On Monday afternoon, two friends, Khaled al-Shaer, 60, and Musa Qishta, 59, were walking toward their destroyed homes in the city of Rafah near the Egyptian border with Gaza. They had gone out for a stroll to pass the time until that day’s Ramadan fast ended at sunset.

Israel’s cutoff of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies to Gaza’s 2 million people has sent prices soaring and humanitarian groups into overdrive as they try to distribute dwindling stocks to the most vulnerable.

Israeli tanks opened fire on ambulances carrying Palestinian patients set to be evacuated from Gaza for medical attention abroad.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has warned Egypt against breaching its peace treaty with Israel, highlighting concerns over a military buildup near its borders in the Sinai Peninsula, which also neighbors the Gaza Strip. Egypt did not respond to the accusations but has previously stated its commitment to the existing peace accords.

Trucks lined up in front of Egypt’s Rafah border crossing on Sunday (March 2) after Israel blocked the entry of aid into Gaza. It comes as a standoff over the truce that has halted fighting for the past six weeks escalated, with Hamas calling on Egyptian and Qatari mediators to intervene.

Palestinian militant group Hamas has said Israel is trying to push things back to square one by asking to extend the first phase of their Gaza ceasefire agreement.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s emergency declaration calls for sending 2,000-pound bombs and other weapons to Israel as the war in Gaza continues.

Israeli air drones killed two in Rafah and injured three in Khan Younis, escalating tensions after the ceasefire's first phase ended without an agreement.

Two Palestinians were killed in Israeli drone fire in the central area of Rafah in southern Gaza, medics and Hamas media said today.

According to a report by Oxfam, Israel has wrecked at least 1,040 miles of Gaza’s water and sanitation network, with over 80 percent of infrastructure partially or totally destroyed. This includes the destruction of the vast majority of sewage pumps, desalination plants and municipal wells, the group found.