By Ted Regencia and Lyndal Rowlands

    Heavy bombardment has been going on throughout the night across Gaza as the death toll continues to climb. At least 9,770 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. More than 1,400 people were killed in Hamas’s attack on Israel.

    Fatah, the party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, has condemned what it called Israel’s “barbaric war of extermination” and called on the international community to stop the war.

    The UN has said that 88 UNRWA staff have been killed in Gaza, the “highest number” of “UN fatalities ever recorded in a single conflict”, in a rare joint statement.

    Jordan said its air force parachuted urgent medical aid to the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza.

    CIA Director William Burns is visiting the Middle East as the United States faces pressure to rein in the relentless attacks and call for a ceasefire.