As the conflict between Israel and Hamas enters its second month and the death toll in Gaza climbs, humanitarian groups’ calls for a cease-fire are growing — though they don’t appear to be moving the leaders of Israel or its key ally, the U.S.
Israel continues to strike Gaza from the air and on the ground, seeking to remove Hamas from power in response to its Oct. 7 attack on Israel, in which militants killed some 1,400 people and took another roughly 240 as hostages.
More than 10,000 people — mostly women and children — have died in Gaza in the four weeks since, Gaza’s Ministry of Health reported on Monday.
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