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.
Here's how the news is developing. All times Eastern.
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.
Oct 24, 2023, 3:28 PM EDT
Kirby: Israel needs to 'consider possibility of humanitarian pause'
White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said Tuesday a "ceasefire right now really only benefits Hamas."
When asked if the U.S. has set or discussed any red lines with the Israelis, he said simply, "No."
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John Kirby: We are actively trying to get Americans out of Gaza
The spokesman for the National Security Council says that there are 10 Americans still unaccounted for in the region.
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But when pressed to elaborate on Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s comments that "humanitarian pauses must be considered," he said, "pauses in operation is a tool and a tactic" that can protect civilians for temporary periods of time.
Later when asked, Kirby said Blinken talked about the need to "consider the possibility of a humanitarian pause, to allow aid to get in -- and get in unfettered -- and to allow for the safe movement of people out."
People injured in nearby Israeli air strikes rest at a school housing displaced Palestinians in Rafah, on the southern Gaza Strip, Oct. 24, 2023.
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-ABC News' Selina Wang
Oct 24, 2023, 1:52 PM EDT
Gaza to run out of fuel Wednesday night: UNRWA
Gaza is set to run out of fuel Wednesday night, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
"If we do not get fuel urgently, we will be forced to halt our operations in the Gaza Strip as of tomorrow night," the agency said.
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan said, "We know for sure that there's plenty of fuel in Gaza. Hamas has stored fuel in advance, and is stealing fuel from both civilians and the U.N. to power its war machine against Israel."
Oct 24, 2023, 1:45 PM EDT
20 more aid trucks cross Rafah: Egyptian officials
Twenty more aid trucks crossed the Egypt-Gaza Rafah border on Tuesday and are now headed to the Israel-Egypt Nitzana Border Crossing for inspection, according to Egyptian officials.
It is not clear if the trucks have reached Gaza yet, where humanitarian conditions are worsening by the day, but these new trucks will bring the total to 74 aid trucks crossing through over the last four days.
People unload humanitarian aid on a convoy of lorries entering the Gaza Strip from Egypt via the Rafah border crossing on Oct. 21, 2023.
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The Rafah border crossing was shut on Oct. 10 after it was hit by Israeli warplanes on the Palestinian side three times on Oct. 9 and 10.
The crossing has briefly opened each day since Saturday, permitting a small amount of aid to enter Gaza.
Asked by a reporter if humanitarian aid is getting to Gaza fast enough, President Joe Biden said Tuesday, "Not fast enough."
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Aid for Gaza stuck at the border with Egypt
ABC News’ Matt Rivers is in Egypt as truckloads of aid are still waiting to enter Gaza where food and water are needed.
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Oct 24, 2023, 1:26 PM EDT
Israeli, Palestinian Authority foreign ministers speak out at UN Security Council meeting
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and the Palestinian Authority’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Riyad al-Maliki, gave long, impassioned speeches at the United Nations Security Council meeting about the suffering their people are experiencing.
Palestinians walk by the buildings destroyed in the Israeli bombardment on al-Zahra, on the outskirts of Gaza City, Oct. 20, 2023.
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Cohen began by holding up photographs of the Israeli children kidnapped by Hamas, reading out their names and ages.
"They are just a few the many children and babies that have not seen evil. They have not caused evil. But they are victims of evil," he said.
Cohen described Hamas as "the new Nazis" and said Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel should serve as "a wakeup call against extremism."
A photo hangs on a refrigerator next to bullet holes in a house at Kibbutz Kissufim in southern Israel, Oct. 21, 2023.
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Al-Maliki purported that Israel’s retaliation had equated to "ongoing massacres being deliberately, systematically, and savagely" perpetrated against Palestinians civilians.
"The Security Council has a duty to stop them," he said. "It is our collective human duty to stop them now."
Mourners attend the funeral of Palestinians from the al-Astal family, who were killed in Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Oct. 22, 2023.
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He suggested that Israel's campaign would ultimately lead to more conflict, saying "more injustice and more killing will not make Israel safer."
The foreign minister argued that everyone on the council should be united behind one goal.
"We should be on the same side -- all of us who believe in justice and peace," he said. "We should stand shoulder to shoulder in these moments. But that is only possible if everyone recognizes the value of Palestinian life -- the need to uphold Palestinian rights."
