Iranians say they are caught between their country's regime and Israeli destruction as the conflict intensifies.

Videos and images verified by NBC News piece together a picture of the deprivation and chaos of Gaza's hospitals.

On Israel's eastern border with Jordan, the IDF ramped up foot soldiers by about three times what was there beforehand, the military said on Monday.

The British-flagged yacht Madleen, which is operated by the pro-Palestinian Freedom Flotilla Coalition, aimed to deliver symbolic aid to Gaza.

Israeli fire killed at least 40 people, half of them near an aid distribution site operated by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation on Monday, the territory's health ministry said, as U.N. officials denounced Israeli-backed aid delivery.

Staff Sergeant Naveh Leshem, a soldier in the 12th Battalion, Golani Brigade, was killed in battle while fighting in the southern Gaza Strip, the IDF announced on Tuesday. Leshem was 20 years old from the West Bank settlement of Nokdim. The soldiers were evacuated to receive medical treatment in hospitals, and their families were notified.

Domestic and global criticism of the war is growing. So, too, the US president's impatience. Aid supply is chaotic, often deadly. The far right is bent on permanent reoccupation. Netanyahu is preoccupied with his own survival The post As the IDF deepens its hold in Gaza,