A senior Israeli official confirmed some Australian residents were among the 360,000 reservists who have been called up to fight against Hamas.
Australians with specialist skills are flying to Israel to join the nation’s war against Hamas as around one million Palestine citizens were instructed to flee to the south of Gaza ahead of an expected Israeli ground invasion in the coming days that is expected to see casualties soar.
Some reservists made their way from Australia to Israel on commercial flights in the past week, while others linked up with a repatriation flight from Bangkok organised by the Israeli government. Residents in Gaza City, which has been pummelled by Israeli air strikes in recent days, have been instructed to flee south.“Civilians of Gaza City, evacuate south for your own safety and the safety of your families and distance yourself from Hamas terrorists who are using you as human shields.”
“Out of an understanding that there are civilians here who are not our enemy, and we do not want to target them, we are asking them to evacuate so that we will be able to continue to strike military targets belonging to Hamas in the Gaza Strip,” he said. “The human misery caused by this escalation is abhorrent, and I implore the sides to reduce the suffering of civilians,” Red Cross regional director Fabrizio Carboni said.
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