Dalia Haidar
BBC News Arabic

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Medics working in the Gaza Strip are using a specific phrase to describe a particular kind of war victim.

"There's an acronym that's unique to the Gaza Strip, it's WCNSF - wounded child, no surviving family - and it's not used infrequently," Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan, who works with Doctors Without Borders, told BBC News.

The expression captures the horror of the situation for many Gazan children. Their lives change in a second - their parents, siblings and grandparents are killed, and nothing is the same ever again.

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The commander of Israel's armoured corps has said the objectives of the army's ground offensive in northern Gaza have almost been achieved, even as it presses ahead with its ground operations in the south.

Speaking on Israeli army radio earlier, Brigadier-General Hisham Ibrahim said: "We are beginning to expand the ground manoeuvre to other parts of the Strip, with one goal: to topple the Hamas terrorist group."

The Israel Defense Forces have told tens of thousands of Palestinians to move from areas across the south.

A spokesman posted a map of areas in and around the city of Khan Younis, telling people to head further south. The IDF believes Hamas commanders are in the city, where hundreds of thousands are sheltering since fleeing the fighting in the north.

Speaking to reporters on Monday, Israeli military spokesman Jonathan Conricus denied Israel was "trying to move anybody from anywhere permanently".

Aid agencies say few parts of the territory can properly be considered safe.

It's now been four days since the week-long temporary ceasefire between Israel and Gaza expired, and the Israeli military are continuing to push south in the Gaza Strip.

Here's a look at some of the pictures from Gaza we have seen today:

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A little earlier, we reported on the World Health Organization (WHO) saying it had been told by the Israeli military to remove supplies from two medical warehouses in southern Gaza - because "ground operations will put them beyond use".

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the WHO, had taken to X to urge Israel to "withdraw the order".

Since then, Israeli government department the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (Cogat) has said this version of events isn't accurate. Responding to the post on X, Cogat said:

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At the United Nations headquarters in New York, Israel’s ambassador Gilad Erdan has been holding an event to “expose the horrors and shocking acts of sexual violence committed by Hamas terrorists against Israeli women” on 7 October.

Hillary Clinton filmed video remarks for the audience, where she said it was “outrageous that some who claim to stand for justice are closing their eyes and hearts to the victims of Hamas”.

Clinton said the global community must respond to weaponised sexual violence, wherever it happens, with "absolute condemnation".

“Rape as a weapon of war is a crime against humanity,” she added.

Yael Richert, a chief superintendent of the Israeli Police, attended the event and showed harrowing video statements from first responders and those who were at the Nova music festival when it was attacked.

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand also spoke at the event, against what she said was the international community's “reluctance” to condemn Hamas's acts of violence against women on 7 October.

Marita Moloney
Live reporter

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Warning: This article contains graphic details which some readers may find upsetting

An Israeli women's rights campaigner and lawyer has told the BBC that, based on evidence she has seen, Hamas had a premeditated plan to use sexual violence as a weapon of war during its 7 October attack on Israel.

Prof Ruth Halperin-Kaddari told Radio 4's Today programme she had seen footage of women in several locations whose condition left her in "no doubt" that they had been raped.

"I saw a number of first-hand, eyewitness accounts, for example of one survivor who hid in the bushes and saw a woman next to her being raped by several men," she said.

Israeli police say they have so far gathered more than 1,500 testimonies from witnesses and medics, with a range of violence from gang rape to the sexual mutilation of murdered victims being investigated. Hamas deny carrying out sexual violence during the 7 October attacks.

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Rushdi Abu Alouf
Reporting from Istanbul

More than fifty air strikes have targeted the vicinity of Khan Younis, mainly concentrated in the northern and eastern parts of the city.

Journalists at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis say that dozens of injured people were transported there in civilian cars, in light of the difficulty of communicating with the bombing sites due to the loss of communication.

Since the communications blackout, people are finding it difficult to communicate with emergency medical assistance services, which are responding to the continuing air raids.

After two hours of trying to find out information on the ground, I was able to speak with a colleague in the hospital who uses an electronic Sim card roaming on the Israeli network – but only for less than a minute.

Muhannad Alwan, a technician at a local production company, told me, “The situation is very dangerous. We cannot determine the locations of the Israeli raids. Bombs are falling everywhere. Tanks are also launching lighting flares into the sky of Khan Younis.

“I was not able to communicate with my family in Deir al-Balah,” he says, “and I cannot go to see them due to the intensity of the bombing”.

The World Health Organization says it has been told by the Israeli military that it should remove supplies from two medical warehouses in southern Gaza because "ground operations will put them beyond use".

The head of the WHO, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, appealed in a post on X, external, formerly Twitter, to Israel to "withdraw the order".

He urged it to "take every possible measure to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure, including hospitals and humanitarian facilities".

The BBC has asked the Israel Defense Forces for comment.

The expansion of Israel's ground offensive in south Gaza has continued today, here's a quick summary of the key developments today:

• Khan Younis continues to be hit by air strikes, with witnesses and local media reporting Israeli tanks have reached the edge of the city – a hospital there says it is overwhelmed with new arrivals

• The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) published a map on social media, external telling civilians to leave areas to the north-east of Khan Younis - also warning a section of Gaza's main north-south road should be avoided due to fighting there
• The UN chief has said he is "extremely alarmed" by fighting resuming in Gaza, also noting that that there is "nowhere safe to go" in Gaza - an assertion frequently made by Palestinians too
• A senior Israeli government adviser rejected the characterisation, saying civilians are not targets and there are "designated safer zones" for them
• The US government says it is too early to tell whether Israel is doing enough to protect civilians
• Internet and phone services are completely cut off in Gaza, the strip's leading telecommunications firm has said
• An Israeli lawyer and women's rights advocate has told the BBC she has seen first-hand eyewitness accounts of sexual violence carried out against women by Palestinian attackers on 7 October

Rushdi Abu Alouf
Reporting from Istanbul

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Witnesses and local journalists in the area around the southern Gazan city of Khan Younis are talking about tanks advancing from the areas of Khuzaa and Abasan, on the outskirts of the city.

Khan Younis has two parts - one that is east of Salah al-Din road, and the other part to the west. Both have been bombed heavily, but the eastern part is made up of four main villages.

The Israelis are asking most of the people in these villages to leave. There has been some artillery fire and air strikes in those areas.

Of around 200 air strikes across Gaza last night, 60% of them were focused on Khan Younis, according to Hamas-run local authorities.

In and around the southern city, about 15-20 locations were targeted. The central town of Deir al-Balah was also bombed heavily.

A BBC team at the hospital where I stayed for about four weeks, said dozens of casualties arrived overnight from different areas.

Many of them had been killed and others were severely injured. Women and children were among the wounded.

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The UN secretary general has released a statement this evening, saying he is "extremely alarmed" by the resumption of hostilities between Israel and Hamas.

António Guterres appeals to the Israeli military to "avoid further action that would exacerbate the already catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza".

"For people ordered to evacuate, there is nowhere safe to go and very little to survive on," he says, following reports that more Israeli forces are encroaching on parts of southern Gaza - where civilians were told, by Israel, to flee earlier in the conflict.

Guterres says he's "gravely concerned about the escalation of violence" in the West Bank - including "intensified Israeli security operations" and "attacks on Israelis by Palestinians".

And he reiterates his call for a sustained humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and the unconditional and immediate release of all remaining hostages.

It's too early to tell whether Israel is doing enough to protect civilians in Gaza since it restarted its offensive following a temporary ceasefire, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a press briefing on Monday.

But he said the latest evacuation request was "much more targeted" as Israeli forces had "identified specific neighborhoods" where military operations would take place, "rather than telling an entire city or an entire region to vacate their homes".

"That is an improvement on what's happened before," he said.

But, he said: "It's not just intent that matters, it's results. And we are watching very closely and will continue to watch very closely before we draw any definitive assessments."

As Israel resumed striking Gaza last Friday after a week-long truce, the US urged it to do more to safeguard civilians and avoid mass displacements of Palestinians in the enclave.

The health ministry in Gaza, which is run by Hamas, said today that 15,899 Palestinians have been killed since Israel began its military campaign.

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All internet and communications services are down in Gaza, the strip's main telecommunications firm says.

In an update on social media, external, Paltel says the outage was "due to the cut off of main fiber routes".

"Gaza is blacked out again," it adds.

Internet monitoring organisation NetBlocks says Gaza is experiencing a "near-total internet blackout", external, which mirrors previous incidents of telecommunications networks going down in the strip.

As we have been reporting, Paltel said earlier that its services had been lost in Gaza City and the north of the territory as a result of the "disconnection of main elements of our network".

Since the fighting broke out on 7 October, electrical and communication blackouts for periods of time have taken place in Gaza.

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A 32-year-old man has been killed and four people seriously injured in an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

In an update earlier, the ministry said the man was shot and others injured by Israeli soldiers in Qalandia, which is between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem.

The BBC has approached the Israeli military for comment.

According to the UN, 244 Palestinians, including 65 children, have been killed by Israeli troops or settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since 7 October. Four Israelis, including three soldiers, have been killed in attacks by Palestinians in the West Bank, and another four in west Jerusalem.

The Palestinian health ministry in the West Bank is run by the Palestinian Authority, rather than Hamas - which runs government ministries in the Gaza Strip.

Naomi Scherbel-Ball
Reporting from Jerusalem

Dr Efrat Harlev, one of the paediatricians caring for the freed hostages at Schneider Children’s Medical Center, has said that what the child hostages experienced in Gaza was unimaginable.

Speaking earlier today in a press conference, she said that 19 of the child hostages treated at the hospital had lost 10-15 percent of their body weight, and that the children were struggling to eat properly again, instead wanting to save the food as they had done when food was scarce in captivity.

Harlev said that a 13-year-old girl she was treating told her: “I actually thought that everyone forgot about me…this is what I've been told by the Hamas kidnappers."

"They told me she said that nobody cares about you anymore. Nobody's looking for you. Nobody wants you back. You can hear the bombs around. All they want to do is kill you and us together,” Harlev said the girl told her.

Speaking about the first moments she met the children, who arrived at the hospital by helicopter, she said: “They looked like shadows of children, not like children. They say almost nothing. Or they whisper.”

A three year old child being treated at the hospital told doctors about a “red man next to her on the tractor”.

Harlev explained that this was the child’s way of trying to explain that the man was covered in blood.

We've just told you about the experience of Gaza resident Mohamed Nasser Al Rashid and his family, who have been displaced four times since the attacks started on 7 October.

The latest figures suggest their experience is far from unique.

According to the United Nations, the number of displaced people in Gaza has risen rapidly - almost doubling in less than three weeks.

There are now 1.9 million who have fled their homes since 7 October - that is more than 85% of the population of Gaza.

Alice Cuddy
Reporting from Jerusalem

We’ve been speaking today with Gaza resident Mohamad Nasser Al Rashid, who says he and his family have been displaced four times since the war began.

Mohamed and his wife and two children first fled their home in northern Gaza in October after people in their local area received warning calls and voicemails from Israeli officials. He says their apartment - located in a tower block - was then destroyed.

The family then moved to al-Shati refugee camp - near the coast - to stay with relatives, before fleeing again to seek shelter at a school

After Israel intensified its air strikes and expanded ground operations in late October, Mohamad’s family fled to al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. After Israel raided al-Shifa, the family moved south to a hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, where they remain.

“It was very hard; it felt like death,” Mohamad says of his family’s most recent, hazardous journey to join relatives in Deir al-Balah.

They are yet to find even a suitable tent to sleep in.

“My sister is staying here; she has a tent. I can't find a tent to stay in. They say that the tent costs money, and we don't have the money to get one.”

The Israeli military says it's expanding its ground operation into "all areas" of the Gaza Strip following the resumption of fighting on Friday.

It has released an online map dividing the enclave into hundreds of blocks, telling residents to monitor developments in the zone where they live and “follow the instructions of the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] through various media outlets".

Lucy Manning
BBC News special correspondent

Some of the British families with relatives still being held hostage by Hamas have met with the Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron to ask the UK Government to do more.

Steve Brisley lost his British sister Lianne Sharabi and his UK-Israeli nieces Noiya, 16 and Yahel, 13 after they were murdered by Hamas gunmen.

His brother-in-law Eli and Eli’s brother Yosi are still being held. Steve has been critical of what he sees as a failure of the UK government, saying the families felt “abandoned".

Today he said he was grateful Cameron acknowledged things hadn’t been handled as they should, and said he explained to the foreign secretary that as a British family, they had "expectations of the government".

"It's very easy to say that the government is doing everything it can, but we want to see some more specifics, so that we can be reassured that is what is happening,” he said.

“Getting Eli back is the only chink of light in this whole continual nightmare,” he continued, “I think it would be the greatest memorial to the lives of my sister and my nieces for him to be to be back home safely.”

In a post on X, external, the foreign secretary said the government would "continue to work tirelessly to get all hostages home."

As Israel's military continues to push southwards in its campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, here are a selection of images from today from both Gaza and Israel.

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Rushdi Abu Alouf
Reporting from Istanbul

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The problem in the southern city of Khan Younis is that, before the ceasefire, hundreds of thousands of people who were displaced from Gaza City and the north went there. So the area has become very crowded and there is no space.

About 10,000 people are sheltering at the main hospital in Khan Younis, Nasser Hospital, which is also overwhelmed by the number of casualties.

Most people are not aware of the Israeli's military's evacuation map, and even those who do know about it cannot see it because there is no internet.

They also do not know the meaning of the warnings. I have family still living in Khan Younis, who I speak to every day, and they are always asking me where they should go. I send them the map, but they cannot find internet to load it.

A displaced person at the Nasser hospital told me: "This is a joke, not a map, because we don’t know where to go."

Khan Younis was a small town. Now there may be more than one million people living there, and there is very little aid coming in now the ceasefire has collapsed.