Elsewhere, we’re seeing footage online following further overnight attacks in Ukraine - with reports that a fuel and energy site is on fire in the southern port city of Odesa. Our team is also verifying reports of a Ukrainian drone attack on Voronezh in south-west Russia.

Israel’s defence minister has approved a plan for the conquest of Gaza City and authorised the call-up of around 60 000 reservists to carry it out, his ministry confirmed.

As part of the preparations for the next phase of Operation “Gideon’s Chariots”, which has been dubbed "Gideon's Chariots 2," approximately 60,000 reserve orders were issued this morning. In addition, 20,000 reservists who have already been called up will receive a notice extending their current orders.

Israeli defence minister Israel Katz has approved the military’s plan to capture Gaza City and authorised the call-up of about 60,000 reservists to support the operation, the Defence Ministry told AFP on Wednesday.

Displaced residents of Gaza City are split over a potential ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas that could allow them to return to their homes.

Palestinian residents of Gaza City have come under relentless Israeli bombardment as the military prepares for a major offensive to seize and ethnically cleanse the area, barring emergency workers from reaching people trapped in the residential Zeitoun neighbourhood.

Fearing an Israeli onslaught could come soon, some Palestinian families began leaving eastern areas of Gaza City, now under constant Israeli bombardment, for points to the west, and some explored ev The Egyptian Foreign Minister said that any mass displacement of Palestinians from Gaza was a "red line" in a Monday interview with CNN.

Khaleel -- the director of orthopedic spine surgery at Medical City Frisco Hospital in Frisco, Texas -- is winding down his third medical mission to Gaza in 16 months. He and two other Dallas-area doctors are at Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, doing work he describes as more of a calling than a choice.