GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Shifa Hospital was once the cornerstone of the health system in the Gaza Strip. Now, after 21 months of war and two major Israeli raids, it barely functions.

Thirteen women and two men who survived captivity by Hamas said they experienced or witnessed sexual violence while held hostage in Gaza, according to a new report by a group of Israeli researchers known as the Dinah Project.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said no permanent ceasefire would be possible without the complete removal of Hamas.

Even if this was not a formal BCG project, our association with it is real, deeply troubling, and reputationally very damaging,” BCG’s CEO said.

Israel’s defense minister said he told the military to advance plans for what he called a “humanitarian city” built on the ruins of Rafah in southern Gaza, according to reports in Israeli media.

Dr. Victoria Rose spent 21 days in the territory in May, treating people who were shot trying to get food and children with life-changing injuries from Israeli bombs.

Israeli media reports that the country’s defense minister has outlined plans to pack hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into a closed zone of the Gaza Strip along the border with Egypt.

According to the Wafa news agency, Israeli forces carried out a wide-ranging demolition campaign earlier today and destroyed eight Palestinian homes and two agricultural structures in the occupied West Bank cities of Ramallah, Jerusalem, and Nablus.