In the south of Gaza, the past 24 hours have marked some of the most harrowing for the war-torn coastal enclave since Israel launched a counter-attack last October.
Amidst this recent escalation, tanks have advanced within meters of the few hospitals still functioning in the region, inflicting considerable damage and heightening the sense of crisis among the already suffering population.
The previous assurances of safety in the south have now left civilians with nowhere in Gaza that is safe from Israel's relentless air and land bombardment.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are trapped in a dire humanitarian crisis, with 85% of the enclave's 2.3 million people displaced from their homes, facing extreme hunger with most eating less than one meal a day, struggling for clean water, and living in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions.