Israel has given Palestinians 24 hours to evacuate from the north of Gaza after pummelling the territory with 6000 bombs in six days.
| Israel’s military is warning 1.1 million Palestinians to evacuate south away from the frontline within 24 hours, signalling an imminent start to the ground offensive into Gaza, which will worsen the humanitarian crisis and comes with theWith tanks and thousands of troops massing on the border for the counterattack on militant group Hamas, Israeli officials said they had pummelled Gaza with 6000 bombs over six days, which the United Nations estimated had left 423,000 people homeless.
The Israeli military sent one evacuation order directly on Friday morning, warning the hundreds of thousands of civilians of Gaza City to flee deeper south into the Gaza Strip, a narrow coastal territory. Israel’s directive charged that Hamas militants were hiding in tunnels under the city. “The United Nations considers it impossible for such a movement to take place without devastating humanitarian consequences,” it said in a statement. “The United Nations strongly appeals for any such order, if confirmed, to be rescinded avoiding what could transform what is already a tragedy into a calamitous situation.”
Hamas called on Palestinians to rise up on Friday in protest at Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, urging Palestinians to march to East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque and clash with Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank.
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