The BBC's Rushdi Abualouf, reporting from Gaza, says the north of the Strip was hit overnight "on a scale we’ve never seen before"
- Israel's military said it was intensifying its bombing of Gaza and that its ground forces were "expanding operations"
- This morning, Israel's military spokesman said forces had entered Gaza and were "still in the field", and a video showed Israeli tanks on the move.
- We do not yet have any casualty figures from the overnight bombardment. Communication networks went down last night and getting information out of Gaza is difficult
- The UN General Assembly called for an immediate humanitarian truce, with 120 states voting for a resolution put forward by Jordan
- Israel has been bombing Gaza since the 7 October Hamas attacks that killed 1,400 people and saw 229 people kidnapped as hostages
- The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says 7,000 people have been killed since Israel's retaliatory bombing began.
The explosions hitting Gaza are almost constant — from the air and from heavy artillery positioned along the border to the Strip.
We can also hear bursts of machine-gun fire coming from the north of Gaza.
Television cameras are crowded onto the hill here outside the Israeli town of Sderot, less than a kilometre away.
Alongside the barrage of noise, there’s silence — an almost-total absence of information from inside Gaza.
The BBC’s Rushdi Abualouf, one of the only journalists still reporting from inside the territory, sent a despatch earlier describing the situation there as “total chaos”.
Northern Gaza and Gaza City are facing the brunt of the Israeli bombardment, Rushdi Abualouf, our correspondent in Gaza, reports.
A local radio station that is still functioning reported massive explosions in four areas in the north, he says, with callers saying they are at a scale and intensity that people have “never seen before”.
Speaking to us from Khan Younis in the south, Rushi says there is no communication with even local authorities and hospitals, so there is no new figure on the number of casualties.
People are extremely worried, he adds, of what will happen when Israel begins the next stage of it's ground offensive.
Israel's overnight airstrikes destroyed hundreds of buildings in Gaza, the civil defence service in the Hamas-run territory has told the AFP news agency.
"Thousands of other homes were damaged," a spokesman told AFP, adding that the intense bombardments had "changed the landscape" of northern Gaza.
We do not yet have any casualty figures from Gaza. Images taken this morning show widespread damage in the north of the Strip, which has been regularly hit by Israeli airstrikes since Hamas's attack on Israel three weeks ago.
FULL DETAILS AT: Israel Gaza live news: 'Total chaos' in Gaza after Israel's heaviest night of bombing yet - BBC News
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