Cairo/Gaza (Reuters)-Palestinians living in the ruins of the city of Gaza were bombarded with Israeli leaflets on Tuesday, ordering them to leave, after Israel said he was about to obliterate the area in an attack to end Hamas, causing panic and confusion.
Residents of the city, the largest urban center of the Enclave, which housed one million Palestinians before the war, expect a attack for weeks since the Israeli government has prepared a plan designed to undertake a fatal blow to Hamas, and it claims to be the last strongholds of the militant group.
“I tell Gaza residents to take this opportunity and listen carefully to me: you were warned-get out of there!” Said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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The Israeli military launched by air leaflets with withdrawal orders to residents who were amid the rubble of the city of Gaza, where residential towers bombed to the ground in recent days.
The withdrawals left the residents of the city shaken, they claim there is no safe place to escape the bombing and a humanitarian crisis. Some said they would have no choice but to go south, but many said they would be and there were no immediate signs of a mass exodus.
Anxiety spread throughout a tent area in the city of Gaza that housed patients with displaced cancer.
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“There is no place, neither in the south, nor in the north, nothing. We were completely stuck,” said one of the patients, Bajess Al-Khaldi, while people looked at the rubble of several buildings destroyed in an Israeli attack.
Displacement is a deep question for Palestinians, who fear Netanyahu and their far-right allies want to repeat the “Nakba” or “catastrophe” when hundreds of thousands of people fled or expelled during the 1948 war that accompanied Israel’s creation.
Israel was widely accused of genocide, including by the largest group of genocide scholars in the world, during his nearly two -year campaign at the Palestinian enclave, which killed more than 64,000 people, according to local authorities.
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Israel rejects the prosecution, citing its right to self -defense after the attack of Hamas militants on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 people and resulted in the capture of 251 hostages, according to Israeli data.
Health authorities in Gaza announced that they would evacuate the two main operational hospitals in the city of Gaza, Al Shifa and Al Ahli, adding that doctors would not leave patients without care.
Most of the inhabitants of Gaza has been displaced several times since the beginning of the war, much of the territory has been in ruins and the hunger crisis has worsened a lot in recent months.
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The Israeli military instructed the residents of the city of Gaza to move to an “humanitarian zone” designated in the overcrowded area of Al-Mawasi along the coast in the south, where thousands of Palestinians have already housed in tents. Israel has also regularly bombarded the south.
A 59 -year -old Samed, a mother of five, said the choice now is to “stay and die at home in the city of Gaza, or follow Israel’s orders and get out of Gaza and die in the south.”
