Israel says it plans to take over Gaza City in another escalation of its 22-month war with Hamas.

Israel says it plans to take over Gaza City.

Israel says it plans to take over Gaza City, the largest urban area in the territory and one that has already suffered extensive devastation in repeated Israeli raids.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hinting at wider military action in devastated Gaza even as some former army and intelligence chiefs call for an end to the war.

A woman who was nine months pregnant and on her way to the delivery room is dead after a Palestinian gunman opened fire on her car.