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A Palestinian child wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip is treated in a hospital in Khan Younis, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. ( AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Live updates | Israeli tanks and soldiers search Gaza’s Shifa Hospital compound

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Black smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of Aita al-Shaab, a Lebanese border village with Israel in south Lebanon, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. Israeli troops and Hezbollah militants and their allies have been clashing along the border since the Israel-Hamas war started five weeks ago with a bloody incursion into southern Israel by Hezbollah ally Hamas. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Israel military says footage shows Hamas used hospital as base, arms depot

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

An Israeli jet fighter flies near the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Live updates | Israel says it has launched an operation inside Gaza hospital

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

An injured Palestinian man receives treatment at the al-Shifa hospital, following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023. Gaza's Shifa Hospital has become the focus of a days-long stalemate in Israel's war against Hamas. Israel claims Hamas uses the facility for military purposes and has built a vast underground command center below the hospital. Since Israel declared war against Hamas, its forces have moved in on Shifa. But hundreds of doctors and patients remain inside. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled, File)

Israeli military forces raid Gaza’s largest hospital in operation against Hamas

By Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israeli military says it battled Hamas fighters inside Gaza hospital

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

A wounded Palestinian boy arrives to the emergency room of the al-Shifa hospital, following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. Gaza's Shifa Hospital has become the focus of a days-long stalemate in Israel's war against Hamas. Israel claims Hamas uses the facility for military purposes and has built a vast underground command center below the hospital. Since Israel declared war against Hamas, its forces have moved in on Shifa. But hundreds of doctors and patients remain inside. In the basement of Rantisi Hospital (not pictured), Israel Defense Forces officials said, troops also found evidence that hostages taken by Palestinian Hamas militants in a deadly one-day rampage last month may have been held there at one point. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled, File)

Israel says Hamas hostages may have been held in Gaza hospital basement

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Mourners sit next to graffiti calling for the return of the hostages kidnapped during the Oct. 7 Hamas cross-border attack in Israel, outside the cemetery in Kfar Saba, Israel, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023. Thousands of Israelis have joined protests and other gatherings calling on the Israeli government to do more to bring home the 239 hostages being held in Gaza. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Battles force Palestinians out of hospitals in Gaza, leaving patients, babies and medics stranded

By Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Israeli Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in central Israel, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israel’s most sophisticated air defense system scores its first real-life hit

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

An Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Friday, Nov. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

IDF: Thousands of Hamas weapons captured in Gaza fighting

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Palestinians wait to collect the bodies of the Hijazi family that was killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip fron a morgue in Rafah on Friday, Nov. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Live updates | Thousands of Palestinians flee fighting in Gaza’s north after safe passage announced

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Palestinians on donkey carts hold up white flags trying to prevent being shot, while fleeing Gaza City on the al-Rimal neighbourhood, central Gaza City, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)

Live updates | Israel will allow a daily pause in Gaza combat, as US seeks a multiday break

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

An Israeli mobile artillery unit is seen in a position near the Israel-Gaza border, Israel Oct. 28, 2023. Over the past five days, Israeli ground troops have pushed deeper and deeper into Gaza in their war against Hamas, launched in response to a bloody Oct. 7 cross-border raid by the Islamic militant group. Yet even as the operation expands each day, the army refuses to call it an invasion. Its vague choice of words appears to be a deliberate strategy aimed at keeping its enemy off balance and preserving its options as a lengthy war unfolds. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg) **FILE**

Israel says troops have destroyed 130 Hamas tunnels since war began

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Fire and smoke rise following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Israeli officials say top Hamas weapons developer is killed in airstrike

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Israeli forces' flares light up the night sky in Gaza City, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)

Netanyahu hints at long-term security role in Gaza as fighting intensifies

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this undated photo provided by the Israeli military, Israeli troops are seen during a ground operation in the Gaza Strip. Israeli ground forces have been operating in Gaza in recent days as Israel presses ahead with its war against Hamas militants. (Israel Defense Forces via AP)

Gaza City encircled by Israeli troops as IDF cuts the Hamas enclave in half

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Israeli military on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023, shows ground operation inside the Gaza Strip (Israel Defense Forces via AP)

An army versed in urban warfare confronts its toughest battle

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Fire and smoke rises from buildings following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)

Israeli forces sever north Gaza from the rest of the territory ahead of expected push into Gaza City

By Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Supporters of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group raise their fists and cheer as Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah appears via a video link, during a rally to commemorate Hezbollah fighters who were killed in South Lebanon last few weeks while fighting against the Israeli forces, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. Nasrallah's speech had been widely anticipated throughout the region as a sign of whether the Israel-Hamas conflict would spiral into a regional war. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Israeli strikes kill multiple civilians at shelters in Gaza combat zone, as Blinken seeks more aid

Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to the media during a press conference, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. Blinken is in Israel to press for more humanitarian aid to be allowed into besieged Gaza. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken says ‘we need to do more to protect Palestinian civilians’

By Najib Jobain, Bassem Mroue and David Rising - Associated Press

Palestinians inspect the damage of buildings destroyed by Israeli airstrikes on Jabaliya refugee camp on the outskirts of Gaza City, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023 (AP Photo/Abdul Qader Sabbah)

Israel said top Hamas commander, 50 fighters killed in Gaza strike

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times