The head of the World Health Organization deplores the appalling conditions in the Gaza Strip, stating that supplies of essential medicines and fuel in the territory are very low amid the closure of the Rafah border crossing.

The United Nations rights chief Volker Turk says he is “deeply distressed” by the fast-deteriorating conditions in Gaza.

At least 35 Palestinians are killed as a result of Israeli military strikes against various neighborhoods in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah.

The Israeli regime has seized control of the Rafah border crossing.

A senior Hamas official says the resistance movement and other Gaza-based groups are fighting off a multi-national war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Thousands were present at a 'Stop the Genocide' rally in the Italian capital organized, among others, by the movement of the Palestinian students and the Association of the Palestinians in Italy.

Italian lawmakers returning from a visit to the Rafah border in southern Gaza say an international reaction to avoid the aggravation of a humanitarian catastrophe in Rafah is desperately needed.