Israel-Hamas Conflict Escalates: Khan Younis at the Center of Intense Fighting

Israeli forces and Hamas fighters engaged in intense house-to-house gun battles in the southern city of Khan Younis, marking some of the heaviest fighting in the two-month-old war. Hamas claimed to have killed 10 Israeli soldiers and destroyed Israeli military vehicles, but these claims could not be immediately verified. The World Health Organization warned that Gaza's humanitarian crisis is worsening by the hour, as tens of thousands of people in southern Gaza seek safety and hospitals suffer further casualties and damage. The United States announced an additional $21 million in aid for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. House Democrats were divided over a resolution condemning antisemitism, with more than half of them declining to support a measure equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism.