Deir Al-Bala, Gas (AP)-The Israeli army urged the full evacuation of Gaza City on Tuesday morning before its planned attack in the northern city, where hundreds of thousands of people are struggling under the circumstances of famine.
The announcement was the first warning to evacuate the entire city in the current round of the fighting. Previously, the army warned specific sections of Gaza City against evacuating before operations or concentrated strikes.
Associated Press reporters saw more cars and trucks more than previous days that pass from north to southern Gaza on Tuesday, loaded with supplies and people, but there is no widespread evacuation.
Israel says that multiple towers were destroyed in Gaza City
Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday that Israel demolished 30 tall buildings in Gaza, which Hamas accused of using military infrastructure.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel had destroyed at least 50 “terrorist towers” he said was used by Hamas. It was not clear whether Katz referred to in addition to the one announced by Netanyahu, which described the demolition of the high match “only the lead, only the beginning of the main intensive operation-the ground penetration of our forces.”
The demolition operations are part of Israel that intensify its attack to control what it envisions as the last strong stronghold of Hamas, which urges the Palestinians to flee parts of Gaza City in a humanitarian area designated in the southern region.
Despite the warnings, a few Palestinians left
Tuesday’s warnings were the most evacuating warning in the current round of fighting, although the preceding warnings of Israel to leave specific neighborhoods had no significant impact on the exhausting population of multiple displays and unclear whether the transition to southern Gaza would be safer.
There is an estimated one million Palestinians in the northern Gaza region around Gaza City, according to the Israeli army and the United Nations, about half of the Gaza population of 2.1 million. As of September 7, an alliance of humanitarian groups affiliated with the movement in northern Gaza said they followed 50,000 people fleeing from the south. A similar number was the transfer of people inside northern Gaza.
The coalition data, called the site management group, tracks a movement of eyewitnesses, social media and information from partners on the ground, because arrival in Northern Gaza is restricted.
Military spokesman, Colonel Avichai Adri, warned last week that the evacuation of Gaza City was “inevitable”, saying that families who are moving in the south will receive humanitarian assistance. But relief groups have warned of a few infrastructure to support them.
The Palestinians and the hostage are the hostages protesting the Israeli operation
Dozens of Palestinians, including doctors and medical employees, participated in a protest in Gaza City on Tuesday, which rejected Israeli warnings.
“We will never leave our land … he will not leave health care workers as we call for protection,” said Dr. Munir Al -Borsh, Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza.
Dr. Rami Mohanna, Managing Director of the Shevi Hospital, said, although the situation in Gaza City was tense, but the facility is still working and receiving patients.
“Until now, things are usual,” he told Associated Press, two hours after the Israeli army ordered the evacuation of Gaza City. “But the atmosphere is tense and there is a great psychological pressure on the employees and the sick.”
He said that he did not notice the hospitalization and around the hospital.
In Jerusalem, the families of the hostages and former prisoners in Gaza defended the Israeli legislators to stop the Gaza City attack.
“Hamas has been detained for 498 days and was released in a deal in February,” said Irir Horn, whose brother, Eitan, in captivity, said the Knesateet Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. “If I was released through a deal, it is clear that this is the correct way to liberate the rest of the hostages who remain.”
The United Nations says that families cannot afford them
The United Nations Humanitarian Agency said that many families cannot evacuate even if they want to, because displacement sites are crowded and because they can cost more than $ 1,000 to move to southern Gaza, which is an exorbitant cost for many.
A United Nations initiative to bring temporary shelters to Gaza said that more than 86,000 tents and other supplies are still awaiting clearance to enter Gaza from last week.
The United Nations Agency, which supervises the Palestinian refugees, said on Tuesday that the Israeli attacks on the residential towers in Gaza City have displaced dozens of families, while leaving many of them “in the streets without shelter or basic necessities.”
The Israeli Defense Authority, which supervises humanitarian aid to Gaza, said that 1,500 trucks for humanitarian aid that contains primarily that contain Gaza’s income food last week, and there are plans to bring 100,000 tents in the coming weeks, many of which are currently waiting in Jordan. Tents should be adapted to exchange mineral pillars, which said Kojat has been reused with missiles used by militants, with plastic columns.
The war began in Gaza when the militants, led by Hamas, kidnapped 251 people on October 7, 2023, and killed about 1,200 people, most of them Israeli civilians. There are still forty -eight hostages inside Gaza, and about 20 of them are believed to be alive.
The retaliation of Israel has killed at least 64,522 Palestinians, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, which does not say the number of civilians or fighters. It says that about half of the dead were women and children. Large parts of the major cities were completely destroyed, and about 90 % of the population with a population of about two million Palestinians have been displaced.
2 Palestinian teenagers were killed in the West Bank
Two -year -old Palestinian boys were killed in the West Bank occupied by Israel on Monday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, which is based in Ramallah.
The Israeli army said that the incident occurred in the northwestern city of Jenin, where many people of Israeli soldiers approached a “threat.” The army said that the area was under the military closure and entry was banned at that time, without providing more information.
Also in the West Bank, an Israeli investigation continued to two Palestinians who opened fire at a bus station in Jerusalem on Monday, killing six people. This was the bloodiest attack against civilians in Israel for nearly a year.
Defense Minister Israel Katz announced on Tuesday that he set sanctions on the relatives and residents of the cities in which the attackers belong, and they will request all the buildings that were created without demolition permits, and the abolition of 750 work visas for the city’s residents.
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Maggie mentioned from Cairo and Walidman from Tel Aviv, Israel. The Associated Press Julia Frankel in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
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