Gaza update

Intercept - Israel Today and other Israeli media are also reporting on a plan being pushed with Congress that would condition aid to Arab nations on their willingness to accept Palestinian refugees. The plan even proposes specific numbers of refugees for each country: Egypt would take one million Palestinians, half a million would go to Turkey, and a quarter million each would go to Yemen and Iraq. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tasked his top adviser, Ron Dermer, the minister of strategic affairs, with designing plans to “thin” the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip “to a minimum,” according to a bombshell new report in an Israeli newspaper founded by the late Republican billionaire Sheldon Adelson.

Guardian - All telecom services cut in Gaza City and the north Gaza Strip.

Approximately 182,000 Gaza residents who work in Israel and the settlements had their employment terminated, initial estimates by the International Labour Organization suggest.

 All telecom services cut in Gaza City and the north Gaza Strip

NPR - There is so much frustration and powerlessness over what’s happening, NPR’s Eleanor Beardsley reports on Up First from Tel Aviv. While some Israelis say it's time to get rid of Hamas, Beardsley says the prevailing sentiment in Tel Aviv seems to be that getting back the hostages Hamas took in their Oct. 7 attack is more important than the war.

Gaza's health ministry says more than 15,000 Palestinians been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7. Additionally, more than 100 heritage sites in Gaza were damaged or destroyed, according to Heritage for Peace. In Israel, officials say more than 1,200 people were killed and more than 240 were taken hostage. The Committee to Protect Journalists says the war has led to the "deadliest month for journalists" since the organization began collecting data more than 30 years ago. CPJ says the majority of Gaza journalist casualties since the start of the war were killed while doing their jobs. Messenger - Arab and Muslim American leaders who met with Joe Biden have come under intense criticism from others in the communities, the latest sign that Democratic efforts to soothe relations with pro-Palestinian groups since the outbreak of the Israeli-Hamas war have largely been met with skepticism and anger.   Multiple people with knowledge of the meeting between Biden and a slate of Arab and Muslim American leaders described the meeting as fraught, with attendees raising voices to the president, speaking through tears, and detailing the personal impact the war between Hamas and Israel has had on their families. (More)   According to U.N. estimates, 1.8 million Gazans have been displaced. Over 950,000 refugees are at U.N. facilities in southern Gaza.   The U.S. wants Gaza to be governed by the Palestinian Authority, which runs parts of the West Bank, after the war. But the idea is unpopular with Israel and many Palestinians.  Israel on Sunday said it killed a key Hamas commander responsible for the October 7 attacks that left around 1,200 Israelis dead and scores of others abducted.