An estimated 1.5 lakh Palestinians have fled central Gaza as Israel's ground offensive intensified. This information was given in the report of the British media BBC.
Witnesses and Hamas' armed wing said Israeli tanks had reached the eastern outskirts of the Palestinian refugee camp Burj camp.
The Israeli military has recently expanded its ground offensive targeting Burj and the nearby Nusirat and Magazi camps, BBC reports. Israeli forces are conducting house-to-house raids in search of Hamas members.
Gaza residents are in "serious danger," the UN said.
Omar, 60, said he was forced to flee Burj with at least 35 members of his family in the face of Israeli attacks.
Tom White, the UN aid agency's Gaza director, said more people were being pushed into the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
On Thursday evening, Gaza's health ministry said 20 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a building in the city of Rafah which housed displaced civilians.
More than 80 percent of the valley's 2.4 lakhs people are now homeless in the face of Israeli atrocities. Many of them spend their days in extremely inhumane conditions in makeshift tents in the Rafah area on the Egyptian border, south of Gaza. In such a situation, some countries including Qatar are working towards a ceasefire agreement in Gaza.
The war began on October 7 with an unprecedented cross-border attack by Hamas gunmen in southern Israel. So that 1200 Israelis were killed. Most of them were civilians and about 240 people were taken hostage.
Israel has killed more than 21,300 Palestinians in Gaza during the 11-week war in response to Hamas attacks. Most of them are children and women.