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GAZA. – The Israeli army has ordered new evacuations from Deir el-Balah, signalling an expansion of the army’s ground operations from south to central Gaza.

The Gaza Health Ministry says at least 50 Palestinians were killed and 124 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza yesterday.

Also assassinated was Khalil al-Muqdah, a commander in the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, in a drone strike on a car in Lebanon’s Sidon, 40km south of Beirut, the capital city.

US Secretary of State Mr Antony Blinken yesterday urged stakeholders to get the Gaza ceasefire deal “over the finish line now” as he ended his Middle East tour without an agreement between Israel and Hamas.

Israeli forces have continued to push into Deir el-Balah, where a majority of Gaza’s population is now taking refuge, with little access to necessities like food and water and nowhere to go,  Al Jazeera reported yesterday.

Yesterday, Israeli forces struck Salah al-Din School and a nearby house in Gaza City, killing four people and wounding 18, the Government Media Office said.

In the town of Bani Suhaila near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, an Israeli air raid killed seven Palestinians, two of them children and five women, at a tent encampment for displaced people, medics said.

The military issued new evacuation orders in the heavily overcrowded area of Deir el-Balah, in central Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by the fighting have sought shelter. – AlJazeera.com