{"id":82893,"date":"2024-06-27T23:36:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T23:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/27\/they-returned-to-northern-gaza-only-to-be-ordered-to-evacuate-again\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T23:36:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T23:36:21","slug":"they-returned-to-northern-gaza-only-to-be-ordered-to-evacuate-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/27\/they-returned-to-northern-gaza-only-to-be-ordered-to-evacuate-again\/","title":{"rendered":"They Returned to Northern Gaza, Only to Be Ordered to Evacuate Again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Early in the war against Hamas, as Israeli forces made their way from the north of the Gaza Strip toward the south, a neighborhood in Gaza City called Shajaiye loomed large in the battle. In December, nine soldiers were killed there on what Israel\u2019s military said was one of the deadliest days of the war for its forces.<\/p>\n

Later, with Shajaiye ravaged and the Gaza City appearing pacified, the soldiers moved on, eventually taking the fight to Gaza\u2019s southernmost city, Rafah, described as Hamas\u2019s last major stronghold. In turn, Palestinian civilians who had fled the fighting in Gaza City began making their way back.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, they were fleeing again.<\/p>\n

Israel ordered people in part of eastern Gaza City to evacuate as Palestinian officials and residents reported heavy strikes and multiple casualties. People in the area described a frantic effort to get out as explosions sounded around them. Palestinian officials said the strikes had hit Shajaiye<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were hearing explosions from every direction,\u201d said Mohammad al-Bahrawi, 65, who had returned with his family to their home in Shajaiye months ago. He said \u201ca torrent\u201d of people were sent running.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t even believe that this many people were still in Shajaiye,\u201d Mr. al-Bahrawi said.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military said that it could not immediately comment on the strikes. Israel\u2019s public broadcaster, Kan, reported that the military was conducting a ground operation to root out Hamas based on intelligence that the armed group had begun to resume control of the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

The operation, if confirmed, would be part of a larger pattern of a war in which Israel has struggled to achieve its stated objective: wiping out Hamas, which organized and led the Oct. 7 attacks on Israeli territory that set off the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Israeli forces have repeatedly found themselves returning to parts of Gaza<\/a> that they had previously left, especially in the north, as Hamas regroups amid the anarchy of the nine-month war. The fighting has flared even as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks of a new, less intense phase<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Within Israel and globally, frustration is growing over what critics say is Mr. Netanyahu\u2019s failure to put forward a plan for how Gaza should be governed should Hamas be defeated.<\/p>\n

Daniel Byman, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, said that the key to defeating a counterinsurgency was known by the shorthand \u201cclear, hold, build.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Israelis have \u201cthought about Day 1 \u2014 kill the bad guys \u2014 but have not focused on the next steps,\u201d Mr. Byman said. \u201cThat was inexcusable even in October and November. There is less and less excuse now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Gazan health authorities said on Thursday that 15 people had been killed and dozens injured in Shajaiye. Civil Defense, the Palestinian emergency service, said that five homes had been struck in Shajaiye and another neighborhood, and that a search was underway for missing people. The toll could not be independently verified.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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