Israel Orders Evacuations In Southern Gaza After Gaining Full Control Of Al-Shifa Hospital
Israel's military up till now has sought to present southern Gaza as some kind of safe zone as it pushed Gazans to evacuate the northern half of the Strip to pave way for the ongoing ground and aerial assault. But all the while there have still been intermittent airstrikes on southern Gaza, after some one million or more civilians have been internally displaced.
New leaflets have been mass dropped over the Strip warning towns located in southern Gaza that inhabitants must evacuate. "Palestinians in parts of southern Gaza said they received evacuation notices Thursday," the AP reports.
"The signal that fighting is about to expand in the south comes a day after Israeli forces began searching a north Gaza hospital where they claimed Hamas militants operate — a claim that Hamas and hospital staff deny," the report continues. Already some two-thirds of the Strip's some 2.3 million people have been made homeless by the fighting.
The leaflets dropped over parts of the south reportedly said, "For your safety, you need to evacuate your places of residence immediately and head to known shelters," and named multiple specific neighborhoods.
