The Israel-Hamas conflict has reached a grim milestone of 100 days, with more civilian deaths in Gaza, and relatives of dozens of hostages still awaiting their freedom, AFP reports.

The Hamas government media office said on Sunday that “more than 100 people were martyred in the attacks last night until 6am in all areas of the Gaza Strip”.

There were also casualties in the West Bank, and on the Israel-Lebanon border.

“It’s been 100 days and our situation is very bad,” said Mohammad Kahil, displaced to Rafah, in southern Gaza near Egypt, from the territory’s north. “There’s no food, no water, no heating. We are dying from the cold.”

Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), said diseases were spreading with “the clock ticking fast towards famine”.

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