Israel orders evacuation of former Gaza safe area; U.N. aid convoy fired on

After nine months of conflict, relief groups describe Gaza as one of the most dangerous places to operate in the world, even as the need there grows. Famine is looming, according to a U.N.-backed assessment, and Israel’s Health Ministry said Friday that it has detected a strain of the polio virus in Gaza’s sewage as a sanitation crisis mounts. Zeer said she could hear the sound of intense shelling and airstrikes close by. “We were listening to the sounds of the screams of people as they fled,” she said. “Whenever...