Live: Israel blocked all UN aid deliveries to north Gaza for over 50 days

An Israeli drone strike targetted a car in the border town of Markaba, southern Lebanon, injuring 3 people on Thursday, Al Jazeera reported. 

Israeli military strikes killed at least 17 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, medics said, as forces stepped up bombardments on central areas and pushed tanks deeper in the north and south of the enclave.

Six people were killed in two separate air strikes on a house and near the hospital of Kamal Adwan in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, while four others were killed when an Israeli strike hit a motorcycle in Khan Younis in the south.

In Nuseirat, one of the Gaza Strip's eight historic refugee camps, Israeli planes carried out several air strikes destroying a multi-floor building and hitting roads outside mosques. At least seven people were killed in some of those strikes, health officials said.

Medics said at least two people, a woman and a child, were killed in tank shelling that hit western areas of Nuseirat, while an air strike killed five others in a house nearby.

In Rafah, near the border with Egypt, tanks pushed deeper into the northern-west area of the city, residents said.

There has been no Israeli comment on the fighting in Gaza overnight and early Thursday.

Reporting by Reuters

Israeli forces have effectively blocked all attempts to deliver aid to north Gaza since they launched a large-scale offensive there on 5 October, UN figures have shown.

The besiegement has left an estimated 65,000 to 75,000 Palestinians trapped in north Gaza while being cut off from humanitarian aid and facing "diminishing conditions for survival," the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, said on Thursday. 

The UN made 91 attempts to deliver life-saving aid to Jabalia, Beit Lahia and Beit Sahour between 6 October and 25 November.  

However, 82 of those attempts were outright denied and the rest were impeded, according to Unrwa. 

"The situation is beyond miserable," the agency said. 

Out of the 91 attempts the @UN has made to deliver aid to besieged north #Gaza between 6 October and 25 November, 82 have been denied and 9 impeded.

The conditions for survival are diminishing for the 65,000-75,000 people estimated to remain there.#CeasefireNow pic.twitter.com/Y7pEEeQOph

— UNRWA (@UNRWA) November 28, 2024

Here are the latest updates from the Israeli war on Gaza, now in its 419th day:

• Israeli jets heavily bombed the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip overnight, according to local media. At least six Palestinians have been killed, including a child, in attacks in Jabalia, Beit Lahia and Gaza City, Wafa news agency reported. 

• In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces stormed the Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem and the Qabatiya town near Jenin. 

• Meanwhile, Israeli artillery shelling targeted the southern Lebanese village of Yaroun, in violation of the ceasefire agreement, according to local reports. There were no immediate comments from the Israeli military.