Rafah’s 100,000 residents have received messages and leaflets urging them to evacuate and head to the Al Mawasi humanitarian zone.
Some 100,000 residents from the eastern neighborhoods of the southern Gazan city of Rafah, close to the Philadelphia corridor bordering Egypt, have received messages and pamphlets this morning urging them to evacuate and go to the “humanitarian zone” of Al Mawasi, as detailed by the Israeli Army.
According to this source, the evacuation order It’s “temporary” and has been transmitted through pamphlets, SMS messages, phone calls and broadcasts in the Arabic media.
“(The Israeli Army) is about to operate strongly against terrorist organizations in the area where you currently reside, as they have done until now. Anyone who remains in the area endangers themselves and their families. For your safety, evacuate immediately to the expanded humanitarian zone in Al Mawasi,” says one of the pamphlets released.
The Army said this morning, in an online press conference with the media, that the evacuation responds to a more to “dismantle Hamas, bring back the hostages” and move the civilian population out of danger, but has not specified how much time residents have to comply with this forced evacuation.
The statement also details that the Al Mawasi area, close to Khan Younis, has been expanded and is receiving more humanitarian aid such as “field hospitals, tents, a greater amount of food, water, medicines and additional supplies.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated yesterday that Israel will not end the war in Gazaeven if there was a temporary truce agreement with Hamas, and for months he has alluded to the “need” to destroy the Islamist group’s battalions that remain operational in Rafah.
Source: Eitb
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