THE Israeli military ordered the evacuation of the repeatedly displaced Palestinians from Gaza City and told them to head south again today as it pressed ahead with a fresh offensive just hours after killing dozens of people.
Thousands of leaflets were dropped onto the city urging people to leave through two “safe” roads “quickly and without inspection from Gaza City to shelters” in Deir el-Balah and az-Zawiya.
Gaza City, it said, will “remain a dangerous combat zone.”
Israeli authorities claimed in January that they had “dismantled Hamas’s military structure” in the northern city.
Israel ordered residents of northern Gaza to flee south months ago as it operated in the area, and much of the population fled earlier in the war.
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