Monday Briefing: Israel widens evacuation orders
Good morning. We’re covering Israel again ordering civilians in Gaza to evacuate and the last day of the Paris Olympics. Plus, making house calls for nomads.
Israel again ordered a humanitarian zone evacuatedIn recent days, tens of thousands of people have fled the city of Khan Younis in Gaza after Israel’s military told them to evacuate. A new order issued yesterday covered the neighborhood of al-Jalaa, part of a humanitarian zone in southwestern Gaza. The Israeli military said it was planning to fight in the area because Hamas had “embedded terrorist infrastructure” there. Here’s the latest. The order came a day after Israel gave a similar explanation — that Hamas fighters were hiding among civilians — for a strike on a school turned shelter that the local authorities said killed more than 90 people. More than 2,000 displaced people had been staying at the shelter, Gazan authorities said. Israel has adjusted the borders of the humanitarian zone several times already — the area shrank by more than a fifth last month. Many people in Gaza say nowhere in the enclave is truly safe, and Israel has mounted attacks inside the designated humanitarian zone before. Last month, it targeted the commander of Hamas’s military wing with a strike that Gazan authorities said killed at least 90 people. On the ground: Dr. Ahmad Yousaf, an American pediatrician who spent three weeks working in one of Gaza’s last functioning hospitals, shared a record of what he witnessed, including rare footage from inside Al Aqsa Hospital.
Closing out the Paris OlympicsThe U.S. won its eighth consecutive Olympic title in women’s basketball with a thrilling one-point victory over France to close the Games in Paris. France led the overwhelming favorites by 10 in the third quarter and came within centimeters of taking the game to overtime. The victory meant that Team USA tied China atop the gold-medal standings, with 40 apiece. With all the medals having been awarded, these are our photographers’ best pictures from the Games and our favorite moments. Here’s the latest on the closing ceremony. France came into the Games after a snap election upended its government. Its newly elected Parliament is so divided that it’s hard to see how a new governing coalition will be formed. But after pulling off an ambitious Olympics, Roger Cohen writes, the country will have new confidence. What else happened on the final day:
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