Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s national security adviser says a planned hostage-for-prisoner swap with Hamas has been delayed until at least Friday.
Merkley is the second U.S. senator to join calls for a cease-fire amid rising Palestinian casualties and worsening humanitarian conditions in Gaza.
The newborns from Shifa Hospital were receiving urgent care in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
The tentative deal would call for Israel and Hamas to freeze their combat operations for five days while a small group of hostages are released each day.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Activists, students and everyday people said they are being intimidated for their pro-Palestine activism.
Both sides have seized on the plight of hospitals as a symbol of the larger war, now in its sixth week.
The term refers to the mass displacement and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948, as Gaza's residents currently face expulsion from their lands or death.
Israeli forces continue to bombard the strip's major hospitals claiming, without proof, that they are in search of Hamas militants.
People wondered why Hamas was the punchline when conflict in Israel and Gaza has killed upwards of 11,000 people.
The Israeli prime minister also called the UN's accusation of war crimes "hogwash," despite now killing more than 11,000 Palestinians in Gaza.