The Israeli army dropped thousands of leaflets on Gaza City on July 10, urging all residents to flee a heavy offensive that has rocked the central Gaza city. The Palestinian land was besieged..

The leaflets, addressed to “everyone in Gaza City”, set out specific escape routes to the south and warned that the urban area, previously home to more than half a million people, was “a dangerous It will remain a war zone.”

The warning followed three partial evacuation orders and came as Israeli troops, backed by tanks and aircraft, battled Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants in the city in the heaviest fighting in months.

In one operation, the army said it had killed militants and recovered weapons from inside the long-vacant Gaza City headquarters of UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees.

Elsewhere in Gaza, deadly attacks hit four schools used as shelters in four days, sparking international outrage.

The uptick in fighting and displacement came as Qatar-brokered mediators were set to resume negotiations on Wednesday for a ceasefire and hostage-release deal to end the war, now in its 10th month.

An Israeli delegation led by Mossad chief David Barnia arrived in Doha for the talks, a source with knowledge of the talks said on condition of anonymity because of their sensitivity.

CIA Director William Burns was also expected in the Qatari capital after talks in Cairo on Tuesday.

The latest fighting in Gaza has left 350,000 civilians newly displaced, said UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini, who spoke before dropping the latest leaflet and said there was “absolutely no safe place in Gaza”.

A woman named Nimr al-Jamal said that she was carrying her few belongings from the barren land destroyed by the bombardment. AFP Tuesday that “this is the 12th time” his family has had to flee.

“How many times can we endure this? A thousand times? Where shall we go?”

Hamas whose October 7 attack started the war.has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of escalating the fighting to derail the latest ceasefire talks.

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The Islamist group’s armed wing said this week that renewed fighting in Gaza City was the “most intense in months”, while deadly attacks have also taken place elsewhere across the territory.

Israel’s military said it had “eliminated” Palestinian militants operating from inside the city’s UNRWA headquarters and found a “large amount of weapons” inside.

This was stated by Juliet Toma, head of communication of the United Nations agency AFP It was difficult to know if people were taking shelter in the building “because we don’t have regular access to Gaza City”.

‘Death and Suffering’

The Israeli military said it was investigating an attack on Tuesday, according to hospital sources At least 29 people were killed in a school used as a shelter in the southern Khan Yunis area..

Germany said the strike was “unacceptable” and called for an immediate investigation into the incident.

“Citizens, especially children, should not be caught in the crossfire,” the foreign ministry posted on X. “Repeated attacks on schools by the Israeli military must be stopped and promptly investigated.”

Gaza’s Hamas government said the “majority” of the dead were women and children.

AFP Footage showed the injured being taken to the nearby Nasir Hospital, many screaming in pain, while relatives wept for the dead.

An injured person, Osama Abu Daqqa, said that “the attack happened suddenly, people were injured and martyred and there was no one to help them”.

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“Without warning, rockets were fired at a group of people browsing the Internet. They were not part of the resistance, nor were they armed, they were all civilians,” said another survivor, Mohammad Sukkur. “

The military said the strike killed a Hamas “terrorist” who had taken part in the October 7 attack and was “looking into reports that civilians were harmed, adjacent to al-Awda school”. He admitted that “it was close. The strike site”.

“The incident is under review.”

At least 20 people have been killed since last week in Israeli attacks on schools used by displaced Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza authorities and rescue services.

Mr Lazzarini wrote on social media site X that “schools have gone from safe places of learning and hope to overcrowded shelters for children and often become places of death and misery”.

‘she is alone’

A Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7 resulted in the deaths of 1,195 people, most of them civilians. AFP Numbers based on Israeli statistics.

The militants took 251 hostages, 116 of whom remain in Gaza, of whom 42 have been killed, according to the military.

Israel responded with a military operation that killed at least 38,295 people in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to figures from the Hamas-ruled territory’s health ministry.

Israel has also imposed a punishing siege on Gaza’s 2.4 million people, eased only by sporadic aid deliveries.

Independent UN rights experts on Tuesday accused Israel of waging a ‘campaign of targeted starvation’. which constituted “a form of genocidal violence”.

Israel’s mission to the United Nations in Geneva accused the panel members of “spreading disinformation” and “supporting Hamas propaganda.”

Elad Goren of Israel’s COGAT, the military department that handles aid to Gaza, said an average of 250 trucks were entering through the Karim Shalom crossing, half the daily capacity – a decline he attributed to the Palestinians. He was responsible for the problems.

In Israel, meanwhile, protesters regularly take to the streets to demand that Netanyahu’s government implement a deal to return the hostages.

Some of the hostages’ relatives spoke at a virtual press conference organized by the Hostage Families Forum about their fears, particularly of the threat of abuse against female detainees.

“My life stopped on October 7,” said Simona Steinbrecher, the mother of hostage Dorn Steinbrecher. “I know she’s out there alone and I can’t help her.”