The Israeli Army “pleaded” with the inhabitants who still remain in the north and in Gaza City that they are “running out of time” to flee to the south of the enclave, at a time when there are fears of an imminent entry by land in large numbers. scale of Israeli forces in the territory.
“Move south. For your own safety. It is not a mere precaution. It is an urgent plea for the safety of civilians in Gaza,” warned the main spokesman for the Israeli Army, Vice Admiral Daniel Hagari, in a video published on the English account of the Israeli forces on platform X (formerly Twitter).
In the publication, Hagari referred to an “imminent operation by the Israeli Army to neutralize the Hamas threat with precision and intensity,” according to the Europa Press news agency.
The spokesperson assured that “this is a temporary measure” and that “the return to northern Gaza will be possible once these intense hostilities conclude,” and denounced the massacres committed by the Palestinian militias, with those of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas at the side. head.
“We are not going to forget it,” Hagari declared.
The United Nations and humanitarian organizations denounced this Israeli “evacuation order” as an illegal forced displacement maneuver, part of a siege campaign that pushes more than 2 million Gaza residents into a humanitarian catastrophe that it described as a war crime. .
“We are very concerned that war crimes are being committed. We are concerned about the collective punishment inflicted on Gazans in response to the atrocious attacks by Hamas, which also constitute war crimes,” spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said yesterday. of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, during a UN briefing in Geneva.
Hagari’s statements came after a night of intense nighttime shelling by Israel that left, according to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Ministry of Health, at least 378 dead in an isolated and dark Gaza, accompanied by new incursions by Israeli forces in the interior of the enclave, where they still remain.
These raids, however, do not yet constitute the major ground operation that the Israeli military authorities are preparing for the next phase of their campaign against Hamas.
For more than ten days, Israel has asked the inhabitants of northern Gaza to evacuate to the south, stating that it is attacking northern Gaza City to destroy the Hamas operations center, but those who mobilized denounced that they were also the target of Israeli attacks.
On October 7, Hamas launched a bloody attack on Israel, in which some 1,400 people, mostly civilians, were killed and another 229 were kidnapped by the Palestinian Islamist movement, according to authorities.
In retaliation, Israel began a wave of bombings against the Gaza Strip, which it maintains a blockade. More than 7,700 people, most of them civilians and including more than 3,000 children, died in these bombings in the Palestinian territory.
Source: Ambito
