Israel kills at least 53 people in the enclave and threatens everyone remaining in Gaza City.

Israel threatened to issue a forced evacuation order to the tens of thousands of Palestinians still in Gaza City, stating that it was their “last opportunity” to evacuate or face the “full force” of Israel’s onslaught. Since dawn, Israeli attacks have killed at least 53 Palestinians throughout Gaza.

Israel Katz, the defense minister, stated on X on Wednesday that anyone who remained would be viewed as “terrorists and terror supporters.”

The major metropolitan center in the area, Gaza City, has been destroyed by the constant bombardment, which has killed dozens of people every day, destroyed many homes and schools, and forced tens of thousands of Palestinians to flee to the south, where they are frequently targeted on route.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reported from al-Rashid Street on Thursday that the Israeli military was causing “mayhem and panic” by telling civilians to flee and then pursuing them along the southern coastline road with tanks, military helicopters, and drones.

He claimed that the Israeli military’s instillation of fear and intimidation is a major factor in the current lack of Palestinians leaving Gaza City.

Thirteen charity workers in the southern Gaza Strip were among the Palestinians killed Thursday, along with at least ten others in Gaza City. During the Israeli-induced famine, almost 2,600 people have been killed and nearly 19,000 injured in attacks on people who were frantically looking for food.

Since October 7, 2023, the total number of people murdered and injured in Israel’s genocidal war has increased to 66,225, according to sources who spoke to Al Jazeera. As of right present, 13,357 people have been murdered and 56,897 injured since Israel unilaterally broke the truce in March.

Emergency and ambulance services reportedly reported that Israeli drone fire killed a kid Thursday in the Ansar neighborhood, west of Gaza City.

According to medical sources who spoke to Al Jazeera, Israel targeted displaced civilians in the center Gaza Strip, resulting in nine fatalities and thirteen injuries.

An Israeli drone struck a home in the central Gazan Bureij refugee camp, killing a Palestinian and his spouse.

An Israeli drone strike south of Deir el-Balah killed another Palestinian and injured around ten more. An Israeli drone struck a tent for displaced people inside the Al-Aqsa University campus in the al-Mawasi neighborhood, west of the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, injuring eight people. Israel has targeted the al-Mawasi region despite claiming it is a “safe zone.”

The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, has denounced Israel’s threat against Palestinians who are still in Gaza City as a warning that the Israeli military will target anyone who is unable or unwilling to leave the region.

According to Lazzarini, the Israeli government’s designation of the over 250,000 Palestinians stranded in Gaza City and the north as “terrorists or terror supporters” is a declaration that calls for planned mass murders, killing more women, children, the elderly, and those who are too weak to go.

Some are taking the risky decision to go back to the north in spite of Israel’s constant carpet bombing of Gaza City, which is intended to drive residents south. Israeli bombing has compelled thousands of Palestinians to escape over this dangerous path from the north to the south.

The Israeli forces closed al-Rashid Street on Wednesday, according to the Gaza Government Media Office, which called it “one of the vital arteries that civilians rely on for travel between Gaza’s governorates.”

Similar to the NGO Doctors Without Borders (abbreviated MSF in French) last week, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced Wednesday that it had temporarily halted operations in Gaza City due to the intensifying fighting.

“When conditions permit, the ICRC will continue to work to support civilians in Gaza City from our fully operational offices in Deir el-Balah and Rafah,” the organization said in a statement.

Hamas is still debating a US ceasefire proposal to halt Israel’s two-year conflict in the interim. Their acceptance of terms, which are viewed as mostly favourable to Israel’s stated goals, remains uncertain, but the group’s political bureau member Mohammed Nazzal has told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that Hamas will soon announce its position on the US proposal.

As representatives of the Palestinian resistance, Hamas is entitled to voice its opinions “in a way that serves the interests” of the Palestinian people, according to Nazzal.

He noted that the committee is debating Trump’s idea to halt Israel’s war on Gaza.

Nazzal stated, “We are not approaching [the plan] with the reasoning that time is a sword aimed at our neck.”

On Tuesday, Trump stated that Hamas had “three or four days” to react to his proposal.

Global condemnation has also mounted over Israel’s “unlawful” interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla, which had been sailing towards the Gaza Strip in an attempt to break the siege and deliver much-needed aid to the famine-struck enclave.

Israel’s detention of the activists on board has been denounced by Hamas as a “terrorist” and “criminal” conduct.

Israel claimed to have taken control of almost all of the two dozen ships and arrested dozens of activists who were on board. Flotilla organisers, however, report that one ship – the Marinette – is still sailing towards Gaza. International law confirms that humanitarian aid should be permitted safe passage, despite Israel’s insistence that the volunteers were attempting to “breach a lawful naval blockade.”