“So long as this war continues, the death toll will keep rising,” writes Ghada Hania from Gaza. “And there is a great risk that people will not just be killed by missiles, bombs and shells but also by hunger and thirst.”

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“For most of the past month”, writes Aseel Mousa from Gaza, “my family has been displaced … According to claims by the Israeli military, Maghazi is a ‘safe’ area. Yet I am experiencing the most terrifying days of my life.”

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Indigenous activists using a canoe blocked an Israel-bound container ship at the Port of Tacoma in Washington state that was said to be a US military supply vessel loaded with weapons. The same ship was delayed by protests in Oakland, California, last week.

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Benjamin Netanyahu’s pseudo-religious spin on the “destruction of Hamas” may confuse some, but the Israeli prime minister’s base of political support among militant settlers finds inspiration from these violent biblical texts.

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For the fourth consecutive day, Israel opened a “corridor” along Gaza’s main north-south road for a four-hour window and called on Palestinians in the north of the territory to move south. “UN monitors estimate that up to 15,000 people may have passed, three times the figure estimated on 6 November,” OCHA said. Most people “arrived on foot with minimal belongings,” the UN said, with some displaced people reporting “that they had had to cross Israeli checkpoints to reach the area and had witnessed arrests by Israeli forces.”

The UN said that the humanitarian assistance arriving to Gaza from Egypt only “meets a fraction of people’s needs. Drinking water brought in serves just 4 percent of Gaza’s residents, while desperately needed fuel remains banned,” the UN’s humanitarian affairs agency said. Only 650 trucks have entered Gaza since delivery of humanitarian aid resumed on 21 October. “Prior to the start of hostilities, an average of 500 truckloads entered Gaza every working day.”

In its daily report, UN OCHA said that there are no active bakeries in the northern half of Gaza “due to the lack of fuel, water and wheat flour, as well as the damage sustained by many.” The group said that the situation of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza City and the rest of northern Gaza “is increasingly dire … as people struggle to secure the minimum amounts of water and food to survive.”

Israel targeted a convoy of trucks carrying medical supplies to Gaza City health facilities, including al-Shifa and Al-Quds hospitals, damaging two vehicles and causing minor injuries to a driver, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said. The International Committee of the Red Cross stated that it was “deeply troubled that its humanitarian convoy in Gaza City came under fire.”

Progressive organizations that mobilize young voters told US President Joe Biden that his support for Israel and its siege on Gaza “could depress turnout in a demographic that’s already notoriously difficult to energize on Election Day,” NBC News reported. The leaders of the organizations, including March for our Lives, United We Dream, Gen Z for Change and the Sunrise Movement, warned in their open letter that “you and your administration’s stance on Gaza risks millions of young voters staying home or voting third party next year.”

According to the Palestinian health ministry, 18 of Gaza’s 35 hospitals and nearly three in every four primary care facilities have “closed due to damage or lack of fuel,” the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Doctors are performing surgeries without anesthesia, including those injured in bombings and women giving birth by cesarean section, the ministry reported.

The Palestinian health ministry said that 10,305 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, including 4,237 children, since 7 October. Some 2,350 people, including more than 1,300 children, remain missing under the rubble of destroyed buildings. During that same period, Israeli forces and settlers have killed 163 Palestinians in the West Bank, the ministry added.

In a US television interview, Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would consider “tactical little pauses” in Gaza violence to facilitate the delivery of additional humanitarian aid and the evacuation of captives held in the territory since 7 October. The Israeli prime minister added that there would be no general ceasefire “without the release of our hostages” and that Israel would maintain “overall security responsibility” over Gaza “for an indefinite period.”