Several Killed in Explosion Outside Hospital in Gaza City
The scene outside Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City grew chaotic after an Israeli airstrike.
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The scene outside Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City grew chaotic after an Israeli airstrike.
For many, the path to the border crossing to reach Egypt has been filled with danger.
As bombs fell in the background, Palestinians in the Hamas-ruled territory recounted a struggle to survive.
Israel’s leaders vowed to destroy Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, after the deadly Oct. 7 attack, and Israeli ground forces are closing in on the city from three directions.
Israel, Egypt, the United Nations and others are still working out the details of delivering food, water and medicine, as Israel prepares a possible ground invasion.
President Biden backed Israel’s claim that a Gaza City explosion that killed hundreds, which Hamas blamed on Israel, had come from a failed rocket launch by an armed Palestinian group.
People in Khan Younis questioned whether southern Gaza was safer than the north after Israel shelled cities that it told Palestinians to evacuate to.
The border has been a longtime staging ground for attacks by Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese group.
Some Gaza residents feared this was the start of another permanent displacement like the one in 1948, when more than 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes in present-day Israel.
Residents of northern Gaza began to flee hours after the Israeli military called for civilians to evacuate to the southern half of the territory.