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'Carnage in Gaza is horrific', more than 1 million civilians 'entirely uprooted and forced south'

The main UN aid agency in besieged Gaza warned it will have to stop operations by the end of Wednesday because it is running out of fuel as Hamas said the death toll from Israeli strikes had surged by more than 700 in a single day. Alarm has grown about the spiralling humanitarian crisis in the heavily bombarded Gaza Strip where one doctor said he was forced to perform emergency surgery on the wounded without anaesthetic. Israel has cut off impoverished Gaza's usual water, food and other supplies, and fewer than 70 relief trucks have entered since the war started -- "a drop of aid in an ocean of need", warned UN chief Antonio Guterres.Israel has bombed Gaza in response to an unprecedented cross-border attack by Hamas militants who, while firing a massive rocket barrage, killed more than 1,400 people and took 222 hostages on October 7, according to Israeli authorities. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to "eliminate Hamas" and Israeli strikes have now killed more than 6,500 people in Gaza, a rise of over 700 since Tuesday, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. Inside the battered Palestinian territory, Abu Ali Zaarab, whose family house in Rafah was bombed, charged angrily that "they're not waging war on Hamas, they're waging war on children... It's a massacre." For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on this brutal war that has already claimed nearly 8000 lives, FRANCE 24's Angela Diffley is joined by Khaled Elgindy, Senior Fellow & Director at Middle East Institute.