US urges restraint amid bombing of civilian evacuation convoy that left a reported 70 people dead, including women and children
Israeli troops in tanks and other armoured vehicles amass in a field near the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on Saturday October 14.Israeli troops in tanks and other armoured vehicles amass in a field near the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on Saturday October 14.
There is no way for people to get out or humanitarian relief to get in. Israel has sealed all crossings into its territory and Egypt reinforced its border crossing, saying it would not allow refugees to enter. Medics are struggling to cope already, in hospitals crammed with patients and people seeking shelter from bombs and missiles. “There are people sleeping on the floors everywhere, even inside the hospital. The crowding is going to lead to an infectious disease outbreak,” said Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a surgeon at Shifa hospital in Gaza City.“The doctors have brought their families into the hospital for safety – I slept on an operating room table last night.
Tank-backed forces had mounted raids to hit Palestinian rocket crews and gather information on the location of hostages, a military spokesman said. The Israel Defence Forces also claimed to have killed the head of Hamas’s air operations, Murad Abu Murad.Asked on Saturday what an Israeli military victory might look like, an IDF spokesperson, Lt Col Richard Hecht, said: “That is a big question. I don’t think I have the capability right now to answer that.
Hamas has called Israel’s evacuation order propaganda, and mosques in Gaza City blared messages urging residents to stay, Reuters reported. “Hold on to your homes. Hold on to your land,” said one broadcast, as tens of thousands headed south.Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, said the evacuation warning was “to temporarily move south … to mitigate civilian harm”, adding that the UN should be “praising Israel for these precautionary actions”.
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