Pictures of the week: Latest on Palestine-Israel conflict

The Palestinian death toll in Gaza has exceeded 11,000 since the Israel-Hamas conflict broke out on October 7, health authorities in Gaza announced on Friday.

The number of evacuees leaving the Gaza Strip through Egypt rose on Tuesday, a day after the Rafah border crossing was re-opened.

At least 500 people, most of them foreigners or dual nationals and their dependents, passed through Rafah, the only crossing that does not border Israel, Egyptian security sources said.

On October 9, the Israeli military announced a total blockade of the already besieged enclave, including a ban on water and food. Two days later, it cut off the power and restricted the entry of aid and fuel.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warned that the food situation in northern Gaza is deteriorating. As of Thursday, no bakeries were active due to lack of fuel, water and wheat flour, as well as damage. Some essential food items, such as rice and vegetable oil, are nearly depleted in the market. Other items, including wheat flour, dairy products, eggs and mineral water, have disappeared from the shelves in shops across Gaza, it said.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has verified more than 250 attacks on hospitals, clinics, patients and ambulances in Gaza since Hamas' incursion into Israel on October 7 – as well as 25 attacks on healthcare facilities in Israel.

In Gaza, the "health system is on its knees" and the situation on the ground "is impossible to describe," WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council.

The UN says the humanitarian situation in the densely-packed Gaza Strip is dire, with its roughly 2 million inhabitants needing much more food and medicine.

(With input from agencies)