The Israeli military is calling on Palestinians in Gaza City, the enclave's largest urban area, to leave for the south, warning the military is operating throughout the city.

Israeli forces have been carrying out an offensive on the suburbs of the northern city for weeks after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military to capture it.

Netanyahu says Gaza City is a Hamas stronghold and capturing it is necessary to defeat the Palestinian Islamist militants, whose October 2023 attack on Israel sparked the war.

The assault threatens to displace hundreds of thousands of Palestinians sheltering there from nearly two years of fighting.

Before the war, about a million people, nearly half of Gaza's population, lived in the city.

Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee w

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