Palestinian residents of Gaza City have come under relentless Israeli bombardment as the military prepares for a major offensive to seize and ethnically cleanse the area, barring emergency workers from reaching people trapped in the residential Zeitoun neighbourhood.

Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Saturday that the plans for the new offensive were still being formulated.

The Israeli occupation army targeted the area around the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City with artillery shelling.

A video which surfaced online following the drone's landing shows local Gazans inspecting the UAV, before carrying it away to an undisclosed location. An IDF Skylark 3 reconnaissance drone made an emergency landing in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City following a technical malfunction,

Israel's security cabinet has approved plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the Israeli military to occupy Gaza City, in an expansion of military operations that comes amid international condemnation of the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.

Uruguay suspended the cooperation agreement between the National Research and Innovation Agency (ANII) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, citing the latest Gaza operation and the decision to occupy Gaza City,

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