Israel-Gaza updates: IDF says 3,500 'terror targets' hammered in 10 days

"Civil order is breaking down in Gaza," a UNRWA official said.

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Last Updated: December 6, 2023, 2:26 PM EST

The temporary cease-fire between Hamas and Israel ended on Dec. 1, 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.

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Mar 01, 2024, 6:03 AM EST

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.

Dec 06, 2023, 2:26 PM EST

Kids in Gaza share their experiences through art

Children in Gaza are sharing their traumatic experiences from the war through drawings.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society said it organized the event to help children process their complicated feelings.

The art was displayed in the rubble of a bombed house.

The children's art included portraits of families and drawings of homes. One showed an injured person in a hospital bed, and another depicted a journalist's camera and bulletproof vest.

Dec 06, 2023, 2:15 PM EST

Israeli soldiers fighting in southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis

Israeli soldiers are fighting for the first time in the heart of Khan Yunis, a city in southern Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces said.

Palestinians injured in an Israeli airstrike arrive at Nasser Medical Hospital on Dec. 6, 2023 in Khan Yunis, Gaza.
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"The city of Khan Yunis is a terrorist stronghold," the IDF said. "The entire leadership of the Hamas terrorist organization -- both military and political -- proliferated in the area of Khan Yunis."

Israeli troops have eliminated terrorists and their infrastructure in the area, the IDF said. One strike was on a mosque that the IDF said was being used to store weapons.

This picture taken from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on December 5, 2023, shows an explosion in Khan Yunis as battles between Israel and Hamas militants continue.
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Dec 06, 2023, 1:37 PM EST

Another hospital in Gaza on verge of closing: WHO

Another hospital in Gaza, Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, is on the verge of closing, with only 20 patients currently getting care, according to Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization.

People mourn as they collect the bodies of Palestinians killed in an airstrike, Dec. 6, 2023, in Khan Yunis, Gaza.
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"This is due to intense fighting as well as a lack of basic supplies: water, food, medicines and fuel," he wrote Wednesday on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

Nineteen hospitals in Gaza are nonfunctioning, he said. Gaza now has two field hospitals, 14 partially functioning hospitals and three minimally functioning hospitals, Tedros said.

Smoke billows during an Israeli bombardment in Gaza, Dec. 6, 2023.
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Dec 06, 2023, 1:22 PM EST

UN secretary-general invokes Article 99, calls for humanitarian cease-fire

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said Wednesday that he's invoked Article 99 of the U.N. Charter for the first time in his six years as leader.

A Palestinian child injured in an Israeli airstrike receives treatment at Nasser Medical Hospital on Dec. 6, 2023, in Khan Yunis, Gaza.
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Article 99 says that the secretary-general "may bring to the attention of the Security Council any matter which in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security."

"Facing a severe risk of collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza, I urge the Council to help avert a humanitarian catastrophe & appeal for a humanitarian cease-fire to be declared," Guterres said in a post on X.

Palestinians mourn the death of loved ones following Israeli bombardment in the southern Gaza Strip, Dec. 5, 2023, outside a hospital in Khan Yunis.
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In a letter to the U.N. Security Council president, Guterres said, "The situation is fast deteriorating into a catastrophe with potentially irreversible implications for Palestinians as a whole and for peace and security in the region. … The international community has a responsibility to use all its influence to prevent further escalation and end this crisis."

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