An Israeli strike flattened a high-rise in Gaza City on Saturday — the second in as many days — after the military warned people to flee south to a “humanitarian zone” ahead of a planned offensive to capture the area.

Israel has been warning for weeks of a new assault on the territory’s largest urban centre, without issuing a timeline.

It has stepped up air strikes in the area and operations on the city’s outskirts despite calls to abandon the plan, which has sparked widespread fears it could worsen already-dire humanitarian conditions.

On Saturday, the military announced it struck a Gaza City high-rise, saying “Hamas terrorists installed intelligence gathering equipment and positioned observation posts in the building in order to monitor” Israeli troops, adding it had taken “measures t

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