A recap on Wednesday morning: The UN says 600,000 people are under evacuation orders in southern #Gaza during fierce fighting - nearly half of whom had already been forced to leave their homes
The head of UNRWA says "there is nowhere to go" because shelters are "beyond and over their capacity"
On Tuesday, #Israel said its troops had reached "the heart of Khan Younis" - the largest southern city - on the "most intense" day of fighting in its ground operation
#Hamas 's media office said at least 16,248 people have been killed in #Gaza since the start of the war, including more than 7,000 children and nearly 5,000 women
The UN Food Programme says the resumption of fighting has intensified the hunger crisis in Gaza
PM Netanyahu has said "there is no possibility right now of bringing everyone home", in a meeting with newly released hostages
#Israel says its forces are in the centre of the second biggest town in #Gaza , Khan Younis. #Israeli officials believe members of #Hamas leadership are hiding there
#IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said Israel is "determined to eliminate the [Hamas] terrorists and damage the infrastructure"
Hagari also said the Israeli government believes that there are 138 #hostages being held in Gaza
Another man in Khan Younis says he has three young children that he struggles to feed.
"Everything is very expensive here whether milk, nappies or biscuits. I try to buy biscuits three times a day for my kids, but sometimes I fail even to secure such a simple thing," he says, adding that sometimes fights break out when trying to get water.
One man the BBC spoke to in Khan Younis says he is living in a house – comprising two rooms, a kitchen and a bathroom – that has 200 people in it, "all of them on top of each other".
He says that he cannot find food for his children, and that he has a baby on the way that he cannot buy nappies for. He adds that pharmacies and hospitals are "completely devoid of any medicines". He adds: Quote Message: There is no safe place at all. Wherever you go, you will hear similar tragic stories." (Cont.)