Izraelski premier Benjamin Netanyahu ostrzegł w poniedziałek mieszkańców Gazy, aby teraz opuścili, kilka godzin po tym, jak Izrael powiedział, że zwiększy naloty na enklawę.
Netanyahu powiedział: „Mówię mieszkańcom Gazy, korzystam z tej okazji i słuchajcie uważnie: Zostaliście ostrzeżeni – odejdźcie teraz”.
Netanyahu powiedział, że siły organizują się i gromadzą w Gazie na „manewry” lądowe.
Earlier, Israel said it would ramp up airstrikes on Gaza on Monday to serve as a last warning to Hamas that it will destroy the enclave unless fighters accept a demand from U.S. President Donald Trump to free all hostages and surrender.
Residents said Israeli forces bombed Gaza City from the air and blew up armoured vehicles in its streets. Hamas said it was studying the latest U.S. ceasefire proposal, delivered on Sunday with a warning from Trump that it was the militant group’s „last chance.”
„A mighty hurricane will hit the skies of Gaza City today, and the roofs of the terror towers will shake,” Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz wrote on X.
Katz’s post appeared before reports of shooting at a bus stop in Jerusalem that killed six people, including one Spanish citizen. Hamas praised the attackers.
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) bombed a 12-floor block in the middle of Gaza City where dozens of displaced families had been housed, three hours after urging those inside and in hundreds of tents in the surrounding area to leave.
In a statement, the IDF said Hamas militants who had „planted intelligence gathering means” and explosive devices had been operating near the building and „have used it throughout the war to plan and advance terror attacks against IDF forces.”
According to a senior Israeli official, the latest U.S. proposal for Gaza calls for Hamas to return all 48 remaining living and dead hostages on the first day of a ceasefire, during which negotiations would be held to end the war.
Hamas has long said it intended to hold onto at least some hostages until negotiations were complete. It said in a statement it was committed to releasing all hostages with a „clear announcement of an end to the war” and withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza.
Israel launched a major assault last month on Gaza City, where hundreds of thousands of residents are living in the ruins having returned after the most intense fighting of the war’s early weeks nearly two years ago.
Israel struck a highrise building in Gaza City on Monday, three hours after urging people in the structure and surrounding area to leave. Israeli officials, who had earlier said they would step up strikes on Gaza as a warning to Hamas, said in a statement that militants had been operating near the building.
Clusters of homes destroyed in Gaza City
Residents of Gaza City said Israeli forces pounded several districts from the air and ground, and detonated decommissioned armoured vehicles laden with explosives, destroying clusters of homes in the Sheikh Radwan, Zeitoun and Tuffah neighbourhoods.
Among at least 25 Palestinians reported killed in Gaza on Monday was Osama Balousha, a journalist for Palestinian media, medics said. Fifteen other people were killed in separate Israeli strikes and gunfire across the enclave, medics said, taking Monday’s death toll to at least 40.
Nearly 250 journalists have been killed in Gaza during the war, according to Palestinian authorities, making it by far the world’s deadliest war for news media in living memory. Israel bars all foreign reporters from Gaza, so all journalists killed there have been Palestinians. Palestinian officials say Israel has deliberately targeted some journalists, which Israel denies.
Israel's recent attacks on Gaza City have targeted large residential buildings, saying they're Hamas infrastructure. But the intensified strikes also is a message for civilians to get out before operations further expand.
On Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested a Gaza deal could come soon to secure the release of all the hostages held by Hamas. Earlier, he issued what he called his „last warning” to the Palestinian militant group.
Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, speaking at a news conference with his Hungarian counterpart in Budapest, said that Israel has accepted a Gaza ceasefire proposal from U.S President Donald Trump.
Wojna rozpoczęła się atakiem bojowników pod wodzą Hamasu na południowy Izrael w 2023 roku. Atakujący zabili 1200 osób i zabrali ponad 250 zakładników do Gazy. Większość zakładników została uwolniona w rozejmach w listopadzie 2023 i styczniu-marca 2025, ale grupa zachowała innych jako kartę przetargową w negocjacjach.
Atak Izraela zredukował znaczną część enklawy do gruzów i spowodował katastrofę humanitarną. Według urzędników zdrowia w enklawie potwierdzono śmierć prawie 63 000 Palestyńczyków.
W ciągu ostatnich 24 godzin sześciu kolejnych Palestyńczyków, w tym dwójka dzieci, zmarło z powodu niedożywienia i głodu w Gazie, powiedział w poniedziałek Ministerstwo Zdrowia terytorium, co podniosło liczbę zgonów z takich przyczyn do co najmniej 393 osób, przede wszystkim w ciągu ostatnich dwóch miesięcy.
Izrael, który kontroluje wszystkie dostawy do Gazy, twierdzi, że stopień głodu tam został przesadzony i zgłaszane zgony wynikają z innych przyczyn.
Przez cały konflikt próby negocjowania zakończenia wojny zawiodły z powodu warunku Izraela, że Hamas uwolni wszystkich zakładników i podda się. Hamas twierdzi, że nie złoży broni, dopóki Palestyńczycy nie uzyskają niezależnego państwa.
