Twenty civilians died while queuing for aid.

The Israeli military said it was investigating the report. The National and Islamic Forces Monitoring Committee, a coalition of Palestinian militias and political organizations, said Israeli forces attacked civilians as they awaited aid distribution. In a statement, the coalition asserted that dozens were killed and injured “in this act of genocide and war crime.”

Also in central Gaza, locals reported that Israeli tanks attacked areas around two hospitals in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, forcing displaced people to flee for shelter.

Meanwhile in the north, a WHO official described the food situation as "appalling," and humanitarian workers said that the few aid deliveries were being snatched up by starving people.

The majority of Gaza's 2.3 million people are now confined to Khan Younis and towns north and south of the city, after being pushed out of the north during the earlier phase of Israel's Gaza campaign.

Health officials in Gaza say at least 50 Palestinians have been killed in the past 24 hours in Khan Younis, where Israel has launched a full-scale military operation after beginning its withdrawal from northern areas.

In its latest update, the Israeli military stated that forces in Khan Younis engaged in close-range combat with militias and used precision airstrikes and sniper fire to eliminate several Hamas militants.

Palestinian medical personnel reported that Israeli tanks isolated and attacked targets around the two remaining operational hospitals in Khan Younis, Nasser and Al-Amal, trapping medical teams inside, along with many patients and displaced people forced to take shelter in the hospitals and surrounding areas.

Israel claims that Hamas uses hospitals as cover for its bases. Hamas denies this claim.

Civilians fled.

The UN's Palestinian relief agency, UNRWA, said on Thursday that thousands of homeless people sheltering in Khan Younis had fled to Rafah, 15km from the city.

Photo: REUTERS/Bassam Masoud.

UN officials said Israeli armored forces ordered more than 30,000 people inside a UN center in Khan Younis to evacuate. The complex was shelled on Wednesday, killing 13 people and injuring 56.

The Israeli military has not commented.

A video posted on X by Philippe Lazzarini, Director of UNRWA, shows the group traveling on a dirt road on Thursday. He wrote: “A sea of ​​people forced to leave Khan Younis, toward the border with Egypt. A journey in search of safety that Gaza can no longer offer them.”

The International Red Cross says more than 1.5 million homeless people are sheltering in 20% of Gaza – about 60 square kilometers – in the south, where escalating fighting “threatens their very survival.”

Approximately 25,900 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, according to regional health officials, and much of the inner city has been leveled by the bombings.

Israel launched its war against Hamas in response to Hamas's border crossings and attacks on southern towns on October 7, an attack that killed 1,200 people and took 240 hostages.

The Israeli army says it has killed more than 9,000 Gaza militants and lost 220 soldiers in the conflict that has lasted more than three months. Hamas has rejected Israel's claims regarding the number of militants killed.

Ahead of a hearing by UN judges on Friday on South Africa’s demands for an immediate halt to Israel’s campaign of genocide, Hamas has affirmed it will comply with any ceasefire rulings if Israel responds in kind.

Israel has asked the International Court of Justice in The Hague to dismiss the case. An Israeli government spokesman said on Thursday that they expect the UN's highest court to "reject these fabricated and speculative allegations."

Discussions on a “humanitarian ceasefire” are stalled.

Urgent international calls for a ceasefire to save the civilian population, who have suffered the greatest casualties, have largely been ignored, and Israel has pledged to continue fighting until Hamas is destroyed and all hostages are freed.

Hamas has stated that any agreement depends on Israel's decision to end the campaign and its encirclement, and to withdraw its troops from the Gaza Strip.

Discussions mediated toward a month-long ceasefire, potentially involving the release of hostages in exchange for the freeing of Palestinian prisoners, have resumed, but are stalled by disagreements over how to end the conflict between the two warring factions.

On Thursday, an insider said the director of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency and the director of the U.S. CIA would meet with the Qatari Prime Minister in Europe this weekend to discuss a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of hostages.

The conflict in Gaza threatens to destabilize the Middle East, sparking violence in areas from the Israeli-occupied West Bank to the Israel-Lebanon border, Syria, Iraq, and the Red Sea shipping lanes that are vital to international trade.

Nguyen Quang Minh (according to Reuters)

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