Israel intensifies Gaza City destruction, bombs another high-rise tower

Hundreds of families suffer their shelters arsenic Israeli attacks termination astatine slightest 65 Palestinians crossed besieged Gaza.

Israel has destroyed different high-rise successful Gaza City, bringing the fig of buildings razed during its run to prehend the country to astatine slightest 50, according to the Palestinian Civil Defence.

The Israeli service said it struck Al-Ruya Tower connected Sunday aft issuing an evacuation menace against the building, arsenic residents and displaced families sheltering successful makeshift tents successful the neighbourhood were forced to flee.

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The caput of the Palestinian NGOs Network, Amjad Shawa, who was adjacent the attack, told Al Jazeera that the concern “is scary”, with panic spreading among the people.

“Today, hundreds of families mislaid their shelters. Israel [is] aiming to unit Palestinians to the confederate areas utilizing these explosions, but everyone knows that determination is nary harmless spot successful the southbound oregon immoderate humanitarian zone,” Shawa said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that the service was “eliminating violent infrastructure and nefarious violent high-rises”, a talking constituent that Israel often repeats arsenic it obliterates civilian infrastructure successful Gaza.

The Al-Ruya onslaught follows an earlier 1 connected the Al Jazeera Club successful cardinal Gaza City, wherever tents lodging displaced families were besides hit.

It comes aft Israel targeted the 15-storey Soussi Tower connected Saturday and the 12-storey Mushtaha Tower connected Friday. Several Palestinians sheltering successful structure encampments astir those towers were wounded.

Israeli escalation successful Gaza City

Israel’s information furniture approved a program for the subject concern of Gaza City successful August, a determination Netanyahu suggested had already led to the displacement of 100,000 Palestinians.

As Israel pushes to displace residents of Gaza City to the southbound of the enclave, Palestinians person been saying that obscurity is harmless successful the territory.

Gaza’s Ministry of Interior issued a connection connected Sunday informing Palestinians successful Gaza City not to spot Israel’s assertion that it had acceptable up a humanitarian portion successful the al-Mawasi country of Khan Younis.

“We telephone connected citizens successful Gaza City to beware of the occupation’s deceitful claims astir the beingness of a humanitarian harmless portion successful the southbound of the Strip,” it said successful a statement.

The Israeli service had designated al-Mawasi a “humanitarian zone” aboriginal connected successful its run against Gaza. Since then, it has been bombed repeatedly.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reported that “every 5 to 10 minutes, you tin perceive the sounds of explosions from each directions successful Gaza City”, including dense bombing successful the Sabra and Zeitoun neighbourhoods.

“Israeli forces are utilizing remotely controlled explosive robots, and detonating them successful residential streets, destroying neighbourhoods,” helium said. In Sheikh Radwan, Mahmoud added, homes, nationalist facilities, schools and a mosque had been hit.

Emergency services reported that astatine slightest six radical were killed and respective others were wounded successful an aerial raid connected the Shati country successful northwestern Gaza City.

An Israeli drone onslaught besides killed 2 radical and injured galore much successful the Nuseirat campy successful cardinal Gaza.

Medical sources said astatine slightest 65 Palestinians were killed crossed Gaza connected Sunday.

Israel’s warfare connected Gaza has killed astatine slightest 64,368 Palestinians and wounded 162,776 since October 2023, according to Gaza’s wellness authorities. Thousands much stay buried nether the rubble arsenic famine continues to dispersed crossed the enclave.

Academics, United Nations experts and starring rights groups person described the horrific Israeli atrocities successful Gaza as a genocide.

Later connected Sunday, United States President Donald Trump suggested that helium enactment guardant a caller connection to extremity the warfare successful Gaza, calling it a “final warning” for Hamas.

The Palestinian radical acknowledged receiving “ideas” from the US, saying that it welcomes immoderate efforts to scope a lasting ceasefire.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies