Defense Minister Israel Katz is meeting with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, other senior officers, and Shin Bet representatives to approve the military’s plans for the capture of Gaza City, his office says.

A mediator stressed the importance of brokering a ceasefire deal in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday after Hamas showed a “positive response” to a ceasefire deal.

The action plan presented to the Defense Minister includes mobilizing 60,000 new reservists, in addition to the 20,000 already in service.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians are fleeing Gaza City as Israel intensifies its attacks on the Gaza Strip’s largest population center ahead of a full-scale military invasion. Al Jazeera reports Israeli attacks today have killed at least 26 people — among them,

Khaleel -- the director of orthopedic spine surgery at Medical City Frisco Hospital in Frisco, Texas -- is winding down his third medical mission to Gaza in 16 months. He and two other Dallas-area doctors are at Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, doing work he describes as more of a calling than a choice.

Palestinian residents of Gaza City have come under relentless Israeli bombardment as the military prepares for a major offensive to seize and ethnically cleanse the area, barring emergency workers from reaching people trapped in the residential Zeitoun neighbourhood.

Gaza City presents a challenge. In 2024, it was largely cut off from central Gaza because the IDF held the Netzarim corridor. The IDF left that area in January 2025 and never retook it fully.

Fearing an Israeli onslaught could come soon, some Palestinian families began leaving eastern areas of Gaza City, now under constant Israeli bombardment, for points to the west, and some explored ev The Egyptian Foreign Minister said that any mass displacement of Palestinians from Gaza was a "red line" in a Monday interview with CNN.