Israeli air strikes in Gaza intensify amid total blackout

Israeli air strikes have intensified across the Gaza Strip over the past hour, at the same time as a complete internet and communications blackout.

Several of those attacks have focused on Gaza City and its surrounding area, according to media reports. The city is where al-Shifa hospital is located, the largest hospital in Gaza which Israel has suggested it may bomb.

Attacks also took place in northern Gaza, near the Indonesian Hospital as well as the Jabalia refugee camp, Al-Jazeera reported.

In the refugee camp, Israeli strikes targeted and destroyed the main water source, in an apparent attempt to cut all sources of survival for civilians and force them to leave to the south.

Israel has ordered more than one million Palestinians in the north to move south, but has repeatedly bombed areas in the southern Gaza Strip, as well as targeting roads linking the north and south.

Sunday evening's intense bombardment marks the third time Israel has totally cut internet communications while intensifying its bombardment of the Gaza Strip.