Live Israel-Hamas war:IDF tells 1.1 million Gaza residents they have hours to escape, but UN warns order ‘impossible’
Israel has ordered more than a million Palestinians to evacuate northern areas of the Gaza Strip with immediate effect, which the United Nations said would have “devastating humanitarian consequences”.
As of Friday morning, about half of Gaza’s population had just 24 hours to move south, which experts say could be the start of an Israeli ground offensive in the Gaza Strip.
A statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on X, formerly Twitter, said:
“The IDF calls for the evacuation of all civilians in Gaza City from their homes to the south for their own safety and protection, and to move to the area south of Wadi Gaza, as shown on the map thing.
“The terrorist organization Hamas has waged war against the State of Israel and Gaza City is the area where military operations are taking place.
This evacuation is for your own safety.
Navigating this narrow strip of land, only 7 miles wide, through streets heavily damaged by six days of Israeli air strikes, will be extremely difficult for many Gazans.
It is also unclear where those fleeing the northern region should stay.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health told The Independent on Thursday that “all” hospitals in the Gaza Strip are now overloaded.
The United Nations called the IDF evacuation order “impossible” and said it would have “devastating humanitarian consequences”.
The statement added that the United Nations “strongly calls for the revocation of any such order, if confirmed, to avoid what could turn what is already a tragedy into a calamitous situation.”
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Israel has released footage showing the targeting of Hamas drone positions in Gaza.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Daniel Hagari released the video and accused Hamas of building drone launchers “inside and on the rooftops of Gaza residents”.
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Tear gas used against Jordanian protesters near Israeli border – video
Footage shows tear gas being used to stop pro-Palestinian protesters near Israel’s eastern border.
Multiple videos circulating online show tear gas canisters being fired at a crowd of Jordanian protesters responding to the former Hamas leader’s call for a “day of anger” on Friday.
“There is nowhere to go”:Gazans stay home despite Israel’s evacuation order
From Bel Trew to Tel Aviv:Sara, 21, who lives in a town just outside Gaza City, said people were “horrified” by the news that all Palestinians would have to evacuate south, but said they had nowhere else to go .
“Here everyone is staying at home because we can’t do anything, there’s nowhere to go,” she told The Independent, calling Thursday night’s bombing a “nightmare.”
“There is nowhere to go, there are people everywhere.
Even the UN schools in the South are extremely full.
People slept outside in the school yard.
The night was so cold that there were heavy bombs and bullets.
She said everyone was extremely confused.
“Some people said it was fake news just to scare us – others said it was new criticism and we should act.
We saw on the news that most of our schools The United Nations in the north has just been evacuated.
More photos of the strike in Israel
Other images released showed missiles being intercepted over the Israeli city of Ashkelon, located between the northern Gaza Strip and Tel Aviv.
Updated death toll
Nearly 3,000 people have been killed in the conflict between Israel and Hamas over the past six days.
According to the latest update, 1,537 people were killed in Gaza, while 6,612 people were injured.About 1,300 Israelis were killed and 3,200 injured.
“No more beds”:Doctors in Gaza confirm hospitals are at ‘breaking point’
Beds, equipment and electricity are nearly exhausted at Gaza’s hospitals as casualties continue to reach thousands.
More than 1,500 people have been killed in Gaza and thousands injured as Israel continues to retaliate against Hamas attacks while blocking fuel, food and medical supplies in the region.
“We are at a breaking point.There are no more beds.
Injured patients lined the corridor,” British surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah of Al Shifa Hospital said yesterday morning.
“There are 5,000 injured people and we only have capacity for 2,500 people at all hospitals.Refugee camps were also affected
hmoud Shalabi, director of medical aid for Palestinians in Gaza, said intensive care units, hospital wards and theaters were running out of beds as they struggled to cope with the influx of wounded after the attacks.Israeli air strikes.
Air raid sirens sounded in Israel as Hamas claimed to have fired 150 rockets
Air raid sirens sounded in the Israeli town of Ashkelon, located between the Gaza Strip and Tel Aviv, as Hamas claimed to have fired “150 rockets” into the territory.
Video footage shows that the air defense force appears to be operating at full capacity after a 10-hour lull.
A statement released at 9:30 GMT from Hamas’s military wing said:“Al-Qassam Brigades is currently leading a major 150-rocket attack on occupied Ashkelon in response to the displacement and targeting of civilians.
Israel claims Hamas will be responsible for the deaths of civilians in Gaza
Israel said Hamas would be responsible for any Gaza civilians injured in the northern enclave if it did not respond to calls for evacuation.
Since the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) issued a 24-hour evacuation warning to northern Gaza residents, Hamas has urged civilians to stay put.
Israel accused Hamas of using these civilians as “human shields”, but an IDF spokesman added that “responsibility for what may happen to those who do not evacuate lies with Hamas”.
IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said at a press conference:
“Hamas is taking advantage of the people of the Gaza Strip, bringing disaster to them and also calling on the people of the Gaza Strip not to listen to the IDF’s recommendations.”
Egypt takes ‘unprecedented measures’ to protect border with Gaza
Egypt is taking “unprecedented steps” to prevent its border with Gaza from collapsing following an Israeli order for those trapped in the strip to evacuate south.
A senior Egyptian security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the AP they were working to ensure Gaza’s southern border remained intact.
The Rafah crossing, through which Gazans can travel to Egypt, has been closed since Tuesday following Israeli airstrikes.
That morning, an Israeli army spokesman asked Gazans to move towards the southern border.
Egypt, which reached peace with Israel decades ago and has long acted as a mediator in the region, strongly opposes Palestinian resettlement on its territory, because of the
costs this would entail and because it would damage their efforts to build an independent state.
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Hundreds of Jordanians march toward the Israeli border (video)
Hundreds of Jordanians marched towards Israel’s eastern border, responding to the former leader of Hamas’s call for a ‘day of anger’ protest.
Images showed hundreds of Jordanians waving Palestinian flags and marching toward the border.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II declared on Wednesday that peace without a Palestinian state would not be possible following pro-Palestinian protests in the capital Amman.
New evidence of Hamas brutality
New evidence of the brutality of the attack has emerged with the release of photos showing the murdered children.
The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office released three photos showing the bodies of two babies burned beyond recognition and the body of a third baby covered in blood.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who saw the footage during a visit to Jerusalem on Thursday, said it was “almost unbelievable”.
“A baby, a newborn baby riddled with bullets.
Soldiers were beheaded.
Young people were burned alive in their cars or hiding places,” Blinken said at a press conference in Israel.
“This is beyond what anyone would want to imagine, let alone see and experience.”
On Thursday, Hamas “strongly” denied involvement in the killing and beheading of babies, saying the accusations espoused by the media were “unethical and unprofessional”.
Basim Naim, an official with the Hamas information office, said in a video statement “that senior commanders of the Al Qassam brigade have received clear instructions to avoid targeting or killing civilians.”
These claims fall short in the face of testimony from numerous survivors and witnesses who have detailed the scale and nature of the atrocities committed by Hamas as well as the appreciable number of dead and prisoners.amazing.
At Kfar Aza, a kibbutz in southern Israel, the Israeli military told CNN that rebels carried out a “massacre” in which women, children, infants and the elderly “were brutally massacred in action of the Islamic States
In Beeri, Hamas militants stormed the kibbutz, murdered more than 120 residents there, including children, and kidnapped others.
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Zechariah 12:3
On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves.
