Over 250 lorries carrying aid entered the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, according to the Israeli military, three days after it began increasing the flow of supplies into the embattled Palestinian territory amid an outcry over reports of imminent famine.

At least 16 Palestinians were killed Wednesday by Israeli forces, including 13 people seeking food, as strikes and demolitions escalated.

Some right-wing members of Netanyahu’s coalition are pushing for a takeover of the entire Gaza Strip—something the prime minister has avoided since the beginning of the war. The move would almost certainly result in the deaths of Israeli hostages and soldiers and heap further suffering on Palestinians in Gaza,

The leading international authority on food crises predicted "widespread death" in Gaza without immediate action.

GENEVA (Reuters) -A global hunger monitor said on Tuesday that a famine scenario was unfolding in the Gaza Strip, with malnutrition soaring, children under five dying of hunger-related causes and humanitarian access severely restricted.

Two Israeli rights groups said Israel was carrying out "coordinated, deliberate action to destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza strip."

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -When two human rights groups became the first major voices in Israel to accuse the state of committing genocide in Gaza, breaking a taboo in a country founded after the Holocaust,