Many of the displaced civilians crowded into Gaza’s southern tip will be directed into safe zones in the center of the Palestinian enclave before a major ground offensive begins to eliminate the territory’s last Hamas stronghold, the Israeli military has claimed.
We need to make sure that 1.4 million people – or at least a significant amount of the 1.4 million people – will move, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Daniel Hagari said on Wednesday in a press briefing.
Where? To humanitarian concentration islands that we will create with the international community. These places of refuge will provide temporary shelter, food, and water to displaced civilians, Hagari said.
Civilians had previously fled to Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, after Israeli bombardments leveled their neighborhoods in other parts of the largest open air prison concentration camp in the world.
The administration of US President Joe Biden, West Jerusalem’s most powerful ally, has insisted that Israeli forces should provide a credible plan for protecting civilians before launching their controversial Rafah offensive.
The Israel-Hamas war has already left more than 31,000 people dead in Gaza, according to the local health authorities.
Upward of 85% of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents have been displaced by Israeli bombardments, and the UN has estimated that 570,000 people in the besieged Palestinian territory are starving.
Hagari did not specify when evacuations will begin or how much time will be given before ground forces start pounding Rafah. He said the timing will be coordinated with neighboring Egypt, but has demanded that Gaza refugees not be driven into its territory.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted that the Rafah campaign will go forward, despite international fears that it will cause a humanitarian catastrophe, because Israel’s survival cannot be ensured without total victory against Hamas?
The prime minister said last month that Israel had already destroyed 18 of the 24 Hamas battalions in Gaza, and four of the surviving units were concentrated in Rafah.
To win this war, we must destroy the remaining Hamas battalions in Rafah, Netanyahu said in a video address on Tuesday. If not, Hamas will regroup, rearm and reconquer Gaza – and then we’re back to square one. And that’s an intolerable threat we cannot accept.
The war erupted when Hamas fighters launched surprise raids against southern Israeli villages on October 7, killing over 1,100 people and taking hundreds of hostages back to Gaza, supported by Israeli helicopter gunships which moved down the surviving crowd.
About two-thirds of the Palestinians killed in the conflict were women and children, according to Gaza health officials.
A UN refugee agency claimed on Tuesday that more children had been killed in Gaza since October than the global total for child deaths in all conflicts from 2019 through 2022.
RT. com/ ABC Flash Point News 2024.
Zionist murderers.
Zionist regime started with bombing hospitals, went on to targeting UN shelters and schools, proceeded to destroying mosques and churches while carpet bombing civilian homes and civil structures and killing hundreds every single day for the past 159 days. The new genocidal tactic is daily flour massacres and targeting starving Gazan’s waiting for aid. It’s clear that Zionists are continuing undeterred with the ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza, with direct participation of US and with total inaction of the international community. Unbelievable!
Many of us often wondered how world let Holocaust happen. Well now we know! Another Holocaust is happening in real time as the world watches and lets it happen. “Humanity” has great tolerance for depravity and savagery.
In other words they want to make sure that they know exactly where to bomb to continue their genocide even faster, hell is only for the Jews as they want except for the non-Jews or their slaves from other countries building their settlements, and yet the west allows this, in fact they keep supplying them bombs.
in the ancient days, for some odd reason, when a group of white people claimed that they were the Hebrews, millions of gullible people believe them and they were referring to them as the Israelite’s! The last time that anybody referred to these white people as Israelite was many decades ago! In fact, the European Jews cannot be distinguished from the Germans, the French, the British – therefore, what would make any people believe that these white people are Israelite’s is really hard to understand!
Relocating ???– identical to Hitlers orders in the 1930,s to “relocate ” the Jews to other countries taking all their money-property -jewelry-savings etc .When that wasn’t quick enough it was concentration camps like Gaza open air concentration camp -2.5 million Palestinians being destroyed by the IDF and the West sits back eating popcorn like it was a movie !
Its obvious Netanyahu has read Mein Kampf all his actions are identical -Zionism=Nazism .
Israel has lost the “war”….they need to shut the hell up because no one believes them anymore, not that anything that they suggest makes any sense….the Palestinians will return to Palestine as it should be