Israel-Gaza updates: IDF says 3,500 'terror targets' hammered in 10 days
"Civil order is breaking down in Gaza," a UNRWA official said.
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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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.
US, G7 partners call for opening of Gaza crossings into Israel
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
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.
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.
"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 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.
"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.
6 mothers of premature babies to be evacuated from Gaza to Egypt
Six Palestinian mothers of premature babies evacuated from the Gaza Strip last month were due to leave the war-torn territory on Monday for Egypt, where their young children remain hospitalized, Palestinian authorities said.
The Palestinian border authority published a list of mothers approved to leave Gaza on Monday via the Egptian-controlled Rafah border crossing and asked them to head there.
Last month, 28 babies born prematurely in Gaza City's besieged Al-Shifa Hospital were transported to Egypt after their incubators shut down amid a collapse of medical services during Israel’s bombardment. Five of the mothers traveled with their children to Egypt, but Egyptian officials said at the time that the status and whereabouts of the other parents were not known.
-ABC News' Ayat Al-Tawy and Morgan Winsor