People in Deir al-Balah are told to leave, as the IDF prepares to launch its first ground offensive in the city during its war against Hamas.

As malnutrition surges in war-torn Gaza, tens of thousands of children and women require urgent treatment, according to the UN, while aid enters the blockaded Palestinian territory at a trickle. As stocks accumulated during the ceasefire gradually depleted,

Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd of Palestinians trying to collect humanitarian aid in the territory's north on Sunday, killing 67 people and wounding dozens more.

A total of 58 Palestinians were killed and at least 60 others were injured by Israeli military action while waiting for aid in northern Gaza, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on Sunday.

Witnesses and Gaza hospital officials say Israeli troops have killed at least 32 Palestinians near aid distribution hubs in the latest deadly violence around people seeking desperately needed food.

Pope Leo XIV condemned Israel's attack on Gaza's Catholic church, killing three, and urged adherence to humanitarian law, denouncing collective punishment and forced displacement.

Palestinians were shot dead during a food distribution on Saturday at a center run by a U.S.- and Israeli-backed group in southern Gaza, hospital officials said.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said that 73 people were killed while waiting for aid at locations across Gaza on Sunday.

Cardinal Pizzaballa and Patriarch Theophilos assessed the damage to the church's roof and comforted parishioners.