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HRW calls on world leaders to reject Israeli order to evacuate northern Gaza Strip

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Humanitarian organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) this Friday called on world leaders to speak out “before it’s too late” about the 24-hour period given by Israel to evacuate

HRW calls on world leaders to reject Israeli order to evacuate northern Gaza Strip

Humanitarian organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) this Friday called on world leaders to speak out “before it’s too late” about the 24-hour period given by Israel to evacuate civilians from northern Gaza, believing it was not an “effective warning.”

In a statement released today regarding the evacuation order. Clive Baldwinlegal adviser to the above-mentioned organization, noted that “the order to evacuate a million people in the Gaza Strip when there’s no safe place to goIt’s not an effective warning.”

“The roads are destroyed, there is not enough fuel. the main hospital is in the evacuation zone“, he emphasized.

As he noted, “This order does not change Israel’s obligations in military operations to never attack civilians and to take all measures that it is possible to minimize the damage caused by it“.

“World leaders must speak out now before it’s too late“he added.

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The United Nations (UN) announced that the Israeli army reported that approx. 1.1 million Palestinians in Gaza must move south enclave within the next 24 hours, it said Reuters.

Newspaper New York Times said Israeli military officials had passed the information to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the Department of Safety and 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 was officially announced.

“The United Nations considers it impossible to carry out such a movement.” without devastating humanitarian consequencesThis was stated by UN official Stephane Dujarric.

Photo: Reuters

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 just depravity in the worst sense imaginable.”, he claimed. “It’s really beyond anything we can understand.”

With agency information

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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