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Last Updated: November 9, 2023, 4:36 PM EST

Thousands of people have died and thousands more have been injured since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with a bombing campaign and total siege of the neighboring Gaza Strip, leaving the region on the verge of all-out war.

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Mar 1, 6:03 am

What we know about the conflict

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.

Nov 09, 2023, 4:36 PM EST

Any plans for pauses in fighting must be carried out in coordination with UN

Any plans for short-term pauses in the fighting in Gaza must be carried out in coordination with the United Nations, said Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the U.N. secretary-general.

Israeli army troops are seen next to a destroyed building during a ground operation in the Gaza Strip, Nov. 8, 2023.
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The U.N.'s comments come after the White House said Israel agreed to daily four-hour pauses in northern Gaza to allow civilians to escape.

"How any such halt in the fighting, and how it would work for humanitarian purposes, will need to be coordinated with the United Nations, especially on the issue of timings and location," Dujarric said. "And obviously in order for this to be done safely for humanitarian purposes, it would have to be agreed with all parties to the conflict to be truly effective."

A spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross discusses what the new four-hour daily pauses will mean for humanitarian aid and civilians in Gaza.
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International Red Cross spokesperson reacts to Gaza pauses

A spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross discusses what the new four-hour daily pauses will mean for humanitarian aid and civilians in Gaza.

Nov 09, 2023, 4:24 PM EST

Over 800 aid trucks have reached Gaza

Another 65 aid trucks entered Gaza through the Rafah border crossing on Thursday, a border crossing official said.

A total of 821 aid trucks have now crossed into Gaza as the humanitarian crisis worsens.

ABC News correspondent Matt Rivers discusses the critical delays getting humanitarian aid to Gaza.
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Critical humanitarian aid being delayed getting into Gaza

ABC News correspondent Matt Rivers discusses the critical delays getting humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Nov 09, 2023, 4:16 PM EST

632 foreign passport holders cross from Gaza into Egypt Thursday

A Rafah border crossing official said 632 foreign passport holders crossed from Gaza into Egypt on Thursday.

Twelve wounded Palestinians and 10 of their family members also crossed into Egypt on Thursday, the official said.

People sit inside a car as Palestinians, including foreign passport holders, wait at Rafah border crossing after evacuations were suspended following an Israeli strike on an ambulance, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Nov. 5, 2023.
Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

Nov 09, 2023, 1:44 PM EST

Congressional progressives reject humanitarian pause, demand cease-fire

Several Congressional progressives continued calls for a cease-fire in Gaza while pushing back against a four-hour humanitarian pause.

"What we need is to stop the bombing," Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., said outside of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday during a press conference while joined by anti-war veterans in support of a cease-fire.

Representative Cori Bush holds a press conference with veterans to call for a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 9, 2023.
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The event comes after National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby announced Thursday that Israel will start to implement four-hour pauses in fighting in areas of northern Gaza each day.

"Four hours? We don't want four hours. We don't want 16 hours. We don't want 22. We want a cease-fire now," Bush said.

Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., said a humanitarian pause does not account for the 2 million people stuck in Gaza.

"Any pause that doesn't take into account that this is still a collective punishment once the four hours has ended is not sufficient," Lee said.

-ABC News' John Parkinson and Lauren Peller

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