New Israeli warning to Gaza residents as first aid trickles in

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi

GAZA (Reuters) — Israel's military has warned Gaza residents that they risk being identified as accomplices «in a terrorist organisation» if they do not move south, Palestinians there said, amid growing humanitarian fears with little aid being allowed in.

More than a million people lived in the north of the Gaza Strip and hundreds of thousands have gone southwards to cram into temporary refuges despite unremitting air and artillery strikes also hitting the southern areas they have fled to.

The first limited supplies of aid arrived on Saturday after two weeks of a total Israeli siege, but relief agencies still warn of a humanitarian catastrophe, with hospitals nearly out of fuel to power incubators and other critical equipment.

Israeli forces readying a ground assault have pummelled the 45-km (28-mile) strip since Hamas militants rampaged through Israeli towns on Oct. 7, killing more than 1,400 people and seizing more 200 hostages.

Some 4,650 Palestinians have been killed in the bombardment according to the Hamas-run health authorities in the enclave, as strikes appeared to intensify, with 266 people killed over 24 hours including 117 children.

Aid that arrived on Saturday in a first convoy of 20 aid trucks started being distributed on Sunday but it was unclear if a second, slightly smaller, convoy would reach Gaza after entering the Rafah border crossing.

«We don't want food or money. We want this war to end. We want death to stop and we want this blind bombing of civilians to stop,» said Mohammad Maher, 40, who has fled to the south from Gaza City in the north.

He described the amount of food aid that had arrived as «pathetic» and accused Israel and the United States of seeking the starvation of