Israel to allow daily 4-hour combat pauses to evacuate Gaza civilians

Israel will allow daily four-hour humanitarian pauses for civilians to flee from the north of the Gaza Strip to the south, the U.S. government has said.Israel's military has been intensifying its ground invasion of Gaza as part of its attempt to root out the Palestinian militant group Hamas after it committed a deadly cross-border attack on Oct. 7, in which hundreds of civilians were taken as hostages.Israel will notify civilians three hours prior to the pauses, and two humanitarian corridors will be created, White House national security spokesman John Kirby told an online press conference…READ FULL ARTICLE