Hundreds leave Al-Shifa hospital as Israeli forces take control of facility
Patients, staff and displaced people left Gaza's largest hospital, health officials said, leaving behind only a skeleton crew to care for those too sick to move.
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Patients, staff and displaced people left Gaza's largest hospital, health officials said, leaving behind only a skeleton crew to care for those too sick to move.
"If they were [there], they were taken out," Netanyahu told CBS News.
Biden calls for Gaza hospitals to be protected as Israeli troops surround the biggest medical facility, and infants' lives are caught in the middle of the war with Hamas.
A cassowary — a flightless bird that can grow to be as tall as an adult human — rose from the water along the shores of Australia's Bingil Bay.
The service members were identified as Stephen R. Dwyer, Shane M. Barnes, Tanner W. Grone, Andrew P. Southard and Cade M. Wolfe.
A cease-fire would be possible only if the more than 200 hostages held by militants in Gaza are released, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a televised address.
"I want the people of Israel to know that there are hundreds of millions of Americans who stand with them," former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said to reporters during his visit to Israel.
President Biden will take up "contentious" international and regional issues with China's Xi, according to senior administration officials.
On Thursday evening, dozens gathered to protest in support of Palestinians caught in the Israel-Hamas war outside Philadelphia City Hall.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the four-hour pauses would begin Thursday.
U.N. says 70% of Gaza's population has been displaced a month into the Israel-Hamas war, as Gaza officials say more than 10,300 are dead, almost half of them children.
The U.S. secretary of state held firm to the U.S. position that a cease-fire would harm Israel's right and obligation to defend its citizens after the surprise attack by Hamas militants on Oct. 7.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken also reiterated Washington's long-standing support for the eventual recognition of a Palestinian state.
Hundreds of people rallied inside and outside Philadelphia's 30th Street Station to call for a cease-fire amid the war between Israel and Hamas on Thursday.
Foreign nationals continued to cross over the Rafah border crossing into Egypt for the first time since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.
