Israel-Gaza updates: Israel says ground operation underway in southern Gaza
The IDF said it's carried out 10,000 airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.
Last Updated: November 27, 2023, 12:51 PM EST
The temporary cease-fire between Hamas and Israel ended early Friday, and Israel has resumed its bombardment of Gaza.
The end of the cease-fire came after Hamas freed over 100 of the more than 200 people its militants took hostage during the Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel. In exchange, Israel released more than 200 Palestinians from Israeli prisons.
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 27, 2023, 12:51 PM EST
3 Palestinian women, 30 kids expected to be released from Israel: Hamas
Hamas officials said they've received a list of Palestinian prisoners who are expected to be released from Israel on Monday in exchange for hostages. The list includes three women and 30 children, Hamas officials said.
Nov 27, 2023, 12:02 PM EST
Palestinians return home during cease-fire to find destruction
Muhammad Ibrahim Asfour was among the Gaza residents who returned home during the cease-fire to find destruction where homes used to be.
Israeli tanks roll along a street during a military operation in the northern Gaza Strip amid continuing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, Nov. 22, 2023.
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"I was shocked, and when I saw the house I started crying," Asfour told ABC News. "There were 50 people in the building here -- all of my brothers and father were living here."
"The situation here is more difficult than you can imagine," Abdelkader Darma told ABC News. "When I came home I was shocked."
Ambulances are seen on a road near an Israeli forces tank during an Israeli army ground operation in the Gaza Strip, Nov. 22, 2023.
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"People do not know where to go," Darma said. "I and six other people slept on two mattresses and two pillows, which means you do not know how to sleep. They sleep three against three, and you find his feet in front of your face."
“I hope the truce will be extended and a solution will be found because it is enough. People are sleeping in the street," Darma said. "How can you bear it?"
Palestinians recover items from the rubble of a building following Israeli strikes in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Nov. 22, 2023.
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-ABC News' Zoe Magee and Sami Zayara
Nov 27, 2023, 11:24 AM EST
Agreement reached to extend truce for 2 more days: Qatar foreign minister
Majed Al-Ansari, spokesperson for Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said an agreement has been reached to extend the humanitarian truce between Israel and Hamas for two more days.
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Israel and Hamas reach agreement to extend truce for 2 more days
Qatari officials announced the extension with Hamas, saying the truce is "under the same conditions as the previous" agreement.
Hamas said this truce is "under the same conditions as the previous truce."
Diaa Rashwan, chairman of Egypt's State Information Service, said earlier on Monday that the deal would involve the release of 10 Israeli women and children being held hostage by Hamas in exchange for 30 Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons each day of the extension.
Nov 27, 2023, 11:06 AM EST
84-year-old Israeli hostage who was freed remains in critical condition
Alma Avraham, an 84-year-old Israeli hostage freed by Hamas on Sunday, remains hospitalized in critical condition, Israeli officials said Monday.
This undated photo released by Hostages and Missing Families Forum Headquarters shows Alma Avraham, 84 years old. Alma Avraham was part of the third group of hostages released by Hamas on Nov. 26, 2023, as part of truce deal.
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She suffers from preexisting conditions and was receiving regular medication before she was kidnapped, said Dr. Tzachi Slotsky, deputy administrator of Soroka Medical Center.
"If she hadn’t been transferred to us yesterday, or any other delay in her transfer, it would’ve worsened her condition even more," Slotsky said. "She is intubated and sedated at the emergency room and her life is still in danger."
Without care, she soon would have died, said Avraham's daughter, Tali Amano.
"My mother did not deserve to return this way -- my mother was medically neglected," Amano said. "She didn’t get any of her medication."
"The only reason we are standing here today ... is to save those who are left there [in Gaza]," Amano said.