Middle East latest: Gaza strike kills an international UN staffer and wounds 5

The Israeli military said Wednesday it launched a “limited ground operation” to retake part of a key corridor that bisects northern Gaza from the south.

The assault into the Netzarim corridor appears to deepen Israel’s renewed offensive in Gaza, which shattered a ceasefire with Hamas on Tuesday in a wave of heavy strikes. More than 400 Palestinians were killed, nearly two-thirds of them women and children, the Health Ministry said. Its records do not distinguish between civilians and combatants.

An injured United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) worker is brought into al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital following what the U.N. described as a strike in which an

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