This was reported by the WAFA news agency. There were also dozens of injuries. The Israeli military will investigate the reports, a spokesman announced. Meanwhile, the Israeli army called on residents of several neighborhoods in the center of the Gaza Strip to flee ahead of a new military operation.
They should go to an area designated by Israel as a humanitarian zone, said the appeal, which was published in Arabic by an Israeli military spokesman. According to the army, the latest call for refugees affects residents of the refugee district of Al-Maghasi, among others. The reason for the new deployment is the “continued rocket fire from Hamas” from the area. The army wants to take action against the terrorist organization there. According to reports, the military also distributed leaflets to residents. The army was already deployed in Al-Maghasi at the beginning of the year.
Call to escape
Israel’s military had previously called on residents of several areas in the northeast of the Gaza Strip to flee. Residents and displaced persons who were there should therefore go to “known places of refuge” in the center of Gaza City. According to the information, the residents of the city of Beit Hanun were among those affected. The army justified this call for evacuation with the presence of Hamas, which was firing rockets at Israel from the area.
According to Palestinian sources, several people were killed in Israeli attacks in neighboring areas of the now evacuated territories. At least 15 people were killed in an air strike on a house in the town of Zawayda in the center of the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources in the coastal region. Dozens more are said to have been injured.
Six people were killed in an air strike on a house near the refugee district of Nuseirat, which is also in the central Gaza Strip, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. The information could not be independently verified at first. When asked, Israel’s army said it was investigating the reports.
The war was triggered by the massacre carried out by terrorists from Hamas and other extremist groups in Israel on October 7. The high number of civilian casualties and the humanitarian catastrophe for the Palestinian civilian population have sparked sharp international criticism of Israel’s actions. Many people have already been displaced several times in the course of the war.
