Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had seized a corridor of land, seemingly cutting off one of Gaza largest cities from the rest of the enclave.

The offensive comes as Israel faces criticism after the United Nations said bodies of aid workers were found in a “mass grave."

He says the military was “dissecting" Gaza and "increasing the pressure step by step" on Hamas. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The United Nations said Israeli forces killed the people as they were trying to aid injured civilians, then buried them in a mass grave. Israel said nine of the 15 dead were Palestinian militants.

The bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a “mass grave,” a week after they went missing following attacks by Israeli forces.