Live. Israel strikes Lebanon as troops mass on Gaza border

For 15 hours, Inbal Reich Alon was locked in a shelter while Hamas gunmen killed and kidnapped dozens of Israelis around her home, just outside the Gaza Strip.

This 58-year-old woman remembers hearing explosions on Saturday morning.

She initially thought the noise was "a storm", not the large-scale Hamas offensive that killed more than a thousand people. But soon Alon realised her small, close-knit community was under attack.

She and her family took refuge in a safe room in their house, originally designed to protect residents from rocket fire, then attackers set the building on fire.

"We had no idea what was going on", she says, adding that for hours her husband and children "didn't let go" of the door handle of the shelter, which does not lock, as is typical in this type of structure.

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Irsael's airforce said minutes ago it is attacking Lebanese territory. 

The UN agency for Palestine reportedly has less than two weeks’ worth of food and water for some 180,000 people sheltering it is schools in Gaza. 

“We’ve got supplies for 12 days for food and water. Roads are blocked, we don’t have telephone lines, we have had networks hit by air strikes. It is really difficult for us to know what’s happening,” Jennifer Austin, Deputy Director of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in Gaza, told Al Jazeera. 

“We are relying on our staff, who are themselves refugees, who are going out to provide a service. It is really unprecedented situation we are facing. We don’t turn anyone away,” she added.

Ukraine's president has denounced Hamas' assault on Israel, calling for international support. 

Speaking outside of the Brussels HQ of NATO, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said: “I remember the first days of our