Police say they received reports "people were being set on fire" and that some victims are now in hospital with very serious injuries.

“I dream of seeing both of my sons coming through the door,” Silvia Cunio, a survivor of the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre in Kibbutz Nir Oz and the mother of Hamas hostages David, 35, and Ariel Cunio, 27, told JNS on Friday.

A pediatrician and mother of 10 is mourning the deaths of nine of her young children after an Israeli airstrike hit their home in the war-torn Gaza Strip.

Hundreds of Palestinians stormed a United Nations food warehouse in Gaza in a desperate attempt to get something to eat.

Hamas said Friday it was still reviewing a U.S. proposal for a temporary ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, where 27 people were killed in new Israeli airstrikes, according to hospital officials.

Israel has begun allowing a trickle of food and medicine into the Gaza Strip after sealing the territory's 2 million Palestinians off from all imports for more than 2 1/2 months.

Two of northern Gaza’s last functioning hospitals have been encircled by Israeli troops, preventing anyone from leaving or entering the facilities.