Israel issues a 24-hour warning to residents of northern Gaza to relocate to the south
Israel told the UN on Friday that it has given 1.1 million residents of northern Gaza 24 hours to leave their homes and go to southern Gaza. This is known as the Wadi Gaza evacuation.
A UN spokesperson who asked for revocation of the restriction on humanitarian grounds verified the threat from Israel to the AFP.
According to Stephane Dujarric, a spokesman for the UN secretary-general, the Israeli military informed the UN of the order, which also applied to all of its own personnel and civilians seeking shelter in UN buildings like schools, health centers, and clinics.
During the Israel-Hamas war, at least 1,799 Palestinians and more than 1,300 Israelis died.
Additionally, at least 6,388 persons have been hurt as a result of Israeli attacks, including at least 583 Palestinian children.
Israel’s army confirmed that it has issued a request for all Gaza City inhabitants to leave their residences and travel to the south of the region “for their safety”.
“The IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) calls for the evacuation of all civilians of Gaza City from their homes southwards for their own safety and protection and move to the area south of the Wadi Gaza as shown on the map,” the military stated in a statement.
“In the following days, the IDF will continue to operate significantly in Gaza City and make extensive efforts to avoid harming civilians,” it stated.
More than 60% of the 423,000 persons who have recently been uprooted from their homes in the Gaza Strip are being housed by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).
How many people were currently present north of Wadi Gaza was not immediately known.
Growing daily threat of economic “spillover” in the midst of Israel-Hamas conflict: IMF
According to Kristalina Georgieva, managing secretary of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the risk of economic spillover must be resolved “as quickly as possible” as the conflict between Palestine and Israel becomes more and more serious.
In the video interview, Georgieva added, “We pray for resolving this conflict as quickly as possible; the longer it goes, the greater the risk of spillovers, and where we are as a world, we simply cannot afford more uncertainty and hatred.” “Quick resolution would benefit people and the entire world,”
Georgieva said that the IMF has a duty of impartiality to be able to give “objective” policy advice on economic difficulties to all member countries when asked if the IMF can mediate a discussion between Israel and Egypt over the disputed Palestinian region.
“There are institutions that are a better fit to bring countries together on a political level than the fund,” she asserted.
“The fund is now carefully observing what could be the economic impact of the new Middle East tension eruption,” says the statement.
On Friday in Amman, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority, to discuss the fallout from Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel, especially the implications for the occupied West Bank.
The secretary is currently traveling to Jordan, which makes up a sizable chunk of Israel’s eastern border, after holding discussions with Israeli officials and those who have been directly impacted by the attack and war, which have claimed more than 1,300 Israeli lives and at least 27 American lives.
King Abdullah II of Jordan, who has been in touch with President Joe Biden ever since the crisis began, was another person with whom Blinken met. The king of Jordan has been an important mediator in negotiations involving the Middle East for a long time.
Blinken and Abdullah II spoke about “the horrific Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel,” according to a statement from State Department spokesman Matthew Miller. Additionally, they discussed “efforts to obtain the release of all hostages and stop the conflict from spreading.”
It was noted that Blinken “discussed ways to address the humanitarian needs of civilians in Gaza while Israel conducts legitimate security operations to defend itself against terrorists” and “understood that Hamas does not stand for the Palestinian people’s right to dignity and self-determination.”
Abbas’ Palestinian Authority is in charge of governing the West Bank in some respects. His Fatah movement opposes Gaza’s governing Hamas.
Israel’s order to evacuate one million people from Gaza is a “tall order.”
It will be a “tall order,” according to John Kirby, the White House’s national security spokesperson, for Israel to demand that more than 1 million people living in northern Gaza leave within 24 hours.
“That is a lot of people to move in a very short period of time,” Kirby remarked in an interview with MSNBC. “We understand what they’re trying to do and why they’re trying to do this — to try to isolate the civilian population from Hamas, which is their real target.”
Devastating humanitarian ramifications
“The United Nations believes it inconceivable that something like this to occur without catastrophic humanitarian consequences,” Dujarric stated.
“The United Nations strongly urges for any such order, if verified, to be withdrawn avoiding what could transform what is already a tragedy into a calamitous situation.”
Israel deems the UN response to be disgraceful.
The response of the UN to the evacuation request, according to Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, was “shameful.”
“For many years, the UN has turned a blind eye to the arming of Hamas and its use of the civilian population and civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip as a hiding place for its weapons and murder,” Erdan wrote in a memo to the Associated Press.
“Now, instead of standing by Israel…it preaches to Israel” .
“It is better for the UN to focus now on returning the hostages, condemning Hamas, and supporting Israel’s right to defend itself,” he told reporters.
Israel executed 1,500 Palestinians as martyrs.
Hamas launched a surprise attack on small villages, kibbutzim, and a music festival on Saturday in an effort to combat the brutalities Israel imposes on Palestine’s oppressed population. 1,200 Israelis were killed as a result of the Hamas action, while others are reportedly held hostage.
Israel has maintained its decades-long campaign of violence against unarmed Palestinians by bombarding Gaza, a 2.3 million-person enclave, with air and artillery assaults that have destroyed buildings and claimed the lives of more than 1,500 Palestinians.
Israel-Hamas relations will be the topic of a Security Council meeting on Friday.
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