Desperation intensifies in Gaza amid uncertainty of ‘safe zones’

The situation for Gazans is “getting worse by the hour”, the UN health agency WHO said on Tuesday, after some the heaviest Israeli shelling in the enclave since Hamas militants massacred some 1,200 people in southern Israel and took around 240 hostages on 7 October.

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Desperation intensifies in Gaza amid uncertainty of ‘safe zones’

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