I'm deeply distressed by today's announcement that Israel will initiate a complete seizure

of the Gaza Strip, nothing allowed in, no electricity, food or fuel.

The United Nations is condemning Israel's siege of Gaza, saying it's a legal under-international

law.

This comes as the death toll continues to rise from Israel's massive bombing campaign,

following Hamas' unprecedented surprise attack on southern Israel that killed over 900

people in Israel.

The death toll in Gaza has topped 770 overwhelming hospitals in the besieged territory.

We'll go to Tel Aviv and Gaza for the latest.

We were told to evacuate the eastern part of Kahnunas and head to a safe place, but there

is no safe place in the Gaza Strip, as you can see the ass-tracks are targeting everywhere.

That and more coming up.

Welcome to democracynow, democracynow.org, the war in peace report, I'm Amy Goodman.

Israeli air strikes continue to rain down across the Gaza Strip, where the death toll has

climbed to more than 770 people and is expected to rapidly rise as there's real massest troops

for a possible ground invasion.

Among the dead or dozens of Palestinians killed Monday as Israel bombed a packed marketplace

in Jabalya Gaza's largest refugee camp.

All so struck, hospitals, a university, two UN-run schools sheltering families displaced

by the fighting.

More than 4,000 Palestinians have been injured.

The UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees says violence has displaced nearly 200,000 people

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