Thousands of Palestinians continued to flee south from northern Gaza on Thursday as the White House announced that Israel would begin to implement four-hour “humanitarian pauses” in parts of the area to allow people to leave. Israel said it had allowed movement along the Salah al-Din road – the main highway that runs along the Gaza Strip – for the fifth consecutive day. A surgeon at al-Shifa hospital, the territory’s largest, said he could hear gun battles from the hospital on Thursday. The Israel Defence Forces announced on Thursday that their troops had been operating in the centre of Gaza City, where they said Hamas’s military quarter was located, near al-Shifa hospital. “One month into a tight siege and a brutal war, the humanitarian needs in the Gaza Strip are colossal.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 10, 2023 00:44 UTC