Israeli forces have intensified their bombardment of Gaza City, levelling three residential blocks and killing at least 53 Palestinians, including 35 in Gaza City , as families continue to flee under the threat of new forced evacuation orders.

The Israeli army marked the al-Kawthar tower in Gaza’s southern Remal neighbourhood as a target before destroying the building on Sunday with a series of missile strikes less than two hours later.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City, said: “It was another sleepless night for those in Gaza City, with the sounds of drones, the constant hum of machines of war, and the explosive remotely detonated robots across the city.”

Gaza’s Government Media Office slammed Israel’s “systematic bombing of towers, residential buildings, schools and

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