- Foreign and Israeli sources say both sides are far from reaching a new cease-fire deal.
- PM Netanyahu said that Israel will continue its war against Hamas despite international pressures.
- Two missiles fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels missed a commercial tanker near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
- New U.S. sanctions against Hamas were announced Wednesday, targeting officials and representatives who help manage its financial network.
- Saudi Arabia will still be committed in principle to resume negotiations for a normalization deal with Israel when the war in Gaza ends.
Tel Aviv, Dec.13.– The IDF is engaged in intense fighting in the Shujaiyeh neighborhood in eastern Gaza City, Hamas' last remaining stronghold in northern Gaza. It said it destroyed over 250 terror targets from the sea, land and air. The IDF estimates that even after the combat ends in Jabalya and Shujaiyeh, the military effort to dismantle Hamas will take a long time.
> The Hamas-controlled Health Ministry in Gaza said that at least 18,608 Palestinians have been killed and 50,594 wounded in Gaza since the war began.
> Videos from tent encampments in northern Gaza where Palestinians have taken shelter show heavy flooding following Tuesday's rainfall.
> U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan will arrive in Israel on Thursday for talks about the war's next phases, after Biden issued a pointed warning Tuesday that aerial bombardments of Gaza were causing Israel to lose international support.
> The Biden administration has no plans to place new conditions or draw any red lines on the military aid it provides to Israel ...
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HAMAS weapons were found in tunnels under hospitals.