Trucks carrying badly needed aid have waited for days at the Rafah crossing on the Egypt border.
Hospitals in the Gaza Strip face collapse as water, power and medicine near depletion, while hundreds of thousands of Palestinians face dwindling food supplies as Israel maintains punishing air strikes in retaliation for the deadly rampage by Hamas.
As Israel prepares a likely ground offensive into the Gaza Strip that would mean deadly house-to-house fighting, fears rose over the conflict spreading. Israel evacuated towns near its northern border with Lebanon, and Hamas militants in Gaza continue to fire rockets into Israel. The Israeli military said on Monday that at least 199 hostages had been taken back to Gaza, higher than previous estimates. The military did not specify whether that number includes foreigners.
More than a million have fled their homes, and 60% of them are in the approximately eight-mile area south of the evacuation zone, according to the UN. A quarter of a million people moved to shelters over the past 24 hours – the majority of which are in“Gaza is running out of water, and Gaza is running out of life,” said UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini, calling for an immediate lifting of the siege.
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