Israel-Hamas war

“I saw all the wounded. Just body parts,” a teenage victim told an NBC News crew.

University President Minouche Shafik said the administrators have been permanently removed from their positions at the university’s undergraduate Columbia College.

NBC News was given access to Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah as Israeli forces continued operations in the now-unrecognizable city once considered a safe zone.

International mediators are renewing efforts to broker a deal, with Hamas appearing to drop demands that Israel commit to ending the war.

A spokesman for the Gaza Civil Emergency Service said the number of dead could rise, with many of the wounded in critical condition.

“Hamas popularity among the populace who are actually living now in shelters, in tents and makeshift, you know, communities is declining,” one pollster told NBC News.

President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and discussed details of the possible deal, which a senior administration official said was made possible after a shift by Hamas.

In one of the largest attacks in recent months, Hezbollah said that it had fired over 200 rockets at several Israeli military facilities.

Liora Argamani died “after a long battle with cancer,” just over three weeks after her daughter’s was rescued from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip.

Conditions behind bars were “tragic,” Dr. Muhammad Abu Salmiya told NBC News, adding there was a lack of food and drink.  

The landmark decision last week ordering the government to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men could lead to the collapse of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition.