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Israel will return Gazans working inside the country to the besieged Palestinian territory, the government said, almost four weeks after it began striking Hamas targets there in response to a deadly cross-border attack. “Israel is severing all contact with Gaza. There will be no more Palestinian workers from Gaza,” the Israeli security cabinet announced in a statement late Thursday. Follow our live blog for the latest developments. All times are Paris time (GMT+1).
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WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday said the current fuel shortage in Gaza has put 14 out of 36 hospitals and 2 specialty centres in Gaza out of operation. Underlining the severe humanitarian crisis in the enclave, Ghebreyesus said that “the hospitals that remain open are overloaded with 40% more patients than they are designed to manage”, as he called for urgent access to humanitarian aid for Palestinians.
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Roughly 800 people – including hundreds of Palestinians with foreign passports and dozens of injured – have been allowed to leave the Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing under an apparent agreement among the US, Egypt, Israel and Qatar, which mediates with Hamas.
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The total death toll in Gaza rose to 9,061 people and 32,000 others injured, the official spokesperson for the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave said on Thursday. The dead include 3,760 children and 2,326 women, the spokesperson said.
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Philippe Lazzarini, General Secretary of UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said four of its schools-turned-shelters were damaged by airstrikes in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, reportedly killing at least 24 people. In a statement, Lazzarini said the four facilities that were struck were in the Jabalia Refugee Camp, The Beach Refugee Camp, and two in the Al Bureij…
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