ISRAELI OCCUPIED AND STARVED GAZA, 14 Sept. - (ANA) - About a quarter of a million Palestinians have been displaced from Gaza City since the Israeli military began issuing evacuation orders as it prepares to storm and occupy the city, Israeli sources have claimed.

 

The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation (Kan) Friday cited Israeli security sources as saying around 250,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip’s largest city have headed southward, amid an intensified offensive that seeks to empty the enclave’s north of all residents.

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes, approved plans last month to conquer the besieged coastal territory despite global outcry and warnings of the devastating consequences on the territory’s population.

 

Operation 'Gideon’s Chariots 2' was then launched on 3 September.

 

Nearly all of the Gaza Strip’s 2.3 million inhabitants have been displaced at least once since the start of the war on 7 October 2023.

 

However, the Gaza government media office said Friday that more a million Palestinians were still residing in Gaza City and the north and refuse to move to the south of the Strip.

 

The people’s refusal to leave comes "despite the ongoing barbaric aggression and genocide carried out by the Israeli occupation," the media office said.

 

It added that it monitored reverse displacement, noting that the southern Gaza Strip lacked the most basic necessities of life, forcing people to move back to Gaza City and the north.

 

The Al-Mawasi area which spans the areas of Khan Younis and Rafah in the south, which Israel declared a "safe zone," has also been subjected to more than 109 attacks, killing over 2,000 people, the media office said.

 

The "humanitarian" zone designated by the Israeli army equals less than 12 percent of the Gaza Strip’s area, whereas the army is trying to cram 1.7 million people there, the media office added.

 

It called on the international community, the United Nations, and world courts to "take urgent action to stop these crimes, hold the [Israeli] occupation leaders accountable, and guarantee the right of Palestinian civilians to remain on their land in security and dignity."

 

As Palestinians in Gaza continue to suffer from an Israeli siege, resulting in dozens of hunger-related deaths, Kan reported Friday that Egypt had submitted a request to air drop urgently needed humanitarian aid into Gaza.

 

Israel approved the request, said Kan, adding that the airdrops will likely take place in the central and southern Gaza Strip today, but none in Gaza City as Israel tries to push people out.

 

Rights groups have criticised air drops, saying they posed dangers to civilians as people have been struck by the heavy packages and killed before.

 

On Saturday, the Israeli military bombed three UNRWA-run schools in Al-Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City, displacing thousands of people who had been sheltering there.

 

Despite the Israeli army warning people there to evacuate, not enough time was given to them to take essentials, Anadolu Agency reported.

 

Strikes continued to claim lives across northern Gaza as Israel continued targeting high rises and other residential complexes.

 

The Gaza Health Ministry said on Saturday that 47 people had been killed by Israeli strikes over the past 24 hours.

 

Negotiations being mediated between Israel and Hamas to end the war have been further complicated after Israel’s unprecedented airstrike on Qatar earlier this week which targeted leaders of the Palestinian group that had been discussing the latest ceasefire proposal.

 

An emergency Arab-Islamic summit is expected in Qatar on Monday to discuss the Israeli aggression on Doha, which killed six people, including five Palestinians from Hamas and one Qatari national.

 

At least 64,803 people in Gaza have been killed since the start of the war, according to the territory’s health ministry, with 164,264 others wounded.

 

The true death toll is believed to be much higher because the bodies of thousands of uncounted victims are believed to be buried beneath the rubble of destroyed buildings.   - (ANA) -

 

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