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    Gazans face growing crisis as a key border crossing remains closed

    Residents of the Gaza Strip struggle to find safe passage as conditions deteriorate and no aid is allowed in. Also, a Hamas spokesman says the group has no plans to release some 200 hostages.
    by Jaclyn Diaz Oct 17, 2023 3 minutes
    A Palestinian woman mourns after an Israeli airstrike at the Rafah refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
    Updated October 17, 2023 at 12:27 PM ET

    Mediators are pressing for an agreement that will allow aid to enter the Gaza Strip and refugees with foreign passports out of the enclave. The efforts come as the World Health Organization is warning that Gaza faces an "imminent" public health crisis.

    As Palestinians struggle to find safe passage, health care and clean, reliable water, a spokesman for Hamas, Ghazi Hamad, remained unrepentant for his group's attack on Israel.

    Israel says it will not stop its attacks until it has destroyed Hamas.

    "Every Hamas member is a dead man," Prime.

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