A feared Israeli ground offensive is looming in the besieged territory.
Palestinians began a mass exodus from northern Gaza after Israel’s military told some one million people to evacuate toward the southern part of the besieged territory.
The evacuation order, which applies to Gaza City, home to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, sparked widespread panic among civilians and aid workers already running from Israeli air strikes and contending with a total siege of Gaza. Israel has bombarded Gaza round-the-clock since Hamas’ attack, in which its fighters massacred hundreds in southern Israel and snatched some 150 people to be held in Gaza as hostages.
If carried out, that would mean the territory’s entire population cramming into roughly the southern half of the strip, which is only 25 miles long, even as Israeli strikes continued to hammer areas across southern Gaza on Friday.Another spokesperson, Jonathan Conricus, said the military would take “extensive efforts to avoid harming civilians” and that residents would be allowed to return when the war is over.
More than half of the Palestinians in Gaza are the descendants of refugees from the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation, when hundreds of thousands fled or were expelled from what is now Israel.For many, the mass evacuation order dredged up fears of a second expulsion. Already, at least 423,000 people – nearly one in five Gazans – have been forced from their homes by Israeli air strikes, the UN said on Thursday.
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