Thomas Fuller, Aaron Boxerman and Raja Abdulrahim
Here’s the latest on the war.
Diplomats were locked in frantic talks on Sunday to ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as an Israeli ground invasion appeared imminent.
At the same time, the United States was deploying a second aircraft carrier to the Eastern Mediterranean amid fears of a wider war.
Capturing these concerns on Sunday was António Guterres, the secretary general of the United Nations, who said, “We are on the verge of the abyss in the Middle East.”
Officials from the United States, Egypt and Middle Eastern countries sought to ease what Israeli officials have called the “siege” of Gaza, which has led to dire shortages of food, water, gasoline and other essentials in the blockaded territory.
Video images on Sunday showed lines of trucks idling on the road to Gaza in the Egyptian city of Arish, about 30 miles from the...
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/15/world/israel-news-hamas-war-gaza?smid=url-share#hezbollah-israel-lebanon-border
Read PDF version here:
https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:247aad4a-2caf-33ab-90fe-640dd49bd2a5