ISRAEL began mobilising tens of thousands of reservists and repeated evacuation warnings today as its troops killed at least another 47 Palestinians.

The beginning of this month’s call-up of 60,000 reservists comes as the Israeli military hit targets in northern and central Gaza, striking parts of the western Gaza City districts of Zeitoun and Shijaiyah.

The neighbourhoods have been repeatedly invaded during Israel’s nearly two-year war on the Palestinians of Gaza.

Zeitoun, once Gaza City’s largest district, with markets, schools and clinics, has been transformed over the past month, with streets being emptied and buildings reduced to rubble as it became what Israel’s military last week called a “dangerous combat zone.”

Israel claims that Gaza City is Hamas’s political and military stronghold and, according to Tel Aviv, it still has a vast tunnel network, despite multiple incursions throughout the war.

It’s also one of the last refuges in northern Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of civilians are sheltering, facing the twin threats of Israeli attacks and famine.

Today, Israel repeated earlier warnings to Palestinians to leave Gaza City.

Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee said that combat operations would soon expanded and that services would allegedly be made available in Muwasi, a makeshift tent camp south of Gaza City.

Among the at least 47 Palestinians that hospital sources said had been killed by Israeli military action across Gaza today included at least 26 victims of Israeli attacks in Gaza City who arrived at Shifa hospital, an official told reporters.

A strike on a residential building in Tel al-Hawa wounded 28 people, according to al-Quds hospital.

Earlier, a strike on another residential building in the neighbourhood killed 15 people, including at least three children. 

Sana Drimli, who lived in the building with her family, said: “We were sleeping safe and sound in our home and then we suddenly woke up to the sound of banging and rising smoke. 

“We woke up to see what happened to us and checked in on our children and discovered that everyone around us was dead.”

Shifa hospital’s morgue confirmed the 15 deaths inn the Israeli strike, one of several lethal attacks on the neighbourhood.

Further south, Nasser hospital in Khan Younis and Awda hospital in Nuseirat said they had received 22 casualties from Israeli air strikes and gunfire near aid distribution sites.

The Israeli military and US and Israeli-backed aid contractor the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation made no immediate comment.