Hamas seeks complete cease-fire, rejects proposal from intermediary country; negotiations unclear. Amal Hospital, the main hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, where the Israeli military has been carrying out military operations, announced it had "completely ceased functioning" The reasons for the outage include that the hospital had been under siege for more than 40 days, with some casualties resulting from attacks.

As of the 20th of this month, 23 out of 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip are not functioning.