JERUSALEM: The Israeli army has bombarded the Gaza Strip with approximately 6,000 bombs since Saturday, causing at least 1,417 fatalities.

“Approximately 6,000 bombs have been dropped on the Gaza Strip with a total weight of 4,000 tonnes,” the army said in a statement.

Aid agencies warn of severe crisis, death toll rises to 1,417; Abbas calls for immediate halt to Israeli aggression

A dire humanitarian crisis is unfolding in the besieged enclave, and the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Thursday that crucial supplies were running dangerously low in the Gaza Strip after Israel imposed a total blockade on the territory.

“It’s a dire situation in the Gaza Strip that we’re seeing evolve with food and water being in limited supply and quickly running out,” said Brian Lander, the deputy head of emergencies at WFP.

“We’re going to run out very soon,” he told Reuters.

The Red Cross has also warned that fuel for hospital generators in Gaza would soon be depleted, and aid and medicine stocks remained stranded due to the lack of safe passage.

But as the West tried to negotiate the corridor for residents of the enclave to flee the bombing via a border crossing with neighbouring Egypt, its President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Thursday that Gazans must “stay steadfast and remain on their land”.

Meanwhile, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas called for “an immediate end to the comprehensive aggression against the Palestinian people”, his office said following a meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah II.

In his first public remarks since Saturday’s raid against Israel,

Mr Abbas rejected “practices related to killing civilians or abusing them on both sides”, according to a statement.

Mr Abbas leads the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank, while Hamas governs the Gaza Strip.

The two leaders met in Amman and discussed “ways to stop the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people and deliver aid and relief” to Hamas-controlled Gaza, the statement said.

The targeting of civilians “contravenes morals, religion and international law”, Mr Abbas said.

Additionally, Mr Abbas called for the release of Palestinians detained by Israel, as well as those reportedly held captive in Gaza.