# The Israeli military warned Palestinians in Gaza City to leave for the south on Saturday before bombing a high-rise building as its forces advance deeper into the enclave’s largest urban area. Israeli forces have been carrying out an offensive on the suburbs of the northern city for weeks after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military to capture it. Netanyahu says Gaza City is a Hamas stronghold and capturing it is necessary to defeat the Palestinian Islamist militants, whose October 2023 attack on Israel sparked the war.
Israeli military warns Gaza City residents to leave, bombs high-rise building