Israeli planes and tanks kept bombarding eastern areas of Gaza City overnight, killing at least 11 people, witnesses and medics said on Tuesday, with Hamas leader Khalil Al-Hayya arriving in Cairo for talks to revive a U.

The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has condemned Israel's plan to seize Gaza City as a "full-fledged war crime. " The move was "part of Israel's ongoing policy of genocide and forced displacement" and formed part of a "brutal practice of ethnic cleansing against our Palestinian people,

Israel's new offensive in Gaza City could take weeks to start, leaving the door open for a ceasefire, officials say, even as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it would get underway "fairly quickly" and end the war with Hamas' defeat.