{"id":265791,"date":"2025-03-24T19:14:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T19:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/israels-renewed-offensive-in-gaza-displaces-palestinians-once-again\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T19:14:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T19:14:27","slug":"israels-renewed-offensive-in-gaza-displaces-palestinians-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/israels-renewed-offensive-in-gaza-displaces-palestinians-once-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s Renewed Offensive in Gaza Displaces Palestinians Once Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/24\/multimedia\/24int-gaza-displaced-01-lbwm\/24int-gaza-displaced-01-lbwm-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Israel\u2019s Renewed Offensive in Gaza Displaces Palestinians Once Again\" title=\"Israel\u2019s Renewed Offensive in Gaza Displaces Palestinians Once Again\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As the Israeli military has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/23\/world\/middleeast\/gaza-israel-rafah.html\" title=\"\">expanded its offensive<\/a> in the Gaza Strip, taking control of more territory in parts of the south and north and issuing new evacuation orders, many people who had only recently returned to their homes have been forcibly displaced once again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israel\u2019s drive into the southern city of Rafah pushed thousands of families from the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood, near the border with Egypt, to flee on foot on Sunday before Israeli troops completely encircled the area by the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For many, the new round of mass displacement brought back painful memories of the earlier days of the war in Gaza. Residents of Tal al-Sultan and nearby areas said they had to walk on a specific route amid bombardment, carrying very few belongings, during <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/card\/2025\/03\/23\/world\/middleeast\/gaza-israel-ramadan?searchResultPosition=3\" title=\"\">the holy month of Ramadan<\/a>, when Muslims fast during daytime.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Most of those who fled on Sunday walked several miles north to the city of Khan Younis, where they were left without shelter because of a severe shortage of basic necessities and tents, the Rafah local government, which includes Tal al-Sultan, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Israeli military <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/18\/world\/middleeast\/israel-gaza-hamas-war.html\" title=\"\">renewed its offensive in Gaza<\/a> last week after an impasse in talks to extend a fragile, temporary cease-fire with Hamas that went into effect in mid-January. That truce was intended to be the first of three phases leading to the end of a war that began with the Hamas-led assault on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, but the second phase has been delayed indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Gaza\u2019s health ministry said on Monday that 61 people were killed in Israeli bombardments over the past day, a day after it said the death toll in the enclave had surpassed 50,000 since the war began almost 18 months ago. The ministry\u2019s figures do not distinguish between civilians and combatants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Israeli military said in a statement on Sunday that its troops had killed several fighters in Tal al-Sultan and raided a site it said was used as a Hamas command and control center. It did not provide evidence of its claims, which could not be independently verified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Monday, Al Jazeera reported that Hussam Shabat, a journalist who contributed to its coverage of the war, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on his car in northern Gaza. At least 208 journalists have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war, according to the Gaza government press office. The Israeli military said it was looking into the report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AnasAlSharif0\/status\/1904158983574728995\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Videos<\/a> <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DHlT31rtYyM\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">circulating<\/a> online and verified by The New York Times show the apparently lifeless bodies of Mr. Shabat and two other men, as well as a donkey that had been pulling a cart, on a dusty road in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza. Next to them is a car pocked with what appear to be bullet or shrapnel holes, with an Al Jazeera emblem and the letters \u201cTV\u201d on the windshield. A man shouts Mr. Shabat\u2019s name and shakes his body, trying to get a response, while others carry away a person whose condition is unclear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Palestinian civil defense in Gaza said on Sunday that Israel\u2019s siege of Tal al-Sultan had endangered the lives of nearly 50,000 people living there, with some either unable or unwilling to flee. Some residents, after months of repeated displacement, had only <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/20\/world\/middleeast\/gaza-israel-cease-fire.html\" title=\"\">recently been able to return to their homes<\/a>, or what was left of them, during the short-lived cease-fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe left with the clothes on our backs under fire and bombardment,\u201d said Mustafa Jabr, 36, after walking for nearly six hours along a sandy route with his family from their home in Tal al-Sultan on Sunday morning. \u201cIt was a very surprising and intense attack,\u201d he said from a friend\u2019s house in southern Khan Younis, where the family was now sheltering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Jabr said that before encircling the neighborhood, Israeli vehicles had been regularly patrolling the area around <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/what-is-philadelphi-corridor-gaza.html\" title=\"\">the Philadelphi Corridor<\/a>, a narrow strip of Gaza along the border with Egypt and one of the main sticking points in the cease-fire talks. But at dawn on Sunday, residents were jolted up by \u201csudden bombardment,\u201d before fliers ordering people to evacuate along a specified route began raining down, he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cSo we headed north under a hail of tank shelling and quadcopter fire that wounded dozens,\u201d said Mr. Jabr. \u201cMany old people were abandoned along the route because they were too weak to keep walking on the sand,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cThe scenes I saw on the way were horrific, there were so many children and old people and disabled people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Jabr\u2019s family was now among an increasing number of families in Gaza who were once again wondering when they would be able to return to their homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ahmad and Faten al-Sayyed also fled on Sunday, walking with their four children to a relative\u2019s tent in western Khan Younis. They had recently returned to their damaged home in Rafah after nine months of sheltering in a tent in Khan Younis, only to find themselves back in another tent less than a month later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI thought the second phase of negotiations would begin while we were back in our home in Rafah,\u201d said Mr. al-Sayyed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Although occasional gunfire was heard in Rafah in recent days, Mr. al-Sayyed said that he was shocked when Israeli troops advanced into the area. \u201cWe never imagined it would escalate into a full siege and military operation,\u201d he said. \u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As soon as the evacuation orders were issued, Mr. al-Sayyed told his children to pack two outfits each in their school bags.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some on the route were carrying terrified, crying children, while others clutched whatever belongings they could. Most of the adults, observing Ramadan, neither ate nor drank anything along the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The elderly and ill, some in wheelchairs, struggled to keep up as drones \u201cfollowed us, hovering above, moving right and left, watching every step,\u201d said Mr. al-Sayyed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The crowd found itself trapped for nearly an hour and a half after Israeli forces blocked the road, while people pleaded with the Red Cross to get them to safety.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe could hear bulldozers and occasional gunfire,\u201d Mr. al-Sayyed recalled. \u201cLater, I saw how they had cleared paths for people to pass through, built mounds of sand around the area, set up fences and cameras, and positioned soldiers on top of those sand barriers,\u201d he added, referring to Israeli troops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They were then instructed to continue walking toward a United Nations warehouse, where an Israeli tank stopped them again and troops told everyone to sit on the ground.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAfter nearly 20 minutes, the soldiers asked the women and children to sit on the right side of the street, while the men were ordered to sit on the left side,\u201d said Mr. al-Sayyed. \u201cPeople were terrified and their eyes were filled with fear,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cMothers were crying for their grown sons, not wanting to be separated from them, fearing that they would be killed or arrested.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Eventually, it was Mr. al-Sayyed\u2019s turn to be searched by the soldiers. He said he was ordered to strip down and was made to remain seated, blindfolded, for more than an hour. He was then released and caught up with his wife and children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAll I could hear was crying, and all I could see were scared faces,\u201d said Ms. al-Sayyed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMy son Mohammed was very terrified when he saw a dead boy,\u201d she added. \u201cHe just collapsed onto the sand, screaming in a completely unhinged way, and all I could do was cry along with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Iyad Abuheweila<!-- --> contributed reporting from Istanbul.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/24\/world\/middleeast\/israel-gaza-offensive-palestinians-displaced.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Israeli military has expanded its offensive in the Gaza Strip, taking control of more territory in parts of the south and north and issuing new evacuation orders, many people who had only recently returned to their homes have been forcibly displaced once again. 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