Israel plans to take action against Hamas in the south of the Gaza Strip. The people should first be brought to safety further north. Preparations for this are apparently already underway.
According to a media report, the Israeli armed forces are building a large facility in the Gaza Strip to control refugee Palestinians before they return to the north of the sealed-off coastal strip. As the Israeli television station Kan reported, the facility is being built near the coast on a corridor developed by the army that runs from the Israeli border to the Mediterranean and divides the coastal area.
The facility will be the size of two football fields. In addition to security checks, it is also being checked whether it could be used to store relief supplies, it said. There is a new pier on the coast nearby.
After the start of the war, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled from the north to the south of the Gaza Strip on the instructions of the Israeli military. After the Israeli army began taking action against the Islamist Hamas there, more than a million civilians are now seeking shelter in a confined space in Rafah, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt.
Israel is now planning to take action against the last Hamas battalions there too. The people should first be brought to safety further north. Allies such as the USA and the EU want to dissuade Israel from launching a ground offensive in view of the catastrophic humanitarian situation.
Source: Stern
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