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With Israeli tanks now massed at the gates of Gaza’s largest hospital, US President Joe Biden pressed his ally to protect scores of civilians trapped inside with dwindling supplies of fuel and water Monday. After days of heavy air strikes around Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital, witnesses said tanks and armoured vehicles were metres from the gate of the besieged facility, which has become a focal point of the five-week-old war. Follow our live blog for all the latest developments. All times are Paris time (GMT+1).
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Key developments from Monday, November 13:
The Hamas-run health ministry said on Monday that all hospitals in northern Gaza were “out of service”, as intense fighting rages between Israeli troops and Hamas militants.
The EU’s humanitarian aid chief called on Monday for “meaningful” pauses in the fighting in Gaza and urgent deliveries of fuel to keep hospitals working in the territory.
At least 34 hospital patients from Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital have died over the past three days, Youssef Abu Rish, the deputy health minister in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, told AFP on Monday.
The Hamas government in the Gaza Strip said Monday the death toll from fighting between the militants and Israel in the Palestinian territory had risen to 11,240.
According to the latest official Israeli figures, the death toll from Hamas’s October 7 attack remained at 1,200. In addition, 44 Israeli soldiers have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of Israeli military operations there.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)
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