Israeli forces killed at least 36 Palestinians on Tuesday as they pounded Gaza from the air and ground, as world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York demanded an end to the two-year war.
Residential buildings continue to be flattened as Israel presses ahead with its plan to seize the enclave’s largest city.
Satellite imagery analysed by Al Jazeera shows Israeli army vehicles tightening a stranglehold around Gaza City, surrounding it from several directions. Footage verified by Al Jazeera shows tanks pushing into the Nassr neighbourhood, barely a kilometre from al-Shifa Hospital.
This destruction forms part of a pattern that a UN commission says amounts to genocide.
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday warned that Israel