Israel continues to ramp up the pressure on Gaza. On Wednesday, Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said that Israeli forces were establishing a new security corridor between the cities of Rafah and Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

"We are cutting up the strip, and we are increasing the pressure step by step, so that they will give us our hostages," Netanyahu said.

On Thursday, Hamas rejected an Israeli proposal for a new ceasefire and reiterated that they will only release the remaining 59 hostages in exchange for the release of more Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, new Israeli relocation orders have displaced around 142,000 Palestinians, including those who live in Rafah, between March 18-23, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA, stated in their most recent report.

According to Olga Cherevko, a spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), more than 60% of Gaza is now considered a "no-go" zone because of Israeli evacuation orders.

Military strikes have also killed at least 1,042 Palestinians since March 24, the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza said this week.

And after a month of

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