Whether the threat was abusive Hamas guards, hunger, illness or Israeli strikes, there were moments during Tal Shoham's 505 days of captivity in Gaza when he didn't think he'd be alive the next morning.

" the 40-year-old Israeli who also holds Austrian citizenship told The. “There are so many ways to die there.” Shoham was one of dozens of hostages released from Gaza in February as part of a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel that has since been broken.

Israel's president said at a Holocaust remembrance ceremony on Thursday that the return of hostages held by Palestinian militants in Gaza was a "universal moral imperative" and called on the international community to help end "this horrific humanitarian crime".

France, Germany and Britain meanwhile said Israel's seven-week blockade on all imports to Gaza was "intolerable."

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — An overnight Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City killed 23 people, as Arab mediators worked on a proposal to end the war with Hamas that would include a five-to-seven-year truce and the release of all remaining hostages, officials said Wednesday.

The World Food Programme was one of the major suppliers of food to Gaza's displaced population. On Friday, it delivered the last of its stocks to kitchens in the enclave.

The UN agency has delivered its last supplies to meals kitchens, which it warns will run out of food in the coming days.