Major aid groups suspended or significantly scaled back their remaining operations in eastern Gaza City on Tuesday after Israeli tanks reached the city's outskirts as part of a ground offensive.

"People in Gaza City are facing an impossible choice: live under bombardment and famine, or risk a dangerous journey south where they know that there are no services that can accommodate them," said Shaina Low, a communications adviser for the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). "What we are witnessing is mass forcible transfer of Palestinians from Gaza City, which is a war crime and must be stopped."

The military escalation came as an independent U.N. commission concluded that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, a charge Israel has denied, calling a report from the commission "distorted and fal

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