Patients in European Gaza Hospital and Red Cross field hospital fleeing facilities

The United Nations warned that the almost nine-month-old war had “unleashed a maelstrom of human misery” and that the latest evacuation order had plunged yet more Palestinians into “an abyss of suffering”.

Israeli forces bombed and battled Hamas in Gaza City on Wednesday as tens of thousands of Palestinians scrambled for a safe haven after the army issued an evacuation order for a vast swathe of the territory's south.Apache helicopters and Israeli quadcopter drones flew above Gaza City's Shujaiya district as heavy gunfire echoed through the streets, AFP reporters said.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a US media report saying his generals were urging a Gaza truce even with Hamas undefeated, stressing on Tuesday that "this will not happen".

The U.N. says 9 out of 10 Gazans are displaced in the war, some up to 10 times

Israeli forces carried out attacks Wednesday in the central and southern Gaza Strip as Palestinian civilians sought new areas of shelter after the latest Israeli evacuation order. The Israeli military said it targeted Hamas fighters with airstrikes in the southern city of Rafah, while ground...