GAZA STRIP: Israel bombarded targets in Gaza on Saturday (Dec 9) after the United States blocked an extraordinary United Nations bid to call for a ceasefire in the war with Hamas that has triggered alerts of an "apocalyptic" humanitarian situation.
Aid workers say Gaza's humanitarian system is on the verge of collapse, as disease and starvation threaten.
Washington's veto was swiftly condemned by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, whose health ministry put the latest death toll in Gaza at 17,490, mostly women and children.
An Israeli strike on the southern city of Khan Younis killed six people, while five others died in a separate attack in Rafah, the ministry said on Saturday.
It added that, over a 24-hour period, 71 dead and 160 wounded had arrived at Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah city following persistent bombings.
Repeated volleys of automatic weapons fire were heard Saturday in Gaza's north, in live footage aired by AFPTV.
The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's armed wing, said it fired rockets Saturday towards Reim in southern Israel, where Hamas gunmen killed 364 people, Israel says, at a musical festival on Oct 7.
Israel has vowed to eradicate Hamas over its unprecedented attack of that day, when militants broke through Gaza's militarised border to kill around 1,200 people and seize hostages, 138 of whom remain captive, according to Israel.
Vast areas of Gaza have been reduced to rubble and the UN says about 80 per cent of the population has been displaced, with dire shortages of food, fuel, water and medicine reported.
"It's so cold, and the tent is so small. All I have are the clothes I wear, I still don't know what the next step will be," said Mahmud Abu Rayan, displaced from Beit Lahia in the north.
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