U.N. Security Council votes for humanitarian pauses in Gaza fighting
The 15-nation Security Council's resolution — the first since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war — passed with a 12-0 vote. The U.S., U.K. and Russia abstained.
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The 15-nation Security Council's resolution — the first since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war — passed with a 12-0 vote. The U.S., U.K. and Russia abstained.
Bodies are piling up inside and outside of Gaza's biggest hospital, with the World Health Organization warning it is "nearly a cemetery." Dozens of premature babies cannot be treated properly due to a lack of power, says the United Nations. CBS News' Ramy Inocencio reports from Jerusalem.
Gaza's Hamas-run Ministry of Health said the health sector in the Palestinian territory was "in a state of complete collapse" on Monday with three major hospitals completely out of service amid a lack of fuel and water. CBS News foreign correspondent Debora Patta reports.
Israel has agreed to daily, four-hour humanitarian pauses in the fighting in northern Gaza following international pressure to improve conditions for Palestinian civilians. Quincy Institute executive vice president Trita Parsi joins CBS News to discuss how the war is affecting the U.S.' position in the world.
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The United Nations is warning that civil order is breaking down in Gaza after residents broke into aid warehouses. As the death toll mounts, so do catastrophic injuries. CBS News' Debora Patta reports from East Jerusalem.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would not agree to a cease-fire in Gaza as troops moved further into the Palestinian territory on Monday. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Charlie D'Agata has more.
The Israeli military said Monday it had struck more than 600 targets in Gaza over the previous 24 hours as it stepped up its bombardments.
CBS News foreign correspondent Ramy Inocencio just returned from a trip near the Israel-Gaza border. Inocencio reports on the eerie silence near the border, which was interrupted while he was there by the sounds of airstrikes raining on Gaza.
Israel's overnight raid in the northern Gaza Strip comes as part of "preparations for the next stages of the war" with the Palestinian militant group Hamas, according to the Israel Defense Forces. The timing of a long expected full-scale Israeli ground invasion remained unclear Thursday. CBS News reporter Haley Ott has the latest on the raid's impact.
Hospitals in Gaza are running low on water, anesthesia, fuel and other supplies, the United Nations and doctors say. CBS News foreign correspondent Debora Patta reports from Jerusalem.
The Israel Defense Forces conducted overnight raids into Gaza, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says ground invasion plans are being readied. The United Nations warns that "nowhere is safe in Gaza." Debora Patta reports.
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The United Nations' main relief agency in Gaza warned Tuesday it would not be able to continue operating in the territory without additional fuel. Some humanitarian aid has crossed into Gaza through Egypt, but fuel has not been allowed in. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Holly Williams reports.
Humanitarian agencies are warning that the lack of fuel in the Gaza Strip is causing its health system to break down amid the Israeli siege.
Hamas officials in Gaza say more than 700 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes in 24 hours. The United Nations says a third of Gaza's hospitals have stopped functioning. CBS News' Holly Williams reports from East Jerusalem.
The Israeli military said it struck military infrastructure in Syria in response to Syrian rocket attacks. And Israel has called for U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres' resignation after he said Hamas' terror attack "did not happen in a vacuum." CBS News foreign correspondent Ian Lee has more.
President Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday and brought up the need to keep humanitarian assistance flowing into Gaza. Trucks of aid began moving into the territory from Egypt on Saturday, but U.N. agencies say more is needed. CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes reports.
A third convoy of humanitarian aid entered Gaza Monday through the Rafah crossing at the border of the Palestinian enclave and Egypt. CBS News foreign correspondent Chris Livesay reports from Cairo.
Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, tells "Face the Nation" that there needs to be a "significant scaling up of a supply line into Gaza and it needs to be sustained and it needs to be uninterrupted."
However, no U.S. citizens or other foreign nationals who have been stranded in Gaza since the war began were allowed to cross into Egypt.
Egypt briefly opened its border crossing with southern Gaza Saturday to allow 20 trucks carrying desperately needed food, medicine and water into Gaza, but no gas. The United Nations is hoping that a second convoy of trucks will be allowed in Sunday. Since Hamas' brutal attack on Israel, Gaza civilians have been paying the price, with more than a half-million people surviving on U.N. aid because of a blockade which began Oct. 7. Chris Livesay reports.
Israeli airstrikes continued to hammer Gaza overnight after President Biden's short trip to Israel where he reaffirmed U.S. support of the Jewish state. CBS News correspondent Roxana Saberi reports on the airstrikes reaching areas that Israel had deemed as safe zones in the Gaza Strip and the calls to allow humanitarian aid to reach Palestinian civilians.
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