The army today warned residents to leave before an expected ground offensive.
GAZA CITY: Palestinians carried belongings through the rubble-strewn streets of Gaza City today in search of refuge as Israel’s army warned residents to flee immediately before an expected ground offensive in retaliation against Hamas for the deadliest attack in Israeli history.
In Gaza, United Nations officials said the Israeli military told them the evacuation should be carried out “within the next 24 hours” but the army did not confirm that timeline.The strikes have claimed more than 1,530 lives – 500 of them children, according to the health ministry in Gaza, where the health system is “at a breaking point”, the World Health Organization said.
“The IDF will continue to operate significantly in Gaza City and make extensive efforts to avoid harming civilians,” the army said earlier. Such an evacuation order could transform “what is already a tragedy into a calamitous situation,” a UN spokesman said.Israel has now cut off water, food and power supplies to Gaza in a total siege it has vowed will not end until all hostages are freed.
Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari told reporters: “We are trying to provide the time and we are doing a lot of effort, and we understand it won’t take 24 hours.”Israeli fighter jets and drones have levelled entire blocks and destroyed thousands of buildings.
Today an AFP correspondent near Sderot, just outside Gaza, saw a convoy of more than 20 Israeli tanks and a dozen armoured vehicles heading toward Gaza. In Beeri, a community just north of Gaza, he recalled finding a dead woman with her stomach “ripped open, a baby was there, still connected with the cord, and stabbed”.
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