More than 100 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza on Tuesday as the military continued with a devastating and indiscriminate assault on Gaza City.
Dozens of aid seekers and several journalists were among those killed in the attacks, which came as the Israeli military called up tens of thousands of reservists to invade and occupy Gaza City.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday called the attack on the city a "decisive stage of the war" while Israel's military chief of staff said there would be no end to the war until Hamas is defeated.
The onslaught on Gaza City has displaced tens of thousands of people in recent weeks and reduced much of the Al-Zeitoun and Sabra suburbs to rubble.
Most of city's 1 million residents remain in the area, with many of the displaced relocating to newly-established camps to the west of the city.
Journalists, aid seekers killed
Three journalists were among those killed on Tuesday. Rasmi Gehad Salem, a photojournalist working for Al-Manara Media, was killed in an Israeli strike near Al-Jalaa square in Gaza City.
Local reports said that Ayman Haniyeh, a broadcast engineer also working for Al-Manara, and journalist Eman al-Zamli were also killed in separate attacks.
The Gaza government office condemned Israel's "systematic" targeting of Palestinian journalists and urged the international community to protect media workers in Gaza.
Israeli forces have now killed 250 journalists since launching their genocidal assault on the strip almost 23 months ago, making the conflict the deadliest for media workers in modern history.
At least 32 people were also killed while trying to receive aid from sites operated by the Israel- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
The sites run by the organisation have witnessed almost daily massacres of Palestinians since they began operating at the end of May.
More than 2,300 have been killed and almost 17,000 others injured near GHF facilities over the past 14 weeks.
Famine spreads
A further six Palestinians have died of malnutrition over the past 24 hours, including one child, the Gaza health ministry said Wednesday morning.
This takes the number of people to have died from starvation since 7 October 2023 to 367, among them 131 children.
83 hunger-related deaths have been recorded since the IPC - a UN-backed food monitor - declared a famine in Gaza 11 days ago.
More than 514,000 people in Gaza – almost a quarter of the population – were said to be experiencing famine, a number that it is expected to rise to 614,000 by the end of September.
'Wiping Gaza City off the map'
The Israeli army is destroying as many as 300 residential buildings in Gaza City using remote-controlled armoured vehicles laden with explosives, according to Euro-Med monitor.
The rights monitor said it had recorded a doubling of the number of explosions to around 15 a day, calling it "an unprecedented pace of destruction [that] indicates Israel's determination to wipe the city off the map".
The use of robots to destroy infrastructure in Gaza was first documented last year and have been used to devastate the northern towns of Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun.