![]() “Everyone on this piece of land is targeted by the Israeli military, which from the start did not differentiate between civilian and soldier.”ĬNN has geolocated and authenticated five videos from the scene of a large explosion Friday along a route for civilians south of Gaza City that Israel said the following day would be safe.Ī picture taken from Sderot shows smoke plumes rising above buildings during an Israeli strike on the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images “Nowhere is safe in the Gaza Strip, from Rafah (south) to Beit Hanoun in the north,” Al-Saudi said, adding that everywhere is targeted, including “homes, shelters hospitals and places of worship.” “Even those who moved south were hit by airstrikes,” he told CNN. ![]() “I say this jokingly, but those who are on a diet are eating more than us.”Īl-Saudi says that not only do they have nowhere to stay if they moved south, but that the route itself is unsafe. Residents are forced to leave their homes to fill up water tanks, the 33-year-old told CNN by phone, which puts them at risk of being struck by Israeli missiles.įood is scarce, he said, and may not last his 11-member family more than three or four days. Palestinian journalist Hashem Al-Saudi and his family have only moved from east to west of Gaza City, which is among areas the IDF told civilians to evacuate. ‘Streets are filled with rubble, reek of blood’īut not everyone in Gaza’s north has heeded the IDF’s call to move southwards. ![]() “People are afraid of this, of being pushed to Egypt,” he said, adding that the airstrikes have been “horrifying,” with some areas being targeted for the first time despite the years of conflict between Hamas and Israel. The majority of Gaza’s residents today are already refugees from areas that fell under Israeli control in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Hamed said that the time provided by the IDF for “safe passage” southward may not be enough for vast number of Palestinians that need to flee, and that some Gazans in the north refuse to leave fearing forceful displacement into Egypt.įor many, that would mean displacement for the second time. Shelling in Nuseirat is intense, but not as bad as it was in Gaza City, where neighborhoods were “entirely wiped out,” he said. “Everything in supermarkets and shops was used up,” he said. Drinking water is only available in mineral water bottles, he said, which are dwindling as crowds rush to stock up.Ī plume of smoke rises in the sky over Gaza City during an Israeli airstrike on Monday. Speaking to CNN by phone, Hamed said that Nuseirat is a small area yet has received large crowds of displaced Palestinians from the north. Bakeries are working but these are their final hours, as the fuel they need is running out,” he said, adding that “the food we have may last us a day or two.” “There is no electricity, there is no water. The family has no access to medical care and are crammed into a single apartment with no electricity, and quickly depleting food and water. “In this situation, we’re afraid that she goes into labor, and we wouldn’t know where to go,” he told CNN. Hamed fled the north with 30 family members, including his extended relatives, four children and his wife, who is over eight months pregnant. Mohamed Hamed, a 36-year-old resident of Gaza City, moved southward to Nuseirat, a refugee camp some five kilometers north-east of Deir al-Balah – which he was told was safe. Internet access, through which residents communicate their plight to the world, is also shrinking. There is no more electricity, and those with fuel-powered generators will soon live in complete blackout. Palestinians who fled south, and those who are still north, are rapidly running out of food and water. The evacuation advisory came after Israel imposed a complete siege on Gaza in response to a brutal attack launched a week ago by Hamas, which left at least 1,300 dead in Israel.Īt least 2,215 civilians, including 724 children and 458 women, have been killed in Gaza, according to the Palestinian health ministry, as the Israeli military continues to pound the territory. The UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which was forced to move its central operations from Gaza City to a location in southern Gaza following the Israeli statement, on Saturday described the evacuation as an “exodus,” and said that “nearly 1 million people have been displaced in one week alone.” Israel-Hamas war rages as Palestinian death toll rises in Gaza REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun Ronen Zvulun/Reuters Israeli tanks from an artillery unit are seen near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, October 12, 2023.
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