Palestinians with dual citizenship walk as they wait for permission to leave Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, November 2, 2023.
More foreigners prepared to leave the Gaza Strip on Thursday as its Hamas-run government said at least 195 Palestinians died in Israeli attacks on a congested district on the outskirts of Gaza City, strikes that Israel said had killed Hamas commanders.
The war is closing in on the Gaza Strip's main population centre in the north, where the Islamist group is based and where Israel has been telling people to leave as it vows to annihilate Hamas once and for all.Are you in the Middle East and affected by the war between Israel and Hamas? We want to hear about your experience. Send an email to [email protected].
For the first time since Israel announced its 'complete siege' of Gaza, hundreds of foreign nationals trapped in the territory were allowed to cross into Egypt and escape the fighting, but no Canadians were on the list of those who got out. It was not immediately clear whether those children and their families would be able to leave Gaza under the deal brokered by Qatar at the Rafah crossing, which involved Israel and the United States.Residents reported mortar fire overnight in areas around Gaza City and said Israeli tanks and bulldozers were sometimes driving over rubble and knocking down structures rather than using regular roads as planes bombed from overhead.
Though Western nations and the United States in particular have traditionally supported Israel, harrowing images of bodies in the rubble and the conditions inside Gaza have triggered appeals for restraint and street protests around the world. U.S.
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