The number of Palestinians killed has risen to 1,537, according to Gaza’s health ministry. This is 120 more deaths since their last statement earlier today.
It comes as Gaza is on the brink of running out of food, water, electricity and critical supplies, the UN warned. No aid can come in from the outside for the 2.3m residents of the sealed-off enclave, it said.
Some 220,000 displaced people are also sheltering in schools run by the UN agency for Palestine refugees as aid workers try their “best” to support residents.
Meanwhile, Gaza has been pummelled by 6,000 Israeli Air Force bombs since Hamas’s deadly attack on southern Israel on Saturday, the Israeli Defence Forces said.
“Approximately 6,000 bombs have been dropped on the Gaza Strip with a total weight of 4,000 tonnes,” the army said in a statement Thursday.
On Thursday, the chief of staff for Israel‘s military, Herzi Halevi, also admitted that the military had failed to protect civilians around the Gaza Strip from Hamas’s unprecedented attack on the country.
'Unprecedented scope of destruction': Palestinians say civilians are paying price in strikes on Gaza