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

The United States and its Group of Seven allies called for crossings from Gaza into Israel to be opened for the transfer of humanitarian aid in a statement released Wednesday evening following a virtual meeting.

“The population is increasingly vulnerable, and with winter approaching, we must continue to increase the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza to meet fully the needs on the ground, including by opening additional crossings,” the G7 leaders said in the statement.

Only the Rafah crossing into Egypt is open, while all of the other crossings into Gaza border Israel and have been closed. The White House provided its readout of the meeting but did not mention this joint call for the opening of additional crossings.

The White House said the leaders "expressed deep regret that Hamas refused to release all of its women hostages and military operations resume."

"Hamas offers nothing but suffering to the Palestinian people, and it is an obstacle to a better future for them and for the region. We will continue to coordinate our efforts to isolate Hamas and ensure it cannot threaten Israel," the G7 leaders said in its statement.

-ABC News' Fritz Farrow

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.

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

"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.

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.

"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.