Canada: Palestinian health official say thousands of families are flowing into the town of Deir al-Balah as Israel expands its ground offensive into Gaza’s few remaining, overcrowded refuges.
The town of about 75-thousand is being overwhelmed by several hundred thousand people driven from northern Gaza as the region was pounded to rubble.
The newly-displaced are fleeing several built-up refugee camps in central Gaza targeted in the latest phase of Israel’s ground assault against Hamas