The closure of schools has removed a key social outlet for young people as they grapple with war, hunger and displacement.

Deir al-Balah is an important area of Gaza because it has been left relatively untouched throughout the war. This is the last real remaining area of Hamas' power.

At least 115 Palestinians were killed across Gaza in the last 24 hours, including 92 people who were shot dead while trying to receive food aid at distribution points.

Over 115 Palestinians, including 92 aid seekers, killed in one day as Gaza’s famine escalates under Israeli siege.

Five Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli army strike targeting a tent sheltering displaced people in the al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. An Israeli drone strike killed two more civilians and wounded several others in the al-Nazla roundabout in Jabalia, northern Gaza.

Pope Leo spoke by phone on Monday to the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmud Abbas, about the conflict in Gaza and violence in the West Bank, the Vatican said. It was the first official conversation between the two men since Leo’s papacy began.

In Khan Yunis, Israeli forces bombed tents housing displaced people in Al-Mawasi, wounding several. A child was seriously injured when Israeli troops opened fire on civilians west of the city. Meanwhile, widespread home demolitions were reported in central and southern Khan Yunis.

A combat engineering officer and a reservist severely injured during combat in southern Gaza; IDF notifies their families.

Palestinians check the damage caused by an Israeli air strike at the Islamic National Bank of the Palestinian Hamas movement in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 13, 2021.