Israel hits Gaza City as tanks re-enter central areas

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******* hits Gaza City as tanks re-enter central areas

Palestinians in Gaza City say they have experienced one of the most intense ******** bombardments since ******* launched its war on ****** after the group’s unprecedented 7 October *******.

Columns of ******** tanks are reported to be closing in on the centre of the city from several different directions.

The Gaza Civil Emergency Service says it believes a number of people have been ******* but has so far been unable to reach them because of fighting in several districts in the east and west of Gaza City.

The Al-Ahli ******** hospital is reported to have been evacuated, with its patients being taken to one of the only medical facilities still functioning in the area – the already overcrowded Indonesian hospital.

Ahead of the ********, the ******** army issued evacuation orders for several neighbourhoods in the centre of the city.

But one of the areas that has come under the most intense ********, Tel al-Hawa, was not included in an evacuation order that was posted online with a map by the ******* Defense Forces’ (IDF) Arabic spokesperson on Sunday evening.

One resident of Gaza City, Abdel Ghani asked: “The ****** is behind us and the sea is in front of us, where shall we go?”

Others have also told the BBC that they do not know where to go. They say that only one route ******** – to go north towards the port area of Gaza City.

Some fled districts after receiving an evacuation order, only to find that the area they moved to was coming under ******** bombardment.

In al-Rimal, which is just above Tel al-Hawa on the western side of Gaza City, a freelance cameraman working for the BBC says that he did not receive any evacuation orders, but later learnt that his neighbour did.

He left the area with his family and headed north. They are now in the port area but lack basic necessities. He says he is struggling to find water for his children.

In a statement, the IDF confirmed that it launched what it called a new operation in Tel al-Halwa overnight, following what it said was intelligence of ****** and ************ Islamic ****** infrastructure and fighters in the area.

The military also said that it was operating at the headquarters of the UN agency for ************ refugees, Unrwa, in the area.

The IDF said that at the start of the operation, it gave warnings to civilians – and it said that it would open up a humanitarian corridor for people to leave the area.

The latest ******** offensive in Gaza comes as hopes have been rising that a ceasefire deal might finally be agreed.

****** sources have said they have dropped a key demand – that ******* must accept a permanent ceasefire as a precondition of any potential deal.

Talks have resumed and are expected to continue this week.

But a statement by the office of the ******** Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, may have somewhat dampened expectations by insisting that any deal must not stop ******* from resuming fighting in Gaza until its war objectives are met.

Mr Netanyahu has repeatedly defined those aims as being the eradication of ******, both militarily and politically.

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