Hamas freed two hostages on Monday, the Red Cross said. About 220 people remain hostages in Gaza. Meanwhile, more than 5,000 Palestinians have died in Israeli airstrikes, Gaza officials said.
A local citizen searches through buildings which were destroyed during Israeli air raids in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday in Khan Younis, Gaza.The International Committee of the Red Cross said it has facilitated the release of two hostages held by Hamas in Gaza on Monday, amid a multinational effort to free the more than 200 people held captive in Gaza before Israel's expected ground invasion.
More than half of Gaza's population of some 2.2 million people has been displaced from their homes, according to the United Nations. According to Gaza's Ministry of Health, the Palestinian death toll from Israeli airstrikes has reached 5,087 since the start of the conflict. With Gaza's main power plant still out of operation, fuel is also needed to power generators for critical infrastructure, including hospitals, desalination plants and wastewater treatment facilities.
An estimated 14,000 wounded"have consumed all of the supplies in the system, from the medication to the equipment to everything you can imagine is required to care for such traumatic injuries and such critically ill patients," he told NPR.UNRWA said on Monday that 35 members of its staff have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7."Many were teachers in our schools,"Portraits of people killed, missing or abducted during the surprise attack on southern Israel on Oct.
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