Tens of thousands of Palestinians fled northern Gaza on Saturday, cramming into already crowded schools, homes and makeshift shelters in the south, as Israeli airstrikes pound the besieged strip before an expected ground invasion.
One strike hit a civilian evacuation convoy, killing a reported 70 people including women and children on Friday. They were travelling on a route Israel would declare safe less than an hour later, as it repeated calls for more than a million people to evacuate their homes in Gaza City.
