Several large explosions lit up the night skies over the Gaza Strip early on Wednesday. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -Israeli tanks fired into a crowd trying to get aid from trucks in the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least 51 people, according to medics, in one of the bloodiest incidents yet in mounting violence as desperate residents struggle for food.

At least 50 Palestinians were martyred and hundreds were injured, many critically, on Tuesday morning after Israeli forces opened fire on crowds waiting for humanitarian aid

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Security experts suggest private contractors could break Hamas' control over Gaza by managing aid distribution and training local Palestinian security forces.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Tuesday morning the death of Staff Sergeant Naveh Leshem, 20, of Nokdim, during combat operations in the southern Gaza Strip. Leshem served in the 12th Battalion of the Golani Brigade. His death brings the total number of Israeli military casualties since the start of the war to 869.

Palestinian health officials say at least 20 people were killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight and into Saturday.

Mandla Mandela condemned the Egyptian government as "hypocritical" for attempting to block 4,000 activists from entering Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid.