Live updates | Israel intensifies Gaza strikes, hospital damaged by nearby bombs

 

Fire and smoke rise following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Ilan Assayag)

By The Associated Press

Sunday, October 29, 2023

The Israeli military intensified airstrikes in Gaza on Sunday, including near its largest hospital, and another hospital was damaged by bombardment close by.

Thousands of people desperate for food and basic items broke into aid warehouses in the besieged enclave.

Internet and phone connectivity were restored for many people after Israel knocked out most communications in the territory late Friday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Saturday a “second stage” in the 3-week-old war and said Israel is determined to bring back 239 hostages taken by the militant group during its deadly Oct. 7 incursion. Four of the hostages have been released.

The Palestinian death toll passed 8,000, most of them women and children, according to the Health Ministry in Gaza. In the occupied West Bank, more than 110 Palestinians have been killed in violence and Israeli raids, and on Sunday, a Jewish settler fatally shot a Palestinian man harvesting olives near the city of Nablus.

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