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This Sunday the Israeli army ordered forced evacuation of almost all of northern Gaza as part of a new operation launched in the Jabaliya area to prevent what the military calls a “reconstruction” of the forces of the military wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in the area.

The sheer scale of the evacuation order forced the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the Israeli military agency responsible for the Palestinian territories, expand Israel’s so-called Mavasi “safe zone”. on the coast of the Palestinian enclave, which is overcrowded with hundreds of thousands of people previously displaced by Israeli attacks.

In the evacuation order, Arab Israeli army spokesman Colonel Avichai Adrai calls on the population of the north – tens of thousands of people who have ventured back to the area since Israeli operations temporarily ceased early last summer. ) return to Mawashi using either the coastal route along Rashid Avenue or the Saladin Highway, which runs through the enclave from north to south.

In accordance with this order, the 162nd Israeli Army Division launched a large-scale ground operation in Yabalia, where the largest refugee camp in the enclave is located and where, to date, at least 17 Palestinians have been killed and “many others” injured, according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA.

It is assumed that some 200 thousand Palestinians remain in northern Gazaafter the army asked the Gaza population from the area to evacuate to the south of the strip at the beginning of the war.

Humanitarian zone surrounded by sea in southwest Gaza, welcomes about two million people who live together in a bunch of tents in poor conditions, constantly condemned by international organizations.

This point of view, established by the army itself, has not been spared in recent months numerous Israeli bombings.

a new invasion of Jabaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip, According to Israel, it arose following the discovery of the alleged presence of “terrorists and infrastructure in the area” and Hamas’ efforts to “restore its operational capabilities.”

“Before and during surgery. The army attacked dozens of military targets to help ground forces. Among the targets attacked were weapons depots, underground infrastructure facilities and other military infrastructure facilities,” the text says.

Yabalia was one of the first places that the Israeli army attacked intensively at the beginning of the war, year ago, both by land and air, displacing thousands of people.

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At the end of last May, Troops have partially withdrawn from the area after twenty consecutive days of operations centered on the already besieged Jabaliya refugee camp, the largest in the Gaza Strip.

An hour before this invasion, the army announced expansion of the size of the Al-Mawasi humanitarian zone, in the south of the Gaza Strip, amid a new planned evacuation from the north.

(according to information from EFE And Europe Press)