Israel orders evacuation of northern Gaza within 24 hours, UN says
- October 13, 2023
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The United Nations (UN) announced that the Israeli army reported that about 1.1 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip They must move to the south of the enclave.
The United Nations (UN) announced that the Israeli army reported that about 1.1 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip They must move to the south of the enclave. within the next 24 hours, a Reuters report said.
Newspaper New York Times reported that Israeli military officials transmitted information to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the Department of Security in the Gaza Strip shortly before midnight.
International media have speculated that this could be a previous step towards an invasion of the Gaza Strip, although no such order has been officially announced.
“The United Nations considers it impossible for such a movement to take place without devastating humanitarian consequences,” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement.
“The United Nations urges that any such order be rescinded if confirmed, avoiding what could turn what is already a tragedy into a catastrophic situation,” he said.
Seeking to drum up support for its response, the Israeli government showed US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and NATO defense ministers graphic images of children and civilians they said Hamas killed in a year-end attack in Israel.
Blinken said they showed a baby “riddled with bullets,” beheaded soldiers and young men burned in their cars. “This is simply depravity in the worst sense imaginable.“, he argued. “It is truly beyond anything we can understand.”
Like other countries around the world, Blinken called on Israel to show restraint but also reaffirmed U.S. support, saying: “We will always be there for you.”
On Friday he will meet King Abdullah of Jordan and Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Palestinian Authority in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, as part of a Middle East tour aimed at easing the fallout from the war.
Blinken, America’s top diplomat, planned to visit key US allies Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, some of which have influence in Hamas, the Islamist group backed by Iran.
Israeli military commander Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said lessons would be learned from the security failures in the Gaza Strip that allowed the attack. “We will learn, we will explore, but it’s war time“, he claimed.
The US military does not impose conditions on providing security assistance to Israel, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said, adding that Washington expects the Israeli military to “do the right thing” by waging war against Hamas.
Austin was due to arrive in Israel on Friday and planned to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Hamas called on Palestinians to rise up on Friday to protest Israel’s bombing of the enclave, calling on Palestinians to march to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem and confront Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank.
Gazans, mostly descendants of refugees who fled or were expelled from their homes in Israel when it was founded in 1948, have endured economic collapse and repeated Israeli bombing under siege since Hamas seized power 16 years ago.
Palestinian anger has intensified in recent months as Israel unleashed its deadliest crackdown in the West Bank in years and its right-wing government has talked of seizing more land. The peace process aimed at creating a Palestinian state collapsed a decade ago, leaving the population without hope and empowering extremists, Palestinian leaders say. (Reuters).
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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