The Israeli military said on Tuesday that it will act with "greater force" in Gaza City and warned residents to flee, in a statement posted on X.

"To all residents of Gaza City... the defence forces are determined to defeat Hamas and will act with greater force in the Gaza City area," Colonel Avichay Adraee said in the post.

"Evacuate immediately via the Al-Rashid axis," he added, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned residents of the Gaza Strip's largest urban centre to leave.

Israel has been intensifying its bombardment of the city in preparation for an operation to take control of it, despite repeated entreaties from Western nations and aid agencies to stop.

"In two days we brought down 50 terror towers, and this is only the opening stage of the intensified ground m

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