The official news agency Wafa reported that five people were killed and several injured in a drone strike against a tent housing displaced persons on Al-Nasr Street.

Israeli drones also fired at another tent near the Baptist Hospital in Palestine Square, killing one and an undetermined number of injuries, he said.

In a similar incident at the Al-Bureij refugee camp, central to the coastal enclave, one man and a child were killed in the neighbouring town of Deir al-Balah.

After several weeks of heavy shelling, the IAF issued yesterday for the first time evacuation orders to all inhabitants of Gaza City, where one million people live or are refugees.

The IAF called to move south as part of the offensive against that city, amid widespread world condemnation and allegations of forced displacement, according to images from Arab television stations, which documented in recent days long columns of people fleeing the attacks.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted on Monday of the destruction of half a hundred residential towers in the town recently.

That is only the beginning of the intense activity of land maneuvers there, he warned shortly after knowing the death of four soldiers in an ambush in the vicinity of the city.

Meanwhile, the head of Defense, Israel Katz, threatened to raze the area if the Islamic Resistance Movement does not surrender.

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