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is growing in Gaza amid devastating Israeli airstrikes, where clean water, food, fuel, medical supplies and electricity have run short as hundreds of thousands of people flee south.
But the crossing remained closed Monday, despite promises from U.S. State Department officials, leaving many Palestinian Americans frustrated but “not surprised.” President Biden is strongly considering a trip to Israel as early as this week, according to three U.S. officials. Yesterday, Biden was invited to Egypt for an Oct. 21 international summit focused on the future of Palestinians, according to a U.S. official. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi announced the summit yesterday after meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and has also invited all members of the U.N. Security Council, Arab countries and other world leaders.
Approximately 2,000 U.S. troops have put on prepare-to-deploy orders for possible support to Israel, a defense official tells NBC News. Benoit said those fleeing include international staff and Palestinians who have been working for Doctors Without Borders. Israel's siege on the city and the shortage of electricity has also meant it is difficult for the organization to keep track of its staff and communicate with them.
The water that many are drinking in the city is salty and brackish, but there is no fuel available to run the water treatment plant, she said. "The Israel Defense Forces continues to attack in the Gaza Strip," IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari said."We eliminated a number of terrorists, including the head of general intelligence."Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sheltered in a bunker for five minutes when air raid sirens went off during their meeting, a State Department spokesperson said.
Alarayshi says he won't be able to shake the carnage he has witnessed: “When I close my eyes, I see a lot of bombs, I see a lot of houses down."A former top Israeli hostage negotiator has told NBC News’ Lester Holt that Israel has a matter of days to try to free the 199 confirmed hostages taken by Hamas before an anticipated ground offensive ends the possibility of their peaceful release.
"The first two flights will take place this week, carrying humanitarian cargo from UNICEF including shelter items, medicines and hygiene kits," an E.U. press release said. "Once the supplies reach Gaza, it is imperative that the humanitarian workers are able to do their work, which is to deliver assistance to those in need and save lives," Lenarčič said."The safety of humanitarian staff to bring these supplies to people in need without any impediments must be ensured."
Among them was a family from the Chabad-Lubavitch Orthodox community. Their son, Avri Pizem, 9, joined his father working at the city’s emergency aid center. Pizem wore body armor and a helmet far too big for his small frame while he delivered orders on his radio to friends nearby.
In Gaza City, the Snap Map shows videos of crowded streets and gatherings of people holding Palestinian flags. Streets are covered in rubble, and the remains of broken buildings are piled stories high. A person driving a car passes by a row of buildings, one collapsed in on itself. An ambulance passes in front of them.
NBC News’ Richard Engel reports on Israel’s targeted strikes and why “a pause” could mean that the Israeli military is tightening up its military strategy.Firefighters put out fires at a destroyed United Nations food aid warehouse and distribution center hit by Israeli airstrikes today in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in southern Gaza City.
Those two liters must last for three days, she said, as the taps in her household ceased to supply water after Israel imposed a"full siege." “These conversations are conducted in a bilateral and confidential manner,” Davies said. “However, I do want to emphasize that we are relentlessly working to ensure that we can gain that access.”Jason Shawa, a Palestinian American living in Gaza with his wife and two kids, did not try going to the border today.
"We know that they'll say she can’t come because she isn’t a blood relative, nor is she a U.S. citizen," Shawa said, referring to his children's"elderly" caretaker."And in all honesty, we just thought about it and can't bring ourselves to leave her behind."“They don’t want to depopulate Gaza, that is the thing,” Shawa said.
That comes after the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said that its fighters had targeted five Israeli posts along the border in the country’s south with “direct weapons.”A woman looks for further incoming rockets as she shelters by the side of the road with a young boy today in Tel Aviv.Martin Fletcher, NBC’s longtime bureau chief in Tel Aviv, said"the only realistic endgame is for Hamas to be weakened so much militarily and politically that they become a weak government in Gaza.
"And so they’re seeing this -- they’re in the middle of this with very young kids,” he added. “And so it’s a really, really stressful situation. So we’re just glad that we were able to get back here, but I mean, this is a real conflict.”the U.S. should take in Palestinian refugees but said “of course I would” be willing to ask other Arab countries to accept them.
Blinken and his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, discussed"diplomatic efforts to prevent the conflict from widening and to minimize the humanitarian costs of the war," Miller said.The U.S. government has chartered a cruise ship to ferry Americans in Israel to safety in Cyprus. Officials told NBC News’ Josh Lederman that the ship could carry 2,500 people. Commercial airlines have stopped flying out of Israel, leaving evacuations like this one as their only options to leave.
The sheriff’s office said a motive for the stabbing of the mother and her son was"them being Muslim and the ongoing Middle Eastern conflict involving Hamas and the Israelis."U.S. officials are as close to the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt as security conditions permit, a senior State Department Official told a pool of reporters traveling with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday.
“We don’t know where we are going to live. Our community is burned,” he said. “The people that survived, they lost many friends and family, so, yeah, it’s nice to come here a little bit and be with the horses.”In a phone conversation today, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi told Russian President Vladimir Putin that Israel's retaliatory airstrikes in Gaza must stop, according to the Russian state agency Tass, citing the Iranian state-run IRNA.
"Israel is talking about supplying water to the south with a quantity of 14,000 cubic meters per day, including part of Khan Yunis, the Bani Suhaila area, Abasan, and Khuza’a," the Palestinian Water Authority told NBC News in a comment sent on Facebook. United Nations Relief and Works Agency workers and staff evacuated the headquarters on Friday and have not been able to return. Cameras that normally cover the building's entrance were not working because of blasts, the agency said.
NBC News is shown a picture of unidentified charred remains, then a CT scan of those remains. Dr. Chen Kugel, the head of the center, explains it shows two people: An adult hugging a child, the two somehow tied together.The world is watching Gaza but already many U.S. allies and partners are battling to stay united while America’s foes are — as ever — poised to seize on any sign of Western division.
This is part of a global picture that Israel, the U.S. and the West must navigate as the ground offensive gets underway.ASHDOD, Israel — Liel Fishbien’s last message from his sister was a warning: “Be careful and quiet. They’re in your neighborhood.”Oct. 7, part of a large-scale attack on Israel by terrorists from Hamas.
"Until now, unfortunately, the Israeli government has not taken a position that would lead to the possibility of opening the crossing from the Gaza side to allow the entry of aid or the exit of citizens from other countries," Shoukry said."We and all the Egyptian agencies are fully prepared to bring in aid and the exit of citizens of different countries, and also to operate the crossing at its normal pace.
Both the boy, Wadea Al-Fayoume, and his mother, 32, were found with stab wounds in a bedroom when sheriff’s deputies arrived at the scene. She is expected to survive. Hamas has said it will trade the captives for thousands of Palestinians held by Israel in the kind of lopsided exchange deals that have been reached in the past.
If they do eventually leave, it will be as part of deal to allow food, water and other supplies from Egypt into southern Gaza for the first time since the Hamas killing spree.Hamas warned today that more than 1,000 bodies remain under the rubble in Gaza, which could precipitate “an environmental disaster” and “the spread of epidemics” in the enclave.
Khan Younis is 6 miles away from the Rafah border crossing, where hundreds of people have been lining up, hoping to cross into Egypt. "The suffering and loss of innocent life in both Israel and Gaza is truly heartbreaking and my thoughts are with all those impacted," he said in a statement today. Biden also emphasized that while he believes Hamas should be completely eliminated, there needs to be a path to a Palestinian state.Secretary of State Antony Blinken returned to Israel today after a diplomacy tour of the Middle East to prevent the Hamas-Israel war from spilling over into the broader region.
Of those, almost 400,000 are sheltering at the U.N. facilities in the enclave, exceeding its capacity to assist "in any meaningful way," the report said.Palestinians pray by the bodies of people killed in Israeli airstrikes in the town of Deir al-Balah, in the Gaza Strip.The death toll in Gaza has reached 2,750, its Health Ministry said today, as the United Nations said the enclave, which has been bombarded and blockaded by Israel for over a week, was running out of body bags.
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