The Gaza Strip came under heavy bombing overnight on Monday, as Israel launched a barrage of strikes towards Gaza City, the enclave's biggest city.

Defence Minister Israel Katz wrote on X on Tuesday that "Gaza is burning," reaffirming Israel's stance that it will not back down until the completion of the mission.

The Shifa Hospital received the bodies of 12 people killed, and at least 90 others were injured, after a strike hit multiple houses in the west of the city, the hospital's managing director Dr Rami Mhanna said.

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It comes amid reports that Israel launched its ground offensive on Gaza's once most populous city, forcibly displacing thousands of Palestinians to the overcrowded south.

US top diplomat Marco Rubio warned ther

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