Canada said on Monday it delivered humanitarian assistance through airdrops to Gaza, which has been under a devastating Israeli military assault for almost 22 months, with Ottawa again accusing Israel of violating international law

Israeli attacks across Gaza killed at least 22 people yesterday, including 16 aid seekers, according to medical sources, as shootings at aid sites continue to rise across the territory.

Indirect negotiations between Hamas and Israel aimed at securing a 60-day ceasefire in the Gaza war and deal for the release of hostages ended last week in deadlock.

Gaza faces a grave risk of famine, with one in three people going days without food, the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) has warned.

The UN human rights office said yesterday that 1,373 Palestinians have been killed while waiting for aid in the shortage-stricken Gaza Strip since late May, most of them by the Israeli military.

The United Nations’ humanitarian agency has said that the conditions for delivering aid into Gaza were “far from sufficient” to meet the immense needs of its “desperate, hungry people”.

France and 14 other Western nations called on countries worldwide to move to recognise a Palestinian state, France’s top diplomat said yesterday.

Famine is “playing out” in the Gaza Strip, a global hunger monitor said in an alert issued yesterday as international criticism of Israel intensifies over rapidly worsening conditions in the Palestinian enclave.

The strikes were carried out overnight and into the morning

Rights groups B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel said on Monday that they had concluded the war in Gaza amounts to “genocide” against Palestinians, a first for Israeli NGOs.

The announcement came after indirect ceasefire talks in Doha between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas were broken off with no deal in sight.

An internal US government analysis found no evidence of systematic theft by the Palestinian group Hamas of US-funded humanitarian supplies, challenging the main rationale that Israel and the US give for backing a new armed private aid operation.

Doctors Without Borders charity said yesterday that a quarter of all young children screened at its clinics in Gaza were malnourished, blaming Israel’s “policy of starvation”.

Israel is reviewing a revised response from Hamas to a proposed ceasefire and hostage release deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said yesterday, as Israeli air and ground strikes continued to pound the Gaza Strip.

More than 100 aid organisations and human rights groups warned yesterday that “mass starvation” was spreading in Gaza, as the United States said its top envoy was heading to Europe for talks on a possible ceasefire and aid corridor.

The World Health Organization's chief warned Wednesday of widespread starvation in Gaza, with food deliveries into the war-ravaged Palestinian territory "far below what is needed for the survival of the population"

Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Save the Children, and Oxfam are among the 111 organisations that signed the statement

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned the “accelerating breakdown of humanitarian conditions” in Gaza after more than 21 months of Israel’s offensive in the Palestinian territory.

WHO decried Israeli attacks Monday on its staff residence and its main warehouse in the central Gaza city of Deir el-Balah

Israeli tanks pushed into southern and eastern areas of the Gazan city of Deir Al-Balah for the first time yesterday, an area where Israeli sources said the military believes some of the remaining hostages may be being held.