Israeli air strikes pounded Gaza City as soldiers battled street-by-street with Hamas militants, and tens of thousands of Palestinians desperate for safety fled their homes southwards in the besieged territory.
After more than a month of intense bombardment, hundreds of thousands of people remain trapped in a"dire humanitarian situation" in battle zones without enough food and water, the United Nations said.
"Please don't put him in the morgue, let me take him home and I will bury him tomorrow", his father Nidal said, as his wife screamed in grief alongside him. The United States has backed Israel's rejection of a ceasefire, and G7 foreign ministers yesterday in Japan said they supported"humanitarian pauses and corridors" in the war.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs confirmed the figure, and warned that conditions were"dire" in battle zones north of the central Wadi Gaza district.
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