Israel has announced its worst combat losses for more than a month after an ambush in the ruins of Gaza City, and faced growing diplomatic isolation as civilian deaths mounted and a humanitarian catastrophe worsened.
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00:00 The Israeli military on Wednesday released this footage purporting to show fierce house-to-house
00:07 battles with Hamas in the shell-shocked Shejaya district of Gaza City.
00:12 And it showcases how, despite Israel's overwhelming superiority in the air, in tanks and with
00:18 artillery, Palestinian resistance remains lethal.
00:22 Underscoring that reality, Israel said on Wednesday 10 of its soldiers were killed in
00:27 an ambush in the prior 24 hours in an operation to rescue another group of soldiers that came
00:32 under fire.
00:36 Among those killed were Lieutenant Colonel Tomer Grinberg, who was buried on Wednesday.
00:41 It was the worst one-day loss since 15 soldiers were killed on October 31.
00:48 Fighting has only intensified amid the rubble in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, where
00:52 Israel had previously claimed its military objectives had been largely met.
00:59 Israel's devastating assault on Gaza has killed more than 18,000 Palestinians, according to
01:04 the Gaza Health Ministry, including thousands of young children.
01:11 This body was recovered from the rubble of an airstrike in Rafah.
01:16 This man cries, "These are children.
01:19 Children.
01:20 Do they kill anyone other than children?"
01:22 The death toll has sparked an international outcry.
01:25 The United Nations General Assembly this week passed a resolution calling for an immediate
01:30 ceasefire.
01:31 Israel's foreign minister on Wednesday said it would wage war on Hamas with or without
01:36 international support, after militants launched a surprise attack on October 7, rampaging
01:41 through Israeli communities, killing 1,200 people and taking hundreds of hostages.
01:48 Palestinians fleeing destruction have crowded into shelters in the south, overwhelming the
01:52 health system already strained by a lack of fuel and medicine.
01:56 Lynne Hastings is the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
02:02 We all know that the health care system is or has collapsed.
02:08 We've got a textbook formula for epidemics and a public health disaster.
02:14 This is in part, of course, because the shelters have long ago exceeded their full capacity
02:21 with people lining up for hours just to get to a toilet.
02:25 One toilet available for hundreds of people, you can imagine what the sanitation conditions
02:31 are like as a result.
02:33 White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan plans to travel to Israel on Thursday
02:37 and Friday to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid U.S. efforts to pressure Israel
02:42 to dial back what President Joe Biden has called the "indiscriminate" bombing of Gaza.
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