Meanwhile, the United Nations relief agency has suspended most of its operations in Gaza following the shooting of two of its employees.

United Nations Relief and Works Agency representative John Ging: “We hope that the situation will calm down and that we will be able to reserve our services, and we will resume our services imminently when it does. But in the meantime, we call on those, everybody who can help, to calm the situation down locally, regionally and internationally to help. Palestinians, the decent civilized people of the Gaza Strip, have lived in misery for far too long, and this is just too much.”