Gaza rescuers said at least 29 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Wednesday as negotiations took place in Qatar for the release of hostages still held in the war-battered territory.

The United Nations’ top humanitarian official blasted Israel for “deliberately and unashamedly” imposing inhumane conditions on Palestinians that include the risk of famine.

Israeli military strikes killed at least 50 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, local health authorities said, in a significant escalation of the bombardment as U.S. President Donald Trump continued his visit to the Middle East.

Airstrikes hit two hospitals in the south of the Palestinian territory on Tuesday while on Wednesday Israel struck homes in the northern Jabalia area, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.

United Nations aid chief Tom Fletcher on Tuesday criticized an Israel-initiated and U.S.-backed humanitarian aid distribution plan for Gaza as a "fig leaf for further violence and displacement" of Palestinians in the war-torn enclave.

Israel’s government has publicly dismissed warnings of extreme food shortages after it blocked aid deliveries, but an internal analysis concluded that a crisis looms if food supplies are not restored.

The United Nations and World Health Organization are both warning that people in Gaza are starving amid an aid blockade by Israel. President of the Union for Reform Judaism Rabbi Rick Jacobs and Princeton University Distinguished Professor Eddie Glaude join Chris Jansing to react to the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East.

United Nations experts published a statement calling for comprehensive responses to the dire situation in Gaza.

Nine missiles struck the European Hospital and its courtyard in the south of the Palestinian territory, health officials said, while at least two people were killed in a strike on the Nasser Hospital on Tuesday morning.

We call on the international community to pool all efforts and take urgent actions to bring an end to the humanitarian tragedy in Gaza,” said Fu Cong, China's permanent representative to the United Nations,