Gaza teeters on the brink after half a million are made homeless, medical supplies run out, morgues overflow and ANOTHER shelter full of children gets bombed as UN chief says: 'It's a criminal act'
United Nations warns medical facilities are 'on the verge of collapse' as almost half of medics are unable to get to work It says a third of all hospitals in Gaza have been damaged and 270,000 people are crammed into 90 UN shelters Officials said missile struck at gates of one such shelter today in Rafah, killing 10 people inside and out and injuring 35 It is at least the sixth UN facility to be hit and contained 3,000 Palestinians who were sheltering from strikes UN Secretary-General: Strike is 'moral outrage and criminal act' and 'yet another gross violation of humanitarian law'
As 27th day of conflict began the death toll stood at more than 1,700 Palestinians and 67 Israelis including 64 soldiers
Israel lays blame for civilian deaths with Hamas, saying it stores rockets in civilian areas creating 'human shields' Many tanks withdrew from Gaza Strip amid reports tunnel destruction was complete - but attacks continued British Foreign Secretary declares: 'The situation in Gaza is simply intolerable. We have to get the killing to stop'
Rescue: A wounded boy cries under the rubble of the house in Rafah which was destroyed today in a reported airstrike, killing at least nine members of the same family. The UN says access is effectively blocked to many of its facilities, one of which was hit by a strike this morning, as almost half of Gaza's medics are unable to get to work
The family's bodies were lined up in the back of a cooler truck at first because the hospital's morgue was full in Rafah, a town in Gaza which has been hit relentlessly
Lifeless: A paramedic wails as he carries the body of a baby after an Israeli air strike hit the Al Ghoul family building in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip
Crowded: Dr. Ambrogio Manenti, acting Head of Office of the UN World Health Organization, said: 'The ability to provide necessary healthcare is being severely compromised. This puts the lives of thousands of Palestinians in needless danger'. Pictured are victims of a strike in the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya
Killed in action: Israeli Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, whose death was confirmed today. Right shows an honour guard carrying his coffin at his funeral in in Kfar-saba, Israel. It was thought that Lt Goldin had been taken captive by Hamas, a belief which prompted Israel to break a 72-hour ceasefire agreement after just 72 minutes
Paying respects: Israelis crowd the streets of Kfar-saba as Lt. Goldin is carried through the town to the cemetery
Mourning: Friends and relatives of Lt Goldin crowd around his flower-bedecked coffin during his funeral today
Mass death: The bodies of the family were lined up at a morgue in Rafah where the attacks continued this morning, including at the gates of a UN school
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