Even after Israel told Palestinians to evacuate the north of Gaza and flee south, strikes extended across the territory, heightening fears among the territory's 2.3 million people that nowhere was safe. Palestinian militants fired rockets into Israel from Gaza and Lebanon, and tensions flared in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. For the first time since Israel captured Gaza from Egypt in 1967, a major tent camp arose to house displaced people. Under an arrangement reached between the United Nations, Israel and Egypt, U.N. observers will inspect the aid trucks before entering Gaza. Israel had previously said it would let nothing into Gaza until Hamas freed the hostages taken from Israel.

Source: The Guardian October 19, 2023 21:51 UTC