(21 Nov 2023)
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Southern Israel, looking towards Gaza Strip - 21 November 2023
1. Various of plumes of smoke rising into the Gaza skyline
STORYLINE:
Smoke billowed into the Gaza skyline and filled the air on Tuesday as the Israel-Hamas war continues.
The front line of the war, now in its seventh week, shifted to the Jabaliya area, just north of Gaza City, that houses families displaced in the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation.
Israel has bombarded the area for weeks, and the military said Hamas fighters have regrouped there and in other eastern districts after being pushed out of much of Gaza City.
Fighting has also intensified outside the nearby Indonesian Hospital, where Palestinian health officials said a strike killed 12 people Monday.
They said Tuesday that hundreds of patients and displaced people are trapped inside with dwindling supplies after some 200 were evacuated the day before.
It wasn't possible to independently confirm details of the fighting.
Senior Hamas officials, meanwhile, said they were close to reaching a deal through international mediators to release some of the estimated 240 people taken hostage by the group in its Oct. 7 attack into Israel that triggered the war.
But the talks have repeatedly stalled and past predictions of a breakthrough have proven premature.
More than 12,700 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry in the West Bank.
Officials there say another 4,000 are missing.
Their counts do not differentiate between civilians and combatants.
Israel says it has killed thousands of militants.
The ministry bases its count on information gathered by its counterpart in Hamas-ruled Gaza, which has been unable to fully update casualty figures for more than 10 days because of the breakdown in services and communications in the north.
About 1,200 people have been killed on the Israeli side, mainly civilians during the Oct. 7 attack.
The military says 68 Israeli soldiers have been killed in Gaza ground operations.
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