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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.
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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.
Netanyahu to ABC's Muir: 'No cease-fire' without release of hostages
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has once again rejected the idea of a cease-fire in Gaza unless hostages are released, speaking in an exclusive interview with ABC News "World News Tonight" anchor David Muir.
President Joe Biden and top administration officials have been pressuring Israel for temporary "humanitarian" pauses in the fighting so more aid can enter Gaza and more civilians can escape the fighting in the Palestinian territory.
Biden and Netanyahu discussed the matter as recently as Monday, according to the White House, though no apparent agreement was reached.
In the interview, Muir pressed Netanyahu on the Biden administration's calls for humanitarian pauses in Gaza as the civilian death toll climbs; efforts to release the hostages; whether Netanyahu bears responsibility for the intelligence failures; who governs Gaza when the war is over, and more.
"What they're proposing is a humanitarian pause, there will be no pause?" Muir asked Netanyahu.
"Well, there'll be no cease-fire, general cease-fire, in Gaza without the release of our hostages," Netanyahu responded. "As far as tactical little pauses, an hour here, an hour there. We've had them before, I suppose, will check the circumstances in order to enable goods, humanitarian goods to come in, or our hostages, individual hostages to leave. But I don't think there's going to be a general cease-fire."
An extended version of the interview, Netanyahu's first with U.S. media since the war began on Oct. 7, will air Monday on ABC News "World News Tonight" at 6:30 p.m. ET.
570 aid trucks have entered Gaza
Another 92 aid trucks entered Gaza through the Egypt-Gaza Rafah borer crossing on Monday, a Rafah border crossing official told ABC News.
A total of 570 aid trucks -- with supplies including food, water and medicine -- have now entered Gaza, where the humanitarian crisis is worsening by the day.
UAE to set up fully equipped field hospital in Gaza
The United Arab Emirates said it will set up a fully equipped field hospital in the Gaza Strip, state news agency WAM said on Monday.
The 150-bed hospital will be built in several stages and will encompass multiple departments, including general surgery and intensive care units.
329 foreign passport holders left Gaza Monday, border crossing official says
The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt reopened on Monday allowing 329 foreign passport holders to leave Gaza, a Rafah border crossing official told ABC News. The border had been closed all weekend.
Twenty-nine Palestinians, including some critically injured and some cancer patients, as well as some of their relatives, also crossed from Gaza into Egypt Monday, the border crossing official said.
Out of the 29 Palestinians, eight people were critically injured and five people were their family members. Nine cancer patients and seven of their family members also crossed, the official said.
Blinken meets with Iraqi prime minister
Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled to Iraq to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani on Sunday following the secretary's visits to Israel, Jordan and the West Bank.
Blinken told reporters that his meeting with the Iraqi prime minister was productive and said he emphasized the need to prevent spillover from the conflict in Gaza.
"I made very clear that the attacks, the threats coming from militia that are aligned with Iran are totally unacceptable," Blinken said. "We're not looking for conflict with Iran. We've made that very clear. But we'll do what's necessary to protect our personnel."
"We're working very hard to make sure that the conflict in Gaza does not escalate, does not spread to other places, whether it's here, whether it's elsewhere in the region," he said.
Blinken was asked about Arab leaders' instance that nothing short of a total cease-fire would be acceptable.
"I think everyone would welcome humanitarian pauses -- there's no doubt about that," Blinken responded.
He said pauses "advance things that we're all trying to accomplish," including getting more humanitarian aid into Gaza, getting people out of Gaza and getting hostages home.
On his meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Blinken said the PA was "playing a very important role right now in the West Bank in trying to keep stability there."
-ABC News' Shannon Crawford