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Israeli bombing lights up the night sky over Khan Yunis, Gaza, on January 7. AFP/Getty ImagesThe Israeli army said that it carried out 30 raids on Monday night on the southern city of Khan Yunis, at a time when it is intensifying its military attack on the central and southern Gaza Strip. CNN cannot independently verify the operational details reported by the IDF. The Israeli army said that the Israeli forces and air force bombed “underground targets, terrorist infrastructure and weapons storage facilities.” The Israeli army claimed that in Khan Yunis, “the forces identified 10 terrorists in the areas from…

It has been three months since the devastating Hamas attack that sparked the Israeli war in Gaza, and the deadly fighting has led to a dire humanitarian crisis in the region. The Israeli army began an attack on the Palestinian Strip after Hamas militants launched a brutal attack on Israel on October 7, in which militants killed about 1,200 people and took more than 200 hostage, according to Israeli authorities.In the three months following the attack, more than 22,700 Gazans were killed, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry.Here’s a look at some key moments in the conflict:October 7: Hamas attack.…

Israeli troops move out of Gaza as smoke rises on January 5. Amir Levy/Getty ImagesNearly three months into Israel’s military onslaught against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, divisions within its wartime government have become increasingly public.Some of Israel’s leading politicians publicly feuded Friday after what one source described as a “fight” in a security cabinet meeting over how to handle investigations into the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.There have also been public disagreements about the post-war plan for Gaza.Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant outlined a vision Thursday that envisages no Hamas control of the enclave and no presence of…

Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a meeting at the parliament in Jerusalem on March 20. Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP/Getty ImagesDivisions have continued to deepen between Israeli ministers over the plan for war-ravaged Gaza once the conflict ends.Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has criticized the plan outlined Thursday by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant which envisages a Gaza no longer controlled by Hamas, which would no longer “pose a security threat to the citizens of Israel.” But far-right settler leader Smotrich decried the plan outlined by his colleague.”Gallant’s plan for ‘The Day After’ is a rerun of ‘The Day Before’ on October 7,” Smotrich wrote…

Israel’s military on Wednesday released a video that it claims shows the dismantlement of a tunnel route it accuses Hamas of excavating under Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex in Gaza.According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the underground tunnel route was dismantled on November 24 by special forces and soldiers from the Yahalom Unit, which specializes in engineering tasks.The IDF claims the hospital was not damaged and that humanitarian activities were able to continue while it dismantled the tunnel route, which it says spanned more than 250 meters.CNN cannot independently verify the IDF’s claims.Israel accused Hamas of developing the tunnel system beneath the…

Palestinians cross a flooded street at a makeshift camp housing displaced Palestinians in Rafah, Gaza, on January 2. AFP/Getty ImagesMuhammad Hamouda says that the streets of the city of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, are full of pollution as beggars and displaced civilians try to survive in shelter conditions ravaged by death and disease.“Life here is very difficult,” the physical therapist, who works at Abu Youssef al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah and volunteers at a nearby shelter, told CNN on Tuesday. “Hundreds of thousands cannot find shelter,” he said. “The others sleep on the sidewalk.”Hamouda and his family…

CNN  —  Here is a look at the life of the Princess of Wales, the former Catherine (Kate) Middleton. Birth date: January 9, 1982 Birth place: Reading, Berkshire, England Birth name: Catherine Elizabeth Middleton Father: Michael Middleton, former airline pilot, now mail-order business owner Mother: Carole (Goldsmith) Middleton, former flight attendant Marriage: Prince William, The Prince of Wales (April 29, 2011-present) Children: George Alexander Louis, Charlotte Elizabeth Diana and Louis Arthur Charles Education: University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, 2005, MA, Art History Is the eldest of three children of self-made millionaires. Her engagement ring belonged to Princess Diana. 2001…

The Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on September 12, 2023. Ilan Rosenberg/ReutersIsrael’s Supreme Court on Monday overturned a controversial government plan to limit the powers of the judiciary, in an unprecedented move that rekindled violent tensions in the country as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wages war against Hamas in Gaza.The court ruled, by a majority of eight votes to seven, that the government’s amendment to the so-called reasonableness law could not be accepted. The bill would have stripped the Supreme Court of the power to declare government decisions unreasonable, and was the first major part of a multi-pronged effort to…

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels are stepping up their strikes on ships in the Red Sea, which they say are revenge against Israel for its military campaign in Gaza.There are fears that the attacks could escalate Israel’s war against Hamas into a wider regional conflict.The US said Sunday that it has no desire to enter a wider war, but that it will act in its own self-defense, after US Navy helicopters sank three Houthi boats that the US says fired on the aircraft in the Red Sea. The helicopters had been responding to a distress call from the latest commercial vessel to come under Houthi fire.The…

Displaced Palestinians inside Gaza described difficult living conditions, exorbitant food prices, child hunger, and poor sanitation. CNN spoke by phone with several people trying to survive in Rafah, in the south, to which tens of thousands have fled even though it is already the most densely populated part of Gaza. “The way I live is to beg here and there and take help from anyone,” said Abu Misbah, a 51-year-old construction worker trying to support a family of 10. He said that vegetables and fruits were unaffordable. His children asked for oranges, but he was unable to buy them. “We…