Israeli forces have entered Gaza's largest hospital in what the military says is a "targeted" operation
- A journalist inside the hospital tells the BBC that soldiers are going room to room and interrogating people but there is currently no shooting taking place
- The same witness said commando soldiers had entered the main emergency department, with tanks also in the hospital area
- Israel accuses Hamas of running a command centre in tunnels under the hospital and the US says it has intelligence that supports this.
- Hamas denies this and says the raid on the hospital is a war crime - hundreds of civilians have been sheltering there, alongside patients
- The White House says civilians and patients must be protected, adding: "We don't want to see a firefight in a hospital"
- Israel began striking Gaza after Hamas's 7 October attacks, in which 1,200 people were killed and more than 200 taken hostage
- The Hamas-run health ministry says more than 11,000 people have been killed in Gaza since - of whom more than 4,500 were children.
The changing weather is about to make life worse for displaced people in the Gaza Strip, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has said.
UNRWA spokesperson Juliette Touma told the BBC on Wednesday that 800,000 displaced Palestinians in the territory were now in overcrowded UN shelters, without heating or clean water.
"The rain is going to make a really desperate situation far worse for the three-quarters of Gaza’s population who have been forced to leave their homes."
"We do not have fuel, so we cannot provide heating or clean water." Touma said.
No fuel has come into the strip since the war began, according to the UN agency.
The World Health Organization has said it is "extremely worried" for patients and staff at Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital, which was raided by Israeli troops overnight.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the WHO, said: "Reports of military incursion into Al-Shifa hospital are deeply concerning.
"We’ve lost touch again with health personnel at the hospital. We’re extremely worried for their and their patients’ safety."
British charity Medical Aid for Palestinians also voiced concern, with its CEO Melanie Ward saying: "Before this operation took place inside the hospital, we were very worried about the lives of the people who were there already because they hadn’t had access to food, to water, to fuel."
Israel's military has said it is carrying out a "targeted operation" at the hospital, which it has said may be the "beating heart" of Hamas - something Hamas denies.
Some 25,000 litres of fuel have entered Gaza this morning from the Rafah crossing in Egypt, a local border official has told the BBC.
The delivery comes after the UN and charity Médecins Sans Frontières warned that fuel stocks would run out in Gaza on Wednesday.
Israel has been blocking fuel deliveries to Gaza for weeks, arguing they could be stolen and exploited by Hamas for military purposes.
Earlier, Israel's military said some UN trucks transporting aid to Gaza would be refuelled on Wednesday.
I've spoken to Khader again, a journalist inside Al-Shifa hospital.
He told me that over loudspeakers, IDF soldiers have asked all men between the ages of 16 and 40 to leave the hospital buildings, except the surgical and emergency departments, and go to the hospital courtyard.
During the past hour, he said soldiers had fired into the air to force those remaining inside to come out.
He also said they have installed a scanning and sensing device and asked the men to pass through it.
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