Around 9:30 am, the IDF issues a new forced displacement order covering Al-Shujaiya neighborhood in addition to other areas in eastern Gaza City.

The order was preceded by pre-dawn airstrikes on homes in the area and almost immediately followed by a Israeli bombardment as people were still fleeing their homes. An 'explosive robot' was detonated in area in the Shujaiya neighborhood on multiple houses, killing around 20 people.

Around 4 pm, Israel peprpetrated a major ùassacre by bombing Dar al-Arqam school and Al-Zakat mosque in the Tuffah neighborhood where over 30 people were killed.

At 8:30 pm, the IDF issues another forced displacement covering Gaza City's Old City, Tal al-Hawa, Sabra and western Zaytoun, essentially pushing those displaced in the morning further southwest. The inclusion of the Old City entails that Al-Ahli (Baptist) Hospital is under threat. The small hospital has been the core of healthcare in Gaza City sine Israel's destruction of Al-Shifa hospital around the same period in 2024.

Between 2 and 3 am, another wave of displacement started in eastern Gaza City as Israel intensified bombardment and artillery shelling while invading the vicinity of Al-Muntar Hill, near the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City. Footage showed the IDF carrying out "firebelt" airstrikes.

After positioning atop Al-Muntar hill which overlooks Shujaiya, Israel startng erecting a military site and intensified strikes in the area on the following days (April 4th and 5th) with a series of attacks that led to a number of casualties, dead and wounded, across Al-Shujaiya. These include:

• strike on Friday market, killing one man
• artillery shelling on Al-Mansoura Street killing a woman and her daughter
• strike on the Abu al-Ata family home
• artillery sheling on Al-Mansoura Street
• strike on Al-Muntar Street kills a young man: Nabil Moeen Muhaisen
• drone strike on a group of people on Wadi Al-Arayes Street, killing a woman and two twin brothers: Imad and Muhammad Al-Hajj Salem
• midday artillery shellning in Shujaiya and Zaytoun neighborhoods
• afternoon artillery shelling injures a child
• evening airstrike
• Israeli gunfire injures a woman
• Israeli drone drops grenades at people near Al-Huda Mosque
• One man killed by shelling of the Sarsawi and Helles families houses
• Strike in the vicnity of Hittin school kills two young relatives: Saleh Sami and Hassan Tawfiq Abu Shanab

The strikes happened as families remained besieged inside the neighborhood and were unable to leave fearing for their lives