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Heavy fighting in Gaza halts most aid delivery and leaves civilians with few places to seek safety

At the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, ambulances brought dozens of wounded people in as Israel intensified its bombardment in and around Gaza’s second-largest city early Tuesday, sending ambulances and private cars carrying people wounded in a bloody new phase of the war. (Dec. 5) (AP video: Najib Jobain)
By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY
Updated 10:34 AM EST, December 6, 2023

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces battled Hamas militants across Gaza on Wednesday in intense fighting that has prevented the distribution of vital aid in much of the territory and brought some of the devastation and mass displacement seen in the north to the south.

As the focus of the ground offensive moves down the Gaza Strip and into the second-largest city of Khan Younis, it is further shrinking the area where Palestinians can seek safety and pushing large numbers of people, many of whom have been forced to flee multiple times, toward the sealed-off border with Egypt.

On the Gaza side of the border, makeshift shelters and family homes are already overflowing and many are sleeping in the streets. On the other side, thousands of Egyptian troops have deployed to prevent any mass influx of refugees, which Egypt says would undermine its decades-old peace treaty with Israel.

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