The Health Ministry said at least 500 people had been killed.
A massive blast has rocked a Gaza City hospital packed with wounded and other Palestinians seeking shelter, killing hundreds of people, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said.
Hundreds of Palestinians had taken refuge in al-Ahli and other hospitals in Gaza City in the past few days, hoping they would be spared bombardment after Israel ordered all residents of the city and surrounding areas to evacuate to the southern Gaza Strip. “We are squeezing five beds into a single tiny room. We need equipment, we need medicine, we need beds, we need everything,” Mr Abu Selmia said, warning that the fuel supply for the hospital’s generators will run out on Wednesday. “I think Gaza’s medical sector will collapse within hours.”
Later, Jordan’s foreign minister told state-run television that his country had cancelled the summit, saying that the war between Israel and Hammas was “pushing the region to the brink”. He said the meeting would be postponed. With tens of thousands of troops massed along the border, Israel has been expected to launch a ground invasion into Gaza — but plans remained uncertain.“We are preparing for the next stages of war,” military spokesman Lt Col Richard Hecht said. “We haven’t said what they will be. Everybody’s talking about a ground offensive. It might be something different.”
Shelling from Israeli tanks hit a UN school in central Gaza where 4,000 Palestinians had taken refuge, killing six people and wounding dozens, the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency said. At least 24 UN installations have been hit in the past week, killing at least 14 of the agency’s staff.A barrage of strikes crashed into the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, levelling an entire block of homes and causing dozens of casualties among families inside, residents said.
In Gaza City, Israeli air strikes also hit the house of Hamas’ top political official, Ismail Haniyeh, killing at least 14 people. Mr Haniyeh is based in Doha, Qatar, but his family lives in Gaza City. More than one million Palestinians have fled their homes — roughly half of Gaza’s population — and 60% are now in the approximately eight-mile long area south of the evacuation zone, the UN said.
At the Rafah crossing, Gaza’s only connection to Egypt, truckloads of aid were waiting to enter. The World Food Programme said that it had more than 300 tons of food waiting to cross into Gaza.
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