Israeli ground forces continue to penetrate deep into Gaza City, with tanks, drones and gunfire rocking the area. At least 34 have been killed Tuesday.

Members of the Palestinian rescue services carry a wounded person from a residential building struck by Israeli shelling during a large-scale Israeli military operation in Gaza City on Tuesday. Photo by Omar Ishtiwi/UPI UPI Members of the Palestinian rescue services carry a wounded person from a residential building struck by Israeli shelling, during a large-scale Israeli military operation in Gaza City, Tuesday. Photo by Omar Ishtiwi/UPI UPI Members of the Palestinian rescue services carry the body of a victim from a residential building struck by Israeli shelling during a large-scale Israeli military operation in Gaza City on Tuesday. Photo by Omar Ishtiwi/UPI UPI Palestinian firefighters try to extinguish a fire at a residential building hit in an Israeli strike, amid an Israeli military operation, in Gaza City on Tuesday. Photo by Omar Ishtiwi/UPI UPI Palestinian firefighters try to extinguish fire at a residential building hit in an Israeli strike, amid an Israeli military operation, in Gaza City, Tuesday. Photo by Omar Ishtiwi/UPI UPI Palestinians flee south from Gaza City amid intensified Israeli shelling during a military operation in central Gaza, on September 18, 2025. Photo by Hassan Al-Jadi/UPI UPI Israel estimated about 350,000 had fled Gaza City as of Tuesday. Photo by Hassan Al-Jadi/UPI UPI A mother walks with her young child south of Gaza City. Photo by Hassan Al-Jadi/UPI UPI Palestinians flee south from Gaza City. Photo by Hassan Al-Jadi/UPI UPI Palestinian children gather. Photo by Hassan Al-Jadi/UPI UPI An estimated 650,000 residents remained in Gaza City as of Tuesday. Photo by Hassan Al-Jadi/UPI UPI Vehicles clog a road south of Gaza City during the evacuation. Photo by Hassan Al-Jadi/UPI UPI A Palestinian flees south from Gaza City aboard a small fishing boat at sea. Photo by Hassan al-Jadi/UPI. UPI Palestinian carrying pots and pans line up for hot meals as a charity distributes food in the Nuseirat refugee camp south of Gaza City. Photo by Hassan Al-Jadi/UPI UPI An ongoing Israeli blockade and attacks have severely restricted access to food. Photo by Hassan Al-Jadi/UPI UPI

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Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Israeli ground forces continue to penetrate deep into Gaza City, with tanks, drones and gunfire rocking the area.

Since dawn Tuesday, at least 34 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza, Al Jazeera reported.

CNN's on-site journalists reported heavy shelling, explosions and the sound of gunfire in the city Tuesday. Images show tanks in the west of the territory's largest city, in an area known as Beach Camp.

Tanks were also filmed south of the Islamic University on Monday. The ground assault began on Sunday.

The Israeli Defense Forces ordered the city's residents and those displaced there to leave earlier this month. The Israeli military told CNN Tuesday that 640,000 people have left the city since.

In New York, the United Nations General Assembly is meeting, with Palestine as a popular topic.

At an international peace summit hosted by France and Saudi Arabia on Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron formally recognized Palestine. His announcement was joined by the countries of Andorra, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta, San Marino, and Australia, Britain and Canada made their own declarations Sunday, joining a growing list of other countries doing so.

"The time has come for Israel to live in peace and security," Macron said, sharing his support for a two-state solution. "The time has come to give justice to the Palestinian people and to recognize the state of Palestine."

Trump said recognizing Palestine "would be a reward" for Hamas, which still holds hostages from its Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. About 20 are believed to be alive.

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Israeli units are remotely detonating armored vehicles packed with explosives to bring down buildings, according to videos and images geolocated by CNN. The IDF told CNN that, "Hamas converts such buildings into combat zones used for ambushes, command and control centers, weapon depots, fighting tunnels, observation posts," and other uses.

The IDF reported Tuesday that an officer, Maj. Shahar Netanel Bozaglo, 27, was killed during fighting in Gaza City on Monday.

Residents and reporters have witnessed lots of drones and Israeli attack helicopters.

"Lately, every explosion has felt like an earthquake, not a metaphor, but a literal shaking of the ground beneath us," Asem Alnabih, a spokesperson for Gaza Municipality, wrote on X on Tuesday.

There are still hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza City, unable or unwilling to move south.

Abu Wissam, who has lost his home and his son, is sleeping in the streets.

"If I had the money to evacuate and rent a place to stay ... I would leave. But now there are gangs in the south charging people to sleep in the streets," he told CNN. "Whoever should die will die, here or in the south, our fate will come wherever we are," he said despairingly.

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