Israeli ground, air and artillery forces pushed deeper into Gaza City on Tuesday and early Wednesday, hitting multiple neighbourhoods including Al-Saftawi, Al-Zaytoun and Tuffah. Local health authorities told Reuters at least 34 Palestinians were killed overnight, 18 of them around the city. Gaza’s civil defence later raised Tuesday’s death toll across the enclave to 50, while medics cited by teleSUR said a further 33 people died in strikes that began before dawn on Wednesday. Strikes were also reported in the southern city of Khan Younis, where displacement tents were hit, and in Jabalia and Sheikh Radwan, flattening residential blocks and prompting fresh waves of civilians to flee. Video from local journalists showed families leaving on foot as tanks advanced under covering fire, and aid groups warned that no area of the strip offers guaranteed safety. The surge in bombardment follows Israel’s mobilisation of additional reserve forces for what officials describe as the final push to seize Gaza City, viewed by the Israeli military as Hamas’s last major stronghold. The Gaza Health Ministry says more than 62,000 Palestinians have been killed since the war erupted in October 2023, while the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification has declared a famine in Gaza City and warns it could spread south within weeks. Separate from the latest assault, hospital staff and witnesses said Israeli troops shot and killed four Palestinians on Sunday as they approached a food distribution point south of Gaza City, underscoring the growing danger faced by aid-seekers amid acute shortages of food and medicine.