More than 80 Palestinians were killed by Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip on Monday, including 36 in an attack on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in the Al-Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City. Medics reported that many of the casualties were women and children.

Israeli forces issued a forced evacuation order in Khan Younis on the same day, instructing residents to move towards the Al-Mawasi area. The directive did not include Nasser Hospital or Al-Amal Hospital.

Dr Hanan Balkhy, regional director of the World Health Organisation, warned on Monday that most stocks of medical equipment in Gaza had been depleted. She noted that 42% of basic medicines, including painkillers, were now out of stock.

Several bakeries in southern and central Gaza have suspended operations due to the limited quantity of aid reaching them—insufficient, they say, to meet the basic needs of the population.

A US-backed foundation tasked with supplying aid to Gaza announced it had commenced operations on Monday, delivering truckloads of food to designated distribution sites. The delivery followed growing uncertainty over whether any assistance had actually reached civilians. The aid plan—endorsed by Israel but rejected by the United Nations—appears to be progressing amid intense Israeli bombardment of the enclave, including the strike on the school building where dozens were killed.

Palestinians had reported no signs of aid arriving earlier in the day. However, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation later confirmed that distribution to civilians had begun, a day after its chief unexpectedly resigned.

Al Jazeera.