The situation in Gaza is "about as bad as it can get," Sari Bashi, program director of Human Rights Watch, told ABC News Live Sunday.

"People are being forced to drink brackish, untreated water because the price of bottled water has gone up beyond what most people can afford," Bashi said. "Food is short, there is no electricity. Even emergency generators that hospitals have are running low on fuel, and supplies are dwindling."

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While on a bipartisan congressional delegation trip to Israel, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other members of the delegation were rushed into a bomb shelter in Tel Aviv to wait out a rocket attack, according to a social media post from Schumer.

"It shows you what Israelis have to go through," Schumer said in his post on X, which included a photo showing him and Republican Sen. Mitt Romney, a Romney staff and several others huddled in the small bomb shelter.

The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem on Sunday morning urged U.S. citizens trapped in the Gaza Strip to move to southern Gaza along the main highway, the Salah al-Din Street.

U.S. citizens who can do so safely were advised by the embassy to flee to the south of the Gaza Valley toward the city of Khan Younis as U.S. officials work on potential options for getting them out of Gaza.

As of Sunday morning, the only exit to the south of Gaza, the Rafah crossing at the Egyptian border, remained closed to all seeking to flee Gaza, officials said.

But Tala Herzallah, a Palestinian woman trapped in Gaza, told ABC News Sunday that Israel Defense Forces are continuing to bomb both Khan Younis and Rafah, saying homes were hit in the areas Saturday night.

"They’re telling us to move there, and then they are bombing the houses there without warning people," Herzallah said.

The military conflict between Israel and Hamas is ongoing, making identifying departure options for U.S. citizens complex, the U.S. Embassy said.

Embassy officials encouraged U.S. citizens to complete a crisis intake form to provide contact information "should we need to reach out to you on short notice."

-ABC News' Clark Bentson

A Gaza resident said Hamas fighters were attempting to slow the evacuation of northern Gaza, using measures that included stealing car keys, Israel's military said.

"They are preventing people from leaving," the Gaza resident told an Israeli military officer in a phone call, the audio of which was somewhat garbled and which was recorded, translated and released by the Israeli Defense Forces. The audio appeared to be a clip of a longer conversation.

The man, whom IDF identified only as a resident of Jabalya, in northern Gaza, said Hamas has been "taking the ID card and the car keys" of some locals. Israel has ordered some 1.1 million people in northern Gaza to evacuate immediately ahead of an expected ground invasion.

"You mean the movement? Hamas?" a person identified as an IDF officer said in the recording. "Who is stopping you? Hamas?"

"Yes, yes," the Gaza resident replied.

As Americans inside Gaza wait for the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza to open, a senior State Department official said that Egypt has informed the U.S. that “there are acute security threats" preventing U.S. officials and others from aiding Americans inside Gaza.

The official added that the State Department has placed a team on the Egypt side of the border "as close to the border as conditions permit."

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said Monday that Israel has not allowed the opening of the Rafah border crossing from the Gaza side.

Shoukry said, since the crisis broke out, Egypt "has been seeking to keep the crossing operational and in a way that allows the entry of humanitarian aid."

"Until now, unfortunately, the Israeli government has not taken a position to allow the opening of the crossing from the Gaza side for the entry of aid or the exit of nationals of [other] countries," Shoukry said. "We are ready and Egyptian authorities on the border are ready to get aid in and get nationals of third countries out."

He added that Egypt aims to keep normal operation of the border "for the entry of Palestinians with medical needs or the normal movement between the Strip and Egypt."

-ABC News' Shannon Crawford