U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken was heading to the region for talks in Israel and Jordan following President Biden’s suggestion for a humanitarian “pause” in the fighting.
By Wafaa Shurafa, Jack Jeffery and Lee Keath, Associated PressA man sits on the rubble as others wander among debris of buildings that were targeted by Israeli airstrikes in Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023.
An airstrike Thursday smashed a residential building to rubble in the Bureij refugee camp several miles south of Gaza City.One boy, his face covered in blood, cried as workers dug him out of the dirt and wreckage. Others rushed wounded men and women, covered in dust, away on stretchers or wrapped in blankets. At a nearby hospital, doctors tried to stanch the flow of blood from the head of a child laid out on the floor.
There was no immediate comment by the Israeli military on the strikes. Israel says it targets Hamas fighters and infrastructure and that the group endangers civilians by operating among them and in tunnels under civilian areas.U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken talks to reporters prior boarding his aircraft to depart Washington on travel to the Middle East and Asia at Andrews Air Force Base. Md., Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023.
Israel has allowed more than 260 trucks carrying food and medicine through the crossing, but aid workers say it’s not nearly enough. Israeli authorities have refused to allow fuel in, saying Hamas is hoarding fuel for military use and would steal new supplies. This photo released by the Israeli military on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023, shows ground operations inside the Gaza Strip.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians remain in the path of the fighting in northern Gaza, despite Israel’s repeated calls for them to evacuate to the south, which is also being bombarded. Many have crowded into U.N. facilities, hoping for safety. Residents of Kibbutz Kfar Azza bind their hands and wear blindfolds during a demonstration in solidarity with friends and relatives held hostage in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. The small farming community was overrun by Hamas militants during a bloody cross-border raid from Gaza on Oct. 7. Eighteen residents were kidnapped and taken to Gaza, among them seven children, the youngest 3 years old.
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