As Israel continues to push into Gaza, it says its forces freed an Israeli soldier who had been held by Hamas since the Oct. 7 attacks.
Rockets and"light bombs" are seen over the Gaza strip on Monday, Oct. 30, 2023, from Sderot, Israel. As Israel's response to Hamas's Oct. 7 attacks entered its fourth week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the war would be a long one and would amount to a"second war of independence.
Ground troops freed an Israeli soldier who being held hostage by Hamas, the Israeli military said. It is the first successful military operation to rescue a hostage by Israel in Gaza. Pvt. Ori Megidish had been kidnapped on Oct. 7, the day nearly 2,000 Hamas-led attackers stormed southern Israel and killed about 1,400 people.A boy in Khan Younis sits on donkey-drawn cart loaded with a water tank, as drinking water and fuel become increasingly scarce in Gaza.
About a thousand Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Friday, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, bringing the overall death toll there to more than 8,000. Israel said Sunday it would resume water supply to central Gaza and authorize the Palestinian Water Authority to make repairs to pipelines damaged in the conflict. The U.N. reported that water supply in southern Gaza had experienced"significant improvement" in recent days as its agencies have delivered small amounts of fuel to desalination plants and pumping stations.
He, his wife and 1-year-old son are sheltering in a home in southern Gaza with about 40 or so other people, he said. Members of the household have been walking to a filtration station every day to fill up a few gallons to bring home for everyone. An airport in Russia's Muslim-majority region of Dagestan closed Sunday night after pro-Palestinian protesters stormed the airport as a flight from Tel Aviv arrived.
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