Updated On: 07 December, 2023 07:25 AM IST | Tel Aviv | Agencies
Gaza Health Ministry says death toll has surpassed 16,000 in the battle, with over 42,000 people wounded

Displaced Palestinians who fled Khan Yunis set up camp in Rafah. Pic/AP
Israel’s widening air and ground offensive in southern Gaza has displaced tens of thousands more Palestinians and worsened the enclave’s dire humanitarian conditions, with the fighting preventing distribution of food, water and medicine outside a tiny sliver of southern Gaza and new military evacuation orders squeezing people into ever-smaller areas of the south.
Israel’s widening air and ground offensive in southern Gaza has displaced tens of thousands more Palestinians and worsened the enclave’s dire humanitarian conditions, with the fighting preventing distribution of food, water and medicine outside a tiny sliver of southern Gaza and new military evacuation orders squeezing people into ever-smaller areas of the south.