Increasingly dire conditions in Gaza

The trickle of aid entering Gaza from the south is largely barred from going north, which has been without running water for weeks. The UN aid office said all the bakeries there have shut down for lack of fuel, water and flour. Hospitals running low on supplies are performing surgeries without anaesthesia.

More than two-thirds of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million have fled their homes since the war began, with many heeding Israeli orders to flee to the southern part of the besieged enclave. But the conditions there are also dire.

There are clashes and shelling near the road, and evacuees reported seeing corpses alongside it, the UN office said. (AP)