i'm amy goodman. israel's unrelenting assault on the gaza strip continues as the death toll has reached 18,000 palestinians killed in just over two months. air strikes rocked the nuseirat and maghazi refugee camps in central gaza overnight, killing at least 23 people died in maghazi. air strikes also struck at least two residential homes in rafah. meanwhile, the ground battle is pushing ahead in khan younis, which is under heavy bombardment. gazan women say israeli soldiers forced them to leave their husbands and sons behind and flee their gaza city homes. they spoke from the al-aqsa hospital in central deir al-balah where they were taking refuge. >> they made us go to the south. they did not let us wait for our husbands. this had go to the south from here and that is it. they made asleep. they lied to us and made us think the road was safe but they shot at is the entire way. cooksey said our mail -- we asked about the children and they said all of them are gone. gaza is gone. amy: the mass displaceme

i'm amy goodman. palestinian officials say the death toll from 75 days of israeli attacks on the gaza strip has topped 20,000, nearly 1% of the gaza population. at least a thousand children are dead. i hospital had been in northern gaza and the last functioning medical facility or people could undergo surgery. the who team leader said the bodies of the dead are placed in rows in the courtyard. patients who have gone weeks without needed surgery and growing rates of postoperative infections due to a lack of antibiotics. >> we found a hospital that completely stopped functioning. two days ago, a number of staff were detained. last saturday, we visited al-shifa and they were telling us how they work sending surgical cases here because they had some of the only operating theaters left in northern gaza and gaza city. those are no longer functional. they don't have surgeons. they don't have power. they don't have water. they don't have food. amy: united nations human rights office as they have received dist

i'm amy goodman. israeli tanks have advanced into the center of the city of khan younis in the southern gaza strip as israel's assault on the besieged palestinian territory entered its third month. on wednesday, a strike on the refugee camp killed 22 members of a family of a correspondent for al jazeera arabic, including his parents and his siblings. palestinians and parts of southern gaza that israel has claimed are safe continue to come under fire. this is a five-year-old boy injured wednesday when an israeli strike hit a school in eastern khan younis where his family was sheltering. >> i went into the classroom to play with my friend and i heard a sound going boom. a rock fell on me and my legs and then i ran away. >> who got injured? >> a big rock fell on my leg. amy: gaza's health ministry says israeli attacks have killed more than 16,200 people, more than 7100 of them children. in a new report, the world food programme finds at least 97% of households in northern gaza have inadequate supplies of

i'm amy goodman. israeli prime minister japan netanyahu has vowed to step up attacks on the gaza strip after a weekend of violence that left hundreds of palestinians dead. on friday, 90 people were killed with israel bombed two homes. 76 of the dead were members of one family. they include and men who worked as the united nations development program official for three decades. he was killed along with his wife and five of their children. on sunday, at least 106 palestinians were killed in a single israeli airstrike on a refugee camp in gaza. this is a camp resident who searched for his wife and four children after the attack buried them under the rubble. >> my wife and children are still trapped inside. i only managed to uncover my eldest son. how will i buried them while they are under the rubble? how will i confirm my children are here? where did they go when what happened to them? what fault did they have? why did this happen to them? it is not their fault. the world watches as we are dying and bei

i'm amy goodman. gaza's health ministry says israeli strikes have killed more than 800 people since saturday after israel targeted the besieged palestinian territory with some of its most violent assaults yet, including parts of southern gaza previously designated by israel's military as safe zones. dozens were killed as israel flattened homes in the jabalia refugee camp where displaced families were sheltering, while in gaza city's shujaiya neighborhood, israeli strikes destroyed 50 residential buildings and homes, killing more than 300 people. ambulance drivers have been targeted by israeli snipers, including a medic who was shot transporting an injured person towards al-awda hospital. unicef spokesperson james elder delivered this message from inside gaza's nasser hospital. >> we cannot see more children with the wounds of war. with the burns come the shrapnel littering their body. in action by those with influence is allowing the killing of children. this is a war on children. clearly words do not

i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from the u.n. climate summit in dubai. the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees warns civil order is breaking down in the gaza strip as israel continues its unrelenting assault on the latest attacks where dozens of palestinians were killed and injured as israeli warplanes struck near the al-amal hospital and the palestinian red crescent's headquarters in khan younis. in gaza city, doctors without borders reports 115 palestinians were brought to the al-aqsa hospital thursday dead on arrival. the medical charity said in a statement -- "the hospital is full, the morgue is full. we call on israeli forces to stop the indiscriminate bombing of the gaza strip and protect civilians and civilian infrastructure. we need a ceasefire now." meanwhile, video has emerged showing israeli soldiers in beit lahia in northern gaza detaining over 100 palestinian men at gunpoint, forcing them to strip to their underwear while lined up, kneeling on the pavement. among those detained was

i'm amy goodman. another 187 palestinian have been killed in gaza over the past 24 hours as israel continues to attack refugee camps and other areas across the gaza strip. gaza health officials say the israeli assault has killed more than 21,500 palestinians over the past 12 weeks. in central gaza, israeli attacks killed at least 35 palestinians in the nuseirat and maghazi refugee camps. at least 20 more palestinians died when israel attacked a residential building near the kuwaiti hospital in rafah, the southern gaza city overflowing with displaced palestinians. one 13-year-old palestinian girl named nadeen abdulatif who -- said israel bombed the shelter where she and her family were staying, where their home was blown up and one of her brothers was killed. >> 26 people were killed her. i am scared. the thought of me being killed or my other brother being killed is -- i already lost my older brother. i can't lose my younger brother. i have no one left. no one to look up to. you can clearly see the ho

i'm amy goodman. gaza's health ministry says at least 241 palestinians have been killed over the past 24 hours as israel intensifies its assault on gaza where the overall death toll has topped 21,000, including over 8000 children. meanwhile, in the occupied west bank, an israeli drone strike has killed six palestinians in the nur shams refugee camp in tulkarem. al jazeera reports israeli forces blocked ambulances from reaching the victims of the strike. the youngest victim was 16 years old. israeli forces and settlers have killed at least 300 palestinians in the occupied west bank since hamas attacked israel on october 7. egypt has proposed a plan for a permanent ceasefire in gaza, but on tuesday, israel's army chief said israel's military operation in gaza would continue for "many more months." hamas has also rejected elements of the egyptian proposal. on tuesday, the bodies of about 80 unidentified palestinians were buried in a mass grave in rafah in southern gaza. israel had seized the bodies in no

i'm amy goodman. in gaza, witnesses say israeli soldiers shot displaced people that put blank range -- point-blank range after they raided shadia abu ghazala school in the northern al-faluja area. newborn babies were reportedly among the victims. heavy bombardment continues throughout the gaza strip, including in rafah and khan younis, where homes, businesses, and schools were leveled in israeli attacks. in rough, resident -- in rafah, mohammed obaid joined rescue efforts tuesday as residents searched the rubble of a destroyed building that was attacked by israeli rocket fire, killing at least four children. >> help us. who is very is left will battle hunger, thirst. there is no electricity, no fuel, no water, no medicine. even the hospitals are suffering in dire need. even first-aid kits are not present in hospitals. the situation is disastrous in every sense of the word stop truce or note truce, we are busy with the daily battle with the water supply, electricity, medicine, fuel, the humanitarian si

i'm amy goodman in new york, joined by democracy now!'s juan gonzÁlez in chicago. hi, juan. n: hi, amy. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. amy: the head of hamas's political wing ismail haniyeh has arrived in cairo, egypt for talks as hopes grow that a new ceasefire deal could be reached. israel's bombardment of gaza began 75 days ago on october 7, just hours after hamas' attack on israel. health authorities in gaza say at least 19,600 palestinians have been killed so far. thousands are feared to be still trapped under rubble. just before this broadcast, israel struck residential buildings in the southern city of rafah near a hospital. a reporter from al jazeera was on the air when the attack occurred. >> are getting intel -- oh, my god. did you hear that? oh, my god! that is a hospital. that is the hospital! oh, my god! >> are you hearing that? >> yes, we are -- in ago "why?" he asks. al jazeera reports the israeli attack destroyed a large mosque in rafah as well as two residential homes. israeli drones have been seen in

i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from the u.n. climate summit here in dubai in the united arab emirates. the world health organization says the situation in gaza is worsening by the hour as israel's military lays siege to hospitals and intensifies its assault on areas it previously ordered civilians to flee to. the death toll from the israeli bombardment is approaching 16,000, with thousands more believed to be trapped under the rubble. 26 of gaza's 35 hospitals are now out of service. in the north, israeli tanks encircled kamal adwan hospital and began shelling the medical complex. doctors say israeli snipers are firing on anyone attempting to leave. images from the hospital's courtyard show bodies swaddled in white sheets lined up in rows after medical staff were unable to bury the dead. in southern gaza, an intense israeli assault on the city of khan younis has left hospitals overrun. this is ibrahim esbeitan, whose two-month-old son was injured in an israeli airstrike monday. >> they told us to leave gaza city. so we left the

i'm amy goodman. palestinian officials report 390 people have been killed and more than 700 injured in israeli strikes on gaza over the past two days. in one of the latest attacks, an israeli air raid killed four people, including bassem ghaben, the director of the israeli-controlled karem abu salem border crossing, who'd been working to bring desperately-needed aid into gaza. this comes as the united nations reports more than a half a million palestinians are starving amid israel's siege and unrelenting bombardment of the gaza strip. arif hussain is chief economist with the u.n.'s world food programme. >> the world right now, there are 130,000 people who are in catastrophic levels of hunger, meaning they are starving. in gaza, more than half a million. that is four times more. that is what makes this totally unprecedented. amy: on thursday, hamas ruled out any more exchanges of captives until israel agrees to a "full cessation of aggression." meanwhile, israel for the seventh time has severed gaza's

i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from the u.n. climate summit in dubai in the united arab emirates. we begin today's show in gaza as israeli tanks are moving into the center of khan younis, gaza's second largest city, after days of intense shelling and air strikes. palestinian health officials say the death toll in gaza has topped 16,200, including over 6600 children. this is a resident of khan younis speaking after israel bombed his home. >> there were 30 people inside the house. 20 of them were children. children aged 15 days, one year, three years, four years. we set up a place for them to sleep throughout the bombardment. we put them to sleep. we went to sleep. all of a sudden what happened to us, we don't know. the fire hit us. all of it collapsed on top of us. none of us made it out completely ok. everybody is heard. how and why, we don't even understand what happened ourselves. we rushed to the hospitals to check on the children and came back this morning to check the house. look at this. i swear we don't even know how we m

i'm amy goodman.srael's military has launched its most intense raids of the occupied west bank since israel began its assault on the gaza strip following hamas's attack on october 7. overnight, israeli forces raided 10 cities, including ramallah, where at least one was shot dead and 15 others wounded during confrontations with israeli soldiers. the palestine monetary 30 said troops targeted at least six money exchange companies, see the -- seizing over $2 million worth of fun. disturbing details about an israeli strike on a refugee camp that killed six palestinians. the head of the citic reports israeli soldiers stopped and boarded ambulances caring people injured in the bombing. one patient was reportedly stabbed in the neck while two others were removed and severely beaten. the world health organization warns tens of thousands of palestinians are fleeing israeli attacks as devastating airstrikes continue to kill civilians. palestinian health officials have the latest assaults have killed at least 50

i'm amy goodman. israeli troops backed by tanks and heavy artillery have stormed the besieged kamal adwan hospital in the northern gaza strip where 3000 displaced people are sheltering from israeli's unrelenting assault. al jazeera reports medical staff inside the hospital are among those shot and killed, as were two mothers killed monday when israel's military bombarded the hospital's maternity ward. the hospital's remaining patients include a dozen children in an intensive care unit and six newborns in incubators. palestinian health officials say israeli soldiers were rounding up men in the hospital courtyard, stripping them, blindfolding them, and taking them away for interrogation. a human rights watch official said such treatment "amounts to a war crime." the assault on the kamal adwan hospital comes as israel's military continued to bombard the southern gaza strip, including rafah on the egyptian side where thousands of palestinians expelled from northern gaza face dire shortages of food, water,

i'm amy goodman. dozens of palestinians have been killed after israel resumed its bombardment of gaza, ending a week-long pause to facilitate the exchange of captives. hamas responded by firing a salvo of rockets towards southern israel. the u.n. says the resumption of violence puts thousands of innocent lives at risk. since the october 7 hamas attack, the israeli bombardment has killed over 15,000 palestinians, including 6100 children. israel has expanded its military campaign to target southern areas of gaza, where israeli planes have been dropping leaflets warning people to evacuate areas around khan younis, warning the city was now a dangerous battle zone. israel previously expelled hundreds of thousands of people from the northern gaza strip to the south. just hours before the truce was -- expired, residents of khan younis searched through the rubble of their former homes for any personal items they could salvage. >> the end of the cal today feels like our executionm. they're telling us we have 2