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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) issued a notice to Palestinians living in Gaza City to leave and head toward a "humanitarian zone" in Al-Mawasi in Khan Younis, to the south. "Take this opportunity to move early to the (Al-Mawasi) humanitarian zone and join the thousands of people who have already gone there," said IDF spokesman Avichay Adraee. The IDF said there were field hospitals, water pipelines and desalination facilities, food and medicine at the humanitarian zone.

Israel has stepped up its destruction of Gaza City as it plans to seize Gaza's largest urban centre and forcibly displace around one million Palestinians to concentration zones in the south, as it killed at least 78 people across the besieged enclave since dawn, including 32 desperately seeking food. On Sunday, in Gaza City, the Palestinian Civil Defence reported a fire in tents near al-Quds Hospital after Israeli shelling.

The official told the Associated Press that Israel will stop airdrops over Gaza City in the coming days and reduce the arrival of aid trucks into the northern part of the strip, as it prepares to displace hundreds of thousands of residents south.

Dr. Mimi Syed is an emergency medicine physician who's been on two medical missions in Gaza working in hospitals that were under Israeli siege and was just denied reentry into Gaza, mere hours before she was scheduled to travel there for a third medical mission. Syed was planning to bring in a small amount of aid to the besieged enclave. "As a doctor, I shouldn't have to smuggle in baby formula," she says. "I shouldn't have to smuggle in protein."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defended the government's decision to expand army operations and reoccupy Gaza City, which has faced severe international condemnation.