Morning update 

Good Morning readers of Middle East Eye, the UN’s relief agency in Palestinian territories has said that humanitarian agencies in Gaza are finding “many areas are off limits and access to others is unsafe.”

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said that only 13 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are partially functioning.

People in Rafah, in the south of Gaza, where thousands have fled, are “in desperate need of food, water, shelter, health, and protection” added OCHA. 

Here are some other developments: 

• Israel conducts a series of raids across the occupied West Bank, with tensions in Jenin rising dramatically and casualties reported
• The Houthis stepped up attacks off the Yemeni coast with a missile hitting a Norway-flagged chemical tanker; the crew escaped injury
• Israel will screen humanitarian aid at Karem Abu Salem crossing with Gaza. There is scepticism whether Israel will speed up deliveries
• The US mission to the UN said it will submit an amendment to a draft ceasefire resolution under consideration by UN General Assembly members