Meanwhile, twenty-three Palestinians were killed Wednesday in Israeli strikes on Gaza. It was the highest single-day Palestinian death toll in two weeks. The dead included three children, a mother, and a disabled man. More than 140 Palestinians have died in the month-long Israeli assault. UN Emergency Coordinator Appeals for Ceasefire
Amid the ongoing violence in the Middle East, U.N. Emergency Relief Co-Ordinator Jan Egeland made an appeal on Wednesday for peace.

• U.N. Emergency Relief Co-Ordinator Jan Egeland: “So now we have a cross-roads. Do the peoples of this region want a further escalation on the grounds of the most ancient civilizations there is? Or do we say, 'enough'?”