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Amid the ongoing Israel and Hamas conflict, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees warned that it was on the “verge of collapse” and was even running out of body bags. “As I speak with you, Gaza is running out of water and electricity. In fact, Gaza is being strangled and it seems that the world right now has lost its humanity,” United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said on Sunday about the situation in the Gaza Strip, as quoted by news agency PTI.

“Gaza is now even running out of body bags. Entire families are being ripped apart," he added.

Lazzarini, while addressing a press conference at UNRWA headquarters in East Jerusalem, said that his colleagues in Gaza are no longer able to provide humanitarian assistance. “The number of people seeking shelter in our schools and other UNRWA facilities in the South is absolutely overwhelming, and we do not have any more the capacity to deal with them,” he said.

He also said that an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding under our eyes. Israel soldiers have amassed near Gaza ahead of an expected ground offensive targeting Hamas militants, who launched an unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7.

As it's Day 10 of the war, more than a million people have fled their homes in the Gaza Strip ahead of an expected Israel invasion that seeks to eliminate Hamas' leadership after its deadly incursion. Aid groups warn an Israeli ground offensive could hasten a humanitarian crisis.

The Israeli forces, supported by the US warships, positioned themselves along Gaza's border and drilled for what Israel said would be a broad campaign to dismantle the militant group.

The war that began on October 7 has become the deadliest for both groups, with more than 4,000 dead. The Gaza Health Ministry said 2,670 Palestinians have been killed and 9,600 wounded. More than 1,400 Israelis have been killed, and at least 155 others, including children, were captured by Hamas and taken into Gaza, according to Israel.

(With input from agencies)