Israel-Gaza updates: Israeli forces preparing for 'wide range of offensive plans'

The State Department expects that the number of confirmed dead Americans will rise on Wednesday, State Department spokesperson Matt Miller said on CNN.

"We continue to work through the list of unaccounted and find that, obviously, some of those we will locate or will report in, some of them we do find, unfortunately, they're deceased, and then others we are able to confirm are taken hostage,” Miller said. “It's a moving target all the time."

-ABC News' Shannon Crawford

A barrage of rockets has landed on the Israeli city of Ashkelon on Wednesday morning.

Ashkelon, with a population of over 100,000 people, has essentially been a ghost town since the start of the incursion from Hamas over the weekend.

There have been no immediate reports of injuries or deaths in the aftermath of the attack.

-ABC News’ Matt Gutman

The United Nations said Wednesday that there are now more than 263,000 people internally displaced in the Gaza Strip, as Israeli airstrikes destroy buildings and homes in response to Saturday’s attack by Hamas.

That figure includes at least 137,500 people who are currently sheltering in hospitals and schools in Hamas-ruled Gaza, according to the U.N.

-ABC News' Joe Simonetti

The Israel Defense Forces released the names early Wednesday morning of 14 soldiers who were killed on Tuesday. Their ages ranged from 19 to 32 years old.

The IDF called all 14 soldiers “martyrs” and said their families had all been notified.

The names released by IDF:

Dolev Amoyel, 21

Noam Abramowitz, 19

Eli Adani, 21

Ido Binenstock, 19

Eli Zissar, 27

Dvir Zakai, 20

Itamar Cohen, 19

Tomer Yaakov Mizrahi, 21

Sahar Midani, 20

Emil Smoilov, 22

Bachor Sweid, 32

Amichai Shimon Rubin, 23

Yedidia Moshe Raziel, 31

Ben Bronstein, 24