The Israeli military stated on Wednesday that it was establishing a temporary new passage for Palestinians to leave Gaza City. This was part of a significant ground attack on Hamas.
Before daybreak on Tuesday, the army bombed Gaza City heavily and sent its troops farther into the Gaza Strip’s largest city, according to AFP.
A United Nations investigation said that Israel had committed “genocide” in the Palestinian area and that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other high-ranking officials had encouraged the crime.
The Israeli military stated today that it was providing “a temporary transportation route via Salah al-Din Street” as new bombings were shown in pictures.
Colonel Avichay Adraee, its Arabic-speaking spokeswoman, said the corridor would only be open for 48 hours, starting at noon (0900 GMT).
The army had been telling people to leave the area and head south down the beachfront road to what it calls a “humanitarian zone,” which includes parts of Al-Mawasi.
From north to south, Salah al-Din Street runs through the area.
“Death is cheaper”
At the end of August, the United Nations said that around one million people lived in and around Gaza City.
Our reporters have seen new waves of people leaving, and the Israeli army reported today that more than 350,000 people have already moved south.
But a lot of people in Gaza believe there is no secure place and promise to stay home.
“I won’t leave Gaza.” “There’s shelling here and there,” said Umm Ahmed Yunes, who is residing in her home that has been partially destroyed.
She was sad about how much it would cost to move.
“Where would I get $1,000 or $2,000 for travel expenses?” Where can I get a tent? “There are no tents and the prices are crazy,” the 44-year-old stated.
“Death is less expensive and more kind.”
Fatima Lubbad, a mother of four, left Gaza City with ten family members, but she felt the experience was too much for her.
The 36-year-old stated, “I wish we would all die together.”
“We slept on the street by the sea in Deir el-Balah last night because there was no place to put up a tent.” I cried all night while I watched my kids sleep on the dirt.
The Israeli military says it has hit more than 150 sites in Gaza City since it started its ground attack yesterday.
Our official count says that Hamas’s onslaught on southern Israel in October 2023, which killed 1,219 people, most of them civilians, started the conflict.
The United Nations says that the health ministry in the area has solid numbers that show that Israel’s retaliatory assault has killed at least 64,964 persons, most of whom were civilians.
The Israeli military says that there are between 2,000 and 3,000 Hamas fighters in downtown Gaza City and that around 40% of the people who live there have left.
The UN says that Israel is committing genocide.
Hamas called the attack “systematic ethnic cleansing targeting our people in Gaza.”
At least 12 Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire in the early hours of this morning, according to Gaza’s civil defense, a rescue group that works with Hamas.
Our correspondent can’t confirm the information given by the civil defense or the Israeli military on their own because of media restrictions in the area and problems getting to numerous places.
The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry (COI) said yesterday that “genocide is occurring in Gaza and is continuing to occur.” This was said by commission chief Navi Pillay to our correspondent.
Israel stated it “categorically rejects this distorted and false report” and asked for the “immediate abolition” of the COI.
Today, Qatar became the most recent country to ask Israel to stop its attack on Gaza City, calling it “an extension of its genocidal war against the Palestinian people.”
China said the same thing, saying it “strongly opposes Israel’s escalation of military operations in Gaza and condemns all acts that harm civilians and break international law.”
Pope Leo XVI said, “I stand in deep solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza, who still live in fear and in unacceptable conditions, being forcibly displaced once again from their lands.”
On September 9, Israel hit Hamas leaders in Doha, killing five members of the group and a Qatari security officer.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, in Doha yesterday. He asked the Gulf nation to keep mediating the discussions in Gaza.
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