Hajar Harb

• Middle East conflict

The Israeli military said it was targeting a Hamas command center. The site was filled with tents erected by families displaced by fighting in the enclave.

• Middle East conflict

An Israeli military operation in northern Gaza is overwhelming hospitals but the United Nations and other medical groups were prevented from evacuating patients.

• Israel-Gaza War

The true death toll in Gaza may be impossible to know until the war is over. These are the stories of those whose deaths have not yet been recorded.

• Israel-Gaza War

About 650,000 students are missing their second school year, an absence educators say will compound the trauma of war and could cause lasting developmental problems.

• Israel-Gaza War

Gazan authorities reported deaths after missiles struck Mawasi, a safe zone designated for displaced people. The IDF said it was targeting Hamas militants.

• Israel-Gaza War

Polio’s reemergence poses a threat to the war-torn territory and adjacent regions. A baby, Gaza’s first polio case in 25 years, can no longer move his limbs.

• Israel-Gaza War

Israeli evacuation orders in August have shrunk Gaza’s only humanitarian zone by nearly a third and deepened the plight of displaced Palestinians.

• Israel-Gaza War

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Israel for a trip focused on bridging the gaps between Israel and Hamas on a U.S.-sponsored cease-fire proposal.

• Israel-Gaza War

Israel’s war in Gaza has destroyed its water and sanitation infrastructure, leaving sewage in the streets as a breeding ground for infectious diseases.