By IRNA,
Gaza City : Israeli navy gunboats fired more than 25 shells at Gaza City, setting fires residential areas where the civilians are living under siege.
IRNA reporter in Gaza City said no report is available on figures of casualties.
He said that two women and four children were killed in air strike on a house in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza.
Hamas said that the resistance movement will keep on defending Gaza.
In a news conference on Sunday, a senior United Nations official, Maxwell Gaylard, the deputy special coordinator for the Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, said that the humanitarian situation for Gaza’s 1.5 million people was deteriorating.
“People are terrified, hungry, thirsty and traumatized,” he said.
“The civilian population is caught in the middle of this conflict,” he said, and added, “This is a conflict where the civilian population has nowhere to flee.”
He called for “an immediate cease-fire” in Gaza and said that the daily three-hour lulls in the fighting permitted by the Israelis for humanitarian deliveries were insufficient.
Aidan O’Leary, deputy director in Gaza for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which deals with Palestinian refugees, said that the flow of people internally displaced by the fighting had doubled in the past few days, and that there were at least 26,000 people in United Nations centers for the displaced, while another 60,000 people were taking shelter with relatives or friends.