Live blog: Israel hits Gaza with new air strikes ahead of UN truce vote

Source: TRT World
Author: Noureldein Ghanem

0603 GMT -- Israel has hit Gaza with new air strikes as world powers grappled with how to broker a ceasefire ahead of a UN Security Council vote.

The United Nations sounded the alarm over the humanitarian situation in the besieged territory, warning that food shortages could lead to an "explosion" of preventable child deaths.

Four months of Israel's relentless war has flattened much of the Palestinian territory, pushed 2.2 million people to the brink of famine and displaced three-quarters of the population, according to UN estimates.

"How many of us have to die... to stop the se crimes?" Ahmad Moghrabi, said a Palestinian doctor in southern Gaza's main city, Khan Younis.

"Where is the humanity?"

Global powers trying to navigate a way out of the spiralling crisis have so far come up short, with a push later today for a UN ceasefire resolution facing an expected US veto.