Desperate Palestinians clutching pots and plastic buckets scrambled for rice at a charity kitchen in Gaza City on Saturday, a day after the United Nations declared a famine in the war-battered territory.

An eyewitness told CBS News that American subcontractors at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites shot at Palestinians, a claim GHF denies.

Palestinians fled parts of Gaza City Thursday after the Israeli military began the first stages of its planned offensive — as officials vowed to completely obliterate the “battered and

Dozens of Palestinians staged a protest in Gaza City on Thursday against the war and forced migration. Waving Palestinian flags, demonstrators gathered amid destroyed buildings, rubble, and tents for the displaced.

Displaced Palestinians in Gaza City on Friday were seen rushing to a truck carrying water as aid. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, the world’s leading authority on food crises, said that the city is grappling with famine.

More and more Palestinians are calling on Hamas to step down and end the war with Israel that has devastated their home land, with the terror group allegedly executing its critics, according to

The State Department said it was halting all visas for Palestinians from Gaza, including medical visas for children.

The Israel Defense Forces has been barring Palestinians from using a road in the West Bank that is open to all Israelis, Haaretz reveals. The policy has been maintained through a series of checkpoints that the IDF has established along Route 367, which runs east-west from within the Green Line to towns in the southern West Bank.