Gaza's civil defence agency said that since dawn Israeli attacks had killed 66 people in the territory already devastated by nearly 23 months of war.
The dire state of shelter, healthcare and nutrition in Gaza meant evacuation was “not only unfeasible but incomprehensible under the present circumstances”.
But despite the calls at home and abroad for an end to the war, the Israeli army is readying itself for an operation to seize the Palestinian territory's largest city and relocate its inhabitants.
The Israeli military has declared Gaza City a “dangerous combat zone”, without the daily pauses in fighting that have allowed limited food deliveries elsewhere.
'Shaken the earth'
The army did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the figure.
Bassal said 12 people were killed when an Israeli air strike hit “a number of displaced people’s tents” near a mosque in the al-Nasr area, west of Gaza City.
Umm Imad Kaheel, who was nearby at the time, said children were among those killed in the strike, which had “shaken the earth”.
The civil defence agency said 12 people were killed by Israeli fire as they waited near food distribution centres in the north, south and centre.
Abu Mohammed Kishko, a resident of the city’s Zeitoun neighbourhood, told AFP the bombardments the previous night had been “insane”.
Fears for hostages
The Israeli prime minister's office said on Saturday the remains of the second of two hostages recovered from Gaza this week have been identified as belonging to the student Idan Shtivi.
Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker, told the Tel Aviv rally that if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “chooses to occupy the Gaza Strip instead of the current outline for a deal, it will be the execution of our hostages and dear soldiers”.
The Israeli army, whose troops have been conducting ground operations in Zeitoun for several days, said two of its soldiers had been wounded by an explosive device “during combat in the northern Gaza Strip”.
Hamas's October 2023 attack, which triggered the war, resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures.
Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed at least 63,371 Palestinians, most of them civilians, according to figures from the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza that the United Nations considers reliable - AFP
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