Crowds reportedly moved towards the trucks, climbing on top and causing the drivers to lose control on uneven roads.

At least 20 people have been killed after a lorry loaded with humanitarian aid overturned into a crowd in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, according to a report. The Palestinian news agency WAFA, citing medical sources,

Gaza's civil defense agency said Wednesday that 20 people were killed when an aid truck overturned on a crowd of aid seekers in the central Gaza Strip.

Members of the UN Security Council offered their sympathy to Israeli hostages after a video showing an emaciated captive was released by Hamas, but called on Israel to end its self-created humanitarian catastrophe and allow more aid to enter the besieged territory.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met senior security officials Tuesday, with media reporting he favoured a complete military takeover of Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with a group of senior ministers on Thursday as the families of the hostages warn that moving into new areas could endanger the captives.

One former military chief said that Israel is "well over a year past the point where we could have ended the war."

There is intense international pressure for a ceasefire to ease hunger and appalling conditions in Gaza and for Hamas to release the hostages. The latest ceasefire talks in Qatar

We're going for the full conquest of the Gaza Strip – and defeating Hamas," local journalists quote a senior Israeli official as saying. Such a move stil