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Israel-Gaza live updates: 3 premature babies die at Al-Shifa Hospital, doctor says

The hospital has been treating thousands of wounded people.

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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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.


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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.


IDF says it's 'deepening' operational activities, putting pressure on Gaza City

The Israel Defense Forces is "deepening" its operational activities and putting pressure on Gaza City, IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said in Hebrew.

Israeli forces have killed Hamas leaders who were part of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel and soldiers are destroying Hamas tunnels one-by-one, Hagari said.

In the West Bank, the IDF said it killed four armed terrorists who were allegedly involved in attacks on Israel.

To the north, in Lebanon, the IDF is in the middle of extensive attacks in response to 30 rockets allegedly fired at Israel on Monday, Hagari said.

-ABC News' Jordana Miller


Surgeon at Al Shifa hospital gives update

Dr. Ahmed Mokhallalati, the chief plastic surgeon at Al Shifa hospital in Gaza, told ABC News that he is unwilling to leave his scores of burn patients and stayed behind with the some 2,000 people left in the hospital complex and about 500 patients.

Mokhallalati said the hospital is virtually cut off because no one can get in -- they only received two or three patients on Saturday.

But despite having hundreds of burn patients, Mokhallalati doesn’t have much to do because they have only enough power for a single outlet to work. They use it in a clinic which has become the only operating room, because the real ORs require more power.

Mokhallalati said only about 15-20% of the hospital staff remain.

He also said there are some 40 infants in the neonatal units and 60 or so patients on ventilators, who he and the hospital administrators say will die once the generator fuel runs out.

The Israeli military’s civil coordinator said in a video statement Saturday that the eastern exit to the hospital is open, and that people are free to leave. But the images the Israeli military released from inside Gaza show that much of Gaza City and it’s outlying neighborhoods are flattened.

-ABC News' Matt Gutman and Sohel Uddin