Battles were raging in Gaza early today, as Israel expanded its ground operations and cut communications to the Palestinian territory, three weeks after the deadliest attack in the country's history.
The United Nations warned of a looming"unprecedented avalanche of human suffering" inside the Gaza strip, following weeks of relentless bombing by Israel, while the General Assembly pushed for an"immediate humanitarian truce".
"Following the series of strikes of the last days, the ground forces are extending the ground operations tonight," military spokesman Daniel Hagari told reporters yesterday. "This was our house, we lived here just with our children, it was full of children. Why are they bombing us? Why are they destroying our homes?," she said.
Human Rights Watch also warned that the near-total telecommunications blackout in Gaza risks providing cover for"mass atrocities"."We have completely lost contact with the operations room in the Gaza Strip and all our teams operating there," it said on X, formerly Twitter. "Without a fundamental change, the people of Gaza will face an unprecedented avalanche of human suffering," he said.Guterres 'shocked' over Israeli reaction to comments
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