Health authorities in the Gaza Strip say hospitals treating the injured will lose power within a few hours due to a lack of fuel.

Gaza health authorities have asked the international community to supply fuel to its hospitals.

In a hastily-arranged media conference, Gaza's health authorities said generators at two hospitals would be shut down due to lack of fuel and called on the international community to intervene and provide assistance. A health ministry official also asked gasoline station owners and residents to supply fuel to the hospitals.

Gaza's largest telecommunications provider said internet services and telephone connections were temporarily completely cut off in the enclave.

Meanwhile, Reuters reported that Qatar had mediated an agreement between Egypt, Israel and Hamas. The agreement would allow foreign passport holders and some critically injured people to leave through the Rafah border crossing into Egypt.

Early on Wednesday, Gaza's border-control authorities disclosed a list of foreign passport holders who may go through the Rafah crossing. Many people were seen gathered around the crossing on Wednesday morning. The list has more than 400 names, including a few that appeared to be of Japanese nationals.

On Tuesday, Israel's ground troops got close to the north of Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, and launched fierce attacks on the nearby Jabalia refugee camp and elsewhere.

Israeli forces announced that they placed under control key Hamas bases equipped with underground tunnels. They also insisted that they had killed about 50 Hamas members with airstrikes. They said 12 Israeli soldiers were also killed.

Hamas accused Israeli forces of a massacre. It claimed that Israelis completely destroyed a densely-populated residential area.

Palestinian media have posted a number of photographs and videos, such as a baby who had apparently died in the mother's arms, and children desperately wanting water.

Hamas also claimed that Israeli attacks on the Jabalia refugee camp killed its seven hostages, including three foreigners.

By Wednesday, the death toll in the conflict exceeded 10,000. Gaza health authorities said the toll in the enclave was 8,796. On the Israeli side, the toll was at least 1,400.