THE IDF’s killing spree continued today as an attack on a residential block in Gaza City killed at least 15 Palestinians.

Gaza’s Health Ministry said at least 40 people were also wounded in the attack on a four-storey building in the city’s Shijaiyah neighbourhood. More than half of the dead were women and children.

Rescue teams were searching for victims under the rubble.

The Israeli military claimed it struck a senior Hamas militant, who it said was behind attacks emanating from Shijaiyah. It did not name them or provide further details. 

Israel blames the deaths of civilians on the militant group on the grounds it embeds itself in urban areas.

It has now issued sweeping evacuation orders in parts of Gaza, including for Shijaiyah, as it expands its invasion.

It has imposed a blockade on food, fuel and humanitarian aid that has left civilians facing acute shortages as supplies dwindle. It has also pledged to seize large parts of the Palestinian territory and establish a new security corridor through it.

Earlier this week, Hamas fired its strongest volley of rockets since Israel unilaterally broke the ceasefire, lobbing 10 projectiles toward southern Israel.

Israel resumed its invasion of Gaza last month, launching surprise bombing raids overnight that killed hundreds and left the ceasefire agreed in January in ruins.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Washington this week to meet President Donald Trump.

Both repeated their scheme to remove Palestinians from Gaza. The plan has been denounced across the Middle East and beyond as ethnic cleansing.

Both leaders hinted that more nations were moving towards this plan and more would be revealed in the coming days.

Their talk was followed by an announcement today from Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto that his country could offer “temporary” shelter to Palestinian medical evacuees and children orphaned by Israel’s war.

“We are ready to evacuate those who are injured or traumatised and orphans, if they want to be evacuated to Indonesia – and we are ready to send planes to transport them,” President Subianto said.

Mr Subianto insisted the offer would not be for permanent resettlement.

Meanwhile, United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres described Gaza as a “killing field” after the Israelis imposed a blockade on the enclave from March 2.

He said “civilians are in an endless death loop” amid renewed Israeli bombardments and since they sealed vital border crossings and barred the entry of everything from food to medical supplies and fuel.