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Under the proposed agreement, Hamas would release 50 women and children abducted during the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks for roughly the same number of Palestinian women and children held in Israeli prisons.

Though details of the operation remained scarce, Israel’s raid on Gaza’s largest hospital was a significant step that could shape the future of its war with Hamas.

Israel released two videos from inside Gaza’s main children’s hospital that showed weapons and explosives. Gazan health officials denied the hospital was used for military purposes.

The Israel Defense Forces said it had launched a military operation against Hamas in Al-Shifa Hospital, where conditions for patients have grown dire and Israel says Hamas militants are embedded.

The operation at the main hospital complex in Gaza came after Israel released videos showing what it said were weapons inside a children’s hospital in the enclave.

The Israeli military released footage showing what it said was Hamas facilities below Gaza’s main children’s hospital, prompting sharp denials from Palestinian health officials.

Israel said Palestinian militants had misfired projectiles, but an analysis of photos and videos of Friday’s strikes shows that some of the munitions were likely fired by Israeli forces.

Countries are taking “baby steps,” a U.N. official said. In a separate study, Saudi researchers warned of an “existential crisis” for their nation from rising temperatures.

About three dozen premature babies at Al-Shifa Hospital are at risk without the electricity needed for incubators, Gazan health officials say.

Israeli forces have reached the gates of Al-Shifa Hospital, where, without electricity or fuel, patients are dying and corpses are decomposing, according to medical staff and health officials.