Gaza comes under renewed Israeli assault the day after a summit reaches an agreement over a long-sought rehabilitation fund. At the COP28 climate summit, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges world leaders to plan for a future without fossil fuels, in order to curb global warming. Amidst divisions over fossil fuels and acrimony over lagging financing and geopolitical tensions around the war in Gaza, an agreement is reached for the creation of a “loss and damage fund” to help poor countries weather the impacts of climate change. However, only $700 million is dedicated to the fund, falling short of the $100 billion that developing nations had sought. Additionally, an unspoken agreement to steer clear of politics at UN climate summits is broken, as world leaders criticize Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. Israeli President Isaac Herzog cancels his scheduled speech after other leaders criticize the assault, which some call a “genocide and barbarism unleashed on the Palestinian people.”