Gaza Strip

An Israeli general claims that the country's troops are close to Gaza City.
The Palestinian Authority announced that the city's maternity hospital was shelled.

Destroyed buildings in Gaza

A total of 36 Bulgarian citizens and their family members were successfully evacuated today from the territory of the Gaza Strip and are now safe in Egypt. The 37th has expressed his desire to stay, this was announced by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mariya Gabriel.

President Joe Biden, when responding to a heckler at a Minnesota campaign event Wednesday night, said he thinks there should be a humanitarian "pause" in the Israeli-Hamas war to get "prisoners" out of Gaza.

The 80-year-old Democrat was delivering remarks to some 200 supporters in the northern US state when a member of the audience shouted out to him.

The Islamist movement Hamas has granted permission for foreigners from Bulgaria, as well as seven other countries, to depart the Gaza Strip. This information was made public through an official document, complete with names and passport numbers, which was shared on the Facebook page of the Border Traffic Service.

An agreement was reached to allow foreign nationals and some seriously injured civilians in the Gaza Strip to leave the area, Reuters reported, citing an unnamed source.
The agency adds that there is no time frame for how long the Rafah crossing, on the border with Egypt, will be open.

A barrage of Israeli airstrikes leveled apartment buildings in a refugee camp near Gaza City on Tuesday, with rescuers clawing through the destruction to pull men, women and children from the rubble. Israel said the strike, which targeted a senior Hamas military leader, destroyed a militant command center and an underground tunnel network.

Bolivia severed diplomatic ties with Israel in 2009, after Israel launched an offensive in Gaza.
The two countries renewed relations ten years later in 2019.
Ten days after the Palestinian group Hamas attacked Israel and Israel's total siege of the Gaza Strip that followed, Colombia asked the Israeli Ambassador to leave the country.

Local businesses in the southern province of Adana's İncirlik district, where a joint Turkish-U.S. defense facility is located, have been facing challenging times following a ban on foreign soldiers leaving the base over protests against Israel and the U.S. due to the Israel-Hamas war.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that there is no question of a ceasefire, and that now is the time for war.
"For Israel, a cease-fire would be the same as handing over to Hamas," Netanyahu said, and announced that the war would last.

The latest figures after the attack on the camp

In the conflict between Israel and Hamas, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made his choice. At first, he appeared to be ambivalent and maintain a relative balance (it should be noted that he had not unequivocally condemned the attack by Hamas), but over time his views became clear and more aggressive towards Israel, the West and the United States.