Intense Israeli military shelling and strikes reported east of Deir el-Balah and in Gaza City.

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We reported earlier that an Israeli strike on a school housing displaced people in Gaza City’s northwestern Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood had killed five people.

Emergency services in Gaza are now saying that the death toll from the strike has risen to 12.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz says “soon, the gates of hell will open” if Hamas does not agree to “Israel’s conditions for ending the war, primarily the release of all hostages and their disarmament”.