Palestinian men pray over the body of a loved one at the Al-Ahli hospital, also known as the Baptist or Ahli Arab hospital, before a funeral procession. AFP
A planned expanded offensive revealed by the Israeli military has drawn international condemnation, after UN agencies previously warned of humanitarian catastrophe in the Palestinian territory already devastated by 19 months of genocidal war.
More than 20 independent United Nations experts said the world faced a "stark decision" to "remain passive and witness the slaughter of innocents or take part in crafting a just resolution".
The experts implored the international community to avert the "moral abyss we are descending into".
Israel's broader offensive, approved by the government amid a two-month aid blockade on Gaza, would include displacing "most" of its residents, the military has said.
France's President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday called the situation in Gaza "the most critical we have ever seen".
Spain's Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, said Madrid would present a draft resolution at the UN General Assembly aimed at "proposing urgent measures to stop the killing of innocent civilians and ensure humanitarian aid" in Gaza.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told parliament the situation in Gaza and the occupied West Bank was "increasingly intolerable".
Rescuers in the Palestinian territory said Israeli bombardment on Wednesday killed 92 people -- 48 of them in Gaza City.
"Civil defence crews, paramedics and volunteers transported at least 33 martyrs and more than 80 injured, about half of them children and some women, as a result of the Israeli air strike" in the Al-Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza City, spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP.
The strike is one of the deadliest since the restart of Israel's attacks on Gaza after it ended a two-month ceasefire in the Palestinian territory on March 18.
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