After Israel’s ultimatum, thousands of Palestinians flee Gaza as UN warns of ‘devastating consequences’

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2023-10-13 21:08:00

Miles of Palestinian civilians massively escape from the Gaza Strip after the warning of the military forces of Israel to carry out a new unprecedented offensive in the territory dominated by the Hamas terrorist group. The United Nations (UN) said that the decision to force thousands of people to mobilize could generate “devastating consequences.”

Hundreds of families began to flee and flooded the streets of the enclave to escape on foot, in their cars and trucks from the north to the south of Gaza in the face of the Israeli ultimatum. The HIM demands that the Government of Israel reverse course to “prevent the situation from becoming a disaster”, given the order that was issued in the early hours of this Friday to leave the war zone in 24 hours “on their own protection and security”.

UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric has warned about what it means to displace 1.1 million people, nearly half of the 2.3 million inhabitants of the Strip, including Gaza City. Hamas had called the evacuation alert “false propaganda.”

Israel deploys to Gaza to “clear the area of ​​terrorists and weapons” as thousands of Palestinians escape

Palestinians evacuate northern Gaza Strip

Furthermore, the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, considered the exodus of Gazan citizens as “unrealistic.” He is not the only one: the decision of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has unleashed a flood of criticism from the international community. Doctors Without Borders reported this Friday that Israel has only given them two hours to vacate the Al Awda hospital in northern Gaza.

“Our team continues to treat patients,” the international humanitarian institution expressed through its official X account and emphasized that “we unequivocally condemn this action, the indiscriminate bloodshed and attacks against medical teams. We are trying to protect to our staff and their patients.

Israel released the video of the rescue operation of 250 hostages where 60 Hamas terrorists were killed

Palestinians evacuate northern Gaza Strip

The Israeli Defense Forces carried out raids in the Gaza Strip

“In the last 24 hourslas Israeli Defense Forces (FDI) carried out raids against specific locations within the territory of the Gaza Strip to clear the area of ​​terrorists, weapons and locate missing people,” announced the army of Israel through a statement.

They also detailed that during the development of the offensive, the soldiers “dismantled terrorist cells and infrastructure” and specified that “a Hamas cell that fired anti-tank missiles in the direction of Israel” was shot down.

On the sixth day of War in the Middle East More than 3,100 people lost their lives among the 1,300 victims recorded on Israeli soil and more than 1,800 people in the Gaza Stripamong which the bodies of 583 children were found.

Without water, electricity, food and in the midst of bombings, millions of Palestinians suffer Israel’s siege in Gaza

Israeli Army during the incursion into the Gaza Strip

The United States considers that evacuating more than a million civilians from northern Gaza “is going to be a complicated task”

“It’s going to be a complicated task. Given the high population density, given that it is a combat task, that there are bombs falling and missile impacts that are occurring. It is a large number of people to move in such a very very period.” short”, analyzed the spokesman for the US National Security CouncilU, John Kirby, during an interview with the North American network MSNBC.

Israel “will not provide electricity or water in Gaza” until hostages are freed

However, he did not question the Israeli ultimatum and stated that Washington interpreted it as a warning to “isolate the civilian population of Hamas” and “minimize” the number of other possible victims. In this sense, Kirby said he wants to make sure “that those who want to leave have the opportunity to do so” and added that “we are working very aggressively with the Israelis and egyptians to find safe passage out of southern gaza and preserve the ability to deliver humanitarian aid.

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