Israel tells all Gaza City residents to "leave now"
發佈日期: 2025-09-09 20:24
TVB News
The Israeli military has ordered all of the one million residents of Gaza City to leave immediately.
Prime Minister Netanyahu warned them in a statement to "get out now." Some have already left knowing a full ground invasion is imminent.
Palestinians who remain have a decision to make.
The whirring of Israeli aircraft flying away having destroyed another high-rise. A fourth in four days. It followed similar attacks over the weekend.Israel is accused by its critics of trying to drive out residents but says Hamas uses these buildings to observe troop deployments.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu warned Gazans directly that these aerial attacks area "prelude to a powerful ground operation". Residents told by Netanyahu, and by a spokesperson in Arabic, to do, as these people have done, gather up their belongings and get out of town.
Joe Federman from The Associated Press adds more details from Jerusalem saying, "Stepping up evacuation orders, encouraging residents of Gaza City to leave the city ahead of an expected invasion. Israel wants to take over Gaza City. It says this is a pressure tactic aimed at pressing Hamas into surrendering and releasing the remaining hostages that it's holding.
Pictures distributed by the United Nations showed trucks loaded and a mass movement of people. Mattresses pilled on the top of cars. Some people on foot, others making more than one trip. Several of these people have already been displaced during the war.
Now, told to go to Israeli prescribed safe zones in the south. Saqr Abu Sultan is among those moving again. He loads what he can on to a three-wheeled truck.
"It is chaos", Saqr says, "We are trying to evacuate, but we don't know where to go. They talk about safe areas, but residential blocks have been destroyed there and across Gaza. We don't know what happened to their residents."
Even if these people get to a zone which is safe they are concerned they won't have enough money for food and worry aid will not get through Israel's blockade.
The UN Spokesman for UN Secretary-General, Stephane Dujarric says only half of planned operations by humanitarian partners made it into Gaza on Monday.
"Our Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher issued a statement demanding urgent action to halt the spread of famine and suffering in Gaza, warning that there is a narrow window until the end of September", Dujarric told journalists at a briefing, "to prevent famine from expanding to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis, and that this window is closing fast."
In the Mediterranean Sea boat in an aid flotilla claims it was struck by a drone. Filmed from another ship in the convoy, light is seen flashing in the night and striking the ship as it passes through Tunisian waters.
The Sumud group left Barcelona last week hoping to get aid to Gazans. Tunisian officials deny that the Portuguese flagged vessel was hit saying the fire started onboard.Damage to a deck and what looks like a hole in the side of the boat were filmed later, the flotilla says: "acts of aggression will not deter us."
