{"id":86310,"date":"2024-07-02T22:23:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T22:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/02\/thousands-flee-in-gaza-as-israel-orders-more-evacuations\/"},"modified":"2024-07-02T22:23:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T22:23:15","slug":"thousands-flee-in-gaza-as-israel-orders-more-evacuations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/02\/thousands-flee-in-gaza-as-israel-orders-more-evacuations\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands Flee in Gaza as Israel Orders More Evacuations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/07\/02\/multimedia\/02mideast-1-bmhz\/02mideast-1-bmhz-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Thousands Flee in Gaza as Israel Orders More Evacuations\" title=\"Thousands Flee in Gaza as Israel Orders More Evacuations\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israel issued a new round of evacuation orders for a large swath of the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, sending thousands of Palestinians fleeing once again for relative safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In recent weeks, Israeli officials have spoken of moving toward narrower, more targeted attacks, but the exodus taking place in the city of Khan Younis made it clear Tuesday that for Gazans, a return to ordinary life is not close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Gazans who had already been forced to flee again and again were once more on the move, hauling piles of their belongings on cars, trucks and donkey carts. Hospital patients were pushed in wheelchairs alongside others who fled on foot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHow long can we keep being ordered: Leave and come back, leave and come back?\u201d wondered one Gazan, Suzan Abu Daqqa, 59, after fleeing her home southeast of Khan Younis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The trigger for the evacuation orders appeared to be a barrage of roughly 20 rockets that the Israeli military said had been fired from Khan Younis by Palestinian militants a day earlier. Israeli forces struck back overnight after \u201cenabling civilians to evacuate from the area,\u201d the military said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The United Nations estimated that some 250,000 people will have to flee large areas of southern Gaza to comply with the new orders. Scott Anderson, a senior U.N. official, said the calculation was based on prewar population data and anecdotal observations of how many people had returned to the area.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The pattern of repeated civilian displacement is likely to continue even as the Israeli military speaks of a \u201clower intensity\u201d war, military analysts say. As militants regroup, Israeli forces have been returning to areas from which they had once withdrawn to wage days-long crackdowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For many Gazans, these new operations are far from low-intensity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The fighting has been pitched, for example, in northern cities like Shajaiye, Jabaliya and Zeitoun. In Jabaliya, over 60,000 people fled their homes, according to the United Nations, returning to find widespread devastation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Tuesday, the United Nation\u2019s top coordinator for humanitarian aid for Gaza, Sigrid Kaag, said that the vast majority of Gaza\u2019s roughly 2.2 million people had been displaced over the course of the war \u2014 many of them multiple times. She <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/webtv.un.org\/en\/asset\/k16\/k16boq5655\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">put the figure<\/a> at 1.9 million people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israeli forces largely withdrew from Khan Younis in April after months of fighting, as they were gearing up to invade Rafah farther south. In the relative calm of that withdrawal, Ms. Abu Daqqa returned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When she arrived at her house on the southern outskirts of the city last month, she found it relatively unscathed by the heavy Israeli bombardment that had destroyed large parts of Khan Younis. It even had running water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But on Monday evening, Ms. Abu Daqqa and her family heard that the Israeli military had yet again ordered an evacuation of the city. The all-too-familiar sound of artillery fire began, she said, prompting her to flee northwest with relatives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Her family joined thousands of people who filled the streets of the demolished city on Monday night as they headed toward the Mawasi area near the coast, which Israel has designated as a \u201csafer zone.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Tuesday, Khan Younis residents said most of the explosions they could hear appeared to be farther south, in Rafah. But they worried that the wide-scale evacuation order might herald a renewed military operation in their own city, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said Monday that the military would <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/07\/02\/world\/israel-gaza-war-hamas\/netanyahu-says-israel-has-nearly-eliminated-hamass-terrorist-army-and-other-news?smid=url-share\" title=\"\">continue to operate in Gaza<\/a> after the Rafah offensive ends to prevent Hamas from reclaiming control. The invasion began in October after Hamas led a bloody cross-border attack on Israel that the government says left about 1,200 dead and 250 taken hostage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Amir Avivi, a retired Israeli brigadier general, said Israeli troops would seek to whittle away at Hamas\u2019s remaining fighters, a process he said could take years. Over time, Israel hopes to erode Hamas\u2019s forces so thoroughly that Gaza will take fewer and fewer forces to control, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cEvery time the terrorists manage to constitute themselves, there will be a raid to deal with them,\u201d said General Avivi, who leads the hawkish Israel Defense and Security Forum. \u201cThese raids can last a few days or a week at a time \u2014 generally no more than a few days \u2014 and then you withdraw.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hundreds of thousands of people have flooded into Khan Younis and central Gaza since Israel began its Rafah operation, creating tent cities in which finding enough food and clean water is often a daily struggle. The humanitarian crisis has increased international pressure on Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Tuesday, the Israeli military said it had laid a power line to a desalination plant in Khan Younis to bolster its output.<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>A senior Israeli military official said that the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority would pay for the electricity and that UNICEF, the United Nations agency, would manage the plant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Amid the panic stirred up by the newest evacuation order in Khan Younis, the European Hospital there ferried the majority of its medical staff and roughly 600 patients by ambulance to hospitals deeper into the city. Many of the doctors and patients there, scared by what they had seen in Israeli raids on other hospitals, were unwilling to take the risk of staying, said Dr. Saleh al-Homs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He left the facility overnight, only to learn Tuesday morning that the Israeli military was saying there had been \u201cno intention to evacuate the European Hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhy did they wait until the hospital was evacuated to issue that statement telling us not to evacuate?\u201d asked Dr. al-Homs. \u201cPeople were terrified and desperate to get out.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Jamal Azzam, a nurse at the hospital, said he had received phone calls from the Israeli military directing the staff to evacuate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Four premature babies were sent by ambulance to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Mr. Azzam said. Many families who were sheltering around the hospital in tents had also fled, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is torture,\u201d Mr. Azzam said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/02\/world\/middleeast\/gaza-evacuations-israel.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel issued a new round of evacuation orders for a large swath of the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, sending thousands of Palestinians fleeing once again for relative safety. 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