians that it loses international support. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

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Palestinians evacuate wounded people after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. As Israel escalates its war on Hamas, it will confront many of the same dilemmas it has grappled with over decades of conflict with the Palestinians. It will want to punish Hamas like never before, but without killing so many Palestinian civilians that it loses international support. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)Read More

Palestinians inspect the rubble of buildings hit by an Israeli airstrike at Al Shati Refugee Camp Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. As Israel escalates its war on Hamas, it will confront many of the same dilemmas it has grappled with over decades of conflict with the Palestinians. It will want to punish Hamas like never before, but without killing so many Palestinian civilians that it loses international support. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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Palestinians inspect the rubble of buildings hit by an Israeli airstrike at Al Shati Refugee Camp Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. As Israel escalates its war on Hamas, it will confront many of the same dilemmas it has grappled with over decades of conflict with the Palestinians. It will want to punish Hamas like never before, but without killing so many Palestinian civilians that it loses international support. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)Read More

BY MIKE CORDER AND JULIA FRANKEL APnews

Updated 3:14 AM GMT+7, October 14, 2023

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The deadly attacks by Hamas on Israeli civilians and the devastating Israeli airstrikes and blockade of Gaza have raised accusations among international legal experts that both sides were violating international law.

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Gaza’s desperate civilians flee or huddle in hopes of safety, as warnings of Israeli offensive mount

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BY JOSEPH KRAUSS AND WAFAA SHURAFAU, APnews

pdated 6:50 AM GMT+7, October 15, 2023Share

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Desperate Palestinians scrambled for escape from northern Gaza on Saturday or huddled by the thousands at a hospital in the target zone in hopes it would be spared, as Israel intensified warnings of an imminent offensive by air, ground and sea following Hamas militants’ deadly rampage in Israel a week ago.

While workers at an Israeli military base continued efforts through the Jewish Sabbath to identify the more than 1,300 people killed in the Oct. 7 assault, Israel dropped leaflets from the air and redoubled warnings on social media for more than 1 million Gaza residents to move south.

The military says it is trying to clear away civilians ahead of a concentrated campaign against Hamas militants in the north, including in what it said were underground hideouts in Gaza City. Hamas urged people to stay in their homes.

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