The United Nations has insisted there is no safe place for Palestinians ordered to leave Gaza City and that Israel-designated zones in the south are “places of death”, according to AFP.

“The notion of a safe zone in the south is farcical,” Unicef spokesman James Elder told reporters in Geneva, speaking from the Gaza Strip, pointing out that “bombs are dropped from the sky with chilling predictability; schools, which had been designated as temporary shelters are regularly reduced to rubble, (and) tents… are regularly engulfed in fire from air attacks”.