Residents of Gaza City have vowed to remain, with many refusing to be displaced to anywhere else in the besieged enclave, despite Israeli threats of occupation and takeover.
Palestinians told Al Jazeera that the Israeli army has been consistently threatening them to leave, days after Israel announced its plan to forcibly displace around one million Palestinians to concentration camps in the south of the Strip.
The residents of Gaza City say there are no other safe areas to go to in the war-battered territory, while others are shot at or killed on their way to displacement camps.
Local media reported that Palestinians are now gripped by anxiety over Israel’s plan to occupy the entire enclave, starting with Gaza City.
Israel’s security cabinet on Friday approved plans for the full occupation, increasing the levels of frustration in Gaza and leaving people concerned about the future.
Many of the Palestinians in Gaza City are living in tents and makeshift shelters, due to large swaths of the city being flattened by Israeli bombardment.
This comes as the Palestinian ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour pleaded with nations around the world to stop Israel’s full military occupation of Gaza.
"The president [of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas] is contacting all leaders in all corners of the globe for everyone to act responsibly, to avoid additional catastrophes against our people in the Gaza Strip," he said.
Israel's plan has been widely condemned, including by France, China, Germany, Australia, Italy and New Zealand.
More than 80 Islamic scholars and organisations around the world have further announced they cut all ties with Israel and said they will use their economic power to pressure the US and Israel to end the war on Gaza.
The plan to fully occupy Gaza has also deepened rifts within Israel, with the army's chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, reportedly "furious" with the ministers who voted in favour of the plan and saying it could further endanger the captives there.
Palestinians killed, starved
Four more people have starved to death in Gaza over the last 24 hours, as Israel continues to heavily restrict aid coming into the enclave after months of completely blocking it.
Since dawn on Saturday, at least 14 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks, including at least two aid-seekers near the Nuseirat camp, 11 others who were taken to the al-Awda Hospital and one woman in an airstrike in Khan Younis.
Israeli media also reported that six Palestinians, most of them children, were also wounded in Gaza City after a balcony collapsed after being hit with an airdropped aid package.
The collapsed balcony fell onto people walking in the street. This comes just days after a man was also killed after an airdropped package hit him on the head, Gaza health officials said.
Aid organisations and experts around the world have repeatedly warned that the safest and best way to deliver aid is through land crossings, however Israel has continued to obstruct the entry of essential aid.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 61,330 Palestinians since the start of the war on 7 October 2023. The war has plunged the enclave into a deep humanitarian crisis, with more than 152,000 wounded and left thousands of others missing.
Israel's war on Gaza has been determined to be a genocide by UN experts and leading international rights groups, including Amnesty International.