Israeli tanks advance deep into northern Gaza Strip.
Israeli forces expanded their raid into northern Gaza, and tanks reached the northern edge of Gaza City, attacking several districts of the Sheikh Radwan area, forcing many families to leave their homes.
Early on the morning of October 14, an Israeli airstrike hit several tents of displaced Palestinians at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, a city in central Gaza Strip where 1 million people are sheltering. According to medical personnel, the incident killed three people and injured 40 others.
Videos shared on social media, which cannot be immediately verified, show numerous tents being burned to the ground as some Palestinians try in vain to extinguish the fires.
The Israeli military said it attacked militants operating from a command center inside the complex, accusing Hamas of using civilian facilities such as hospitals for military purposes, an accusation Hamas denies.
Local residents say Israeli forces have effectively isolated Beit Hanoun, Jabalia, and Beit Lahiya in the far north of the area from Gaza City, blocking access between the two regions and only allowing families willing to comply with evacuation orders to leave the three towns.
Nine days after a major Israeli offensive began in northern Gaza, the media office of the Hamas-run Gaza administration said Israeli airstrikes had killed around 300 Palestinians. They accused Israeli bombing of homes and shelters intended to force residents to leave Gaza permanently, a claim Israel denied.
By the end of October 13, according to medical personnel, Israeli shelling had killed at least 22 Palestinians at a school where displaced families in the Nuseirat camp in the Gaza Strip were taking refuge.
The media office of the Hamas-run Gaza administration said at least 15 children and women were among those killed at the school. They added that 80 others were injured.
Hours earlier, an Israeli airstrike killed five children at the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. According to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA and Hamas media, the children were playing near a cafe when they were hit by missiles from an Israeli drone.
The Israeli military has not immediately commented on these two reports.
The UN relief chief, Joyce Msuya, said in a post on the social media platform X: "What is happening in northern Gaza is too horrific to describe in words. Israeli attacks are intensifying. Hospitals are being forced to evacuate patients. Essential supplies are running out. People are being forced out of their homes, cut off from aid, starving. These crimes must stop.”
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate in next month's presidential election, cited UN reports that no food had been delivered to northern Gaza for nearly two weeks, stating on X: "Israel must urgently do more to facilitate the flow of aid to those in need. Civilians must be protected and must have access to food, water and medicine. International humanitarian law must be respected."
