Gaza receives aid shipment as deaths top 8,000 and Israel widens offensive

The besieged enclave’s 2.3 million people are now largely cut off from the world.

Palestinians sit on the rubble of a house after it was struck by an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis (Fatima Shbair/AP)

Nearly three dozen lorries entered Gaza on Sunday in the largest aid convoy since the war between Israel and Hamas began.

But humanitarian workers said the assistance still fell desperately short of what was needed after thousands of people broke into warehouses to take flour and basic hygiene products.