The White House has announced that Israel will implement daily four-hour "humanitarian pauses" in northern Gaza to allow civilians to evacuate. The United States supports this move but does not endorse a ceasefire in Gaza. The Biden administration has secured additional pathways for civilians to escape the conflict and aims to send humanitarian trucks into Gaza daily. Israel has conducted numerous airstrikes and claimed to find Hamas weapons in civilian homes. A senior U.S. official suggests that the reported casualty figures may be an underestimate, given the challenging conditions, and that the actual number could be even higher than reported. Gaza's health ministry reports over 10,000 Palestinians killed, including thousands of children, in Israeli strikes. These figures may change as the situation evolves.
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