ISRAELI strikes across Gaza killed at least 92 people, including women and children, hospital officials said today, as Israel prepares to escalate its genocidal campaign.

On Tuesday night, a strike hit a school sheltering hundreds of displaced Palestinians, killing 27 people, including nine women and three children, Al-Aqsa Hospital officials reported.

The school, located in central Gaza, has now been targeted five times since October 7 2023.

An early morning strike in Gaza City today on another school-turned-shelter killed 16 people, according to officials at Al-Ahli Hospital.

Additional attacks across the territory killed at least 16 more.

Among the victims was local journalist Nour Abdu, Palestinian media confirmed.

The bloodshed follows Israel’s recent approval of a new plan to escalate its operations in Gaza.

The plan reportedly includes seizing more territory, maintaining control over captured areas, forcibly displacing Palestinians further south, and managing humanitarian aid distribution through private security firms.

Tens of thousands of reserve soldiers are being called up to implement the plan.

Officials have said that the offensive will begin gradually and will not be launched until after US President Donald Trump visits the region later this month.

Israel already controls around half of Gaza, and its expanding occupation raises fears of a prolonged military presence and further displacement of the Palestinian population.

Meanwhile, an Israeli blockade imposed on March 2 has cut off access to essential supplies, including fuel, food, and flour. Aid organisations warn that food stocks are nearly exhausted.

A mother of six sheltering at a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) facility told the agency they had run out of all food except bread.

“The State of Israel must lift the siege,” UNRWA said in a statement on X.

“There must be a concerted international effort to stop this humanitarian catastrophe from reaching a new, unseen level,” the agency said.

Gaza’s health system is also on the brink of collapse, with 88 per cent of hospital beds occupied and a severe shortage of medical supplies and disposables.

While Israel continues to threaten a wider military assault unless a ceasefire deal is reached, Hamas has dismissed the talks as futile.

“There is no sense in engaging in talks or considering new ceasefire proposals as long as the hunger war and extermination war continue in the Gaza Strip,” Hamas official Basem Naim told AFP on Tuesday.

Hamas official Khaled Ahmad al-Ahmad was also killed in an Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon today.