WORLD Israel's battle on Hamas saw additional, deadly strikes in Gaza while the US attempts to pause the invasion out of concern for the captives.

The Gaza Strip, a Palestinian area administered by Hamas, has been suffering from Israeli bombings since October 7. Since then, Palestinians there have not had access to clean water or enough food since the bombs began to fall in response to Hamas's horrific terror attack in southern Israel. On Monday, the strikes have resumed. After more than two weeks of a total blockade that cut off supplies of food, water, power, and gasoline to the nearly 2.3 million people living in the Palestinian enclave—half of whom are children—the White House announced on Sunday that Israel has agreed to allow a "continuous flow of assistance" into Gaza.

On Monday, it became more and more evident that the United States wanted Israel to permit the entry of additional humanitarian aid into Gaza and to allow existing discussions over the release of Hamas detainees to proceed before initiating a ground invasion of Palestinian territory. On Monday, Israel declared that 222 persons were still being held captive by Hamas.

According to two individuals who spoke with CBS News, Washington has reportedly been mainly communicating through defense channels that the U.S. has tried to impede Israel's preparations for a ground invasion in order to give priority to the rescue of hostages and the distribution of aid.

Even though much-needed aid did, at last, begin to trickle into southern Gaza over the weekend (at least 54 trucks had crossed as of Monday morning), the UN estimated that, in the midst of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis, at least 100 trucks would need to cross daily just to meet peoples' basic needs.

The CEO of the Egyptian Food Bank, Mohsen Sarhan, told CBS News that he is in charge of half of the relief vehicles that enter Gaza through the Rafah gate.

In reference to the dozens of relief trucks that crossed the border every day prior to the war starting on October 7, he says, "It's much, much smaller than a drop in the ocean... because there were a lot more trucks crossing the border before that."

Regarding the statements made on Sunday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Biden that there will now be "a continued flow," he responded that he has been "seeing signs that this is moving in the right direction."

"So we know now it's about the capacity of the Palestinian side to absorb trucks," he stated to CBS News.

He claims that Israeli airstrikes hindered the trucks' transit prior to this past weekend.

"We were stationed right at the gates with the crossing, but the Egyptian authorities wouldn't let us in because while we were attempting that, every half an hour, at least three or four rockets were being dropped less than one kilometer from where we are."

Death toll rises as airstrikes on Gaza persist

Israeli bombs continued to pound areas of Gaza north of the Egyptian border even as the first aid began to reach, causing the dead toll to rise at an alarming rate. 5,087 Palestinians, including almost 2,000 children, are said to have died as a result of Israeli strikes, according to the Ministry of Health in the area controlled by Hamas.

The U.S. and Israeli governments claim that an errant Palestinian rocket caused the explosion at a hospital last Thursday, which Hamas blamed on an airstrike, while Israel contests the number of casualties from its strikes. Given that Hamas started the conflict by carrying out the terror attack on October 7 that Israel claims claimed 1,400 lives, Israeli military and political figures have declared that Hamas is solely responsible for all deaths in Gaza.

Before its long-awaited ground assault, the military issued a fresh warning to Gaza residents to flee the northern half of the strip, but the violence has already extended to the much wider West Bank, which is Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory.

In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, resentment grows.

What Israel referred to as a "terrorist compound" in the city of Jenin was the target of the most recent bombing in the West Bank, which took place on Sunday. The tragic attack fueled public outcry, which has been growing since Israel began attacking Gaza.

Throwing stones At a rally on Friday in the largest city in the West Bank, Ramallah, Palestinian protestors challenged Israeli authorities. Snipers fired at multiple protestors as Israeli troops launched a fierce counteroffensive, and tear gas was released into the atmosphere. shots from a rifle.

The demonstrators were upset not only with President Biden for allegedly providing Israel with unqualified backing, but also with Israel for its bombardment of Gaza

Wentify as Palestinians. "Our life has value and significance," a protestor stated to CBS News. "We are not going to allow as a Palestinian people a genocide, no matter whatsoever the reasons they are taking."

one independent Palestinian state was the main goal, one adolescent protestor told CBS News on Friday.

"I want a free Palestine, that's the most important thing," she stated.

Even though she was on the West Bank, far away, she stated that things hadn't been easy for her because of the airstrikes and thousands of civilian casualties in Gaza. "You're still connected to your own people and you suffer with them," she stated.

Ninety Palestinians have died in the Israeli-occupied West Bank since Hamas went on its deadly spree two weeks ago, according to the Palestinian Authority. However, before the current Israel-Hamas conflict, there has been an increase in skirmishes with Israeli security forces in the West Bank. With the recent 90 deaths, the total number of casualties this year has exceeded 250, making it the greatest number in the West Bank in at least 20 years.

One of the people that died in the West Bank prior to Hamas unleashing

As al-Qatin told CBS News, "He was loving and caring." "He did everything he could to make us happy all the time."

She claimed that in June, masked Israeli settlers from the nearby settlement of Shilo attacked their town, Turmus Ayya, where two-thirds of the populace are citizens of the United States, mostly from in and around Michigan. The widow informed CBS News that Qatin was shot in the chest while attempting to protect his house.

"We were content. Our affection was mutual. We are parents. She said, 'He loved his kids. "I never expected something like this to happen to my peaceful family."

The possibility of a bigger war and Hezbollah

Hamas's headquarters, the Gaza Strip, is about to be invaded on foot by Israel, and the organization's leader

However, there is growing concern throughout the area that Israel might have to battle another group on at least one front in addition to Hamas in Gaza. Lebanon is just beyond Israel's northern border and is home to the political and armed organization Hezbollah.

Similar to Hamas, Hezbollah receives most of its funding and assistance from Iran, and since Israel started taking revenge on Hamas more than two weeks ago, the two groups have already fought in fatal gunfights.

Israel has evacuated a number of villages near the border with Lebanon as fears grow that Hezbollah, which possesses a sizable arsenal of potent missiles, may decide to enter the conflict on its own and has stated that it is prepared to do so.

Israel claims that 222 prisoners are still held captive after the release of 2 hostages.

The unusual good news that two American hostages were freed by Hamas on Friday night did come to pass. Judith Raanan, of Evanston, Illinois, and her daughter Natalie were abducted during Hamas' October 7 attack when they were visiting family in Israel. The women were being freed for humanitarian reasons, according to the U.S.-designated terror group.

However, Israel reported on Monday that 222 individuals were still in Hamas' hands. The US government has confirmed that some of these individuals are Americans, but it has not stated how many.