The Israeli Military is attacking Gaza City, telling its inhabitants to leave the area….
Hamas on the other hand?
Wants those in Gaza to stay…...
In Isreal?
Protests in support of getting hostages back ALIVE continue….
The Israeli army issued evacuation orders and targeted high-rise buildings in Gaza City on Saturday, urging Palestinians to flee south ahead of an escalating offensive to seize the city of nearly 1 million.
Aid groups warn that a large-scale evacuation would exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza City, which the world’s leading hunger watchdog announced last month was officially suffering from famine as a result of Israeli restrictions on food aid.
Most Palestinian families have been repeatedly displaced in the nearly two-year-long war and say they have nowhere left to go. The Israeli military has previously bombed tent encampments designated as humanitarian zones.
“Where do I go? We went to the south, there is no space in the south, where can we go?”
Israeli army urges Palestinians to move
Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee called on Palestinians to flee to southern Gaza, announcing on social media that the army had redrawn the borders of a humanitarian zone to encompass the overcrowded encampment of Muwasi and parts of the southern city of Khan Younis.
Aid groups have raised alarm about woefully inadequate shelter, sanitation, water and food in Muwasi. Months of Israeli bombardment have decimated civilian infrastructure in Khan Younis.
The Israeli military said it would work to provide field hospitals, water pipelines and food supplies within its humanitarian zone.
Hamas urged Palestinians to stay put in defiance of the latest evacuation orders. Exhausted and despairing, many Palestinians had their own reasons for refusing to pack up and uproot themselves again.
“I can’t walk, I am in pain, and I do not know what to do or where to go,” said Ala Alfarani, whose tent was crushed beneath a pile of rubble in Israel’s strike on a high-rise in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of south Gaza City…..
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Thousands protest for return of hostages
Thousands of Israelis rallied across Jerusalem and Tel Aviv on Saturday evening to increase pressure on Netanyahu to reach a deal with Hamas that would free the remaining 48 hostages held in Gaza.
The protesters vented their outrage at the military’s renewed assault on Gaza City, fearing the escalation will further endanger their captive loved ones. The Israeli military estimates that 20 hostages in Gaza are still alive.
“That is not how you return abducted men and women,” said Gil Dickmann, whose cousin Carmel Gat, was killed in captivity last year. “That is how you kill abducted men and women.”
In Jerusalem, massive crowds marched through the city shouting “all of them now!” and spilled into the streets outside Netanyahu’s residence, chanting “traitor, traitor!”
“The government is burying them alive,” one protest sign read. “An unsigned deal kills them all,” read another.