The death toll from Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip has risen to around 2,750, the Gaza health ministry said Monday.
Some 9,700 people have also been injured as Israel continued its withering air campaign in the Palestinian coastal enclave.
More than one million people have fled their homes as Israel continued massing troops in preparation for a full-blown ground invasion.
Israel declared war a day after Palestinian resistance fighters broke through the heavily fortified border on October 7.
Following an Israeli order to move to the south of the Gaza Strip, people have fled their homes in the north of the enclave to seek shelter wherever they can.
UN chief Antonio Guterres has warned that the entire region was “on the verge of the abyss.”
The UN said Monday that 47 entire families, amounting to around 500 people, have been wiped out in Israel’s bombing campaign.
Foreign governments and aid agencies, including the UN and Red Cross, have repeatedly criticized Israel’s evacuation order.
The UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees said Sunday that some one million Palestinians had already been displaced in the first week of the conflict — but the number was likely to be higher.
