The Israel Ardrops leaflets order an evacuation from Gaza City, triggering panic in residents
The Palestinians living in the ruins of the city of Gaza were bombed with Israeli leaflets on Tuesday ordering them, after Israel said that he was about to erase the area in an assault to destroy Hamas.
The city’s residents, who house a million Palestinians before the war, expect an assault for weeks, because the Israeli government has developed a plan to wear a fatal blow in what it says is the last bastions of the militant group.
“I tell the residents of Gaza, take advantage of it and listen to me carefully: you have been notified-get out of there!” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
Israeli military leaflets have leaflets with evacuation orders on standing residents in the middle of Gaza City rubble, where he has bombed residential tricks on the ground in recent days.
The evacuation orders have caused panic and confusion among residents of the largest urban center of the strip, who say that there is no safe place to escape bombardment and a humanitarian crisis. Some have said that they would have no choice but to leave for the South, but many said that they would remain and that there was no immediate sign of a massive exodus.
“Despite the bombing last week, I resisted to leave, but now I will go with my daughter,” said Mohammad, a 55 -year -old mother by SMS.
Israel struck a height building in Gaza on Monday, three hours after urging people in the structure and the surroundings to leave. Israeli officials, who had previously declared that they would intensify strikes on Gaza as a warning in Hamas, militants said in a statement near the building.
The Gaza health authorities have announced that they would not evacuate the two main operational hospitals of Gaza City, Al Shifa and Al Ahli, adding that doctors would not leave patients unattended.
Most Gaza Palestinians have already been moved several times since the start of the war in October 2023 when activists led by Hamas attacked Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages, according to Israeli deadlines.
The subsequent military assault of Israel killed more than 64,000 Palestinians, said the Gaza Ministry of Health. Almost the whole population has been moved internally, a large part of the territory lies in ruins and a hunger crisis has worsened in recent months.
The Israeli army has asked residents of Gaza City to move to a “humanitarian zone” designated in the Al-Mawasi region already overcrowded along the coast in the south, where thousands of Palestinians have already devoted themselves to tents. Israel has also regularly bombed the South.
UM Samed, a mother of five 59 years old, said that the choice was now whether “staying and dying at home in Gaza City, or following Israel’s orders and leaving Gaza and dying in the South”.
Israeli forces meet in the city of Gaza
The Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz said on Monday that the soldiers would trigger a “powerful hurricane” who would destroy Gaza if Hamas did not release the last hostages he has and surrendered.
Israel called tens of thousands of reservists for a ground operation. Netanyahu said the Israeli forces organized and gathered in the city of Gaza.
The large -scale operation should not yet start in the coming week, and no new leads of the tanks to deepen the offensive on the ground has been reported so far on Tuesday.
Israeli forces have been operating on the outskirts of Gaza City since last month, and the army said it already controlled 40% of the city.
The launch of the new Israeli assault could complicate ceasefire efforts to end the almost two years war. Hopes had been pinned over mediation efforts to reach a ceasefire that would avoid the plan of Israel.
The Gaza Ministry of Health has called for the international community to protect hospitals in Gaza City, warning of “a humanitarian disaster that threatens the lives of thousands of patients and injured”.
International reaction
Several European countries, angry with the bombing of Israel in Gaza, said that they recognize the Palestinian state This month, when the United Nations General Assembly meets in New York. Israel and its main ally, the United States rejects recognition movements.
International criticisms say that Israel’s plan, which includes the demilitarization of the whole band, while Israel takes control of security, could worsen the humanitarian fate of the 2.2 million of the Palestinians who live there.
Israel has undergone the pressure of the Arab and Western nations for its conduct in the war in Gaza. A global hunger instructor invoked by the United Nations said famine in regions like Gaza City.
Netanyahu says that Israel has no choice but to finish work and defeat Hamas, since the militant group refused to put its arms. Hamas says it will only disarm if an independent Palestinian state is established and will not release all the hostages without an agreement ending the war.
A flotilla seeking to break the naval blockade of Israel and to provide help to Gaza said on Tuesday that one of its main boats had been struck by a drone in a port in Tunisia, although the six passengers and the crew are safe. The flotilla includes the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who, in a previous attempt to reach Gaza, was captured at sea by Israel and expelled.
