The head of the agency that helps oversee aid deliveries to the territory had previously criticized the impact of Israeli military attacks on civilians.

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Israeli shelling pummelled the central Gaza city of Deir el-Balah on Monday as the army warned it was launching an operation "in an area where it has not operated before". The Israeli military on Sunday ordered those in the central Gaza area, thought to be between 50,000 and 80,000 people, to leave immediately.

A visit to one distribution site shows how a system designed to squeeze out the U.N. and Hamas continues to draw hungry Palestinians into deadly encounters.

Israel has refused to renew visas for the heads of at least three United Nations agencies in Gaza, which the U.N. humanitarian chief blames on their work trying to protect Palestinian civilians in the war-torn territory.

Visas for the local leaders of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the human rights agency OHCHR and the agency supporting Palestinians in Gaza, UNRWA, have not been renewed in recent months.

The talks will be the first since a ceasefire was reached after a 12-day war waged by Israel against Iran in June.

Israel has achieved plenty of short-term military gains, but will that outweigh regional, and international, isolation?

This technology, used worldwide, has boosted crop yields by up to 40% while reducing water usage, a critical advancement for global food security. • Facing water scarcity, Israel recycles over 90% of its wastewater,