The international community continues efforts to evacuate civilians from the Gaza Strip, after an initial batch of foreign nationals was allowed to enter Egypt on Wednesday for the first time since the start of the conflict. Egypt is now working for 7,000 international passport holders to traverse the crossing, the country’s foreign ministry said.
The evacuations come after the U.S., Hamas, Israel and Egypt struck a deal mediated by Qatar in coordination with the U.S.
Gaza’s ministry of health has told NBC News that its main power generator has stopped working, putting the lives of hundreds of people at risk. More than 20,000 people remain injured with limited health care in the Gaza Strip due to the onslaught on the territory, according to Doctors Without Borders.
Amid this, U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday said that he thinks there should be a humanitarian “pause” in the conflict to allow more time to get “prisoners” out. He made the comments in response to a protester interrupting him at a fundraiser, calling for a cease-fire.
Later this week, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to travel to Tel Aviv, Israel and Amman, Jordan. The international community
Over 195 individuals lost their lives in the aftermath of Israeli airstrikes on the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, as reported by Hamas in a Telegram post that was translated using Google Translate. According to Hamas, an additional 120 people remain trapped under debris, and 777 people sustained injuries.
It’s important to note that CNBC was unable to independently verify these casualty figures. Israel has maintained that its airstrikes in Jabalia were directed at senior Hamas commanders as part of its broader operation against the Palestinian militant group in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military has, at times, raised doubts about the accuracy of casualty numbers provided by Hamas but has not presented its own casualty estimates.