According to the “Times of Israel” report, on November 8, local time, IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said that IDF troops “went deep” into Gaza City. On the 8th, about 50,000 Palestinians moved from northern Gaza to the south.
At a press conference on the evening of the 8th, Hagari said that after the Israeli army opened the humanitarian corridor for five hours that day, 50,000 Palestinians had fled from northern Gaza to the south through Saladin Street, the main evacuation road. He added that this was not a ceasefire, but a “humanitarian pause” that would allow Palestinian civilians to move south.
Hagari also said that Israeli ground forces carried out an operation in the center of Gaza City on the 8th and seized approximately 700 rockets from Hamas armed personnel and destroyed tunnel shafts built by Hamas near civilian sites. Hamas’s air and sea power “carried out heavy blows.”
“The leadership of Hamas has lost touch,” Haghari said. “Today we see 50,000 Gazans moving south, and they understand that Hamas has lost control (of northern Gaza).” He added, Gazans lack access to safety, water, food and medicine in northern Gaza, while those needs are more likely to be met in the south. He condemned that Hamas armed personnel are hiding behind civilians, and that Hamas leadership is “out of touch” with the Gaza people and “only cares about its own survival.” “No matter where the Hamas leadership is, we will continue to pursue and Destroy it”.
IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari
The day before, U.S. President Biden said that in a conference call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he asked Israel to consider a humanitarian pause to provide assistance to civilians trapped in Gaza and rescue hostages held by Hamas. In an interview with the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on the 6th, Netanyahu said that he was willing to consider a “small tactical pause” but would not accept a comprehensive ceasefire.
According to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), it is unclear how many civilians there are in Gaza City, including the Shadi and Jabaliya refugee camps and surrounding areas, but a few days ago, US officials estimated that the number was as high as 300,000 to 300,000. 400000. According to CNN, the United Nations stated that 2,000 people had fled to southern Gaza on the 5th, and that number increased to 15,000 on the 7th.
Israel has asked Palestinians to gather in the so-called “humanitarian zone” in the town of Mawasi, a stretch of beach in the southern Gaza Strip with little infrastructure. Israeli officials said civilians there could receive humanitarian aid brought from the Egyptian border. “If you care about yourself and your loved ones, follow our instructions and head south.” Israeli military spokesman Avikai Adelai tweeted on the 8th in Arabic and posted a picture pointing to Mawassee town map.
U.N. aid officials say the area is too small and barren to meet Israel’s demands for camps for tens or even hundreds of thousands of people. A senior U.N. official has called the evacuation of northern Gaza an act of forced displacement and said civilians should be allowed to stay where they live.
According to a report by the Wall Street Journal on the 8th, Gaza civilians leaving with a small amount of belongings braved Israel’s continued bombing and passed through Israeli military checkpoints. Fleeing civilians say increasingly intensive shelling and deteriorating conditions in the north have forced them to leave.
“After last night, we thought, enough is enough, that’s it,” said a woman at the southern entrance to Gaza, who fled with her husband and four children. “There are corpses everywhere,” she said of the scene along the road leading to southern Gaza.
“We had the most difficult days imaginable,” said another woman. “We left home and went to a UNRWA school thinking it was a safe place, but it wasn’t. “After this school was attacked, we went to another one, but that other school was also attacked by Israel. We then went to an aid center, which was also attacked.”
A 16-year-old girl, Bala, told CNN that she walked for a long time and “felt like the Nakba (catastrophe) of 2023.” “Nakba” refers to the “national catastrophe” of the Palestinians in 1948, that is, What the Israelis call the “War of Independence” (also known as the “First Middle East War”) caused nearly 700,000 Palestinians to flee their homes or be expelled and become refugees.
According to the Wall Street Journal, US Secretary of State Blinken outlined US expectations for post-war governance in Gaza on the 8th, including Palestinian sovereignty over the territory. “The United States believes that key elements should include not forcing Palestinians to leave Gaza. Not now and not after the war. Gaza must not be used for terrorism or other violent attacks,” he said in an interview after a G7 ministerial meeting in Tokyo. platform. Not to reoccupy Gaza after the conflict ends.”
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2023-11-09 01:45:00
