Palestinians struggled to flee from areas of Gaza targeted by the Israeli military while grappling with a growing water crisis after Israel stopped the flow of resources to the region.
Israel renewed calls on social media and in leaflets dropped from the air for Gaza residents to move south, while Hamas urged people to stay in their homes.Repatriation flights from Israel cancelled due to 'rapidly changing' situationPalestinians wait at the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt Gaza Strip on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023
"What we know is that hundreds of thousands of people have fled. And that 1 million people have been displaced in total in one week," she said. She then rations it, prioritising her five-year-old son and three-year-old daughter. She said she is drinking so little herself, she only urinates every other day.
Palestinians take shelter in a UN-run school from the ongoing Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip in Nuiserat refugee camp on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. Others were looking desperately for ways to evacuate. "We need a number for drivers from Gaza to the south, it is necessary #help," read a post on social media. Another person wrote: "We need a bus number, office, or any means of transport," posted another.
A convoy of Israeli armoured personnel carriers head towards the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. The Israeli military said its troops conducted temporary raids into Gaza on Friday to battle militants and hunted for traces of some 150 people — including men, women and children — who were abducted during Hamas' shocking October 7 assault on southern Israel.The Gaza Health Ministry said Saturday that over 2,200 people have been killed in the territory, including 724 children and 458 women.
Fearing a mass exodus of Palestinians, Egyptian authorities erected "temporary" blast walls on Egypt's side of the crossing, which has been closed for days because of Israeli airstrikes, two Egyptian officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to brief the media. Israel has called up some 360,000 military reserves and massed troops and tanks along the border with Gaza. A ground assault in densely populated Gaza would likely bring even higher casualties on both sides in brutal house-to-house fighting.
The US and Israel's other allies have pledged ironclad support for the war on Hamas. The European Union's foreign policy chief, however, said Saturday that the Israeli military needed to give people more time to leave northern Gaza.
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