Israeli forces’ siege of the main hospitals in Khan Younis has made it impossible for rescue crews to reach the wounded and dead, Al Jazeera reports.

At least 50 Palestinians were killed in the southern city over the past 24 hours, including two children in an Israeli air strike that hit a residential home, Gaza’s Health Ministry said.

The International Committee of the Red Cross says less than 20 per cent of the narrow coastal enclave is now refuge to more than 1.5 million people in Gaza’s south “where the dramatic escalation of fighting threatens their survival”.

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