Blinken was optimistic about increased aid reaching the embattled territory, but U.S. officials fear intense urban combat in Gaza City lies ahead.
People search for victims following an Israeli airstrike on a house in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday. JERUSALEM — Israeli forces advanced deeper into Gaza on Monday, unleashing devastating airstrikes overnight that left the battered enclave struggling to assess the damage under another communications blackout, while a U.S.-backed humanitarian pause remained out of reach.
Ghassan Abu Sitta, a surgeon at al-Shifa Hospital, the largest in Gaza City, said that Sunday night, “the whole hospital was rocked to the core by massive explosions” during the communications blackout. About 50,000 displaced Gazans have taken shelter in the hospital. A spokesperson for the Israeli military declined to comment on the allegations linking the blackouts with the bombing campaigns, but U.S. officials have previously said Israel is behind the communication cuts.also reported a string of strikes overnight against other hospitals, including an attack on Gaza’s only psychiatric hospital, killing eight people. Other strikes killed four people at the Gaza Eye Hospital and four others at the Rantisi Pediatric Hospital.Hospitals and U.N.
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