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The 200 tons of food provided by a celebrity chef’s charity arrived as UNICEF said rising numbers of children in Gaza were facing food deprivation.

Rescuers rushing to the scene of Israeli airstrikes save those who they can, but are forced to leave many behind. “My soul is tired from this war,” one said.

The Palestine Red Crescent said the girl, named Hind, was in a car in northern Gaza with six of her relatives who were all killed by Israeli fire. She was the sole survivor.

Gaza residents say Israeli airstrikes come mostly without warning and hit indiscriminately, leading to the feeling that death is imminent and inevitable.

Several people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the city of Jabaliya, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense. Israel’s military said it was targeting Hamas.

Palestinians returning to parts of the enclave have been picking their way through vast piles of rubble and trying to salvage what they can.

“It is a public health concern,” one U.N. official said of the lack of toilets for displaced people in the territory. “But the second thing is simply just dignity.”

The Israeli leader’s warning came after Hamas said it would indefinitely postpone the next round of hostage releases.

In Cairo and at the U.N., negotiators struggled to come up with plans for pausing the fighting, freeing hostages and speeding up help for Gazans.

Israel’s Haredi minority has long lived apart from the nation’s mainstream, but fighting has both widened that divide and in some ways helped to bridge it.