European Union leaders urged pauses in Israeli bombing and Hamas rocket attacks so humanitarian aid could be delivered to Gaza, and U.S. President Joe Biden told Iran's supreme leader not to target U.S. personnel in the Mideast.
Israel's military, which has been carrying out limited raids into Gaza as it prepares for a ground incursion of the enclave, said early on Friday it was "currently conducting raids in the Gaza Strip as part of preparations for the
Israeli military vehicles raided the central area of Al-Bureij and troops were clashing with militants near the border there, the reports said. In the south, in a border area near the town of Rafah, Hamas militants were trading fire with Israeli troops, according to the reports.As the plight of Palestinian civilians grows more desperate, the issue of whether to have humanitarian pauses or ceasefire agreements in the Hamas-run coastal enclave will come before the 193-member U.N.
Separately, Mamadou Sow, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross' regional delegation, said from Jeddah: "To say that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is catastrophic is an understatement. Everything that is needed to sustain life is missing or dwindling by the hour in Gaza." An estimated more than 613,000 people have been made homeless and are being sheltered by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.Governments in the West and the Mideast are concerned about a wider regional conflict developing if Israel continues its bombardment of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip or mounts a ground invasion in response to the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, which is supported by Tehran, that surprised and shocked Israel.
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