Here is the situation on Tuesday, October 24, 2023:

Latest developments

• The death toll in Gaza has officially crossed 5,000.
• Hamas released two elderly Israeli captives who are resting at a Tel Aviv hospital while their husbands are still being held in Gaza.
• One of Gaza’s remaining medical facilities, the Indonesian Hospital, shut down and plunged into darkness overnight. Although power was restored on Tuesday morning, it is unclear how long the fuel supply will last.
• In another deadly overnight attack, Israel has bombarded the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza’s north. With many still trapped under the rubble, the death toll is unclear.
• Israeli army spokesperson Daniel Hagari said Israel has attacked more than 400 targets, including mosques, over the past day. Hagari claimed that Israel had attacked Hamas’s “operational headquarters” and killed at least three of the group’s deputy commanders.

Human impact and fighting

• Israeli air raids through late night on Monday and pre-dawn Tuesday have killed at least 140 people across the Gaza Strip.
• Bombing in Khan Younis also injured 80, medical sources told WAFA, while air attacks also caused an explosion at a Khan Younis fuel station, killing at least 14 people.
• Israeli air raids on Tal al-Hawa in Gaza killed Palestinian journalist Roshdi Sarraj, making him the 23rd journalist to be killed in the Israel-Gaza war.
• Captives being held in Gaza won’t stop Israel from launching a ground invasion, said Israel’s energy minister.
• Amid fighting between Israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters at the Lebanon-Israel border, about 19,000 people in Lebanon have been internally displaced since October 8, according to the United Nations migration agency.

Escalation in the occupied West Bank