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Israel-Hamas War
Israel Says It Is Expanding Operations as It Steps Up Gaza Bombardment
Israeli forces had launched an intense attack with artillery and with missiles fired from warplanes aimed at destroying underground
“terrorist infrastructure” in the Palestinian enclave, a military spokesman said.
With a ground invasion looming, Israel’s military said it had begun an intense round of strikes on Gaza.
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Patrick Kingsley, Ronen Bergman and Hiba Yazbek
Here is the latest on the war.

The Israeli military launched an intense aerial bombardment on the Gaza Strip on
Friday evening, employing missiles fired from warplanes and artillery, Israeli
officials said. The barrage came exactly three weeks after an incursion by Hamas
that left 1,400 people dead in Israel and sparked a regional war.
Israeli leaders were deliberating how to conduct a ground invasion of Gaza with the
aim of removing Hamas from power — and as diplomats conducted back-channel
negotiations aimed at freeing some of the 229 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.
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Oct. 27, 2023, 3:57 p.m. ET

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Across the street from the Brooklyn Museum on Friday, young people set out glasses and plates on a long Shabbat table. The seats
were empty — each had the name and photo of an Israeli hostage held in Gaza taped to the back — but dozens of people had gathered
to recite scripture and sing on the sidewalk nearby. A similar event was held Thursday in Times Square. Sam Stern, 52, who helped
organize the Brooklyn event, said, “Until our hostages are out, we’re not sleeping.”
Sarah Garland/The New York Times
Oct. 27, 2023, 3:56 p.m. ET

Farnaz Fassihi
The United Nations General Assembly broke out into applause when an amendment draft by Canada seeking to add the Hamas
attacks on Israel on Oct. 7 as a terrorist attack failed to pass. It did not achieve the two-thirds majority of members who were present
and voting. All Arab countries voted against it.
Oct. 27, 2023, 3:51 p.m. ET

Yousur Al-Hlou
Reached by WhatsApp, Belal Khaled, a Palestinian freelance photographer, described a sense of anxiety among residents at Nasser
Hospital in Khan Younis. “People are in fear, and they feel they are in limbo. They don’t know what’s happening around them.”
Yousef Masoud for The New York Times
Oct. 27, 2023, 3:45 p.m. ET

New York Times Audio
The Times’s Jerusalem bureau chief discusses the developing situation in Gaza.
On Friday, two major Palestinian mobile networks, Jawwal and Paltel, said that their phone lines and internet services were down
after the latest Israeli strikes. Reporters said they had struggled to reach residents of Gaza by phone.
Amid an apparent digital blackout in Gaza and an announcement by the Israeli military that it is expanding operations there, Patrick
Kingsley, The New York Times’s Jerusalem bureau chief, joined Matina Stevis-Gridneff, the Brussels bureau chief, with the latest on
Israel.
Oct. 27, 2023, 3:42 p.m. ET

Katie Rogers
The Biden administration would not comment on the Israeli military’s activity in Gaza.
John F. Kirby, a White House spokesman, addressing reporters during a news briefing this
week. Erin Schaff/The New York Times
The Biden administration on Friday did not offer any information on, or confirmation of, the intense aerial bombardment launched on
the Gaza Strip by the Israeli military, keeping with its efforts to emphasize that the military operations there are led by Israel and not
the United States.
Speaking with reporters, John F. Kirby, a White House spokesman, repeatedly declined to answer questions about what the Israeli
military has called its “expanding” activity in Gaza, and instead directed those questions to the Israeli military.
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Oct. 27, 2023, 3:10 p.m. ET

Raja Abdulrahim Reporting from Jerusalem
Jordan’s foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, urged the United Nations General Assembly to vote for a nonbinding resolution calling for an
immediate cease-fire. Safadi said an Israeli ground invasion into Gaza would be a disaster.
Oct. 27, 2023, 3:05 p.m. ET

Lauren Leatherby, Josh Holder and Vivian Yee
The Gaza Health Ministry’s list of people killed includes more than 600 children under age 4.
At least 1,500 children under the age of 10, including 600 under the age of four, have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, according to the
list of dead released on Thursday by the health ministry there.
More than 100 of those named were listed as less than a year old.
Adults and children reported killed each day in Gaza
800 killed
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Children
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Sources: Summary of deaths by Gazan Health Ministry • By The New York Times
An Israeli official said that the government was assessing the data, which was released before Friday’s bombardment.
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Oct. 27, 2023, 2:44 p.m. ET

Yousur Al-Hlou
Despite limited communication, some Palestinian journalists — including a reporter for Al Jazeera — hosted a spotty livestream on
Instagram from the Gaza Strip, capturing darkened streets and what they said are intensifying Israeli airstrikes in the distance. The
journalists described the blackouts as “completely inhumane,” and said residents in need of help could no longer reach emergency
services.
Yousur Al-Hlou for The New York Times
Oct. 27, 2023, 2:03 p.m. ET

Raja Abdulrahim Reporting from Jerusalem
With a widespread digital blackout in Gaza, some Palestinians who have still managed to communicate with the outside world said
that fear and panic were spreading about what the Israeli military could be planning as airstrikes intensified.
Oct. 27, 2023, 1:59 p.m. ET

Patrick Kingsley Reporting from Jerusalem
Israel’s ground forces are “expanding” their activity this evening, according to a new statement by the chief military spokesman, Rear
Adm. Daniel Hagari. He did not announce a ground invasion nor did he say that Israeli forces entered Gaza.
Oct. 27, 2023, 1:59 p.m. ET

Patrick Kingsley Reporting from Jerusalem
Admiral Hagari said that the Israeli Air Force had intensified its strikes on Gaza this evening, saying that they were targeting
underground “terrorist infrastructure.” He also said that a major hospital in Gaza was being used by armed groups, an accusation
that Hamas has denied.
Oct. 27, 2023, 1:24 p.m. ET

Talya Minsberg
A barrage of rockets was fired at central Israel on Friday evening as extensive airstrikes continue on the Gaza Strip. Sirens were also
heard as far south as Ashkelon.
Oct. 27, 2023, 1:20 p.m. ET

Hiba Yazbek Reporting from Jerusalem
The Palestinian Red Crescent said that it has completely lost contact with its headquarters in the Gaza Strip and is “deeply concerned”
about the ability of its teams to continue providing emergency medical services, and for residents’ ability to call for ambulances.
Oct. 27, 2023, 1:04 p.m. ET

Two major Palestinian mobile networks, Jawwal and Paltel, have announced that their phone lines and internet services are down
following the intense new strikes. In the last hour, reporters have struggled to reach residents of Gaza by phone. Most if not all phones
appear to be disconnected.
Oct. 27, 2023, 12:56 p.m. ET

Ronen Bergman and Patrick Kingsley
The Israeli military has begun a particularly intense round of strikes on Gaza, according to three military officers and an Israeli
government official. The barrage includes missiles fired from warplanes as well as shells fired from artillery, the officers said. The
barrage occurred as Israeli leaders have been deliberating about how to conduct a ground invasion of Gaza and as diplomats conduct
backchannel talks to free hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.
Oct. 27, 2023, 12:45 p.m. ET

Farnaz Fassihi
António Guterres, secretary general of the United Nations, said in a statement the humanitarian system in Gaza was “facing a total
collapse with unimaginable consequences for more than 2 million civilians,” adding that “as the bombing intensifies, needs are
growing ever more critical and colossal.” Guterres said that before the conflict, at least 500 aid trucks went into Gaza per day, and now,
on average, twelve trucks cross the border, causing needs for essential items, such as water and food and medicine, to grow
significantly.
Oct. 27, 2023, 12:49 p.m. ET

Farnaz Fassihi
Guterres said that “without a fundamental change, the people of Gaza will face an unprecedented avalanche of human suffering.
Everyone must assume their responsibilities. This is a moment of truth. History is judging us all.”
Oct. 27, 2023, 12:13 p.m. ET

Monika Pronczuk Reporting from London
Aid workers in Gaza are trying to do their work and stay alive.
Emergency workers bringing a wounded child into Nasser Medical Hospital in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, on Wednesday. Yousef Masoud for The New York Times
Hussam Okal, an aid worker in a U.N.-operated shelter, is trying to help the 22,000 people forced to stay there, while in the same
desperate position himself.
Israel has ordered more than a million Palestinians to evacuate the north in anticipation of a ground invasion, and the humanitarian
situation has become increasingly dire, with the last remaining supplies of fuel, water and medicines running out and organizations
forced to make do. Thousands of aid workers, like Mr. Okal, are sticking with their jobs — with little sleep and limited resources — all
while trying to stay alive.
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Oct. 27, 2023, 11:58 a.m. ET

Vivian Yee Reporting from Cairo
Spontaneous protests erupted in Cairo in solidarity with Gaza on Friday afternoon before security forces dispersed them and arrested
multiple people, according to local media and posts on social media. Demonstrators had attempted to march into Al Azhar Mosque, the
highest seat of learning in the Sunni Muslim world, but were stopped by security forces. Chanting crowds still rallied nearby, videos
showed.
Oct. 27, 2023, 11:56 a.m. ET

Farnaz Fassihi
A United Nations General Assembly special session was continuing for a second day on Friday. A draft resolution from a group of Arab
countries calling for an immediate cease-fire is expected to be voted on in the afternoon. Canada has proposed an amendment to
include a paragraph calling Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel a terrorist attack. General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding but
they are highly symbolic and represent a wider view than those of the Security Council.
Justin Lane/EPA, via Shutterstock
Oct. 27, 2023, 11:55 a.m. ET

Katie Rogers
WHITE HOUSE MEMO
The national security adviser has drawn criticism for recent public remarks.
Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s national security adviser, at the White House earlier this
month. Doug Mills/The New York Times
In a 7,000-word essay for Foreign Affairs magazine published this week, Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser to President
Biden, tried to sum up the state of the Middle East.
“Although the Middle East remains beset with perennial challenges,” he wrote in the original version of the essay, “the region is
quieter than it has been for decades.”
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Oct. 27, 2023, 11:30 a.m. ET

Karen Zraick
A U.N. official offers some of the most dire warnings yet about conditions in Gaza.
Gaza is “being strangled” by Israel’s extreme siege of the territory, which will soon result in even more civilian deaths, the head of the
United Nations agency that aids Palestinians said on Friday, adding that the system to allow aid in from Egypt was “geared to fail.”
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the agency, known as UNRWA, gave perhaps his most dire warning yet of the humanitarian disaster
unfolding in the territory, saying that “food, water and fuel — basic commodities — are being used to collectively punish more than two
million people, among them, a majority of children and women.”
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Oct. 27, 2023, 10:35 a.m. ET

Monika Pronczuk Reporting from London
Fourteen staff members from UNRWA, the U.N. agency that aids Palestinians, were killed overnight in Gaza, the organization said,
bringing its death toll in the war to 53. “These people dedicated their lives to their communities,” the agency said.
Oct. 27, 2023, 10:21 a.m. ET

Matina Stevis-Gridneff Reporting from Brussels
The E.U. humanitarian aid chief said that the bloc, the biggest international donor to the Palestinians, was sending six more cargo
planes of aid intended for Gaza to Egypt. It was unclear when or if the supplies would get in, because only several dozen aid trucks
have been allowed into Gaza via the Rafah border crossing, and talks between Israel, Egypt and the U.N. over scaling up access have
stalled.
Oct. 27, 2023, 10:21 a.m. ET

Matina Stevis-Gridneff Reporting from Brussels
“Once again, I urge all involved parties to let aid trucks move in without interruption,” the E.U. official, Janez Lenarcic, said in a
post on X.
Oct. 27, 2023, 10:18 a.m. ET

Farnaz Fassihi
Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator and deputy foreign minister, Ali Baqeri, is in Moscow today for consultations with Russian officials at
the same time as Hamas officials, Iran’s state news media reported. Mr. Baqeri met with Hamas’s senior political official, Mousa Abou
Mazereq, it reported.
Mr. Baqeri said that Iran’s priority was an immediate cease-fire in the Israel-Gaza war, the delivery of humanitarian aid and the lifting
of the blockade. “We will pursue these objects earnestly at various international levels,” he said.
Oct. 27, 2023, 9:13 a.m. ET

Alan Rappeport
The U.S. imposes new sanctions to cut off Hamas funding.
Members of Hamas taking part in a rally in Gaza City in 2021. Felipe Dana/Associated Press
The United States on Friday imposed a new round of sanctions aimed at cutting off financing for Hamas, targeting its investment fund
and Iranians who funnel money and support to the group.
The Treasury Department has sent two of its top officials to the Middle East and Europe this week to coordinate an international effort
to prevent Hamas from evading previous sanctions and find new ways to cut the group off from the international financial system. The
United States estimates that Hamas controls $500 million worth of assets that it uses to finance terrorism.
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Oct. 27, 2023, 8:22 a.m. ET

The Gaza government press office said that Israeli strikes had destroyed over 5,900 acres of agricultural land planted with vegetables,
as well as several food storage facilities and markets amid a severe food shortage in the besieged enclave. It accused Israel of
deliberately targeting such areas to “exacerbate the humanitarian disaster.”
Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times
Oct. 27, 2023, 7:33 a.m. ET

A Hamas rocket barrage was directed at the wider Tel Aviv area as sirens blared across central Israel. A building in Tel Aviv was
directly hit, leaving three people with light to moderate injuries, according to the emergency service. Hamas confirmed the attack.
Oct. 27, 2023, 7:15 a.m. ET

Four more Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in the Israeli-occupied West Bank overnight into Friday as violence continues to
rise, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. Since Oct. 7 at least 110 Palestinians have been killed and another 1,900 wounded in clashes
with Israeli forces or attacks by settlers, the ministry said.
Oct. 27, 2023, 7:30 a.m. ET

The U.N. Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said it had recorded a significant increase in Israeli settler attacks
against Palestinians and their property in the occupied territory since Oct. 7, with at least 146 such attacks. The agency added that
amid the increase in violence at least 82 Palestinian households, comprising 607 people, have been displaced from their homes.
Oct. 27, 2023, 6:53 a.m. ET

Ivan Nechepurenko
The Kremlin defended its decision to host a delegation of high-ranking Hamas officials in Moscow, saying that Russia believes it is
“necessary to maintain contacts with all sides” in the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesman,
said that the delegation had only met with representatives of Russia's Foreign Ministry on Thursday and had no contacts with Kremlin
officials. Mr. Peskov said that Russia continues its dialogue with the Israeli authorities.
Oct. 27, 2023, 6:49 a.m. ET

Euan Ward Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon
‘I will be the last one to leave’: Fighting at the Lebanon-Israel border creates a ghost town.
More than three-quarters of the population of the Lebanese border town of Rmeish has fled.
Euan Ward/The New York Times
Najib al Amil, a 72-year-old priest in the Lebanese town of Rmeish, on the border with Israel, raced to harvest his olive trees as the
sound of shelling rumbled in the distance. Soon, his olive groves could be a battlefield, he worried, and there would be no trees left to
harvest.
“We put our faith in God,” he said.
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Oct. 27, 2023, 6:34 a.m. ET

Nick Cumming-Bruce Reporting from Geneva
Around 300,00 to 400,000 Palestinians are estimated to still be in the north of the Gaza Strip despite Israel’s warning to evacuate the
area, Lynn Hastings, the U.N. aid coordinator for the Palestinian territories, said. “Nowhere is really safe right now” in Gaza, she said,
adding that some Palestinians who moved south have moved back to the north because of Israeli air strikes and because living
conditions there were untenable.
Oct. 27, 2023, 6:28 a.m. ET

Karen Zraick
Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of UNRWA, said on Friday that basic services in Gaza were crumbling and that the
agency had to make drastic decisions about how to ration fuel because of the ongoing Israeli blockade.
“The siege means that food, water and fuel — basic commodities — are being used to collectively punish more than two million people,
among them, a majority of children and women,” he said, according to a transcript of a news conference in Jerusalem released by the
agency.
Oct. 27, 2023, 6:29 a.m. ET

Karen Zraick
Lazzarini said that the focus on the small number of aid trucks was “becoming a distraction; these few trucks are nothing more
than crumbs that will not make a difference for two million people.” He added: “We should avoid conveying the message that a
few trucks a day means the siege is lifted for humanitarian aid. It is not. The current system in place is geared to fail.”
“What is needed is meaningful and uninterrupted aid flow,” he said. “To succeed, we need a humanitarian cease-fire to ensure this
aid reaches those in need.”
Oct. 27, 2023, 6:26 a.m. ET

Nick Cumming-Bruce Reporting from Geneva
The U.N. food agency said it had been able to deliver nine truckloads of food assistance representing less than 2 per cent of what it
needed. It used to work with 23 bakeries to provide fresh bread for up to 200,000 people but as a result of fuel shortages only two of the
bakeries were able to operate. “The notion of a warm meal is out of reach, there is simply no way for people to cook,” Samer
AbdelJaber, the World Food Program coordinator said. “The reality is that for every person who is receiving assistance, six more are
in need.”
Oct. 27, 2023, 5:31 a.m. ET

Ten surgeons from Denmark, France, Germany and Spain have arrived in Gaza through its border crossing with Egypt, a spokesman
at the Gaza Interior Ministry said. The spokesman, Hisham Adwan, said they were there to treat people wounded in Israeli airstrikes.
Oct. 27, 2023, 5:44 a.m. ET
“We need hundreds like them, as we have thousands of injured people,” Adwan said.
Oct. 27, 2023, 5:25 a.m. ET

Nadav Gavrielov
Israel’s army says it conducted another raid into the Gaza Strip.
Israel soldiers in Be’eri, Israel, last week. Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times
The Israeli military said on Friday that it had conducted another targeted raid into the Gaza Strip over the past day as it continued to
prepare for the next stages of fighting against Hamas, the armed Palestinian group.
The military said it had “struck dozens of terror targets” belonging to Hamas in a mission that encompassed ground forces, fighter jets
and unmanned aerial vehicles. It said the raid had struck targets in the Shuja’iyya area and throughout Gaza, but did not offer
additional details.
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Oct. 27, 2023, 5:01 a.m. ET

Ten aid trucks entered Gaza through its border crossing with Egypt on Friday morning, said Wael Abu Omar, a spokesman for the
Palestinian side of the crossing. That brings to 84 the total number of aid trucks to enter Gaza since Saturday.
Oct. 27, 2023, 5:01 a.m. ET

The United Nations has said that Gaza needs at least 100 trucks a day to meet basic humanitarian needs after Israel cut off food,
water and fuel supplies to the Strip. But Israel’s stringent checks on the aid and its ban on fuel, which it says are needed to ensure
that weapons and fuel do not reach Hamas, have slowed the flow of aid and forced hospitals, bakeries and water desalination
plants to close.
Oct. 27, 2023, 4:52 a.m. ET

The Egyptian state news media said a “projectile” had hit near a power plant in the small South Sinai town of Nuweiba, about an
hour’s drive from Egypt’s border with Israel on the Red Sea. It did not say where the projectile was launched from.
Oct. 27, 2023, 5:45 a.m. ET

In normal times, Nuweiba is a sleepy place best known for hosting tourists — including many young Israelis — who come to stay
in its rustic Bedouin beach camps.
Abir Sultan/EPA, via Shutterstock
Oct. 27, 2023, 4:50 a.m. ET

Nadav Gavrielov
The Israeli military has notified the families of 229 people who were kidnapped on Oct. 7 during Hamas’s attack, according to Rear
Adm. Daniel Hagari, the military’s chief spokesman. That is an increase from the 224 people the military had reported on Thursday.
Oct. 27, 2023, 3:45 a.m. ET

A missile injured six people in Taba, Egypt — a Red Sea resort town on the border with Israel — Egyptian state media reported on
Friday, citing official sources. The report said that an ambulance building and residential area had been hit and that it had not been
determined where the missile was launched from.
Oct. 27, 2023, 4:57 a.m. ET

The Egyptian military said in a statement carried in the state news media that it was a drone, not a missile as reported earlier,
that had fallen in Taba. Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military’s chief spokesman, linked the explosion to an “aerial threat”
that had appeared in the Red Sea area on Friday morning, prompting Israel to send Air Force jets to the area.
Oct. 26, 2023, 10:19 p.m. ET

Eric Schmitt
The U.S. strikes Iran-linked targets in Syria, even as it seeks to keep the Israel-Hamas war from
spreading.
Brig. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder, the Pentagon spokesman, said attacks last week by Iranian-
backed militants had left 19 U.S. service members in Iraq and Syria suffering from traumatic
brain injuries. Kevin Wolf/Associated Press
The United States carried out two airstrikes against facilities used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and its proxies in
eastern Syria early Friday in retaliation for a flurry of recent rocket and drone attacks against American forces in Iraq and Syria.
The strikes by Air Force F-16 jets, against a weapons storage facility and an ammunition storage facility, were intended to send a
strong signal to Iran to rein in the attacks the Biden administration has blamed on Tehran’s proxies in Syria and Iraq without
escalating the conflict in the Middle East, U.S. officials said. The targets, while limited in number, represent an escalation in striking
facilities used by Iran’s own forces in the region, not just the militias in Iraq and Syria that Tehran helps to arm, train and equip.
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Oct. 26, 2023, 9:01 p.m. ET

Eric Schmitt Reporting from Washington
19 U.S. troops suffered traumatic brain injuries in recent attacks in Iraq and Syria, the Pentagon says.
The Al Asad Air Base in western Iraq in 2019. Nasser Nasser/Associated Press
Nineteen U.S. troops based in Iraq and Syria have suffered traumatic brain injuries after rocket and drone attacks from Iran-backed
militants last week, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
The Defense Department had previously said that 21 troops had suffered minor injuries but returned to duty after the attacks on Oct.
17 and 18 at Al Asad Air Base in western Iraq and al-Tanf garrison in southern Syria.
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Oct. 26, 2023, 8:30 p.m. ET

Nadav Gavrielov
The Israeli foreign ministry condemned Hamas officials’ visit to Moscow. Lior Haiat, a spokesman, said the invitation was “an act of
support of terrorism” that “legitimizes the atrocities of Hamas terrorists,” and called on the Russian government to expel the Hamas
delegation.
Oct. 26, 2023, 7:50 p.m. ET

Erin Nolan
In Times Square in New York, hundreds of people gathered around an empty Shabbat table that the Israeli American Council set for
the some 200 hostages captured in Hamas’s Oct. 7 assault. “Our table will not be full until they all come back,” Tal Shuster, a board
member for the organization, told the crowd.
Jeenah Moon for The New York Times
Oct. 26, 2023, 7:50 p.m. ET

Erin Nolan
One attendee, Hila Levy, has a niece, Roni Eshel, 19, who is believed to be a hostage. She said she sent pictures of such events to
Roni’s family in Israel. “When the person who you love most is gone — hopefully not gone for ever and just kidnapped — they
want her back so bad. This gives them some strength.”
Jeenah Moon for The New York Times
Oct. 26, 2023, 7:00 p.m. ET

Matthew Mpoke Bigg
Representatives of both the Palestinians and Israel plead their cases at an emergency U.N. session.
Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian representative to the United Nations, made a speech during
the body’s General Assembly on Thursday denouncing the civilian toll of Israeli airstrikes on
Gaza. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images
Representatives of both the Palestinians and Israel passionately argued their cases at a rare emergency special session of the United
Nations General Assembly on Thursday that was convened to address the Israel-Hamas war and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
The Palestinian representative, Riyad Mansour, said that, even as the assembly met, Palestinian families in the besieged enclave were
being killed, hospitals were coming to a halt and neighborhoods were being destroyed.
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Oct. 26, 2023, 5:45 p.m. ET

The Gaza Health Ministry releases the names of 6,747 people it says have been killed.
Palestinians carrying the bodies of members of the Al-Satra family during their funeral on Thursday in Khan Younis, Gaza. Yousef Masoud for The New York Times
The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza has released a list of 6,747 people it said had been killed in Israel’s relentless bombardment of
the Palestinian territory in retaliation for the Hamas-led raid on Oct. 7 that killed more than 1,400 people in Israel.
The release of the document on Thursday evening served as a sharp retort to President Biden’s comments to reporters at the White
House a day earlier, when he said that he had “no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using.”
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Oct. 26, 2023, 5:17 p.m. ET

Liset Cruz
A truck with screens displaying the names and photos of students who have protested in support of the Palestinian cause has
appeared at Columbia University’s campus in recent days. On Thursday, protesters who support different sides in the war gathered to
stand united against the doxxing of students. “No doxxing now or never, we are standing here together,” the group of about 50 students
shouted.
Oct. 26, 2023, 5:15 p.m. ET

Israel’s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, reaffirmed on Thursday that Israel had “no interest in expanding the war” into Lebanon,
adding that Hezbollah was already “suffering many losses” amid near-daily clashes along Israel’s northern border. Hezbollah has
publicly announced that 47 of its fighters have died since the violence began.
Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Oct. 26, 2023, 5:16 p.m. ET

Hezbollah has yet to announce any military action today. If this holds, it will be the first day in two weeks that it has not claimed
an attack on Israel’s increasingly tense northern border.
Oct. 26, 2023, 5:13 p.m. ET

Ivan Nechepurenko
Hamas leaders arrive in Moscow as the Kremlin attempts to showcase its clout.
A group of high-ranking members of Hamas arrived in Moscow on Thursday, meeting with a senior Russian official in what looked like
an affront to the West aimed at demonstrating how the Kremlin still holds sway over key players in the bloody conflict in the Middle
East.
A deputy foreign minister of Iran, another major power in the unfolding conflict, was also in Moscow on Thursday, meeting with his
Russian counterpart.
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Oct. 26, 2023, 4:22 p.m. ET

Talya Minsberg
Satellite images show widespread damage in Gaza after Israeli strikes.

The Israeli military says it has struck more than 7,000 targets inside of the Gaza Strip since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7.
The strikes began before and continued after Israeli officials warned on Oct. 13 that the 1.1 million civilians living in northern Gaza
should evacuate “for their own safety” and head south.
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Here is the latest on the war.

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The U.S. imposes new sanctions to cut off Hamas funding.

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