Gaza’s civil defence agency has said Israeli attacks have killed at least 22 people, warning that intensifying strikes on a Gaza City neighbourhood are placing its remaining residents in mortal danger, AFP reports.

Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said conditions in the Zeitun neighbourhood were rapidly deteriorating with residents having little to no access to food and water amid heavy Israeli bombardment.

He said that about 50,000 people are estimated to be in that area of Gaza City, “the majority of whom are without food or water” and lacking “the basic necessities of life”.

According to the civil defence agency, at least 13 of the Palestinians killed were shot by troops as they were waiting to collect food aid near distribution sites in the north and in the south.