The Israeli military struck parts of northern and southern Gaza on Tuesday, despite the UN Security Council calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Palestinian enclave a day earlier.
Al Amal Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis was put "out of service" when Israeli troops forced health workers to evacuate, after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) encircled the facility earlier this month, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society.
Here are the latest developments:
- Israel's bombardment persists: The IDF said its "troops are operating in the area of Al Amal in Khan Yunis" in southern Gaza. Further north, Israeli forces "are continuing to conduct precise operational activity in the Shifa Hospital [in Gaza City]," the IDF added. CNN cannot independently verify the IDF statements. Human rights groups have warned that Israel has imposed "indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks" in Gaza.
- Airdrops into Gaza: The United Kingdom carried out its first solo airdrop into Gaza on Monday, dropping over 11 tons of food aid into the besieged enclave. The UK stressed its commitment to ensuring that the food aid, including "water, rice, cooking oil, flour, tinned goods and baby formula," reaches those who "need it most."
- Warnings from relief groups: Humanitarian agencies have criticized airdrops as an inefficient and degrading way of getting aid to Palestinians, urging Israeli authorities to lift controls on land crossings into the strip. "You're throwing aid into the wind to people who've been starving and have been denied humanitarian access. This will create chaos," the UN's special rapporteur for food, Michael Fakhri, said earlier this month.