Good evening. I'm John Yang. Israeli forces are now carrying out ground operations in Gaza after days of bombardment from the air.

Israel's trying to pressure Hamas to free the remaining hostages.

Overnight Israeli strikes across southern Gaza killed 26 people, including several women and children.

A senior leader of the political wing of Hamas is among the dead.

In Rafah, Israel ordered residents to evacuate as its ground forces moved into the city.

The shells are falling among us and the bullets are flying above us.

Injuries, killings.

All the streets have filled up with people and children.

Where will we go? How long will we remain in this suffering? We have children. Shame on them. The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry

says the death toll in the 18 months since the war began has surpassed 50,000, nearly 700 of them

since the C-spire collapsed this past week.

Earlier I spoke with UNICEF spokesperson Rosalia Bolin from Gaza.

The situation here continues really to deteriorate day by day.

Since March 18th, there have been hundreds of people killed, including at least 200 children, hundreds of

children more injured, including children with very severe injuries, burns all over their body.

And those attacks have been accompanied by displacement orders for notably northern Gaza,

eastern Gaza and the south. So families have been told to move yet again. The vast majority of families

had just returned to their homes a couple of weeks ago during the ceasefire. And now they're

pushed out again. And they are in urgent need of food assistance, clean water, support with shelter. We also have been facing an eight blockade

since the beginning of March for three weeks now, UNICEF and other organizations. We haven't been

able to pick up the life-saving assistance that we have right outside of Gaza. I've been here for six

months now, but when I drive around, I continue

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