ISRAELI OCCUPIED AND STARVED GAZA, 17 Sept. - (ANA) - Israeli forces pressed on with a new ground offensive in Gaza City on Wednesday as strikes overnight across the Palestinian territory killed at least 13 people, including women and children, hospital officials report.

 

More than half of the dead were killed in strikes on Gaza City, including a child and his mother at their apartment in the Shati refugee camp, according to officials from the Shifa Hospital, which received the casualties.

 

In central Gaza, the Al-Awda Hospital said an Israeli strike hit a house in the urban Nuseirat refugee camp, killing three, including a pregnant woman.

 

Two parents and their child were also killed when a strike hit their tent in the Muwasi area west of the city of Khan Younis, said officials from the Nasser Hospital, where the bodies were brought.

 

Hundreds of thousands remained in the city, the territory’s largest and already in ruins from nearly two years of war and struggling with a famine.

 

The latest Israeli operation, which started on Tuesday, further escalates a conflict that has roiled the Middle East and likely pushes any ceasefire farther out of reach.

 

Many have been attempting to relocate from the city where once one million people lived to the southern Gaza Strip prior to the Israeli military's orders of forced expulsion.    - (ANA) -

 

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