Israel has said it launched more than 300 strikes on Gaza within 24 hours, killing dozens according to the Hamas rulers of the besieged Palestinian territory.
More than two weeks into the war triggered by the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel that killed 1,400, alarm has surged about the spiralling humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
The Israeli military said it had hit"over 320 military targets in the Gaza Strip" in the 24 hours up to this morning. Israeli forces are massed near the Gaza border, and smaller units have already carried out limited incursions, targeting Hamas and hoping to rescue hostages, whose number Israel now estimates at 222.
Alarm has grown about the dire needs of the 2.4 million civilians trapped inside the 40km long coastal strip that was already blockaded and impoverished before the war. This has sparked warnings that soon Gaza's ambulances, hospital incubators and water desalination plants will stop functioning.
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