Beleaguered Gazans, having fled the territory’s north, emerged from a night of bombardment wondering where to go next for safety.

Analysis: With nearly the entire Palestinian population of Gaza concentrated in the south, the next phase of Israel's war will create an unprecedented humanitarian disaster.

A focal point of the operations Monday was a main road Israel had previously designated as an evacuation route for Gazans fleeing from the north to the south.

The Israeli army offensive has moved towards the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza Elsewhere, Israel struck Hezbollah militia positions in southern Lebanon. Israel strikes Hezbollah positions in Lebanon Israel's military has again struck Helzbollah militia positions in southern Lebanon in response to what it says was shelling from across the border.

Israel has begun an invasion of southern Gaza, the last section of the territory that had been under full Hamas control, with dozens of armored vehicles rolling closer to its main city and strikes pummeling urban areas.

"People have been, for 50 days or more, withstanding brutal Israeli onslaught and are very low on all resources - food, water, power and the sanitation and the waste services," he

More than 100 hostages are free. At least 5,000 Hamas fighters are dead. Some 500 tunnel shafts have been destroyed. The Israeli military controls two thirds of northern Gaza. It’s a third of the way to its goal — destroying Hamas — and is launched on the next phase of bombing the south.

Israeli forces continued to ramp up airstrikes in southern Gaza on Sunday following the apparent collapse of cease-fire negotiations with Hamas. Hamas and Israel had exchanged dozens of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners last week.