The Israeli army urged more than a million civilians in the Gaza Strip to move south within 24 hours, but Hamas has told residents to stay put.
Israel says its infantry and tanks have carried out raids inside the Gaza Strip, its first announcement of a shift from an air war to ground operations to root out Hamas fighters a week after their deadly rampage in southern Israel. Some Gaza residents were abandoning homes on Friday to escape from the path of an Israeli onslaught, after Israel ordered more than a million people to leave the northern half of the Gaza Strip within 24 hours. Hamas told them not to go.
Israel's evacuation order applies to the northern half of the Gaza Strip, including the enclave's biggest settlement Gaza City. The UN said it had been told that Israel wanted the area's entire population - about half the 2.3 million Gazans - to move across the Gaza Wadi wetland that bisects the enclave.
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