The Israeli army on Saturday bombed another high-rise building in Gaza City after threatening Palestinian residents to evacuate or face being killed, reports Al Jazeera.
The Israeli military designated more high-rise towers as targets in a map released shortly before bombing the 15-storey Soussi Tower, located opposite a building that houses the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, in the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood.
The targeted buildings are near the 12-storey Mushtaha Tower, which on Friday was bombed and flattened.
Israel is moving to seize Gaza City despite international criticism.
"These attacks are causing panic among the people, especially considering the time they are given to evacuate. Half an hour or an hour is not enough time for people to escape from these buildings," said Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud from Gaza City.
The Israeli military said in a statement, without offering evidence, that the buildings struck were being used by Hamas to gather intelligence about the Israeli army's location. It also said that armed Palestinian groups planted "numerous explosive devices" and dug a tunnel in the area.
According to Al Jazeera, Gaza's Government Media Office rejected the claims and called them "part of a systematic policy of deception used by the occupation to justify the targeting of civilians and infrastructure" and forcibly displace Palestinians from their homes. It said that Israel has destroyed 90 percent of Gaza's infrastructure.
"Strikes like these add to an ongoing, incessant, continuous campaign… to raze to the ground entire neighbourhoods, buildings, and wipe out entire families and individual lives," UNWRA spokesperson Tamara Alrifai told Al Jazeera.
Israel has killed at least 67 people since Saturday morning, according to medical sources who spoke to Al Jazeera. The majority – 45 people – were killed in Gaza City.
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