
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has instructed all remaining residents of Gaza City to flee south towards Deir al-Balah. The call on Wednesday came as the Israeli military intensified combat operations in the Palestinian enclave, including a raid on a UN refugee agency compound that it claimed was being used by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters.
The IDF has issued several evacuation warnings in Gaza City in the past few days, as Israeli troops carried out operations in its western, southern, and eastern neighborhoods, according to the Times of Israel. Around 200,000 Palestinians remain in the northern part of the enclave, the newspaper said, quoting IDF estimates.
Israeli planes have dropped leaflets, urging "everyone in Gaza City" to leave because the area "will be a dangerous combat zone." The flyers outlined two "safe routes" for evacuation and an instruction to head south.

"Aid workers are responding but what they can deliver falls far short of the needs," UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory Muhannad Hadi wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday after a trip to Gaza.
During the early stages of the invasion of Gaza, Israel told Palestinians to evacuate from the northern part of the enclave. As the IDF expanded its raids, the army instructed people to leave certain southern areas as well, including eastern Khan Younis and Rafah, a city near the Egyptian border that has become a giant refugee camp.
The IDF said it is continuing a "targeted, intelligence-based operational activity" in Rafah and elsewhere. The army has repeatedly stated that it will fulfill its mission to neutralize Hamas and aligned Islamist groups in Gaza and free remaining Israeli hostages.
Addressing the Knesset on Wednesday, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said the IDF's actions have "led to the elimination of over 14,000 terrorists and the collapse of the military frameworks of Hamas."
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The army has repeatedly stated that it will fulfill its mission to
neutralizegenocide Hamas and aligned Islamist groups in Gaza and free remaining Israeli hostages.Fixed it 🤡💩🎪
The zionists long reached and surpassed the level of cynism and hubris the SS and Nazi zealots displayed.
Complain to Starmer the zionist jew now in the bulldozer seat, but don't do it during Shabbat.
i understand that some people just like to kill....I hope and pray that who ever is behind this, pays dearly.
I do not understand.
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.
PROMETHEUS STOLE FIRE FROM THE GODS AND GAVE IT TO MAN FOR THIS HE WAS CHAINED TO A ROCK AND TORTURED FOR ETERNITY
Out of the Ashes rises the Phoenix only to be reborn again & again …🤡💩🎪