Israel alleged several UNRWA staff members were involved in the Oct. 7 attacks.
More than 100 days since Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, the Israeli military continues its bombardment of the neighboring Gaza Strip.
The conflict, now the deadliest between the warring sides since Israel's founding in 1948, shows no signs of letting up soon and the brief cease-fire that allowed for over 100 hostages to be freed from Gaza remains a distant memory.
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The latest outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that governs the Gaza Strip, has passed the four-month mark.
In the Gaza Strip, at least 30,228 people have been killed and 71,377 others have been wounded by Israeli forces since Oct. 7, according to Gaza's Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health.
In Israel, at least 1,200 people have been killed and 6,900 others have been injured by Hamas and other Palestinian militants since Oct. 7, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
There has also been a surge in violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Israeli forces have killed at least 395 people in the territory since Oct. 7, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
The ongoing war began after Hamas-led militants launched an unprecedented incursion into southern Israel from neighboring Gaza via land, sea and air. Scores of people were killed while more than 200 others were taken hostage, according to Israeli authorities. The Israeli military subsequently launched retaliatory airstrikes followed by a ground invasion of Gaza, a 140-square-mile territory where more than 2 million Palestinians have lived under a blockade imposed by Israel and supported by Egypt since Hamas came to power in 2007. Gaza, unlike Israel, has no air raid sirens or bomb shelters.
Hamas will abide by any cease-fire decision issued by the International Court of Justice, Hamas leader Osama Hamdan said Thursday.
The International Court of Justice is expected to issue a ruling Friday.
Hamdan also said Hamas will release the Israeli hostages being held in Gaza if the Israeli enemy releases its prisoners.
Sahar Amer is married with two children, ages 2 and 4, and lives in a camp in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
"Since the beginning of the war, I have believed that this camp was safe -- a very densely populated area, and my relatives chose me as our home to seek refuge in to escape the bombing," Amer, 28, told ABC News.
"Everything has been difficult to obtain since the beginning of the war: food, water and treatment," Amer said. "But unfortunately, what happened a week ago changed everything. The area became unsafe due to the sudden entry of [Israeli] tanks behind Nasser Hospital, which is only several meters away from us."
"During the Israeli army’s incursion behind the hospital, we lived a very terrifying night due to intense artillery shelling," she said. "I could hear the sounds of bullets flying."
"Then the quadcopter planes started shooting at citizens. One time I was on the roof of the house with my children and we miraculously escaped death," Amer said.
"I did not expect the army to infiltrate in this way," she said, noting that her family "took refuge with us, believing that this area is safe and that the army cannot encircle the camp like this."
One night she headed home and said she found tanks "stationed west of the camp and surround[ing] the place."
"I felt very afraid that the tanks were approaching my house,” she said. “I was hugging my children.”
Amer wanted to leave her house, but couldn’t find a car. So she took her children and they fled on foot.
"When I approached the road, a tank appeared … and prevented us from passing through,” she said. "I returned home crying and afraid that our fate will be death like the residents of other areas. I sent a message to my mother and sister to pray for me to be saved."
"I went out with great difficulty the next day. I left my home crying. I do not want to be displaced -- I want to remain safe in my home." she said. "I hope the war will end -- there is enough death and destruction."
-ABC News’ Ruwaida Amer
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East said Wednesday that its training center in Khan Younis where hundreds of displaced people are taking shelter "has just been hit" as fighting escalates in the southern Gaza Strip.
In a series of posts on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, the director of UNRWA’s affairs in Gaza, Tom White, wrote that "two tank rounds hit building that shelters 800 people - reports now 9 dead and 75 injured." White added that people remain trapped inside as teams from UNRWA and the World Health Organization are "trying to reach the centre," but the "agreed upon route with Israeli Army [is] blocked with earth bank."
It was unclear who was responsible for the attack on the shelter as Israeli forces battle Gaza’s militant rules, Hamas. There was no immediate comment from either of the warring sides.
-ABC News' Joe Simonetti and Morgan Winsor
National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said the U.S. is "in serious discussions about trying to get another pause" in fighting between Israel and Hamas to secure the release of remaining hostages, but Kirby said he could not confirm specific reports of a possible framework.
Asked about reports that Israel has proposed a two-month cease-fire to release all hostages, civilians and soldiers, and asked if the U.S. was actively working to drum up support for it, Kirby said he was "not able to confirm those specific reports."
Kirby did note that President Joe Biden’s Middle East coordinator, Brett McGurk, is currently in the region, in part to discuss a hostage deal.
"Certainly, one of the things he's in the region talking about is the potential for another hostage deal, which would require a humanitarian pause of some length,” Kirby said. “He’ll also be talking about a range of other issues, including humanitarian assistance."
Kirby also said it was "possible" that an extended pause could be a path to changing the nature of the war, but he stressed that the focus remains getting the hostages released.
-ABC News’ Molly Nagle
