Gaza Strip
\nThe only power plant in the Gaza Strip, which is under fierce Israeli bombardment and siege, shut down on Wednesday after it ran out of fuel, said the Palestinian enclave\u2019s electricity authority.
\n\u201cThe only power plant in the Gaza Strip stopped functioning at 2pm (1100 GMT),\u201d the authority\u2019s head Jalal Ismail said in a statement, having earlier warned that it was running short of fuel.
\nThe United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees told Al Jazeera that it had less than two weeks\u2019 supply of food and water to assist the more than 180,000 Palestinians who have sought refuge in their schools in Gaza.
\nGaza\u2019s health ministry said on Wednesday afternoon at least 1,055 Palestinians had been killed and 5,184 injured in the crowded coastal enclave since Saturday\u2019s surprise attack while Israel\u2019s military said the death toll there had reached 1,200 and more than 2,700 people had been wounded. Israel\u2019s army said the bodies of roughly 1,500 fighters had been found.
\nIsrael said it had regained control of the border areas from the Palestinian group Hamas.
\nFears of a regional conflagration have surged ahead of an expected Israeli ground incursion into Gaza, the crowded, impoverished enclave from where Hamas launched its land, air and sea attack on the Jewish Sabbath.
\nInternational NGOs issued a stark warning over the health and humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.
\nDeadly airstrikes
\n\u201cMy entire life, I have seen Israel kill us, confiscate our lands and arrest our children,\u201d said Farah al-Saadi, 52, a coffee vendor from Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank who praised the Hamas offensive.
\nThe Israeli army has called up 300,000 reservists and massed tanks and other heavy armour both near Gaza and on the northern border with Lebanon, where exchanges of fire continued.
\nThe military said its forces had largely reclaimed the embattled south and the border around Gaza, and dislodged holdout Hamas fighters from more than a dozen towns and kibbutzim.
\nEarlier, for the third time in 24 hours, an Israeli air strike hit Gaza\u2019s Rafah border crossing with Egypt, an AFP photographer and an NGO said.
\nWhite smoke billowed from among fishing boats after an air strike on Gaza\u2019s port, and in Jerusalem, the deserted streets were targeted by Hamas rocket fire.
\n\u201cIsraeli people they are scared of the Arabs and the Arabs are scared of the Jews\u2026 everybody is scared of each other,\u201d said Ahmed Karkash, a shop owner in the Old City.
\nAt least 30 more killed as Israel pounds Gaza overnight
\nAt least 30 people have been killed and hundreds wounded as Israel pounded the Gaza Strip with hundreds of air strikes overnight, a Hamas government official said on Wednesday.
\nDozens of residential buildings, factories, mosques and shops were hit, the head of the government\u2019s media office, Salama Marouf, told AFP.
\nThe Israeli military said it had hit several \u201cHamas targets\u201d during the night. It said fighter jets destroyed \u201cadvanced detection systems\u201d that Hamas used to spot military aircraft.
\nThey also hit \u201c80 Hamas targets\u201d in the Beit Hanoun area of the northeastern Gaza Strip, including two bank branches allegedly used by the group to \u201cfund terrorism\u201d in the enclave, the military said.
\nAir strikes also hit a weapons storage facility and an operational command centre used by Hamas, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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