🔴 Live: Some 50,000 Gazans flee south in a single day, Israeli army says

Palestinians flee to the southern Gaza Strip on Salah al-Din Street in Bureij, Gaza Strip, on November 8, 2023. © Hatem Moussa, AP

Israel's army said Wednesday that 50,000 civilians had fled north Gaza for the south on Wednesday, hours after Israel said it was tightening its "stranglehold" on Gaza City, the most populous city in the Hamas-controlled enclave. All times are Paris time (GMT+1).  

• The pace of Palestinian civilians fleeing the combat zone in northern Gaza has picked up as Israel’s air and ground campaign there intensifies, with the Israeli army saying that 50,000 civilians had fled north Gaza for the south on Wednesday.  

• Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said late on Tuesday that Israeli soldiers were "tightening the stranglehold around the city of Gaza", and were operating "in the heart" of the enclave's most populous hub.

• The United States said it opposed any long-term occupation of the Gaza Strip by Israel and any forced relocation of Palestinians from the enclave, a day after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Israel would take "overall security responsibility" of the enclave for an indefinite period after its war with Hamas. 

• The death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to at least 10,328 people, including at least 4,237 children, the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory has said.