GAZA: The communications director of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Juliette Touma,  said the whole of Gaza Strip has become the most dangerous place in the world.

“No place is safe in Gaza,” she highlighted in an interview with BBC, adding that the situation in the Palestinian enclave was getting worse by the minute.

“People are very very fearful of what is coming next specially given the intensification of the bombardment in the south,” Touma said. “There is no such thing as a safe zone in Gaza.”

Israeli shelling killed a Syrian labourer when it hit the chicken farm where he worked, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) and a local official.

Israel shelled and carried out air strikes on southern Lebanon, while Hezbollah claimed attacks on Israeli positions, AFP cited the NNA as saying.

The United Nations peacekeeping mission (Unifil) says its headquarters in southern Lebanon has been hit by shelling several times.

Commenting on a Lebanese soldier’s death, Unifil said in a statement: “The Lebanese Armed Forces have not engaged in conflict with Israel.