Hundreds of foreign passport holders and wounded Palestinians have been allowed out of Gaza for the first time.
Israel’s ground troops have advanced towards Gaza City, as the US and Arab countries intensified diplomatic efforts to ease the siege of the Hamas-ruled enclave and bring about at least a brief stop to the fighting to help civilians.
The war, the fifth and by far deadliest in Gaza, began when Hamas launched a bloody rampage into Israel on October 7, which killed hundreds of men, women and children. Some 240 were captured.The US has pledged unwavering support for Israel as it seeks to end Hamas’s rule over Gaza and crush its military capabilities, even as the two allies seem to have no clear plan for the day after.
The third, from Gaza’s north-west corner, has moved about three miles down the Mediterranean coast, reaching the outskirts of the Shati and Jabaliya refugee camps, on the edges of Gaza City. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians remain in the path of the fighting in northern Gaza, despite Israel’s repeated calls for them to evacuate the region and head to the territory’s south, which is also being bombarded.Casualties on both sides are expected to rise as Israeli troops advance towards the dense residential neighbourhoods of Gaza City.
More than 1,400 people have died on the Israeli side, mainly civilians killed during Hamas’s initial attack, also an unprecedented figure. Sixteen Israeli soldiers have been killed in Gaza since the start of the ground operation.At least 335 foreign passport holders left Gaza through the Rafah crossing into Egypt on Wednesday, said Wael Abu Omar, a spokesman for the Palestinian Crossings Authority.
Hospitals in Gaza say their emergency generators are running dangerously low on fuel amid a territory-wide blackout. The World Health Organisation said the lack of fuel puts at risk 1,000 patients on kidney dialysis, 130 premature babies in incubators, as well as cancer patients and patients on ventilators.
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