On Saturday Israel called for Palestinians in more areas of Gaza’s southern city of Rafah to clear and head to what it calls an expanded humanitarian area in Al-Mawasi.
In a post on social media site X, a military spokesperson also called on residents and displaced people in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza, and 11 other neighbourhoods in the enclave to go immediately to shelters west of Gaza City.
The Palestinian health ministry said over 37 Palestinians, 24 of them from central Gaza areas, were killed in overnight airstrikes across the enclave, including in Rafah.
‘They threw fliers on Rafah and said, from Rafah to al-Zawayda is safe, people should evacuate there, and they did, and what has become of them? Dismembered bodies? There is no safe place in Gaza’, Khitam Al-Khatib, who said she had lost at least 10 of her relatives in an airstrike on a family house earlier on Saturday.
The Israeli military said its aircraft struck tens of targets across the Strip over the past day. It also added its ground troops had eliminated fighters in Zeitoun in recent hours.
In Rafah, residents told that the new evacuation orders by the Israeli military covered areas in the centre of the city and left little doubt Israel planned to expand its ground offensive there.
‘The situation is very difficult, people are leaving their homes in panic’, said Khaled, 35, a resident of the Shaboura neighbourhood, an area where the new orders to leave have been issued.
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