Israel's military continued its assault on Gaza City and the wider territory in attacks that left 34 Palestinians dead, according to health authorities.
The attacks came as ten countries including Australia, Belgium, Britain and Canada are scheduled to formally recognise an independent Palestinian state on Monday, ahead of the annual leaders' gathering at the UN General Assembly.
Israel's intensified military demolition campaign targeting high-rise buildings in Gaza City began this week alongside ground attacks.
Its forces, which occupy Gaza City's eastern suburbs, have in recent days been bombarding the Sheikh Radwan and Tel Al-Hawa areas from where they would be positioned to advance on central and western parts of the city, where most of the population is sheltering.
The military estimates it has demolished up to 20 tower blocks over the past two weeks and claims some 350,000 Palestinian people have fled their attacks on Gaza City since the start of September.
However, another 600,000 or so remain.
Included in that tally are some of the Israeli hostages being held by the militant group Hamas.
Hamas' armed wing published photographs of most of the remaining hostages in Gaza, warning that Israel's attacks on Gaza City could endanger them.
With the images, it evoked the case of an Israeli pilot missing since 1986 after being shot down over Lebanon.
Of the 251 people seized by Palestinian militants during their attack on Israel in October 2023, 47 remain in Gaza, including 25 the Israeli military claims are dead.
"Due to (Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu's obstinacy and (military chief Eyal) Zamir's submission ... a farewell photograph taken at the start of the operation in Gaza" City, the Brigades wrote alongside the photos.
The Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades released 46 photographs of hostages on its Telegram channel, each one labelled with the name of Ron Arad, an Israeli air force navigator whose plane went down over southern Lebanon in 1986 during the Lebanese civil war.
Mr Arad was believed to have been initially held by Shi'ite groups in Lebanon and is now presumed dead, with his remains never returned.
He has been a cause celebre for decades in Israel, where bringing home lost or captured soldiers is considered a national duty.
In almost two years of fighting, Israel's war on Gaza has killed more than 65,000 Palestinian people, according to health authorities, spread famine, demolished most structures and displaced most of the population, in many cases multiple times.
Israel claims the famine in Gaza has been exaggerated and that Hamas could end the war if it surrendered, freed Israeli hostages, disarmed and disbanded.
Hamas said it will not disarm until a Palestinian state is established.
