Israel says it has encircled Gaza City

A Palestinian boy reacts at the damages at a UN-run school sheltering displaced people, following an Israeli strike, in Jabalia on Nov 2.People search for victims and survivors through the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli strike on the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Nov 2.Israeli soldiers in Kfar Aza, an Israeli kibbutz near the border with Gaza that was heavily damaged during the Oct 7 attack, Nov 2.

Brigadier-General Iddo Mizrahi, chief of Israel’s military engineers, said troops were encountering mines and booby traps.Mr Abu Ubaida, spokesperson for the armed wing of Hamas, said in a televised speech on Thursday that Israel’s death toll in Gaza was much higher than the military had announced.Israel has said it has lost 18 soldiers and killed dozens of militants since ground operations expanded on Friday.

There was no letup in the suffering of Palestinian civilians, with UN experts saying they were at “grave risk of genocide”.“Water is being used as a weapon of war,” said Ms Juliette Touma, a spokeswoman for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA. Over a third of Gaza’s 35 hospitals are not functioning, with many turned into impromptu refugee camps.

In his meetings in Israel and Jordan on Friday, Mr Blinken said he would also discuss the future of Gaza and laying the groundwork for future Palestinian statehood.on Oct 7. Israel says they killed 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and took more than 240 hostages in the deadliest day of its 75-year-old history.

“I want to pass. We are not animals,” said Ghada el-Saka, an Egyptian at Rafah waiting to return home after visiting relatives.

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