Overview

• Israeli forces told residents to leave via the coastal al-Rachid route as commanders said they would escalate operations to seize Gaza City.
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said ground maneuvers are only beginning, while the army reports controlling about 40% of the city and cites roughly 100,000 departures.
• At least four high-rise towers in Gaza City have been destroyed in recent days after evacuation warnings; Israel says Hamas used them for military purposes, an allegation the group denies.
• The United States and Israel issued what they called a last warning for Hamas to free hostages and surrender, as Hamas acknowledged receiving new ideas for a ceasefire and voiced conditional readiness to negotiate.
• The UN estimates about one million people remain in and around Gaza City and warns of catastrophe, while violence extends beyond the enclave with two projectiles fired toward southern Israel and a shooting in Jerusalem that killed six.