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The Israeli military's recent genocide and ethnic cleansing have left 80 percent of northern Gaza in ruins, a Palestinian official said Tuesday.

Areas like the Jabalia refugee camp, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia have suffered near-total destruction, Deputy Minister of Public Works and Housing in Gaza Naji Sarhan told Anadolu.

 The U.N. on Wednesday reported severe Israeli restrictions on aid efforts in Gaza, where civilians are enduring "horrific levels of violence" amid ongoing attacks.

Israel's Defense Ministry has signed two major deals with Elbit Systems for the local arms contractor to supply the military with thousands of heavy bombs and establish a new facility to manufacture raw materials.

Italian summer camp kids peppered Shaymaa Shady, 6, with questions about how she lost her leg. "Ha fatto la guerra," one child said. She went to war.

She and 15 other children evacuated from the Gaza Strip months ago, urgently needing medical care.

Sarah Yusuf, 6, her pelvis broken in an Israeli strike, can now play without limping.

Gaza's civil defense agency said around 30 people were killed in Israeli bombardments on Friday, as Hamas said indirect negotiations for a truce in the war were set to resume in Qatar later.

The Israeli military said three rockets targeted its territory from the Gaza Strip, the latest in a flurry of launches by militants in the devastated Palestinian territory.

Israeli strikes killed 28 people in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, the authorities have said, a day after Israel warned that it will intensify its strikes in the war-torn Palestinian territory if Hamas keeps up its rocket fire.

Among those killed were Hamas' police chief Mahmud Salah and his deputy Hussam Shahwan, according to Gaza's civil defense agency.

The number of infants who have died from the cold in Gaza's tent camps over the past week rose to six, according to a statement by the Gaza Media Office.

Ali al-Batran, an infant displaced by Israeli attacks and living in a tent, died from severe cold and lack of heating, the statement said.

An Israeli military raid targeting Hamas militants has forced a major hospital in northern Gaza out of service and led to the detention of its director, the WHO and health officials said Saturday.

The assault on Kamal Adwan Hospital has rendered the facility "useless", further worsening Gaza's severe health crisis, the Palestinian territory's health officials said.

Palestinian sources said that Israeli strikes in Gaza on Thursday killed at least 45 people including hospital workers and journalists for a militant-linked broadcaster.

Five staff at one of northern Gaza's last functioning hospitals were among those killed, the facility's director said, more than two months into an Israeli operation in the area.

Humanitarian aid to northern Gaza, where Israel launched a ground offensive earlier in October, has largely been blocked for the past 80 days, with a global monitor warning on Dec. 25 that famine could be just weeks away in the region.