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About 600 foreign nationals will be allowed to leave through the Rafah crossing on Thursday, Gaza’s border crossing authority said. The list included 400 Americans as well as people from Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belgium, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and Switzerland.
Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. is set to testify today in a New York civil fraud case. His siblings, Eric and Ivanka, as well as the former president are expected to testify this week and next. The judge ruled that the Trump Organization committed fraud when they lied about the value of their assets. If the trial shows that it was a deliberate act, the defendants will have to pay the full amount if found liable.
The young Israelis of Gaza: The impact of the Hamas attack on civilians and civilians during the September 11 terrorist attack in Minnesota
President Biden will visit Minnesota today to talk about investment in rural America. He’ll be speaking in the home state of Rep. Dean Phillips, Biden’s newest challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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We accepted an invite to go to the Israeli military spokesman’s office. My colleagues Reena Advani and Ziad Buchh observed how young almost everyone seemed. Israelis commonly perform compulsory military service after high school. Many others have been called back to service for this war, and with the exception of a few senior officers, hardly anyone seemed to be out of their twenties.
We’d come to see the latest version of an Israeli government video showing the Hamas attack on Oct. 7. On screen, many people were young. One scene, taken from security cameras in a home, shows two boys in their underwear, having been surprised in bed by the early-morning attack. Their dad tried to herd them into a shelter, but was killed in front of them.
Israeli airstrikes have killed more than 8,000 and injured 20,000 others, Palestinian officials say, and doctors at Gaza’s hospitals say they are overwhelmed. Hundreds of American citizens have been stranded in Gaza since the war began, along with thousands of other foreign passport holders.
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The war is almost always conducted by young people. It is often the young who are inflicted with it. There’s a special irony of this conflict in that it turns on arguments over land that stretch back generations — even centuries — long before any of today’s participants were born.
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The announcement followed a 34-hour communications blackout in Gaza over the weekend that coincided with the start of Israel’s “expanded” ground operations.
internet and phone service in Gaza was out again Wednesday as activity took place at the border. International routes that were reconnected, were responsible for the outage according to the company.
59 trucks of aid entered Gaza on Tuesday, the most in a single day since aid began crossing. Israel blocks the delivery of fuel. Dozens of trucks were expected to enter Gaza.
There were scores of people waiting at the crossing on Thursday, and Egyptians pushed luggage carts along the other side of the checkpoint.
At least 300 foreign citizens departed Gaza on Wednesday, according to the Gaza border authority, which is operated by Hamas. In addition, dozens of critically wounded Palestinians were transported by ambulance to hospitals in Egypt for treatment.
As people waited at the Rafah crossing on Thursday anticipating a second day of evacuations from Gaza into Egypt, the sound of an airstrike rattled the crowd, and a piece of shrapnel appeared to fall in the area.
The most dangerous trip in his life was the one which took Al Husseini from the Egyptian city of Rafah to Cairo.
Reached by phone on Thursday after arriving in Cairo, he said that he had not been able to find any taxis or people who would drive him to the border because of a shortage of fuel in the Gaza Strip, and because phones were not working. Eventually he found a ride, but he and the driver were terrified while driving from central Gaza on the enclave’s empty streets.
Mr. Al Husseini was worried that he could be killed for being next to a place that Israel thought to be a Hamas target. He said you could be damaged any time. “I was scared to death.”
The scene was chaotic according to Mr. Al Husseini. Some people who weren’t allowed out were in the crowd of people trying to leave, but officers were processing their names manually.
The family members of those who could evacuate were sometimes barred from leaving because they did not have the necessary documentation.
After surviving more than three weeks of war in Gaza, a woman and her daughter decided to cross the border into Egypt. They said goodbye. Then Ms. Salah watched her firstborn cross to safety without her.
Matthew Miller, a State Department spokesman, said Wednesday that around 400 Americans in Gaza had expressed a desire to leave, but that the government would also help their family members who wish to flee, for a total of about a thousand people. Still, some names were not on the list on Thursday.
He is hoping they will all eventually be able to get out. “The situation is beyond catastrophic and beyond even imagination,” he said. The death, bombing, and bloodshed.
After going through the crossing a number of times, she was finally traveling through it with her family on Thursday. Her feelings were not as positive.
Some of the would-be evacuees repeatedly went to the Rafah crossing over the last three weeks after hearing it might open, only to find the gate shut. Rumors and confusion abounded as news spread that the crossing was open this week, prompting many people to head there even though they were not yet scheduled to depart. The lack of internet and spotty phone connections meant some people may not even have heard that they were on the list to leave this week.
But reaching safety was hardly as simple as showing up at the border, foreign passport in hand, as several evacuees described in interviews with The New York Times.
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The woman, identified as Ms. Mohammed, was in southern Gaza and had tears in her eyes when she spoke to her. To be safe.
A new list of passport holders approved to leave was issued by the border authority overnight. It included around 400 Americans. It was unclear how many would be able to cross Thursday.
The ground campaign in Gaza intensified as Israel’s airstrikes continued. The Israel Defense Forces reported battles with Hamas fighters as troops entered Gaza’s north and east.
Calls for a cease-fire have grown from human rights groups, international leaders and left-leaning members of the Democratic party. The White House, once steadfast in its support of Israel’s opposition to a cease-fire, has shown support in recent days for what officials have called a “humanitarian pause.”
After giving a speech to a group of supporters, he said he thought they needed a break. The White House later clarified that a brief cessation of military operations could give time to get the hostages out.