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Melanie Ward, CEO of Medical Aid for Palestinians, tells BBC News "we are in the midst of the worst humanitarian catastophe that any of us that work in Gaza have ever known".

She says that even when aid gets in to the territory, "it's not possible to distribute it to the people in need because the scale of the Israeli bombardments are so ferocious".

"Order is breaking down in Gaza, that's very clear... All of the public services - whether that's the civil defence who used to dig people out of the rubble, the police force, the hospitals, the health systems - all of these things are slowly being taken apart by the attacks on them," she says.

"In all honesty, words are becoming completely inadequate to describe the horrors of the situation on the ground, including for my own staff."

Israel is continuing its bombardment of Gaza, with the main focus on Khan Younis in the south. There's also been fighting in Rafah near the Egyptian border, where thousands of displaced Palestinians have sought refuge.

Meanwhile in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, four people have been killed in what witnesses describe as a drone strike. The Israeli army is still operating in the town, and the BBC has seen armoured bulldozers on the move.

International pressure is growing over the humanitarian crisis, and the US has again urged Israel to do more to protect civilians in Gaza.

Later, the UN General Assembly is expected to vote on a non-binding resolution calling for a ceasefire.

Lucy Williamson
Reporting from Jenin in the West Bank

As we've been reporting, four people have been killed in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, in what witnesses describe as a drone strike this morning.

The Israeli army is still manoeuvring here in Jenin city.

We’ve seen armoured bulldozers making their way towards the hospital at the end of the street, and trucks passing in the opposite direction.

A large group of young men are creeping up the road towards the heart of the operation, one man is carrying a rudimentary homemade pipe bomb, another a walkie talkie.

Other than that, the streets here are almost completely deserted.

And in the last few moments, two very loud explosions have echoed over Jenin and now large plumes of white smoke are rising from Al-Jaberiat, on the hillside overlooking the city.

It's not clear what the target was. Army vehicles are still lined up next to the hospital at the entrance to the camp, and we’ve just seen what looks like an explosive device detonate on the ground in front of them.

As we've been telling you, a US State Department official says Washington is pushing Israel to protect civilian life as heavy fighting continues.

Nathaniel Tek said the US believes it is "critical that Israel places a premium on the protection of human life, and for the ability of aid organisations to access civilians".

"There certainly is more that can be done, and more precise and clear directions can be given to civilians to ensure they can reach safety.

"We believe that while Israel's intent is there to ensure the protection of civilians, the results also matter and we are working and pressing the government of Israel to make sure they are putting a premium on civilian life."

He said there were "two sides to this conflict" - adding that Hamas too had a responsibility to protect civilians but that the group had "not shown any interest or inclination to do so".

Tek said Israel could only achieve a strategic victory if it protected civilians and worked towards an enduring peace.

"So there are two aspects to this, the moral and the strategic, that we have been trying to push."

The UN General Assembly is set to vote today on an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, days after the US vetoed a similar resolution proposed in the Security Council.

The current proposed draft was put forward by a group of 20 Arab countries and the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation.

No country has a veto power in the 193-member General Assembly. However, unlike in the Security Council, General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding, though they do reflect global opinion.

Since the war began, the Security Council has failed six times to adopt a resolution demanding a ceasefire because of disagreement among its 15 members.

These pictures from Khan Younis, a city south of the enclave, show the aftermath of Israel's bombardment. Over the past week, Israel has been moving further southward in the Gaza Strip.

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Sports brand Puma will end its sponsorship of Israel's national football team, the Financial Times has reported, external.

The company's decision not to renew a contract with the Israel Football Association was made a year ago, the newspaper said, citing an internal note and unnamed sources.

It is said to be a decision not related to calls for a boycott and was made for financial reasons. The move means Puma will not be providing the Israeli team with kit next year.

The company is also said to be discontinuing its work with other national teams such as Serbia.

Puma has yet to comment.

Some pro-Palestinian activists have accused the brand of supporting Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which Puma denies. In recent years, activists have staged protests outside Puma stores. The call for a boycott of the brand's products has intensified since the current war began.

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Avichay Adraee, an Israeli military spokesman, has said their air force has struck several missile launchers throughout the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours.

These include a launcher in Jabalia said to be firing towards the city of Sderot in southern Israel; and a building belonging to Hamas fighters that was said to contain 250 rocket-propelled grenades and mortar shells, among other weapons and equipment.

Adraee also posted pictures showing the bombings and weapons purportedly found by Israeli troops on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

We'd earlier reported on a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) surgeon who was shot inside northern Gaza's Al-Awda hospital on Monday. Here's more from MSF, which has tweeted about the incident, external in the last few hours.

Snipers had surrounded the hospital and fired on those inside, the organisation said, adding that the hospital has been under "total siege" by Israeli forces since 5 December.

“Reports coming out of Al-Awda hospital are harrowing and we are gravely worried for safety of patients and staff inside,” MSF's head of mission Renzo Fricke said on X, formerly known as Twitter.

“Let us be clear: Al-Awda is a functioning hospital with medical staff and many patients in vulnerable condition. Targeting medical workers as they care for their patients is utterly reprehensible, utterly inhumane.”

MSF also said Al-Awda and other hospitals in the north have sustained substantial damage and supplies are running low, further compromising doctors' capacity to treat their patients.

At least five hospital staff, including 25 MSF doctors, have been killed since 7 October, the organisation added.

Israeli military has accused Hamas of operating from medical facilities like hospitals - a claim the Palestinian group has denied.

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Earlier we reported on an attack on a Norwegian tanker off the coast of Yemen - we're now hearing that the Iran-backed Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility.

The group targeted the tanker with a rocket after the crew "refused to respond to all warnings", Reuters has reported, citing Houthi military spokesperson Yehia Sareea.

He also claimed the tanker was carrying oil to Israel, according to GLZ Radio, and said the Houthis had obstructed the passage of several ships in recent days.

The group said last week that it will target all ships heading north to Israel. It has also warned international shipping companies against dealing with Israeli ports.

All 22 crew members on board the Strinda vessel are unhurt, its owner Mowinckel Chemical Tankers told Reuters.

The ship is now headed for a safe port, the company said.

Lucy Williamson
Reporting from the West Bank

Videos from inside Jenin’s Old City, in the occupied West Bank, show several bodies lying on the ground, a few people gathered around them.

Witnesses say they were hit by a drone strike.

Hospitals in Jenin have confirmed four people were killed, and at least one other is thought to have been seriously wounded.

Israel's army is also operating inside Jenin Camp – residents filming from inside their houses have shared videos of soldiers moving through cautiously the streets in full body armour with their weapons raised.

The operation there – which is still ongoing – includes several armoured bulldozers which have been pushing their way through the narrow streets, taking local vehicles with them.

The US is facing criticism from some quarters for not doing more to stop the killing of civilians in Gaza. A few hours ago we heard from Nathaniel Tek, a spokesman for the US State Department, who said they are "pressing" the Israeli government to "[put] a premium on civilian life".

"We believe it is critical that Israel places a premium on the protection of human life, and for the ability of aid organisations to access civilians," he told the BBC's Newsday programme.

But he also said that "there certainly is more that can be done, and more precise and clear directions can be given to civilians to ensure they can reach safety".

Israel can only achieve a "strategic victory" if it protects civilians and works toward a more enduring peace, he added.

"So there are two aspects to this, the moral and the strategic, that we have been trying to push," he said.

We're seeing some images filed by wire agencies of an Israeli artillery unit in southern Israel, as the military continues to bombard the Gaza Strip. Here's a selection:

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The UN General Assembly is set to vote today on an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, days after the US vetoed a similar resolution proposed in the Security Council.

The current proposed draft was put forward by a group of 20 Arab countries and the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation.

No country has a veto power in the 193-member General Assembly. However, unlike in the Security Council, General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding, though they do reflect global opinion.

Since the war began, the Security Council has failed six times to adopt a resolution demanding a ceasefire because of disagreement among its 15 members.

Bernd Debusmann Jr
BBC News, Washington

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In the US, Harvard University president Claudine Gay is facing mounting pressure to resign over her congressional testimony on antisemitism on campus.

Gay, 53, was forced to apologise after she failed to say whether students calling for the genocide of Jewish people would be disciplined.

Hundreds of Harvard faculty members rallied behind her over the weekend, urging the university not to fire her.

Read the full story here.

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In the last few hours we've been seeing reports of continued bombing and fighting in Gaza, and raids in the West Bank.

In southern Gaza, Israel is conducting air strikes on the city of Rafah, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa. In Khan Younis, where hundreds of thousands of Gazans have sought shelter, Israeli tanks have been moving towards the city centre.

The AFP has reported that Islamic Jihad fighters blew up a house in Khan Younis where Israeli soldiers were searching for a tunnel shaft. In the last hour the IDF said that several of its soldiers were seriously injured in southern Gaza.

Israel has also continued to bombard the northern areas of the enclave, where the military says it has encircled the last Hamas strongholds in Jabaliya and Shejaiya.

Palestinian news outlets have also reported raids and arrests across several cities in the West Bank overnight.

Footage posted by the Palestinian Information Centre shows Israeli soldiers storming through the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. There are also reports of other raids across the West Bank, such as the cities of Silwad and Nablus. At least a dozen people, including a 12-year-old boy, have been arrested in Silwad, Wafa reported.

UN and Israeli media reports say the firing of rockets by Palestinian armed groups into Israel have also continued.

Earlier we reported that a vessel traveling in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait was hit by a missile fired from areas of Yemen held by Iran-backed Houthi rebels. A marine traffic website, external lists the vessel, Strinda, as a Norwegian-flagged oil and chemical tanker.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks yet, but this is not the first report of a strike linked to the Houthis.

The group claimed two of three attacks on commercial vessels passing through the Red Sea on 3 December. The first vessel was hit by a missile and the second vessel was struck by a drone while it was in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

In response, a US warship shot down three drones fired from Houthi-controlled areas. The clashes lasted for more than seven hours.

Late last month, armed Houthi fighters hijacked a cargo ship in the southern Red Sea. The group claimed the ship, operated by a Japanese company, was linked to Israel.

The Houthis had said it will target all ships heading north to Israel, while the US has vowed to "consider all appropriate responses" to the attacks.

The Houthis have declared themselves part of an "axis of resistance" of Iran-affiliated groups, which works in opposition to Israel, the US, and the wider West.

Katie Barnfield
BBC North West Tonight

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A UK businessman who has lost five members of his family in bombing in Gaza says he feels "broken" and "destroyed".

Dalloul al-Neder, who owns a takeaway in Manchester, says his mother, brother, pregnant sister-in-law and two nieces all died in the strike on their home in Jabalia over a week ago.

He says he fears for the rest of his relatives who were injured, including his wife and six-month-old daughter.

He knows his daughter was pulled from the rubble but has no more news.

"I'm feeling broken about my family. Destroyed," he told BBC North West Tonight.

Read the full story here.

The US Central Command says a commercial tanker was hit by a cruise missile fired from Yemen, in territory controlled by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.

It says the strike, which happened on Monday, caused a fire on the Strinda vessel as it was passing through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait that connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. There were no casualties. A US Navy destroyer has provided assistance.

Separately, a British maritime agency says it has received a report of a vessel being ordered to change its course and sail to an unspecified Yemeni port.

It is not clear whether the two incidents relate to the same ship.

The Houthi movement has said it will target all ships heading north to Israel, and has warned international shipping companies against dealing with Israeli ports.

We'll bring you further updates once we get more information.

Tessa Wong
Live page editor

We're resuming our live coverage of the Israel-Gaza war. If you're just joining us, here's what you need to know:

• Israel says their military has encircled the last Hamas strongholds in Jabaliya and Shejaiya in northern Gaza. Tanks have also moved towards the centre of the southern city of Khan Younis
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Hamas fighters have been surrendering to Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and it is the "beginning of the end" for the group which has controlled Gaza for years. However, one military analyst speaking to the BBC described the claim as “wildly optimistic"
• The Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza will open for aid inspections on Tuesday, Israel says, to "double" the volume of aid entering Gaza
• Israel has told the hundreds of thousands of Gazans sheltering in Khan Younis to move to al-Mawasi but international aid organisations criticise the call, since the area is a small strip of land with no infrastructure to provide for basic human needs
• The rest of the Gaza Strip is on the brink of a "total breakdown of civil order", the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees says
• The UK and the EU say they are planning to impose sanctions on Israelis responsible for violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. Violent attacks there, including fatal shootings of Palestinians by armed Jewish settlers, have risen sharply

Stay with us as my colleague Kelly Ng and I bring you the latest developments.