Important Takeaways:
- Get out NOW: Israel drops flyers telling 1.1 million in Northern Gaza to flee ‘immediately’ after giving 24-hour deadline, sparking widespread panic as Palestine warns of ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ and IDF prepares for ground assault
- Israel has dropped flyers over northern Gaza ordering more than one million people to ‘evacuate your homes immediately’ and flee south ahead of a feared Israeli ground offensive aimed at eradicating the Hamas terrorist group.
- The order has sparked widespread panic among civilians already struggling under Israeli airstrikes and a blockade, while the UN called such an evacuation ‘impossible’, saying it would turn a tragedy into calamity.
- Palestine’s health minister also warned that Gaza is facing a humanitarian and health catastrophe and urged all countries and human rights groups to help with the immediate entry of medical and emergency aid to the enclave.
- The Hamas Authority for Refugee Affairs called on residents in the north of the territory to ‘remain steadfast in your homes and to stand firm in the face of this disgusting psychological war waged by the occupation’.
- On Thursday it [Israel] said that while it was preparing, no official decision has been made.
- Any ground offensive would be the strongest response yet to Hamas’ shock assault, and would likely bring even higher casualties on both sides in brutal guerrilla warfare as Israeli soldiers go house-to-house and hunt down Hamas terrorists.
- ‘This evacuation is for your own safety,’ the Israeli military said, in a warning it said was sent to all Gaza City civilians.
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