Israel yesterday gave Palestinians 24 hours to leave Gaza City ahead of an expected ground offensive in retaliation against Hamas for the deadliest attack in Israeli history.
The United Nations said it had been informed of the evacuation order shortly before midnight Thursday, six days after hundreds of Hamas gunmen broke through the militarized border barrier around the Gaza enclave and killed more than 1,200 people in Israel, drawing comparisons to the 9/11 attacks on the United States.
UN officials working in Gaza said earlier they were informed by the Israeli military that the evacuation should be carried out “within the next 24 hours.” The health ministry in Gaza reported that Israel’s retaliation has claimed more than 1,530 lives, 500 of them children. Gaza’s 2.4 million residents are enduring the fifth war in 15 years. Israeli fighter jets and drones have leveled entire blocks and destroyed thousands of buildings. The territory had already been under a land, air and sea blockade since 2006.
He will also go to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE and Qatar to put pressure on Hamas and secure the release of hostages.The International Committee of the Red Cross Middle East chief Fabrizio Carboni warned Gaza’s hospitals “risk turning into morgues.” Israeli soldiers have since then swept the southern towns and kibbutz communities and said they found the bodies of 1,500 militants, while making ever more shocking discoveries of large numbers of dead civilians.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in Israel yesterday on a visit also aimed at showing solidarity, after Blinken’s stop.
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